The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-18
BIG WHARF
COMPLETED
Boyd Will Accept
New HaCkfeld
Docks.
CONTRADICTIONS
$4,000 BRIDGE
If Legislature Refuses TO Pay Adj
vances for Dock, hackfeld
May Take Possession.

The construction of the new Hackfeld
wharf has been completed and it Will
be accepted by the Department OF PUB
lie Works as soon as few minor
changes and improvements are made.
The department is now engaged in inn
proving the streets leading up to the
wharf and the entire work will be COM
pleted long before the arrival OF the
Pacific Mail steamer Korea, which is
expected here about the middle of next
month.
The contract for the building of the
new bridge over Nuuanu stream on the
extension of Queen street, which is re-
ouired 70 open the road leading to the
new docks, has been let to Cotton
Brothers The bridge is to cost in the
nefghborhood of $4,000 and Will be OF
| wood, resting on heavy masonry plies
The new span will bridge the stream Sc
| as to connect the Iwilei road with the
street running to the wharf Superlh-
| tandeut Boyd is also having Queen
street beyond Maunakea improved sc
as to be ready before the arrival of the
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macadamized.
| The dredging of the harbor about the
| new dock was completed months ago
and the construction of the buildings
has been rushed in every possible way
| They are complete now excepting the
slides which will protect the interior OF
the wharf from rain. superintendent
Boyd stated yesterday that he would
| probably accept the wharf within few
days.
| The Hackfeld wharf was built by the
| Department of Public Works, though
! Hackfeld & Co. put up the money for
the material used in its construction
This was done because the funds in the
Territorial Treasury could not be di-
verted for the purpose. and Hackfeld
| & Co. offered TO furnish the required
| money rather than delay the work
| which would have meant that the new
! bic liners of the Pacific Mail Co could
not have entered al Honolulu, the pres
| ent wharf facilities being insufficient
for the purpose, none of them being
Hong enough to accommodate steamer
the size of the Korea. The new docks
will accommodate two vessels of tina
size. and have already been used bS
| sailing vessels and the big steam
freighters in unloading. The condition
the city has made wagon Transports
ton almost impossible, but as soon a.
the improvement of Queen street Il
completed the new docks Will be pu
to good use.
There are some questions as to thu
repayment of the monies advanced by
Hackfeld & co. for the construction o
the wharf in view of the utterances il
the Home Rule platform recently
adopted by Wilcox and his followers. l.
the next Legislature refuses to appro'
pirate the amount advanced by Hack
field & Co. that firm will very likely
bring proceedings to take possession o.
the new wharf
THE Department of Public Works
built the wharf" said superintendent
Boyd yesterday But Hackfeld & Co
paid for the material used in it. If the
Legislature does not reimburse then
for the amounts so expended, as the
| Home Rulers threaten, Hackfeld vii
very likely take possession of it anc
collect wharfage fees. They really OWE
the material put into the building and
it would be very difficult to resist such
| action in the courts. 1t would be &
| paying proposition for that firm, fol
| the revenue derived from wharf OF
| that size in a year amounts to con-
| SiQeFaDf sum- II the Legislature QOes
reimburse the company, the Territory
| will get back the amount borrowed
within five years, simply from wharf
age charges.
mo one can say that these new
wharfage facilities were not needed in
| Honolulu. The big liners do not care
| to wait outside until there is wharf
age room, and if we could not accom-
modate them they would quite likely
/ give Honolulu the go-by. The big
steam freighters which have been COM
| ing here recently have made quite ar
addition to the revenues of the Terri
! tory. but unless we provide facilities
for their unloading in half day, when
necessary, it would not pay them 70
| 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"
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