The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-09
PLANTERS VISIT
Continued From Page NineJ

and a circular saw cutting off the tops
of piles under water, to say nothing
of the derricks that feed the hoppers
with concrete.
Naturally the circular saw was at
tractive. All that could be seen was
a long shaft revolving at a very rapid
rate. This, the spectators were in
formed, was cutting off the tops of
piles that had been driven down into
the floor. These piles were necessary
owing to the bed of the dock rising
when the water was being bumped out.
They are to pin the bed down, and
in order to make them secure many
feet of concrete will be poured over
them.
To the lay mind, of course, it was
wonderful that concrete would set UNI
der water AS it will, there is no need
to say anything more about it. There
are six hoppers above six tremies.
These hoppers are filled, and then the
concrete passed into the tremies.
Gradually these tremies are lifted and
shifted, and thus an almost even coat
ing of concrete is poured over the bot
tom.
The whole work is very extensive
indeed. About four hundred men are
engaged in it. When the dock is
completed according to present plans
it will be S31 feet long and 100 feet
wide, capable of accommodating the
largest warship so far constructed,
but, of course, not quite big enough
for the Olympic. A recent Washing
ton letter to The Star, however, an
nounced that Secretary Meyer would
recommend that the Pearl Harbor dock
be made not less than 1000 feet long
and 10 feet wide, to conform to the
locks of the Panama canal and ac-
commodate dreadnoughts.
So far five and half million feet of
lumber has been used in the crib, that
is the framework, to make it water
tight so that it can be pumped out,
and one and a quarter million feet Of
lumber in the sheet piling-the sides.
The dock is being done in sections.
Should it be necessary to lengthen
it, the work will not~he very great
and could be done much easier now
than at any other time
Glance at Fort kantehameha.
The visitors were loath to leave the
scene, as they could have spent
couple of hours there in sightseeing,
without having seen all there was to
see. Time was pressing, however, and
they soon took the train to Fort ka-
mehameha. Here the two twelve-inch
guns were inspected. None OF the
naval officers, however, were there TO
show the visitors the actual working
This fort has already been fully des-
cribed in The Star.
Once more the train was boarded.
This time for Aiea, where lunch was
served on the Honolulu plantation.
For the occasion the room where sew
ing machines stitch the fine sugar
bags together, and printing machines
nut the necessary lettering on them'
was used for the banquet hall 1t was
a light meal, and there was an almost
entire absence of speeches. H. A.
Tburston proposed the toast of 'Ihe
Honolulu Iron Works, coupled with the
name Of C. Hedemann." This was
drunk enthusiastically, and Mr.. Heue-
mann briefly responded and in turn
nronosed the healths Of Walter billing
ham and Manager Gibbs. Mr.. Dining
ham responded and then proposed lne
health of "The hardest worked and
noorest paid men in the Sugar planters
Association" No one seemed able to
reply to it, but the managers took the
words as meaning themselves
Sugar Mill Improvement.
Then the real object of the visit took
place-the inspection of the additions
tn the mill. These consist OF two I'M
mense cheeks, invented and turned out
nv the Honolulu Iron Works. BY the
addition of these cheeks, as they are
called, more pressure can be brought
70 hear on the sugar cane than ever
with less power, and the machinery
runs easier,
These cheeks are what the laymen
would call immense brackets, in when
are fitted the rollers. With them II
has been possible to rearrange the