The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-12-05
.AMPHIBIOUS JOB
FASCINATEs 'EM
Visiting Engineers Inspect Work
ON Biz Drydock-See
Sugar Made.
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Watching busy workmen handling
derriels, booms, massive timbers, cor.
crete mixers and sceing work fairly
progress under their eyes, the members
Of the American Institute Of Mining
Engineers, who arrived yesterday on
the Siberia and were the guests Of the
Hawaiian Engineering Association dur
ing their days stay IN Honolulu, were
impressed with the magnitude and the
engineering difficulties of the Pearl
Harbor drydock job.
Arriving at Pearl Harbor early in
the forenoon aboard the United States
naval tug Navajo, commanded by Chief
BOatswain BabsOn, U. s. N, the mem
bers scattered around the drydock site
and steadled themselves on the huge
timbers forming the false crib work
rising from the waters of the 800-f
long excavation. They were fascinated
by the animated scene about them, and,
from an engineering standpoint, many
expressed themselves as deeply impress
ed by the magnitude of the work un-
dertaken by the navy department.
While they watched, scow with
engine mounted on deck operating a
circular saw was pulled slowly forward
in the section just outside the enclosed
section and as it progressed the ends
of wooden piles shot to the surface of
the water, having been neatly cut of.
This insures fairly level bottom,
bristling with evenly sawed-of piles
over which concrets is yet to be poured.
Above and Below Water
/ In the section enclosed early in the
year and where certain engineering diff
iculties were encountered, but which
have been met by the use of piles
driven through the floor to pm it down,
activity was Che key note. Divers were
at work on the bottom where they re-
ceived the concrete as 1T came pouring
down through iron pipes and saw that
it was spread out as evenly as possibly
over the pile heads.
The work was reported by Contractor
Smith of the.San Francisco Bridge Com
pany, to have progressed so far that
the false crib work and surrounding
/ bulkheading viii be made water tight
/ in couple of weeks and the pumps
again installed so that the water there
in could be pumped out to expose the
/ bottom of the excavation, now partial
ly covered with concrete. This time the
bottom is expected to remain down.
The exposing of the work under wa
ter Will be viewed with deep interest
as upon the results of that work will
depend the method for treating the
remaining 600 feet of the dock site.
After visiting the drydock work fol
half an hour the party boarded a spe
cial train and was taken to Fort Ka
mehameha, where they inspected thi
vast concrete Notifications and thu
two twelve inch guns mounted. Tht
train then carried the party to Homo
lulu plantation where, under the guild
ance of a number of courteous mem
bers of Manager Glib s staff, they wer
conducted through the mill and saw tn
cane sent into the rollers, saw it com
out in stream of liquid sugar AM
watched the process all through to tn
eentrifugals, one battery turning on
raw sugar and the other the refne'
product.
They saw it sacked, and ready to b
; shipped across the Pacific to the main
land and then on, possibly to their owl
cities, and to the mainland grocers
where they may purchase it for thei
table, The majority of the party ha
the pleasure of making their first visi
to sugar mill.
"And Just to think that it takes al
that machinery and trouble to give m
cube of sugar to dip into our after
noon tea at home,n said one of tn
ladies as she picked up a stick of suga
cane to carry "'home' as a souvenir o
her visit.
The party was then brought t
. Honolulu and at the depot boarded tw
: special cars and were taken to tn
T Commercial Club where fine. luncheo
was spread for the party.
Included in the local party weT
0 Governor Frear, Captain Ellicott of th
0 cruiser Maryland, Lieutenant Berthol
of the fleet, Civil Engineers Gayle
Roy F. Smith and G. f. Burrell, of tn
naval station, who explained tn
5 mysteries of the drydock; President v
Q f. Dillingham;, B. F. Dillingham; an
q II. +. Dillingham; of the Hawaiia
Dredging Company; w. w. Goodal'
J manager of Waialua plantation, an
: Colonel Dodge, builder of the Unio
| Pacific Railway.
: The Hawaiian Engineering Associi
: tion was represented by Secretar
Sheedy, Mr.. Hepburn, A. G. Wheele
" Frank Boyer, Messrs. Pratt, Carr, Ba
! lentyne, Menaugh, Rowell, Gartley,
: Bailey, Professor Keller, Professc
!, Gilmore and H. Denison.
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