The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-19
PI ANTERS HEAR REPORTS
Of THE YEARS. PROGRESS


the picture shows truly, the cane is load
ed upon cars by being packed on the
shoulders of men. who walk up plank
and drop il on the car This Is ln1eai
hard work The man weighing l50 los
king up a 5o-Ib. bundle of cane, in real
ity he takes up 90 lbs, including his
own weight. drops 80 lbs. on the car and
returns with $50. If this is kept up all
day he possibly loads ten tons of cane,
and in so doing ne has taken up forty
tons of matter left the ten tons OF cane
and returned thirty tons to the starting
point and travelled while doing 1t from
five miles to fifteen. depending upon how
far the cane is from the car. This may
truly be reckoned hard work.
We pursued D different method OF load
ing cars with cane eighteen years ago,
and presume IL is used to slight extent
yet We loaded the cane upon sleds III
the field where ii was, drove the -eam
by the side Of the car and hoisted the
cane upon the car by a horse, 800 lbs or
more at a lift There was no hard work
for man or horse by this method. me
horse did the packing from the heiG ana
the lifting at the car. The expense Tor
loading one ton Of cane was near
cents. with no hard work for man Or
beast When we commenced experiment
lin;: with the trolley system, the cane
was packed and. hung on the wire by the
men i'm 1OO-lb bundles This was slow,
costly and hard work. As our hho"l-
edge of working the wire increased more
cane was required so We added the sieu,
One sled two. horses and driver "ouI"
take as much cane TO the wire at one
time as fourteen men. This enmihated
all hard work save to lift the bundles
onto the sleds Even that was not oner-
Gus as the bundles were yet light.
Having Improvement on the brain ana
! sleds heavy to haul. we tried low
4 'EhiS nrOPPi q dig I'M
! Drcvement. as il doubled the efficiency
| of the team and it's driver, so we drop
/ ped the sleds. using only the wagons
After deciding just what kind OF Eag
! on was best for the purpose. we ordered
| six from San Francisco. They are now
| here and up to. requirements. -As tho
| hard work of cane packing was now
over. we Increased the weight OF the
| bundles gradually to 125, $50, 2oO ana Es'o
| lbs. The advantage OF sending uo"h
large bundles is, there is not so many
trolleys to pack back. and a 30O-lb. bun
! die is no more likely to meet with an ac-
cident on it's way down than a loO-lb
bundle When we adopted the 25O-lb
| bundle we ran against snag, as the
bundles were now ;tCo heavy for two men
to lift upon the wagon. Objections We're
honestly made by the workmen against
the weight and some of the laporer5
threatened to leave rather than continue
TO lift such heavy weight Being thus
brought to a sudden stop, so far as IN
creasing the. weight Of bundles were con-
cerned, and the prospect OH being forced
back to the 20G-Ib. bundle produced in us
serious thought. This forced the lnVen-
ton of a travelling crane for lifting the
bundles onto the. wagon. 1t is pushed
about the field by two horses land guided
by one man to any point the wagon stops
for load Six men and two horses now
load the wagons with any weight OF
bundle up to $50 lbs This has eliminated
all heavy lifting Loading the wagons, and
they are more rapidly loaded than
twelve men formerly did it, and they
then worked hard.
The next point requiring Improvement
was changing the cane from the wagon
to the cable. 1t took now too many men.
So we constructed a contrivance to hoist
the bundles from the wagon, and op+r-
ated it by a horse. Adding the horse
displaced four men. This Improvement
has proved very satisfactory, requiring
less labor and doing more rapid work.
This trolley system 10 more easily chang
ed from one field to another than fumes
or railroads. 1t works equally well in
wet or dry weather, with water or with
out. A rough country only requires suf-
ficient grade to work the system effect
ually over it.
the principal actor in working no this
system, is getting up a pamphlet from
which more information about it may
be gathered than is here stated.
JNO. NJ. HORNER.