The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-25
NEW DOCKS TO.
DOT WATER
FRONT
Shore Line May
Be Completely
Changed.
WILL BRING THE
VESSELS CLOSER
Plans for Making Slips Which
Would Change Lines Clear Up
to Allen Street.

Plans are Being discussed by men who
have to do with the business of Homo
lulu, for the Improvement of the wa
ter front. 1t is understood that there
will be submitted to the next Legisla-
ture measures contemplating the re-
making of the front, in manner which
will not only greatly Increase the ca
pacity of the wharves, but as well en-
tirely remodel the district
The facts connected with the discus
sion have come out owing to the rec
concentrations which were made by the
Public Building site committee, that
there be turned over to the Federal
government the three lots Comprising
the lands between Fort and Alakea
streets and from Allen street nnakai.
1t has developed that officials of the
government are opposed to this disposi-
ton of the lands in question, for the
reason that they believe that the ex-
tension of the wharf room is certain to
come, and that it is soon to be neces-
sary.
The plans which have been talked
over among men high in the councils
of the government, are for the turning
over of the lots Waikiki of the present
Custom House to the Department of
Public Works for wharf purposes, with
the ultimate aim of having the entire
district between the present naval docks
and the block which is now United
States Government property cut up into
slips. The tentative plans are based
upon four slips of $50 feet in width with
wharf room of 100 feet between each.
This would give to the present Gus
toms house, the docks used by the In
ter-Island Company and as well the
Oceanic docks, all the space that they
now use, with sufficient room for car
ing for their business.
The removal of the water front back
to Allen street would give more room
for the various navigation companies
and would permit the docking of all
- -s<-.4 II,
for many years to come. The construc-
ton of slips similar to those which are
now on the naval reservation would
give room in each for the placing of
two of the largest of the carriers now
running in this ocean, to be berthed
side by side and thus there would be
room for eight of the greatest of the
modern liners. In addition there would
be space for the inter-island line ships
and the business of the front would be
facilitated in many ways by the change.
The alterations of the front would
mean the removal of many of the coal
piles and the lumber yards, and this
would have the effect of sending much
of this business out of the center of the
city to the outlying districts which are
accessible to the water. The building
of the wharves at the Eva end of the
harbor has meant the changing of the
destination of much of the business of
the port, and the direct result win be
the complete rehabilitation of the wa
ter front.
The officials OF the government will
not discuss the matter but the men
who have to do with the business on
the front are of opinion that such a
change in the plans of the water front
would mean better accommodations and
in general preparation for the future.
which is full of promise for the shipping
of this port.