The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-17

care to wait outside until there is
wharfage room. and if we could not
accommodate them they would quite
likely give Honolulu the go-by. The
big steam freighters which have been
coming here recently have made quite
an addition to the revenue of the Ter
ritory, but unless we provide facilities
for their unloading in half day, when
necessary, it would not pay them to
come in here. The amount of traffic to
and from Hawaii within the past year
has been much greater than ever before
and new wharfage facilities are mat
ter of necessity
Up to date the only oversee steamer
that has berthed at that wharf has
been the steamer Tampico, of the
Globe Navigation Company's line.
/ Competent men state that it would
be impossible to berth any really large
steamer there. Although the dock
around the wharf is supposed to have
been dredged to depth of thirty feet
there is no such amount of water there
at the present time, and if there were
that amount of water in the dock the
Korea could not be handled there as
she is too long to be swung around
after being taken out of the wharf,
according to opinions of many water
frontiers. Recently the oil vessel
Marion Chilcott was berthed in this
dock, and grounded in water about
twenty-three feet deep between the
Railway wharf and the new wharf.
Under these conditions it would be i'm
possible to take the long Korea, draw
ing twenty eight feet of water, into
this dock.
Every heavy rain on the Pail and
ir Nuuanu valley brings down all
sorts of mud, which is dumped right
from Nuuanu stream into this dock
A shipping man said yesterday that
the only way that the Eva end of the
barbor could be kept dredged out
without going to an enormous
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the water from Nuuanu stream right
out to sea and not permit it to enter
the harbor. To do this, the stream
would have to be walled in, carried
under the Railway wharf and straight
along the coral wall, past the new OF
tanks at Iwilei, and then emptied into
the unused channel Eva of Quaran
tine Island.
i, The carrying out of this scheme
would entail considerable expense, bu
it would be the only one whereby thi!
portion of the harbor could be KEEP
: dredged to the proper depth to handle
commerce without going to big ex
pense of dredging year after year.
The sketch shown above gives
plan of the wharves in the Eva portion
of the harbor Nuuanu stream i
shown as creek and it can easily b.
seen how the mud flowing out from
this can meet the tides coming int,
the harbor and settle under all thos
wharves. The shaded bridge shown be
tween the end of the new wharf an
Queen street is to be removed, an
Cotton Bros. have nearly completed
new bridge extending over the cree
from Queen street to the lumber yard
on the opposite side. This bridge i
being built along the harbor line an
n it is planned to build wharf all tn
way from the new bridge to Emme
wharf. With the exception of til
Sugar or Warehouse wharf, all tn
docks need dredging out as only lfgh
> draught vessels can get into the Ew
90 ends OF them, and in case of a 1arg
RS number of vessels in the harbor a
once some of them might be delaye
III discharging for some time.