Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-11-30
RECENT INSTALLATION At
THE OLAA Mill on HAWAII

The grinding machinery consists of two
me dern nine-roller mills, one erected by the
Futon Iron Works, Of st. Louis, Mo-, and
enc by the Honolulu Iron Works Of Honolulu
while the various buildings are as follows: q
Qualification building, building for vacuum
pans, evaporators, crystallizers and centrif.
ugals, sugar.bagging building and a rail.
road shed.
All the buildings are constructed of steel
structural material covered on sides and
roof with corrugated galvanized iron. The
ground floors are made of cement concrete,
the bagasse floor Of checked steel plates,
the filter press and centrifugal floors Of ce.
ment, concrete or arched corrugated iron
while the crystallizers, vacuum pan and en-.
gne-room floors are laid with T. @. wood
on steel joints.
The mill is situated SO that cane may be
brought to the mill either by fume or by
railroad, and the trains Of the Hilo Railroad
Company may pass through the shipping
shed, allowing 140 feet Of cars to be loaded
at one time under roof, with bottom or floor
or cars level with the sugar.room floor.
The mill Is supplied with the most mod
ern sugar.making machinery, there being
installed one quadruple effect of the Lille
automatic film evaporator type of $50. 900
gallons capacity In twenty -four hours, using
exhaust steam only. The vacuum pans, of
which there are three, are constructed ex-
actly alike; each pan striking twenty-five
tons OF dry sugar three times in twenty-four
hours.
There is also installed fourteen crystal.
lizers Tin two rows), each OF sufficient ca.
pacity to hold one full strike of masse- CUTE
from any one OF the vacuum pans There
are twelve 4Ox24 centrifugals, which are
driven by Rollins engine.
In the Qualification house Is all the ma.
chinery pertaining to the lining, clarifca.
tion and settling Of the Juice. On this floor
Ia also located ten filter presses having a
total fltering surface of 5000 square feet.
The mills are driven by a Corliss engine,
while the krajewski crusher Is driven by a
separate Corliss engine. A 15.ton travelling
crane, with two trollies. operated from the
hoor, travels over all the milling machin.
cry. the whole length of the building.
In the engine room there has been install.
ed westinghouse generator, driven by an
Atlas automatic engine. There is installed
eight arc lights and 400 016candle power in.
candescent lights, distributed all over the
entire factory.
Adjoining the mill room is built machine
shop entirely of steel structural material, in
which has been installed several lathes.
pianer, shaping machine. drill press, bolt
and plpe-cutting machinery. Smthie forge,
In fact, all appliances to make any re.
pairs OF an ordinary character. This sugar
mill was designed and planned by the Ho.
nolulu iron Works Company under a con.
tract with the Olaa Sugar Company and
It Is reasonable to expect that the mill win
be In operation and turning out sugar in
December.
The buildings were designed in detail.
manufactured and erected by Messrs. Mill.
ken Brothers OF New Yorn, who also fur.
nished the smOkestack and the travelling
crane. Inc Liilie quadruple effect was
Dtiit by the Honolulu Iron Works.