The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-05-18
NAVAL STATION AREA CLEARED
OF INSTRUCTIONS.
License to the Public to Use it is Re
voked so That Work May Proceed
without Delay

Consul General Haywood gives no.
tiCe that the general license he has
heretofore extended to carpenters and
others to frame timbers and make sim
liar use of the unused part of the area
reserved by the President for a Naval
station on the water front, is revoked.
No trespassing of any kind will be per-
mtted.
This order is positive, but it is not Is
sued in any spirit of arbitrariness. but
simply 9s necessity of the conditions
Of the contract for the Naval station
work In fact the order is due to the
fact that the work is to proceed at once
The contractors are under heavy bonds
to complete their work in a specified
time, and for any delays due to OBJ
structons on the land reserved they
can hold the government responsible.
As the public is interested in the
speedy completion of the work it is
really interested in the order and in it's
strict enforcement.
COnsul-General Haywood when ask
ed about the order said: "As long as
the vacant land on the reservation was
not needed for government work, car
penters and others were allowed to use
it for framing tmbers and other work
of that kind. But now the contract has
been let, and the contractors have nOti-
fled me that they are ready to begin
work. They have the right to be abso-
lutely unhampered by distractions of
any kind, and hence in justice to every
body and in protection of the govern
ment, this notice has become necessary
and imperative.
There is portion of the reservation
back of Warehouses; warehouses;
mauka of IIalekawila street which IS
now occupied by a pile of army coal
under the control of Colonel Ruhlen.
Until further orders this may be used
F,, f,o ,ir,r G,
poses so long as the handling of coal
is not interfered with.
This notice would have to come
some time, for when the Naval station
is complete of course the government
will have exclusive possession of it."
The government naval station reSer-
walton extends from lot Sc on Richard
street. mauka of Halekawila street and
extends down Richard street to the
water front at the outer edge of the
| Pacific Mail wharf; thence along the
water front to the line of the Bishop
| estate property: thence mauka along
| that line across PunchbOwl street to q
| point about intersecting Halekawtla
street extended; and thence by an ire
! gular line to the point of beginning. II
| includes all the land on which the gov
! ernment coal sheds are located the va
cant land between them and the water
front. besides land back of them and IN
| the direction of Kakaako.
The work which is to commence at
| once is the dredging of two slips and
| the construction of two wharves be-
| tween the Pacific Mail wharf and the
| Bishop estate property. One of the
| wharves is that already partly con-
structed adjoining the Pacific Mai
wharf and extends along the line of
| Richard street from Allen street to the
water front. It will be 465 feet long and
| so feet wide. The other wharf will oc-
cupy all the space between the two
slips. 1t will be 210 feet wide at the
Allen street retaining wall at the out
| er end and $50 feet long.
The slips are to be dredged to 2S feet
| below mean low water. The sides ot
| the dredged area shall be finished yer.
tical if the material will stand. The
| dredged material is to be deposited
on the land included in the reservation
| Hence the necessity for clearing it oi
| all obstructions which is the purpose
of the notification Consul-Genera
Haywood has given.
The Pilot house is to be moved to the
end of one of the new wharves by tn,
government. 1t will be provided will
the same facilities for launching an(
caring for the pilot boats that it ha'
| now.
| The contractors, the California Con
struction Company, has already begun
preliminary work, and is landing 1T
lumber and building tool houses.