The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-13
WORK IN PROGRESS AT
ANAHOLA.
a Breakwater Being Built by Makee
Safe and Smooth Harbor.

ANAHOLA (KauaD, October IL
One of the most important pieces of
harbor improvement work in the ISL
ands is in progress at this place and
is so far completed as to be already
in actual use. 1t is nothing less than
a project to make one of the best and
safest harbors in the Islands, and one
at which vessels can lie at a wharf
while loading or discharging If it sue
ceeds as it is anticipated it will, it will
have a very important effect on the
shipping interests of Kauai, and make
this by all odds the most convenient
port in the Garden Island
The plan originated with George Fair
child, manager of the Makee Sugar
Company, is being carried out by the
interests he represents, and grew out
of the eXigencieS and necessities of his
plantation.
For years the landing for Makee Su-
gar Company has been Kapaa, reckon
ed one of the most difficult and dan
gerOus landings in the Islands. on an
exposed coast the landing is reached
by channel through the reef 50 mar
row that even so small a steamer as
the James Makee has barely room to
thread it's way through and one which
none but as staunch a vessel as she
can think of attempting in any except
the calmest weather. On one side of
the channel has rested for sixty years
| the wreck of a British man of war, and
on the other for many years the bones
of the c. r. Bishop, testimony to the
difficulty and danger of the channel.
The James Makee is often weather.
bound at this landing and delayed for
days either unable to get out or to
come in To the north of Kapaa is
/ Anahola an easily and safely reached
/ landing but open to the heavy swells
! from the north. 1t is the place where
| the James Makee frequently waits till
| the weather permits entrance through
| the Kapaa channel.
Anahola has been occupied for years
| by homesteaders and little cane was
grown there until the last year or two
| The development and growth of the
| Makee Sugar Company has made the
| inconveniences of Kapaa landing felt
| more and more strongly. The increas-
ing crop of sugar has had to wait for
! shipment on the caprice of the winds
and waves. Mr.. Fairchild determined
| to improve the harbor of AnahOla and
give Makee Sugar Company a landing
| from which shipments could be made
at all times. To do this it was decided
only necessary to build a breakwatei
out several hundred feet to protect il
! from the northerly swell The break.
water is being built and is so far con.
structed as to prove the practicabilitS
of it and to already make a smooth
harbor on its leeward side.
The breakwater was begun about
two months ago. Caissons were put
down at short distances apart in the
line of the breakwater, and filled witt
concrete and sand which will harder
into rock long before the caisson.
themselves have rusted away Behind
these caissons is built up a thick heavy
wall of rock effectually protecting
against the nOrtherly swell. In the
shelter of this breakwater a wharf /.
being built up to which vessels car
come to load and discharge. Ware
houses are being built on this whar
and a railroad has been built from tn,
plantation to it. The locomotive to b,
used on this road is already on the wa!
here and is in size equal to the SECOND
largest on the Oahu railroad. Whel
this work is done all the shipping from
Makee Sugar Company will be don,
from Anahola. and another good har
Dor will be added to the Islands.