The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-09
PRICE FIVE CENTS.

harbor TO the deep draught vessels
coming here
Description of suggested new
wharves on the lee side of Honolulu
harbor, beginning at the cattle pen:
Wharf No. 1. with which would be
included the present cattle wharf.
could still be set apart for that pur-
pose. It's length would be 25S feet and
| it would be 135 feet across the end
which includes the cattle wharf. One
large ship might be berthed there, leav-
| ing the end clear for the Island steam
ers with cattle.
| Wharf No. 2 would be 254 feet on the
short side, which would be good
| berth for a large ship. The longer
side would be 373 feet, which is suf-
ficient length for a 5000 ton steamer.
Wharf No. 3-391 feet on long side
322 feet on short side. Would be good
berths for very large steamers. one on
each side, or two small sailing vessels
on each side.
| No. 4.-376 and 80. Good berth for
one very large and one moderate size
steamer, or two small sailing vessels
on each side.
Wharf No. 5.-37S and $685. Two
good berths for large steamers, or
four berths for small sailing vessels.
| Wharf No. 6-450 and 406. Good
berths for two of the largest steamers
which are likely to come here, or for
four moderate size sailing vessels.
! Wharf No. 7.-449 and 439. Sufficient
room for two of the largest steamers
or four sailing vessels.
Wharf No. $3.50 and $50. Sufficient
for one large steamer on each side or
two small sailing vessels on each SIDE
Wharf No. 9.-297 and 1863. Suf-
| Ifcippt rom for two la CT taamarS nP
two OF the very largest sailing vessels,
or four small vessels.
;. These wharves are planned to extend
in the same general direction as the
strongest winds that prevail here. This
the harbor officials find from exper-
perience, is the best way to place such
wharves. Vessels with bowsprits and
jibbooms berthed at these wharves
should all be placed with their heads
to the southwest, giving all the space
possible for the easy movement of 9TH
er vessels about the harbor.
The work of building these wharves
could begin at once if the material
were at hand, without any other pre-
liminary work than dredging on the
edge of the three and a half fathOm
line and filling up the land behind so
as to raise it above the level of the sea
enough to make suitable sites for coal
erage two feet below high water. To
raise this part Of the reef two and
half feet above high water within the
line running in a circular direction to-
wards the new made land of the 0. r
& l.. Co., would require the filling in
of about 900 cubic yards Of ma
terial. The railroad company could
then extend its track as far as
the light house with switches onto
H.
as might be considered necessary could
be equipped with all the most approved
labor-saving devices for the handling
of coal cargoes, and for coaling steam
ships economically and with dispatch.
Some may say that by mooring the
ships close together We could stow
away more in that part of the harbor
than with the suggested wharves. That
may or may not be true-and if so the
ships would all be idle, which is not
what they come to this port for.
The track to the quarantine grounds
could be changed to point a little
outside the light house.
It was a very serious mistake to al
low the o. r. & l.. Co. to run it's track
across the flats to it's wharf in direc-
ton almost at right angles to the
course OF the lNuuanu stream, unless it
were trestle work. The present track
forms a training wall, which carefully
guides every particle of debris coming
from the hills and borne along by the
flood of the Nuuanu stream until it is
safely deposited in the harbor of HO-
nolulu. 1t is safe to say that 100000
a year would not pay the cost of dredg-
ing out the mud coming into the har-
Dor from that direction.
In my rough plan | suggest that the
Nuuanu river abutments OF the King
street bridge be set back more SO as TO
widen the outflow instead of narrow
ing 1t as at present, and the bridge be
raised two feet and strengthened so as
to permit of the railroad company run
ming its trains into the town, along the
front as far as the foot Of Nuuanu
street, and that they be permitted 10
have a turntable at the head OF each
wharf so that their cars and the ships
can come together to receive and de-
liver freight I also propose that the
portion of their railroad track COM
mencing about where the weigh bridge
is. and running to the point Joining
their new made land on the Eva side
of the Nuuanu stream, be taken up and
in nIace of it a new road be made, COM
mencing at the King street bridge and
) continuing in the same general direc-
tion as the short street already there,
until it Joins the track of the railroad
company. which leads on their wharf.
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