The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-22

not to rip, ravel or run down at the
| heel" even in the hands of the most
| ignorant and inartistic of cooks Imag-
| inc the finest French bread daily on
| board a sailing vessel, at sea, three or
! four or even five months away from
| the port of departure. Imagine, too,
| bread cooked, not in some galley
next the ''foc'sle,' but in the finest
| cooking range ever made, Spears
hard coal burner with a thermometer
in the oven door and with such nicely
adjusted hampers that you can have
your oven or the top of your stove at
any degree of heat from freezing up to
white heat and change it at will or
keep it stationary for hours, if desired.
Imagine this beautifully made bread,
baked in this delicately adjusted oven
by a typical New England housewife
af1oat,' if you please and she please
| (when the cooking fit should seize her
or the official cook should be ''indis-
posed'D, imagine, then, the coolest lit
| tie fiat in the brightest corner in town,
with all the dainty things which mod
ern housewives think-and rightly
too-so necessary to the modern home.
Just forget the wharf Or the sea and
| imagine the Phelps to be a fathouse,
and you can appreciate what makes
Captain Graham smile when he sees
| that 10 pound bread-maker, thing
invented by some quiet little Quaker
| in Philadelphia. 1t was all that he
lacked to have .'all the comforts or
home" whether in Manila Bay, New
York harbor, shooting through Magel-
Ian Strait OR crossing the equator. In
| fact, Mr. Arthur Sewall, who designed
the accommodations, told Captain era
| ham, after the vessel was built, why
this is not ship, but fiat" Hot
and cold water, porcelain BATH, in
short, all that the heart can desire is
/ there. And anyone who has ever made
| a long trip at sea knows that the heart
| is apt to desire very many things be-
fore the voyage is ended.
But this bread-maker is wonder
You weigh the flour, measure the water
and measure the yeast. Be exact, ana
press the button, and it does the rest
OF course, you have to turn the crank
which makes the knives go round in
side These knives do the kneading IN
a very few minutes which it formerly
took the housewife hours with big
baking and usually broke her back,
unless she was a feminine Hercules.
careful with your measurements, the
water and flour and yeast comes out
like sausage, all ready to set tn 7
in
ready to rise" Provided You are
careful with your measurements, the
product is simply perfect bread. The
Captains machine makes ten pound
ioaveS at a clip.
The Phelps is at the Railroad wharf
discharging the last of her coal. She
was supposed to have done that IN
Manila, but some two hundred and
fifty tons more have been found in the
cracks of the vessel, so to speak Ana
Captain Graham is one of those thrifty
down East" Yankees that does not
propose to throw away two hundred
and fifty tons of coal simply because
it has sifted down between the steel
Orders of his vessel and it is something
of job to dig out.
But how this coal got there is still
another story. The tale of the coal
cargo the Phelps was bringing to Mani
la for the government has been told
How It caught fire and Smouldered
away for weeks before reaching Mani
la and finally burst out into flames IN
Manila Bay and burned out the cell
ing on the floor of the ships lowest
hold.
The removal of the last of the ball
last has made apparent just what
the fire did and did not do. What it
did not do is more remarkable than
what it did. Dozens, perhaps nun
dred. three-inch planks on the bottom
of the ship, resting on the very bot
tom steel framework of the vessel
have been charred into a black, brittle
mass. Not every one must be replaced,
but of this number all will have to be
replaced in part. The old planks Were
sappy Eastern pine. They will be re-
placed by Northwest pine. Not only the
floor but the sides, where lighter |
weight battens had been put up, were |
charred for many feet in places. But
in some places only small hole had |
been burned through.
The reason for this was the use of |
the Clayton Sulphur engine and It's
pipes ramifying the entire ship like
hot and cold water system in hotel
When the fire started-to be exact,
when the coal began to smoke, Cap
tain Graham started his boiler going,
got up steam and started his sulphur
drum to work BY the time the steam
was up the blue flames in the sulphur
drum had generated a great amount
of gas. which began to circulate
through a regular condensing coil to
lower the temperature. At fairly cool
temperature it entered the air pump,
which is onerated on the fan or centrl-
fugal plan, which drove the sulphur
gas into the discharge pipes. Thence 1t
went to every part of the ship desired.
By a very complete and almost COM
plex system of pipes and valves, the
whole thing is under the absolute con-
troll of the engineer. The sulphur
wherever 1t is released permeates every
nook and corner in search of oxygen
of the air Immediately it finds the
oxygen of the air it produces with IL
a combination which makes life ana