The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-10
FOR HARBOR PLANS
Suggestions Are Offered
: BY An Active Master.
Fees for Wharf and Pilot Privileges,
The Present Officers Good
Ones-Tug-A Board.

The following letter is from one of
the most successful and best known
captains plying between these Islands
and the United States. His advice and
suggestions are worthy of attention:
Honolulu, August 1Ses.
/ MR.. EDITOR=In view of the changes
soon TO take place IN this community 1
would venture to call attention to some
suggestions which / would like to make
| in the interests Of shipping visiting TINS
Special privileges in the way of free
water and free wharfage TO be suspended
and mail steamers only TO have the pref
eTence over SAILING EeSselS Tor loadihS anu
/ disClargiug berth. The rate Of wharfage
should be changed as follows: Two cents
/ per ton per day Tor vessels up TO l.pov TONS
! and one and a half cents per ton for every
| ton over 1000. The wharfage bill on
/ large vessel is very burdensome, but
small vessels can stand 1t.
The rates of pilOtage ought to be
| changed also. Say 10 cents per ton IN
Guiding in and ouD for sailing vessels up
to 100 tons net tonnage. and eight cents
| per ton for every ton over 400. The rate
| of pilotaEe to be reduced p per cent where
tug is employed either IN or out Inc
| rate of pilotage for steamers ought 10
| be eight cents per ton up to 1000 tons net
tonnage and six cents per ton Tor every
! ton over 1000.
The master of the tug ought to have a
pilots commission, because he IS IN Ell
/ feet the pilot when he is pulling by the
| nose a vessel in through the narrow en-
| trance to the haTbOE, and the pilot on
| board seems to be superfuOuS. ON ac-
| count of the small size of the harbOr and
| the increasing size of the vessels coming
| here the employment of pilot should be
| compulsory on all vessels.
| The number of pilots ought to be -FOUR,
| besides the master of the tug, ana each
| pilot ought to be appointed deputy har-
| bOrmaster, TO place vessels in their proper
berth, under the order OF the cher mar
The present pilots should be recon-
| missiOned when the proper authority IS
| have given satisfaction TO those VINO
| employ them. Under the new dispense
| ton it is to be hoped they get all their
| fees and pay all the expenses connected
| with their businessman L would 1urthel
| suggest that the tug be turned over to
! the management of the pilots at a ram
| valuation and become part of the pilot
age adjustment of the port. The duty
! of a pilot ought to be to bring a YeSseI
| into the harbor, and moor het IN d pSr ~
laDpOinted by the harbOrmaSter ana 10
! take the vessel from her last loading
berth to sea, and not as is sometimes mes
| the case. to board the vessel outside, get
pulled by a tug into port (the pilot com
| ing in as passenger and leaving the YES
| sci a. soon as the anchor is down.
| The charges for towing should be reg
ulated by the tonnage of the vessel ana
not by the rig. Five cents per ton for
! tOWage either way, for any distance WIFI
| in five miles of the port ana so per
| hour for any distance beyond five miles
| would seem TO be a reasonable rate. Our
| present harbOrmaSter, who has long Deeh
| and still is. the hardest worked officer IN
| the employ of the Government, ought to
| be reappOinted, or commissioned undeF
| the new government, for during almost
| twenty wears that he has held the position
he has given his whole attention to his
| business and is rec<Oned amongst the
| shipping fraternity being a very just,
| capable and Obliging officer. He should
| be allowed an assistant harbormaster, to
| relieve him of some of his duties. lie
| should also be allowed a permanent chief
| bOatmau for running lines. The spec
| tacle of the chief harbOr official of the
country doing able seaman's work and
| running lines for vessels coming INTO the
| harbor is one not seen in any other
| country.
| The fixed charge for coming on board
| and moving a vessel should be 50, when
should include the charge for running
| appoint from amongst our prominent
| shipping merchants q board OF commits
| siOnerS. which in this country small as II
is might be anna lgamated under the name
of pilot and HarbOr Commissioners,
such board to have the appointment OF all
sfderation of all improvements for all the
harbOrs and rOadSteads OF the country
the chief harbOrmaster Of Honolulu 70
be always one of such commissioners but
ONLY as a shipping expert, ana IN an aI-
yisOrv capacity and not to have vote
All complaints against pilots, harborIn3S-
tiers and whartingers are TO ne heSIu ny
these commissioners, and their acJlon III
all cases after approval by the Governor,
to be final.
I charge nothing for these suggestions,
and I furlherrnore state that 1 am not
candidate for harbormaster, pilot or pinot
commissioner Yours faithfully
NAJTLCJS.