The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-07-03
TO SAVE
full DAY
At R|L0
Installation of Modern Freight
Handling Machinery on Kubio
Bay Wharf Will Enable Vessels
to Load Sugar cargoes in More
Rapid Time Than at Present
Facilities Will surpass Those Of
Honolulu.

The improved freight handling ma
chinery which il to be installed in the
new government wharf shed at Ililo will
save one day in loading the sugar ships
that carry the Big Island crops TO mar
ket. Az stated By J. A. Kennedy Of the
lnter-IsIand Steam Navigation Com
pany, some weeks ago, the doSelop.nent
of any port Of call and its use BY. tramp
or regular line vessels depends on the
facilities for quick dispatch that are
provided. r. u. Park, engineer for ths
harbor commission, brought this out at
the meeting Of the harbor commission
Wednesday. uN,#
The board of harbor commissioners
has laid ont series Of construcsive
plans which, when completed, viii give
Hilo harbor an advantage over Homo
lulu harbor in the speed with which
vessels can be loaded and dispatched.
The Hilo wharf can only care for two
large freighters at . time, hit these two
can be more cheaply watered and pro-
vided with fuel, and more rapidly filed
with cargo and despatched. Working
the sugar both frosl storage aud from
cars sugar can be handed aboard steam.
ers at the rate Of 5000 tons per day al
kuhio Bay as soon as the new equip.
ment is installed.
Wharf Shed to Be Built.
One of the great public works which
: will be begun as soon ms Treasurer ID
Il. Conkling returns from New Yorl;
with the proceeds Of the latest bond is
sue, is to be the wharf shed and ap
Iproachcs TO the Kuhio Bay wharf.
The legislature appropriated $4,000
!. for the new WHAT at Hilo. Two hun
drcd thousand dollars was allotted fol
the wharf, andt$l40,0OO for tho shed
A special approximation Of $4,000 alsc
was made for building tho roadway Il
the wharf. Thcte.is an unexpected bal
ancc of $3S62.4Q remaining from tn,
wharf alIotment. "'.E e
Plans for the new wharf shed hav'
been in preparation under the supervi
sion Of Il. d. Pdfk, engineer OF the har
Dor commission Tho draugbtsmen hav'
been steadily employed on this worl
for the last ten months and IL is nntiei
pated that all of the detail drawings a
> well as the specifications will he com
{ pletcd by the middle Of August. Ten
G ders will then Ne called for, Srlpcrintep
Z. dent Of Public Works John w. Caldwell
stated yesterday that the harbOr CON
mssioners hope that the contract vii
! be ready TO let as soon as Mr.. Conl;
ling gets back to Hawaii with tn
money to pay for the work If plan
J. do not miscarry the construction Of tn
new wharf shed will proceed then with
v out delay
!. The Kuhio Bay wharf she'd is to b
q 145 feet wide and sos feet in length
!. The nat shed roof is to be pitch ar
!, gravel, supported by Howe trusses, tn
!. lower chords Of which are twenty fee
Z. above the pavement, The trusses ar
\ in two spans, n ninetylfoot span on tn
/ landward side and fifty-four-foot spa
4 with twenty foot cantileyer overhan
d on the seward side.
i rf -Four Sets Of Tracks.
ID There are four railroad tracks til
y full length of the wharf Two Of thr'
arc outside the she'd on tho platform III
]; der tho ovcrhang Sugar can be III
It. loaded from cars outside the wharf she
Il direct to vessels or freight from Il
le ships transferred direct TO the cars III
A. tracks inside the wharf shed are loca
n, ed in supken alleys, the floor. of Il
l., cars being level with the floor Of Il
n, wharf. Thesc sunken alleys run alor
re the seawarl side Of the section Of Il
IS. Wharf farthest from the ships Me
IS Ghandise TO or from the tafs will
ld transferred direct from The wharf.
Il Between the tracks inside the sho
"a there is a tunnel running the fill leng
b. Of the shed. In this tunnel there is
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belt with Tugs every six feet. When
k train load of sugar runs into the wha
cd shed the cars are stopped so that the
IL side doors are opposite phutes lcadil
er down from the Level Of the ear floor.
Loading Operation Mechanical.
~ The bags of sugar are thrown into t
chutes and slide down onto tho endlC
tS9 belt. The belt carries them TO one
~ tho four sets Ofselectric eonVeyors a
u elevators. At the foot of the elevate
.ts the bags are transferred automatica
to the elevator belts which lift them
the height of about twenty-five fl
RI above the decking 60,
- If there Is no vessel in port and
.ss sugar is for storage the bags 1
no dropped into long chutes which deliN
them in tiers along the landward ia
~ of the shed.
'as If freightcr Is moored alongsi
20, the wharf and sugar Is TO 90 direct
NJ. the vessel from the ears the elevat,
~ deliver the sugar bags to trnnsYo
ne electric convcyOr belts located, betwC
tho roof trusscs These carry the bt
across the wharf and deliver them il
"a chutes leading to- the ships load
W platforms. E W
~ Two Ships Can Be Handled.
. The four elevators are iAdepend,
HI of and arc 50 spaced that two ships {
Cd, ,bc worked ut one time Each elcya
lgs has an average working capacity
,il, 100 tons per hour, hut IL the hcccss
bic arises thoy can be spoeded to 1870 Il
ma per hour, so that the normal work
nj capacity of all the electric convey
- when in operation would be from 40O
the 600 tons per hour.
su. There Is second tunnel, the
length Of the wharf, located under