Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-10-23
ABOUT CRAVING DOCKS
HONOLULU MAN GIVES
AN EXPERT OPINION
WOODEN CONSTRUCTION CHEAP
AND DuRABLE-oREAT SHIP.
YARDS OF UNITED
STATES.

| Lyle Is from the Port Adelaide, Aus
tralia, Register. Its information about
craving docks is interesting locally In
view of the occasional discussion OF
the feasibility Of such an enterprise In
Honolulu:
Among the passengers who arrived
from London by the mail steamer
Ophir on Monday was Mr.. James Lyle,
an old resident of Honolulu, capital of
the Hawaiian Islands. He and Mrs.
Lyle are the guests OF Mr.. G. Jenkins.
the well known dock proprietor at
Bidkenhead, Port Adelaide Mr.. Lyle,
who is member of the firm of Soren-
son & Lyle, lessees Of the government
dock at Honolulu, is making a trip
around the world. He and his wife
left the Hawaiian capital in May, ira
veled to San Francisco, Vancouver,
and thence across the American con-
tinent to Boston, and northward to
Canada and Newfoundland on their
way to England. At all the seaports
he visited Mr.. Lyle seized every op-
portunity Of inspecting the docks and
shipbuilding yards, and was deeply
impressed with the number of wooden
docks which are being built, similar
in construction to that proposed to be
erected at Port Adelaide by a COM
pany on Mr.. Jenkins's property.
DO you think the wooden craving
docks will compete successfully with
those built Of stone?" asked repre-
sentative of The Register, who had a
chat with Mr.. Lyle on Wednesday.
Undoubtedly | do" was the reply.
Both on account Of their cheapness
and efficiency this clsss of craving
dock is everywhere a success. In
America / saw docks which were built
twenty years ago little the worse for
wear, and these were constructed of
pitch pine. Your jarrah is infinitely |
superior TO pitch pine for durability,
and therefore have no hesitation In
saying that a dock built OF that timber
will last-well, don't know how long,
but be sure of IL, for great many
years"
"Will you tell me something of what
you saw in your recent travels" ITO
begin on the Pacific coast OF America,
perhaps the most interesting port is
Seattle, in Puget Sound, which has
gone ahead out Of all knowledge during
the last twenty years. The city itself
has run up like a mushroom, and its
shipping is something marvellous. II
is the outlet for large wheatgrowing
area, and its exports of timber and
coal, its salmon industry, and connec-
ton with the Klondike gold fields, rem
der it busy and important place. Lake
at the rear of the city.
four miles distant, is full OF stern
engaged in trade to all parts
Of the lake. To see the great ship
building yards Of America, however,
one must cross the Atlantic side. At
Groton, in Connecticut, the Northern
Pacific Railway Company has immense
works, where 1000 workmen are en-
ployed, and every labor-saving device
imaginable is utilized. Everything
there is worked by electricity, and
miles of railroad tracks connect the
various departments. There saw two
Immense steamers in course of con-
struction for the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company, each of 10000 tons car
rying capacity. One of these will be
on November 2s. All along
he east coast wooden dry docks are
Increasing in number and size. At Bos-
on alone there are three, and all OF
hem pay well. In Brooklyn, New
York, the Government has built a dock.
md at ST. Johns, Newfoundland, there
S another of pitch pine in which
teamer of 5000 tons was being repaired
Turing my visit. There is magnificent I
sranite dock in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
belonging to a syndicate, which is sub
idized by the Canadian Government
md also, ! think, by the city Of Hall. I
AK"
Mr.. Llye has been more or less in
imately acquainted with American
Ihipbuilding all his life. His father
quilt a good many Of the sailing YES
els that carried the mails from Liver
,ool TO Halifax before the introduce ,
ion of steam. "These vessels were
,wned by the celebrated Cunard line"
emarked Mr.. Lyle, "and were the fore
unners of the Caledonia, Columbia,
Europa, Africa, America and
Niagara, all Of which were sidewheel
teamers. The Persia also owned by
teamship."