The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-06

The Wilhelmina returned this morn
ing from Hilo. She will leave on We'd
nesday for San Francisco.
Mariana and Zealanda.
A wireless received by Theo. II.
Davies & Co., agents for the Canadian.
Australian line, says that the Mariana
will arrive Tuesday at p. m. and
will leave for Vancouver at II p. m.
The message states that they are en-
countering strong winds and high
seas.
The Zealandia wires that they ex-
pect to arrive from Vancouver We'd
nesday morning and will leave that
evening at about five o'clock. The
Zealandia has accommodations from
here for twelve saloon passengers and
eight in the second-class.
Locomotives for Canal Towing.
Shipping Illustrated in its issue of
October Il says:
The government will shortly call
d, for bids for the forty locomotives that
will be required for towing ships
! through the locks at Gatun, Pedro
Miguel and Miranores, Panama Canal.
The system of towing provides for
the passing through the locks of a
ship at the rate Of two miles an hour,
the vessel being held steady between
four lines of taut hawsers. 4 ship
will come to a full stop in the forebav
of the locks, where four hawsers will
be attached to it, two forward on
either side and two aft At their
other ends, these hawsers will be at
tached to the windlasses Of four tow
ing locomotives operating on the lock
walls, two forward towing, and two
aft being towed by their hawsers,
thus holding the ship steady. The
locomotives will run on a level, ex-
cepting where they pass from one
lock to another, where they will climb
heavy grades. Between the lower
and intermediate locks at Gatun for
example, there is difference in ele-
walton Of 30 feet inches, and, in
order to save concrete this ascent is
made in the shortest feasible dis
lance. The horizontal distance from
the point of tangency on the lower
lock wall to the point of contact on
the wall Of the intermediate lock is
1862 feet The vertical curve has
radius Of 100 feet, and the maximum
grade is one on two. There will be
two systems of tracks, one for tow
ing, and the other for the return of
the locomotives when not towing.
The only cross-overs between the
tracks will be at each end of the
locks, and there will be no switches
in the rack road The tracks will be
of the 5-foot Panama railroad gauge,
laid with 90-pound Bessemer steel rail
on Carnegie steel ties, each tie an
chored into the concrete by a bolt on
the side farthest from the lock cham
ber On the center wall there will be
two towing tracks with one return
track between them and on each side
a towing and return track. The tow
ing tracks will have a center rack
throughout, and the locomotive, while
towing, will always operate on this
rack. On the return tracks, at the in
cline between locks they will also
operate on racks, but elsewhere they
Will run by friction. The racks will
be of cast steel, so formed that mbri-
cant will not drop upon the concrete,
and that water will not be held i'm the
lntersticess this latter precaution be-
ing taken against the breeding of
mosquitoes. The distance from cen
ter TO center of adjoining teeth is
3,13 inches. After hauling the ship
through the last gates, and into the
forebay, the locomotives will coil
their cables and return to await an
other ship, or will take hold of a YES
sci going in the opposite direction.
and tow it through. Each locomotive
VII 'Oll9lol Vi lHIee parts, TWO tract
ors, and between them a windlass.
Passengers Arrived.
Per str Kinau, from Kauai ports,
November 81 Fassoth, Francis Gay
and 3 servants, Mrs. All Hoy, infant
and l child; Haginoya, Mrs Haginoya,
e. F. lmhoff, l.. Hoi, d. Y. Lee, T.
lsonaga, j, II. Fisher, W. A. Engle, H.
c, Waldron, Mrs, Hudson and > chill.
dren, j. II. Bole, d. Klussman, Mrs. A.
Klussman, w, n Peterson, w. G.
Hall, Mrs. Bowers, Mrs. Glendon and
child.
Per str Mikahala from Maui and
Molokai ports, November sc Mari
anna and wife, Miss NJ. Clark, Miss G..
Arnold, G s, Wright, Geo. Nunes, NJ.
Tagaki, Miss Jeremia, C. T. Larsen,
" S. Clark, R. D, Mead S. Ogata, d.
Alama and Is on deck.