The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-05-01
H|LO'S HARBOR
BreakWater on Blonde
Reef Possible.
Plan ior Increasing the Capacity Of
the Port Proposed by
a Writer.

east ooast OF Hawaii, the largest of the
Hawaiian group lately annexed 10 tho
! United States
In honor ~ this visit the bay was
| given the name of the commander Of
the Blonde, the shoal guarding the en-
trance being named Blonde Reef From
| that time the harbor has been noted as
one OF the most picturesque, the city
OF Hilo the most charming. of any In
the group, It's wondrous scenery and
climate once enjoyed never forgotten.
a visit there ever looked back to with
lodgings TO return
TO within very recent period Hilo
has been looked upon and sometimes
casually referred to as an outlying
| feeder to the city and port of Honolulu
the capital, the most important harbor
| Of the group. Honolulu under the OLD
| order of things was in the Islands
| what Paris was formerly to France
Imports and exports to and from the
whole group were received and shipped
| there; all taxes and government mon
| eys We're sent TO its treasury, to be IN
part returned to other points as roads
bridges, etc.
But annexation promises to change
all that. New men, controlling new
capital and expanding old Industries
look at the ports of the several islands
with an eye single to their local inter
ests and requirements.
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SURROUNDINGS
The gradual sboaIiny of the ocosu
II anproaches Rvron,s Raw marks tbis
az tho ono rractic,r1 routa n,,a, ,,,,inh
to Law the nabIo tbat must 4, tho fut,,ro
CONNECT the Hawaiian IsIapds ;non.I,
ately with their home government. and
tbie alo,e win make IIi1o tho ,,o,, H.,
portant mort of cali in the paci6c
Rut a. ie not ca r,,,cb III. ,,.o,,;r,,. ,e
This article IA ENLARGE mon tba oa-
vantapee Of 11ilo ne ragards Ioca,Io,
and trade &c II 10 10 noin, 81, tha ~,
nortance Of our having more thar ma
,,nrt In tho Islonds
In yie,y of the fact that nor. t,,,r
once the nresenoe of oontagio,s al.
else in tho barhor oP uonoI,,I, In,
made n nacessarv IN ont off ,yi.,r.I,,.
all communication vim tho grnun i,
4, evident there should he one ot:,er
mort at least onen and ready f,,r yo.
sells of all kinds and nationaI,tias
The imnorts and exnorts to ami rro,,
each of the four large islands are ne
s,,eioia,,, i,,,or,,n,a o., ,t
i,rprovement of each one Of their ,bn,-
bors. and this is especially true Of ina,
of Huo
From the man of Rvron,s Rav n,.a-
scented with This II win he seen tbn.
the entrance for vessels Is n direct onn.
the area of anchorage carving mt
less than thirtv-sIx feet &c annie 10
accommodate a large feet and n MAJ,
bc added the holding ground" is OK.
cellent.
TO stlll further increase the vain. az
the harbor II has long beeu contero-
plated to build a breakwater on Blonde
Reef that would double the anchoror,