The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-21
RUSH. IN 6
WORK.
Labor on Sewer
Rapidly Nearing
Completion.
RECOVER TOOLS
LOST BY KONA
Preparations Made to Lay the Iron
Pipe in One Continuous
Length.

LOATING buoys now mark the
surface of the water at the end
= of the long railroad wharf at the
sewer outfall, beneath which are the
engines, boilers, tools and other para
phernalia belonging to the pile-driver
and coral-cutter, which were swept
away during the heavy Kona storms
a week ago. Diver Martin Lund, at
tired in his diving suit, made a
thorough search for the machinery on
Tuesday and located every piece that
had been lost. He attached ropes to
such pieces as he was unable TO raise
to the surface, and floats were at
tached to them. The engineers OF the
install hosting apparatus thereon and
raise the machinery in few days.
The diver found the boiler $50 feet
away from the derrick upon which 1t
rested until swept away by the rorce
of the waves. The huge hammer was
found 100 feet distant with TWO heavy
boulders resting upon it. All of the
railroad iron in the $50 feet OF track
that suecumbed to the terrific sweep
of the water will be recovered.
On Tuesday C. II. Smith, the en-
gineer in charge of the general con-
struction work on the outfaii, lowered
the first piece of iron pipe, connecting
with the stone pipe which has been
laid for a distance of about 1,10O feet.
The iron pipe is 81 feet in length, and
is considered a short section. Others
average about 80 feet. A diver had
to be sent below with the pipe to lay
it in concrete and make a proper con-
nection with the first stone section
Rapid work is expected from now on.
The pile-driving work, which is being
done under contract by Cotton Bros,
is advancing rapidly toward the bell
buoy The water is becoming very
deep at the 1,S00-foot mark, and the.
engineer says that pile driving VIII
be continued out but 100 feet further.
After that, pile-driving and coral-cut-
ting will be abandoned The coral reef
commences slanting downward some
what abruptly and near the bell buoy
the sewer outlet will be 100 feet below
the surface.
The iron pipe will not be lowered
then section by section and jointed
under the water. as at present. The
pipes will be connected Dy what is
known as the ball joints. Pontoons,
characterization, will be required In
completing the work. The pipes will
be joined and dropped into the water
and down upon the coral FOUNDATION
in much the same manner as a cable
is laid. The piping thus connected
will be as sinuouS as snake and
will adapt itself to the coral floor.
From Investigations so far made it is
thought that little difficulty will at
tend this method, as the coral is COM
paratively even in it's long descent.
Three derricks are at present rugged
upon the double railroad track. Cot
ton Bros pile-driver is at the ex-
IRENE end of the pier, the coral-cut-
ter is about so feet nearer the shore,
and the dredger is just at the end of
the completed stone pipe section.
The material dredged is loaded into
cars, which are pushed into the shore
and dumped into the fiat lands near
the sewer engine-hou The coral
cutter consists of a huge steel knife
shaped like a chisel and weighs about
two tons. 1t is lifted in the same
manner as a pile-driver and dropped
with sufficient force to bury itself deep
into the flinty coral 1t is arranged on
a horizontal sliding skid sufficient to
allow for the cutting of a trench four
feet wide.
The present engineer and his force
have been engaged in the present
work since December, but much of the
thine has been spent in getting their
machinery together. The old railroad
wharf, constructed while Wilson had
charge of the work. had to be entirely
gone over and strengthened.
Yesterday afternoon the waves ran
quite high around the outworks and
the wind whistled merry tune
through the derrick rigging. The work
goes on under many difficulties and
not the least of these is the uncer-
tainty in the weather When the
waves rush in with sweeping force
care has to be taken to prevent a dis
aster to the apparatus which goes I'M
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