The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-04


in Honolulu Harbor right vet would be
the part wisdom far certainly of Homo
wharves by the Government private
strictly private corporations necessarily apply
se1nfpubic corporation like railroad public
passenger rates are snbiect to direct reIatio Nv az So
The Railroad already benefit to the City of
Honolulu and that benefit is growing apace.
receives and handles ninety thousand freight
annually it's wharf harbOr With the new
enterprises assured along the line
enterprise vet to be reached bv extensions if is cal
cuated that in five years tonnage handled by the
Road through Honolulu Harder will reach three hundred
thousand tons.
Already the pay roll of the Railroad Company
the roll for extensions which may be temper
airy is from $4,000 to $1,000 month"; and expensive
chnery and repair works and shops being built
terminus in this City the requirements present
and future business of the Company BY having its terminus
in the City of Honolulu the Company is committed po
hey OF building up the interests of this town and Of resisting
any diversion of business great
lagoon with twenty miles of wharf frontage opened
up commerce
There is no more valuable artery to sustain and build
city than railroad Not only have great subsidies
bonuses been voted to railroad to cities in the
throughout the United States but they are still voting such
subsidies Cities railroads and induce
them to come by largesses as they ever We're
If the Railroad deprived ownership frontage
in Honolulu it will not its terminus from Honolulu
from pque or by way of retaliation Railroad Companies
conduct their affairs business lines and it still
pays them Honolulu divert ali
they gather this Island past Pearl HabO
Honolulu they going to do it, but the question arises
will the exclusion from all ownership wharves Homo
lulu make business proposition for the Road
Pearl HarbOr its terminus and to regulate its
affairs from with view of carrying out that purpose?
Railroad officials claim that it WILL The Company
mile of wharf frontage in fee simple Pearl Harbor and has
miles of fine wharf frontage there under forty
terminal facilities, shops
and for it's employees and it also large adjacent
to the water front for storing coal and lumber
satisfied that railroad
will pay them
they cannot ownership of wharf front at Honolulu
they that the Railroad Company will
it question of dollars and cents but applying the
if will the Company
terminal facilities Pearl Harbor and to build Pearl
up against Honolulu just surely will be done
Ownership wharves is profitable pro
position wharfage of the sup
ply put between twenty and thirty miles of wharf front
land will be in the market
the day that HarbOr opened and if do not shortly
thereafter have free wharfage rendered to the vessels in both
harbors to secure the dement's a come from th presence
result of competition between the two harbors
certainly will have something dangerously near free wharfage
ownership wharyes then the benefit of the
pie discount chief benefit arising thereform
will be the paying OF taxes to maintain them.
The wharf question in Honolulu Harbor in one sense
question another nothing but municipal
question which the City of Honolulu primarily and chiefly
interested and should have the Throughout the United
cities with checks have the control and dis
position frontage their harbors they also
have the control and disposition of their public parks boue
vard Questions like this under consideration
generally decided directly the city which the
harbOr indirectly by it's influence and wish For instance
even if the right ALLEVIATE wharf lands,
they almost invariably make the alienation if the city
directly interested desires So that really this is to large
extent municipal question in which the City OF Honolulu
primarily the Railroad had not been built and
today asking for the right to wharf room on
Honolulu Harbor sufficient for the needs OF the Company ana
proved that had plenty of money back OF US to build the
road the City of Honolulu whether we
should have the wharf room or not we 90 not doo Tue
The Railroad would the concession The Railroad Com
pany claims did get that concession before it started to
build the right to condemn III fee whenever 1t was pre-
pared road is built and the City is
getting of that road commencing to
begrudge the promise made But thefe Is YET ls olher
be considered namely whether the eXcu
Railroad ownership of wharf Homo
real people If the result to
this OF the road and all the
that necessarily usually follow the terminus
There is StOrekeepeI, owner
the City Honolulu who is not benefited by
the of this road The that 1t pays out IN
goes directly among labong people who in turn
spend their the benefit of other classes throughout
If it to 3OOOOO tons as
against that vast deal to this CITY IL
should also be borne in mind that great deal OF the trade OF
this City with the other Islands is being diverted not 10 re-
HiO HarbOr the other day
nd is plenty Plantation after
plantation has only to ship direct to san
Francisco but receive its supplies and goods direct back