The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-11-22

and on our most favorable lines four
CHARTERS per hour Is not unusual to be
transported by one cable.
Comparisons as to the efficiency and
cheapness of the different methods of
cane transportation Is hardly worth nam
ing, as all plantations differ in the lay
OF their lands. the location of their
works. A deficiency of water ana other
causes forces some plantations to adopt
one method and others another method.
Some plantations combine two of the
above methods to good advantage. Where
railroad runs along the lower part of
the plantation to the works, cane from
all parts of the plantation can be drop
ped into the cars from "a wire cable, or
from tiume If water Is available. This
Is all that II seems prudent to say at this
time upon cane transportation. Vow
comes
CANE HANDLING
Cane handling | presume, is intend
ed to include all labor required to move
the cane after it is cut to, and place 1t
in, cars. wagons. fumes and upon the
wire cablcss which convey it to the
works
This is done altogether by man or horse
power We have had some experience
loading cane upon cars, wagons. fumes
aud the wire cable. We have heard com.
| nluints made about tho IA rl nnl pu.i lN
work, loading cane on cars, wagons, wire
| cables, and packing cane to fumes. At
| our last years meeting considerable was
| said about the hard WORK complained CT
| in loading cane cars, almost impossible
| to have it done save bv contract. Not
| having any hard work complained OF in
loading cane cars on our Island We said
nothing, believing as we did that the
large plantations where irrigation was
used. more rapid work was required and
a different method had been adopted
than any we were acquainted with. We
knew nothing to the contrary untii We
received picture showing how they load
sugar cane on ears IN these Islands. If
the picture shows truly, the cane is load
ed upon cars by being packed on the
shoulders Of men, who walk up n plank
ana drop II on the car. This is indeed
hard work. The man weighing lJO lbs.
taking up 6-lb. bundle OF cane, in real
ity he takes up 200 lbs, including his
own weight, drops 30 lbs. on the car and
returns with 80. If this is kept up all
day he possibly loads ten tons of cane,
and in so doing he has taken up forty
tons of matter left the ten tons of cane,
land 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 rockonod hard work.
| We pursued a different method of load
ling cars with cane eighteen years ago.
land presume II is used to a slight extent
vet We loaded the cane upon sleds in
the field where it was drove the team
lby the side of the car and holstei the
lcane upon the car by a horse, 500 lbs or
more ut "A lift. There was no hard work
for man or horse by this method The
|hors. dld the hacking from the field and
the lifting Mt the car. The EXPENSE for
loading one ton of cane was near 10
ic,nts. with no hard work for man or
lbeast When we commenced experiment
inr with tho trolley system IN, cane
was hacked and hung on the wire by the
mon il, I0O-lb bundles This was slow.
costly ana hard work. As our knowl-
ledge of working the wire increased more
lcane was required. so We added the sled.
lone sled two horses and driver would
ltakc ms much cane to the wire at on,
time as fourteen men. This eliminated
Ian hard work save TO If, the bundles
lonto the sl,ds. Even that was not oner-
Ions as the bundles were VET light.
| Unviu,. irnnrov,n.nt ON tha hrai, and
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