The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-10-23

sugar solutions and many very instrne-
tive papers on this subject have ap.
peared from time to time In the sugar
journals. While the subject is consid-
cred, by most engineers, as pretty dry
feading, there is no doubt but that a
supposedly good enough. and fragment.
airy knowledge of the fundamental
principles has been responsible for
many unnecessary expenditures in in:
creasing the capacity, etc, when a
proper operation of the old equipment,
would have given sufficient capacity,
and in causing losses that should have
been detected and stopped.
"a correct determination Of THE
logical steps towards a higher standard
Of efficiency demands fair and com,
,plete analysis of the existing condi.
tons, and this, of course, Is not 70 be
expected from any one who does not
clearly understand all Of the factors
involved, their relation to each other
and their proportional significance.
Problems Are Mechanical lla4,i
"The problems throughout sugar
factory are very largely, of a mechan-
zeal nature. This applies to the boil,
ing and erystallizing just as much as
| II does 10 the setting Of the mills.
"TOo many changes and improve
ments are made by persons whose
minds are ungoverned by laws OF
physics, mechanics, thermodynamics,
etc The trouble Is that the results
are influenced by these, natural condi.
tions and instead of letting them stand
in the way, more advantage would be-
taken Of them if they were better UNI
derstood. - tst1s
Mr.. Meinccke's paper on Sugar
Room Machinery was OF especial in.
terest In ii he suggested the abolition
Of the sugar bag, thus 1ayingI he
argred, large sums Of money annually.
Extravagance Of Sugar Bags
The following arc his paragraphs
dealing with this suggestion: E,5g,
Why use bags at all when raw sugar
could be shipped the Same as wheat or
grain and handled with blowers and
chutos, or compressed into blocks, which
is perhaps the better of the two meth
ODDS? A ship could load or discharge its
cargo in much less time, which would
tie gain both to the manufacturers and
TO the steamship companies. There
should be no reason why sugar from
Oahu, Maui and the greater part of
Hawaii could not be shipped by these
methods, and il seems odd that over
100000 tons sugar should be shipped
in retail packages. Air tight box cars
o"ght into tho sugar room could be
loaded in a few minutes and sugar tax
en- from ears could be stored in alright
bins or loaded direct on ship by induced
draft blowers ~
''Tho sugar production of the Ha-
wHiian Islands last season amounted to
j4i,79S tons. Allowing 10 bags to IA
ton. at cost of u cents bag is
81 70 per ton or 1862, 354.4s for 546, T9S
tons, for which we get no return,
.ytarly dead loss so far as we are con,
aained The rehner would, of course.
Object inasmuch as no would lose tho
empty bags which he sells and makes
"a handsome profit. No doubt this sub
iioct on shipment of sugar by those
methods has already been considered,
yet ! see no reason why il should not
be brought before this convention, =
Mr. Kennedy's Paper
The following is an extract from j.
Il. Kennedy s paper on Electricity. ~
'Brt at the present time il appears
that the application Of the electric
motor to sugar factory work is beyond
the experimental stage in 30 far as tn
application Of the electric motor is con.
60 we'd to all clnssns of work outside
of the milling plant. ,.' !
$50 far in these Islands we have no
installation whore the electric motor
is used for the operation Of the mills,
Therefore whatever may be said In
favor OF the adoption of this method Of
operating milling plants, must of he,cs.
sity be classod as theory and supposi
ton to some extont, ss we have not
the practical data at the present time
to beck up our ideas on this point.
"Thc. Application Of clcctri5ity t.
r'n"v. li7S0 0f Industry has hecn Ney
rapid, while in' others it has been tbs