The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-02-26
INSPECT
MILLS.
drrom Saturdays DanyJ

A PARTY OF nifty guests, at the in
N vitation OF MFR and Mrs. H. r.
IA Dillingham;. enjoyed n delightful
excursion by special train yester
day through the plantations and around
the oahu railway through the exqui-
site panorama OF towering mountains
and flashing vlstas of purple sea for
which that route liz famed Honolulu,
Oahu and Eva plantations were visit
ed and late In the afternoon the party
arrived at Waialua, where they were
entertained at the IIaleiwa hotel last
night. They will return this morning
20 Honolulu
Among the party were number OF
san Francisco capitalists, who Il is I'M
derstood are contemplating investments
in the Islands, and their visit to the
thriving plantations favorably impress
ed them as to the future of the sugar
industry.
AT Honolulu plantation the special
train drew up beside the great new mill
and j. A. Low, manager of the planta-
ton, conducted his visitors through
the big building, explaining the process
of sugar making and pointing out the
modern improvements and innovations
which have recently been instituted
The site of the new mill covers near
ly three acres, and under the new pro-
cess the management hopes to reduce
TO the minimum the waste of the su-
gar, the latest inventions having been
adopted throughout the vast system of
machinery. From the time the cane
is fed into the crusher until the sugar
falls in grains from the crystalizers in
tyI ct, 90 ~
process has been made and carried out
with an eye to the best possible econ
omy. A 10 per cent waste in molasses
will be avoided and it is expected that
a percentage of 92 will be obtained in
pure sugar. An improved system of
centrifugals for the capitalization of
the syrup has been instituted. There
are twenty of them to receive the syrup
from the clarifying pans. each having
velocity of from 1000 to 400 revolutions
per minute, the entire system being
capable of taking off 200 tons per day.
In the boiler house there are six $50
horse power Heine boilers, equipped
with automatic fuel feeders, the trash
from the crushed cane being utilized
and entirely supplying the fuel for the
running of the big system of machin-
cry. In the boiling house, where the
cane juice is boiled into sugar. there
are three 1000 gallon Kilby pans to re-
ceive the raw syrup, and also Lily
evaporators. Under the old system
open CHARTERS were used in lining and
boiling. The new machinery has a COM
pressed air process and the syrup is
continually stirred by an arrangement
of automatic blades. A novel and much
improved feature of the crystalizing
plant is the method of supplying power.
The numerous and dangerous belts are
all done away with and neat substi-
tuition of clutches serves the purpose,
leaving the passageway free from OBJ
struction. The centrifugals are driven
by water power derived from two Ris-
don high-duty pumping engines, the
first of the type to be used in the Ha-
waiian Islands.
The crushing department has 34x7S |
eleven-roller mill. all connected and
driven by one engine, and the filtering |
process has been improved according |
to the latest equipments.
Automatic conveyors and machines |
for drying the sugar before bagging |
facilitate the shipping of the sugar,
and the truck railroad is being COM
pleted in the shipping room, to be ready |
for operation early next week.
Steel has been used in the construc-
tion of the huiIdinp THROUGHOUT and |
tho bui,1inp nc we'll nc tho ,,,.chinerv
within # has been constructed entire
lv NV tho ,Risdon IRON Works self. |
sunnorting stack 15o feat HIGH fron, q |
9olfoot base the invention NJ culot |
Hersoe of Mi,waulxee &c tho only, stack |
without Guide rones on the Is,ands IF
is hrc,x lined and &c 12lk faet IN dame
fer being anchored with long hollis
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