The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-07
Ills MECHANICAL
STtVEDORING PLANT

The Inter Island Steam Navigation
Companys great mechanical stevedor-
ing plant, or coal hopper, is rapidly
taking proportions that give an excel
lent idea of how coal will be handled
from a vessel IS hold to the hopper ears
and from the coal yards by car into
a ships bunkers. That the great ap-
paratus is expensive goes without say
ing. President Kennedy of the Inter
Island company, when asked it's cost,
shrugged his shoulders and said it cost
a good deal more than he had expected.
However, it is one of the best and is
made by Hunt Bros. of New York, a
firm which has the reputation. The
mauka wharf of the Bishop slip is Civ
en- over entirely to the hopper. This
consists of two immense timbered struc-
lures on the top of which, that is, on
the section nearest the harbor end of
the wharf, is an immense platform pro-
vided with wide-set-apart rails on which
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wheels to enable them to be run back
and forth along the wharf frontage.
Each of these towers will have a pro-
jecting Warm reaching out over ves-
sci, so that tackle dropping perpendicu-
larly will send buckets or ears directly
into a vessel s hold and hoist the car
to the level of the top of the hopper,
whence it is drawn inward and dropped
upon set of rails. The car is then
caught by grip and carried along the
top of the hopper to it's junction with
an elevated railroad which passes along
the street opposite the Honolulu Iron
Works thence along curve to another
hopper in the big coal yard. On this
hopper is huge tower with YARNS pro-
jecting from both sides so that quick
work can be made of loading or I'M
loading. Only the one big tower with
two arms is in position on the yard
hopper, but the others will be up soon,
and the entire plant may be ready to
operate about the first of the year The
plant is capable of taking from 1900
TO 1000 tons of coal per day out of a
vessel. The two towers on the wharf
hopper give opportunity to work two
matches ait a time.
The parts have been assembled by
the company's own engineers and the
work done by them, and "with citizen
labor too said President Kennedy
yesterday.
The company is thinking of changing
the location of the powerhouse from
the coal yard to the street end of the
present wharf used by the Canadian
Australian steamships. 1t will be locat.
ed close to the slip-edge, so as to leave
an open space for entry to the wharf
direct from Allen street. This will To-
cate the powerhouse about half way
between the two sets of towers.
Military Masts to Go.
An officer of the cruiser Colorado,
when the Pacific fleet was here, made
a statement that when the Pacific fleet
returned to San Francisco its home port
next year, the vessels would be sub
jeeted to many structural changes, in
Gliding the elimination of one of the
big cranes and one of the military
masts. That statement was published
at the time in the Advertiser. Infor-
nation comes from Washington that
the ships of the Atlantic feet, on their
arrival again at Hampton Roads will
proceed thence to various navy yards
for overhauling and repairing, and a
feature will be the elimination of one
mast on each vessel and the substitution
of the new skeleton mast for the old