The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-08-31

factlon, has attacked her personally, and
polltlcally they are openly advocating
annexation to the United States. They
have daily and weekly paper, which is
largely devoted to the propagation of the
annexation idea. This is somewhat re.
markable, as being the first instance
when annexation has been advocated by
the natives. They have always been
against it before, and the native stock
political war cry has been that an at
tempt was on loot TO bring the islands
under foreign control and to surrender
the independence of the country There
is no doubt that a strong under-cu~rent
OF sentiment in favor of annexation ex-
lists among the foreign element, and also
that 1t meets with favor, to some extent,
among the natives.
AN IMPORTANT WORK.
"The Government is engaged in one
very important work which has been un-
dertaken this year. This is the deepen
ing OF the water on the bar off Honolulu.
A contract was let TO the Risdon Iron
Works of San Francisco. for the delivery
of dredging plant which should dupli-
cate the one now working for the United
States Government in this harbor. The
plant has all been taken to the scene W
operations, and the mechanics are nois
putting it together. The contractor of
under $25, 200 bonds. The Government,
pending the dredging operations, has
been engaged in the construction of re-
tanning walls on the flats, on both sides
of the harbor of Honolulu, The bar con-
sists OF loose sand, which will be pumped
up, AUTOMATICALLY, and carried through
5000 feet Of piping on to the flats, and it
is expected that from ten to fifteen acres
of the fiat will be reclaimed by the oper-
alton. The depth of the water over the
bar, at low tide, when the work is done,
will be thirty feet. This will admit the
largest vessels sailing or steaming on the
Pacific to the harbor. Pacific Mail
steamers and war ships are now COM
PEELED to anchor outside of the bar. The
work will be expensive but there is an
appropriation and money enough to COM
plete the work.
''The consequences following the
deepening of the water on the Honolulu
bar will be of great importance. The
Government caused an estimate of the
cost Of the work to be made last year by
Mr.. Allardt of San Francisco. The work
will go ahead under his plans and esti-
mates. In less than a year in all prob
ability, all the great steamers will have
easy access to Honolulu. The import
ance of this undertaking to Honolulu is
immense. It will obviate all tightening,
and so reduce greatly the cost of hand
ling cargoes in the case of deep draft
vessels.
COAL DOCK.
"The Oahu Railroad Company is also
constructing coal dock on the west
side Of the harbor. The plans were
made by Mr.. Pinkham OF Boston, and
they are for perfect system Of loading
and discharging coal cargoes by ele-
vators. Mr.. Pinkham says that the
company will be able to load or dis
charge coal cargoes as cheaply as at any
port in the world. We expect that the
companies will be able to furnish coal to
steamers at simple margin above the
cost of the freight price from Australia,
The company will be able to coal large
steamer in sixteen hours without touch
ing hand to it. These two improve
ments taken together, the deepening of
the water on the bar and the new facili-
ties for handling coal eargoes will make
great difference. Coal now costs
at Honolulu about $11 per ton put on
board of steamer. 1t is expected that
with the new facilities coal can be put
on board ship at about 81 per ton cost.
The Oahu Railroad is the enterprise of
B. T. Dillingham;, who has succeeded
in the last two years in pushing through
a 19-mile road to Pearl river in the face
of much discouraging talk. He has fine
road now, rock ballasted, and equipped
with Baldwin locomotives, and it is now
paying. Two large sugar plantations,
which would otherwise not have existed,
have been called into being by 1t. These
are the Eva and Kahuku plantations,
which will represent an investment OF
about 81 100000 capital each. 1t has
also made the town of Pearl City. Town
lots to the extent of 100000 were sold
there last year where formerly there
was only a sand waste. A COM
pany has bought sixty acres on PENN
sula which extends out into Pearl-rlver
lagoon and which is surrounded on three
sides by the lagoon, and a hotel is
projected. This will be equipped with a
large bathing establishment, at which
both fresh and salt water bathing will be
a feature. The fresh water will be de-
rived from artesian wells, of which there
are two large ones on the peninsula.
HONOLULU EXCURSIONS.
My particular business here at this
time is to push the interest in Honolulu
excursions. 1t appears to US all that II
the charms of the Hawaiian Islands are
properly set forth, that excursionlsts
will furnish great and certain source OF
income. A corporation has been organ
lied with a capital OF $4,000, OF which
corporation I am the secretary, to build
a hotel at Kilauea, which will be opened
about the 1st of October. This will be
known as the Crater House, We are
going to have the crater region Illus
trated, and we have fine scenery to show.
We are getting up an illustrated pamphlet
now. We expect to arrange with the
Oceanic Steamship Company for round
trip rate to cover an excursion OF hve
weeks from this city, the price to be
about 1925, to include the entire expense
of the trip, hotel charges at the Hawaiian
Islands, the trip to the crater, and IN
fact everything. We are also going to
show Eastern railroads that 1t VIII De 10
their interest to issue round-trlp TICKETS
at excursion rates. The Government is
building a magnificent road, on grace
of 4 per cent. from Hilo to the summit
of the crater. This will be as easy a flue
as it is from here out to the Clltt House;
The road will be thirty miles long, anu