The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-01-21
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instructed Superintendent Rowell to
proceed at once with the construction
OF the new wharf across the harbor
from Limekiln point below the old
fishmarket to the terminus of the Oahu
railway on the land on the other side
Today Mr.. Rowell has been hurrying
up the details of his plans and will be-
gin operations next Monday morning
at the outside.
The new wharf will be the longest
and widest in this harbor. 1t will be
more than 900 feet long over the water
and 100 feet wide. The makai row OF
piles will begin on the rock pile at
Limekiln point and will run in q
straight line to the mauka landing at
the railroad wharf. The mauka or
back row will start in rear of Dower's
boathouse and will strike the land
alongside the sugar shed at the rail-
road wharf >
A seawall will be built along the
mauka side of the new wharf to a
space 40 feet wide to be left in the
middle for the channel of Nuuanu
stream. This wall will follow the
channel up to the King street bridge.
The tide land above and below the
channel, makai of the bridge, will all
be filled in. Thus the new wharf, ex-
cept it's mauka edge, will be over the
sea and Nuuanu stream will pass un-
der it at the middle. The wharf will
be wide enough to accommodate
freight, drays and hacks, and is des-
tined to become one of the busiest
centers of shipping.
Con Sjdprah h1p drpdoiuU will ho Oa-
cessary before the work is complete.
The water begins at about two feet
near the line of the wharf and deepens
gradually to 26 feet in the stream
Fortunately the shallow district is not
large and the material to be removed
is soft mud and sand Mr. Rowell stat
ed last night that he expected to COM
pete the job in three months. The
money for it comes out of the Loan
Fund.
Second.-Upon the following inter-
view with the Minister Of Interior,
published in the evening Star OF the
14th inst, to wit:
WILL RUSH THE WORK.
The New Wharf to be Completed by
the End of March.
Minister of the Interior King stated
this noon that an effort will be made
to have the new wharf across the har-
Dor from Limekiln point to the rail-
way landing, completed by the end of
March
I'VE must rush the work to complet-
ion by this time" said the Minister,
"as the period expires then. All the
men needed are at work now and the
force will be added to from time to
time"
Contractor John Ouderkirk, who Is
experimenting the construction of the
new wharf, has the work well started
Some two hundred men are at present
employed.
Third.-Upon reading the foregoing,
the writer called on Minister Damon
on Saturday, the 18th inst, and refer
ring to these newspaper interviews,
asked if it was true that the Govern
ment intended now building a new
wharf 600 feet long by 100 feet wide
from the Limekiln point to the Rail-
road wharf, His reply was such as
to leave no doubt that that was their
intention and determination. Later
the same day in conversation with
Mr. OuQofK1rK, ne stated IndL ne Udu
not taken contract to build the pro-
posed new Government wharf, but he
had engaged to construct the wharf
by days work." that he understood 1T
was to be 600 feet long; and that Mr..
Rowell had run the line and staked
it out from Limekiln point to the Rail-
road wharf.
Later, to wit, on the 18th inst, w.
o. Smith, in the following interview,
which appeared in the Star of that
date, certainly bore out the PROPOSE
ton that the Government planned to
build and complete at once a wharf
500 feet long from Limekiln point to
the Railroad wharf The interview is
as follows:
THE PEOPLE SHOULD OWN.
This is the Governments Policy in
Wharf Matters.
Not Antagonistic to the Oahu Railroad
Additional improvements will
Follow the Present Plans.
"The Government is not antagonis-
tic to Mr.. Dillingham; or the Oahu
railroad. It's policy is to give Homo