The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-23
Capitalists Travel
By a Special
Train.
NEW MACHINERY IS
in WORKING ORDER,
The Mill at Honolulu Plantation
the Object of Excursion
Yesterday.
PARTY Of fifty guests, at the in
vitation of Mr.. and Mrs, B. p.
Dillingham; aniovad a doIi0hf$uI

\ Al NildtloH oI NlT. ana -MrS. b, n.
"a Dillingham;, enjoyed a delightful
excursion by special train yester-
tday through the plantations and around
the Oahu railway, through the exqui-
site panorama of towering mountains
and flashing vistas Of purple sea for
which that route is 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 Haleiwa hotel last
night. They will return this morning
| to Honolulu.
| Among the party were a number of
San Francisco capitalists, who it Is un-
Iderstood 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
ana j. a, Low, manager of the planta-
ton, conducted his .visiters 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
tly 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 crystaIizers in
to the sacks, a thorough study of the
process. has been made and carried out
/ he hp
lomy. 10 per cent waste in moiasses
will be avoided and it is expected that
a percentage of 80 will be obtained in
pure sugar. An improved system of
centrifugals for the crystalization of
the syrup has been instituted. There
are twenty of them to receive the syrup
from the clarifying pans, each having a
velocity of from / 200 to 1400 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 7,000-gallon Kilby pans to re-
ceive the raw syrup, and also Lily
evaporators. Under the old system
open clarifiers were used in lining and
boiling. The new machinery has com
pressed air process and the syrup is
continually stirred by an arrangement
or automatic blades. novel and much
improved feature OF the crystalizing
plant Is the method of supplying power
The numerous and dangerous belts arc
all done away with and a neat substf-
tuition or clutches serves the purpose
leaving the passageway free from OBJ
struction. The centrifugals are driver
: by water power derived from two Ris
don high-duty pumping engines. tn,
% first of the type to be used in the Ha
q waiian Islands.
IS me crushing department has 34x7
n eleVan-reller mill, all connected ant
/ driven by one engine, and the flterint
process has been improved accordin.
% to the latest equipments
,a Automatic conveyors and machine
IT for drying the sugar before baggin,
II facilitate the shipping of the sugar
70 and the truck railroad is being com
= Ipleted in the shipping room. to he read,
N for operation early next week
rs Steel has been used in the construc
liOli VI lItt IfTOuBItOuL dnt
N the building as well as the machiner,
) within it has been constructed entire
!. lily by the Risdon Iron Works. A self
n supporting stack. $50 feet high from /;
"A 3o-foot base. the invention of GilIo
~ Hersog of Milwaukee, is the only staci
: without guide ropes on the Islands. I
v is brick-lined and is 1315 feet in diane
90 ter, being anchored with long bolts.
l. The installing of the new MACHINERY
d has caused some delay, but the bi;
l. structure and the mill within it have
gone up with astonishing rapidity. TIL,
" mill site covers $4,000 square feet ant
n the machinery has been so arranged
% that the plant can be doubled in th'
same building area without displacint
any Of the present structures. MI
Low expects the crushers TO be at worl
- next week and is confident that tn
q new mill is capable Of turning out from
4 $50 to 200 tons per day.
Mr. Low says there is an unusuall,
good crop Of cane. the stalks averagin;
ar twenty feet In height and there beini
e. very little 1aIa'' growth. He expect