The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-12-17
BIGGEST COAL|NG
JOB ON RECORD
FORTY-FIVE DUMP CARTS AT
BATTLESHIPS AND A CRUISER.

The biggest job of coaling that has
ever been attempted in Honolulu is
now in progress. Three warships are
being coaled at the Naval wharves and
the Pacific Mail wharf and all hands
of the shore crowd are kept jumpinr
trying to keep up with the demand
from the vessels Tor coal. why you
simply can't stop that Kentucky de-
clared w. II. Hogs who has charge
of hauling the coal to the ships. she
simply eats it right UP as fast as we
can land it."
The Kentucky evidently can consume
coal as fast as the Blue Grass state
does whiskey-she was christened with
whiskey by the way when she was
launched at Newport News. The
vessel has the record for fast coalng.
Her record was something over 200
tons an hour, feat which seems well
night incredible. The vessel is equip
ped with the latest appliances however
for getting the coal aboard rapidly and
it is not surprising that she can take
coal faster than any other vessel in
the fleet. She has electrical cranes
that enable her crew to get the coal
aboard almost twice as fast as could
be done with the steam appliances.
The flagship, the KENTUCKY, is at
Naval wharf No. l. She is taking 1,200
tons. She has been averaging about
$50 tons an hour over at Naval
wharf No. 2 on the Waikiki side, is
the battleship Wisconsin at work re-
ceiving 1850 tons, while at the Pacific
Mail wharf lies the other flagship the
/ New Orleans receiving 500 tons The
vessels are being loaded from both
/ sides. There are 40 dump carts haul
/ ing coal as fast as possible The Naval
and Army scows are being constantly
loading with coal to supply the big
! ships 1t is expected that the Ken
lucky will finish coaling this after
noon The Wisconsin can not coal SC
fast and she will not complete this
work until tomorrow The New Or
leans may also get through this af-
ternoon
No attempt is being made to coal the
four vessels out in Naval row. 1t is
simply out of the question to do so.
There are not enough appliances on
hand and those boats will have to lie
idle until after the two flagships and
the Wisconsin are through
AS soon as the New Orleans is
through coahng she will move over
and anchor in Naval Row. The bat
tleship Oregon will then go over to
the Pacific Mail wharf in the place
formerly occupied by the cruiser and
begin to take on coal. The Oregon
will load about 100 tons. The Gin
cinnau will take only $50 tons as she
is a small vessel. The Raleigh and
Albany will take about $50 tons each
Work on coaling these boats will begin
tomorrow.
Coaling was started at $50 O'Clock
this morning The work is being done
exclusively by the crews of the YES
| sells, There is no SteVedOring from
ashore at all The men are a fine
strong lor king set of fellows. Satur-
day afternoon will, it is thought, see
all ships through coaling. The YES
sells will probably take some additional
coal however as deck loads just before
they start for Yokohama. The bat
tleships will take about 100 tons OF
sacked coal each in addition to the
big loads they are taking on this week,
The cruisers may also take some deck
loads in sacks.