The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-03-23
new LOCAL FIELD
WILL Be ENTERED
BY STANDARDO|L
Two Big Tanks For LoW-Grade
Product Are Being
Erected Here
MAKE PROVISION ALSO
FOR FIRE PROTECTION
Concrete Wall About Grounds At
IwiIei Result Of Letter
of Forbes

The Standard Oil company will enter
the fuel oil field in Honolulu, competing
with the Union and Associated compan.
les, which have had It to themselves.
Two big tanks are going up, each to
hold 10000 barrels. Founda tions have,
been laid and await shipment of steel
Tor the tanks from San Francisco. That
material may be received within four
months or it may be longer. 1t will
require a big force of boiler makers
two or three months to put the tanks
up after the metal has been received.
To what extend the Standard will
enter the field is not known to A. s.
Prescott, sales agent in Honolulu.
Neither does Mr.. Prescott know the ad.
ditional investment that would be re-
CURED TO put the new department in
operation. He will receive instructions
from San Francisco regarding the con
duct Of the new business.
Build Special Tower s. .r..
In addition to the tanks, the Stand
ard will build concrete wall about the
tanks, seven in all, as two small tanks
also will be added to the three in opera.
ton now. This wall will be five feet
above the ground, and two feet under.
II win protect from fire outside the
standard grounds and prevent oil from
spreading from the inside should tank
do the unexpected thing and burst. A
special tower also win be erected, con.
nected with the tanks, which would
pour a special fire-extinguishing fluid
over the oil in case Of fire. The last
addition to the plant at Iwilei will be
an eleven.inch pipe line to the railroad
wharf. This wIlI pipe the oil to tanks.
The pipe already Is on the ground.
The two new tanks for crude, or
fuel oil will be ITO feet in diameter
and thirty-five feet high. They win be
vastly larger than the three tanks in
use now. The kerosene tank, the larg-
est of the three, is only sixty five feet
in diameter and thirty.five feet high;
and the distillate and gasoline tanks
are still smaller. The capacity Of the
three old tanks, in gallons, is as fol.
llows;, Gasoline, 600, 600; Kerosene, 875,.
900; and distillate, 675,000. The new
tanks win hold about 100000 gallons
| each. ~ I}H5E. 80
On Great Scale ~ y. ... 81
The size of the tanks indicates that
the Standard, viii compete for Isalnd
business on great scale.
The small tanks, eighteen feet in
diameter and thirty five feet high, will
hold crude oil drawn from the larger
tanks, and they will be the immediate
source of supply. Foundations for
them also have been laid. ... -
Building the concrete wall is the re-
suit of the recent fire caused by over
flow crude oil near the tanks. At that
time, Charles r. Forbes, superintendent
of public works, wrote Mr.. Prescott,
urging that steps be taken to protect the
wharves and shipping in the harbor
from danger of fire. Mr.. Prescott sent
the letter to San Francisco and imme.
diately received plans for. the wall.
With three hydrants, to which city
hose could be attached; hose, regular
fire drills, the new tower and the wall,
MIR. Prescott believes that the Stand
ard will have every protection against
fire. The tower, with its.special fluid,
should be able to extinguish any blaze,
he said, since oil fires naturally burn
from the top, melting away the tank,
and the mixture spread over the burn
ing oil should be efficacious immediate
ly. 1t would be released automaticaI.
ly, when the temperature in the tanks
rose above the fire point.