The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-13
|OCAL INDUSTRY
WELL UNDER WAY
Loves Bakery Preparing to Go
Into Wh0lesaIing on a
4 Big Scale.

out of the territory ANNUALLY 4OI OIS-
cults, crackers, fancy cakes and other
CONNECTIONS along the same line, but
if the plans now being carried out by
local men succeed these things will
all be made locally and the profit and
money paid for labor will be kept here
in Honolulu.
At Loves Bakery, on Euuanu street,
machinery is now being installed to
handle all the. cracker business Of the
Territory. Much Of the machinery is
in place, a huge new oven has been
built and ar expert engaged to run
the biscuit mandatory, while the
Alameda yesterday brought down more
machinery. all of it up-to-date and at
fording as complete a plant as any in
the Union. AS soon as this new ma
chinery is all installed the bakery will
be revolutionized, all the old hand mix
ing processes will be done away with
and the products of the ovens, bread
pastry, soda crackers and sweet bis
cults turned out as machine products,
from flour barrel to show case being
d machine handled.
4 The installation Of this machinery
! will mean that Honolulu will have a
plant capable OF turning out sixteen
thousand loaves of soft bread in a
day of ten hours, one hundred cases
day of hard bread, or hard tack, and
biscuits plain and fancy to the num-
Der of one hundred and fifty varieties,
from the humble soda cracker to the
daintiest chocolate or cream wafer. It
will mean that bread for the largest
fleet that floats could be turned out
as fast as needed and that local la
borers and local manufacturers will
benefit instead of the outsiders Will
liam Eckardt, an expert biscuit maker,
has been brought here from San Fran
cisco and he is now installing the COM
plicated machinery.
The machinery is being installed in
building in the rear of the shop 10
by ~ feet in size, part of this being
the old bake shop and a part newly
erected corrugated iron addition. The
first machine used in the new process
of bread and biscuit making is a mix
err huge steel tub in which four
and a half barrels of -four can be
dumped and mixed up into dough in
six minutes. This dough is then dump |
ed into a bread machine, which kneads |
1T and fashions it into loaves which |
are placed mechanically into a hot |
air box, sort of steel cupboard, and |
trundled to a steam machine. This /
machine is a big bricked-in oven,
around which the endless belt passes.
The dough loaves are placed on THE
belt and make the circuit of the cham
Der. the steam raising the bread and
giving it a creamy consistency. Then
Ne loaves are transferred to the bak-
ing oven, which is a huge bricked-in
cavity in which a sort of Ferris wheel
performs, turning slowly, the bread be-
ing put on the shelves of the wheel
as they come level with the door. The
wheel makes the circuit in from nine
to fifteen minutes for bread and in
from five to eight minutes for crack
ers, by which time the loaves on the
first shelf are baked This oven is an
eight-shelf one, the next to the largest
size in use anywhere on the mainland
The machine for making crackers is
the especial pride of Mr.. Eckardt, who
declares that it is the very finest in
use anywhere. For it, the dough is
mixed as for bread in the mixing ma
chine, and is then turned over to
machine which has a resemblance TO
both a sugar cane roller and man.
gle. Here the dough is turned into
long. fat strips, which are fed into
the convertible biscuit machine, first
passing through another rnangae which
brings the strips down to the proper
thickness for the particular cracker
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strip is cleared of all surplus flour by
a swiftly-revolving brush and then !;
passes under a die, which cuts out the
raw cracker in the particular design !
wanted, anything from a plain square
soda cracker TO an elephant or letter
of the alphabet, as the case requires.
The trimmings are picked up as the
crackers pass along the machine to g,
NE oven end. where a man is waiting
for them with a big, fiat wooden
scoop. with which he takes them off !
the cloth belt and slides them on the
of the moving platforms in the G
oven. From there, after doing their s
turn they are raked out into boxes Y
and taken 10 the sorting tables, where
girls put them into :
packages and boxes
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handling some large contracts. supply
ing the oahu Prison, Asylum. the
Leper Settlement. the three kameha-
meha schools. the st. Louis college,
the sisters of the Sacred Hearts, the
Inter-Island Company steamers, the e
Queens Hospital and the Commercial I
Club with their bread. Now they VIII n
be in position to take the biggest
contract and fill it with few hours t
notice. while the wholesale trade can 7
be supplied with both breads ana :
crackers.
The ovens are to be heated with !,
bill a iouble-cylinder oil burner De-
ng installed by the Honolulu IRON
Works. while the same firm is now IN
Sailing a acknowledgements gas en-
CINE to operate the machinery
When the plant is working II VII
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