The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-05-15
SARGENT TAKES OVER PART
OF THE CHANNEL WHARF
Building Will Be Altered Today to Meet Immi-
grafton Bureau NeedsDd Congress
Make Mistake in Wharf Names?
(From Thursdays daily.)


When immigration Sargent confer
yesterday with the representatives the various steamship
for immigration Station purposes temporary arrangement fears
by the business community that the Immigration De
deprvng the Territory of accrung from it.
Commits Sargent interviewed on the matter at the a
from the Territory and brought under the direction of the immigration
1ss" ss oa' Be b temporary unit" new
What if anything have done regarding the establishment Of
ITO make everything plain said the Commissioner 81 will saw
that the Of my visit here was personally note the conditions
charge of the has been to all those who arc
er as % Mon so
land adjacent the Channel wharf Half hour after arrival
belonging the United under the charge Of the
Navy % have since gone that Land and after doing
leave will be transferred properly blue print and this will be taken
Wq the and e the e:5s4v ar N h M CONFER
the matter and believe that satisfactory arrangements will be made
snow until then some has to be made for the handling
of the immigrants arriving here The United States Quarantine service
ference with the steamships ts morning and was
arranged that should be permitted take large portion Of the
building Channel wharf
and make the arrangements that everything will be in
readiness to handle the immigrants arriving the steamship from the
Island mgran will not again permitted Quarantine
only the Channel wharf and when they requirements
law they will be permitted leave the place But this thing of
Island will be thing past They beings and belvc
in treating Cnaan or Japanese just the would white
1T has been said that the taking of the Channel
means that the immigration Department intends shortly take
the entire wharf, thereby dprvng the Territory of the
been deriving from it. Is that true?' was asked.
1T is not, replied the Commits before
merely temporary 1t will interfere
ora government collecting its wharf there"
"ls your station here to have tug?" APT
Il hope When get back Washington ask fer
an appropriation for to be used placing
ing vessels As It now we have to depend the courtesy of Dr.
Offer OF the United States Marine Hospital Service We tug
and am going to make the effort get one"
The Channel wharf constructed
by the merchants of Honolulu who depended the Legislature
reimbursement The wharf and general with
the structure the of the Territory
wharf was built owned by the United controlled
by the Navy Department. and the Territory therefore tenant
Wl and the Navy Department could
thereby depving the Territory of valuable wharfage
resulting revenue of which the Territory stands need The
Navy Reservation which Channel wharf, was SEEM
S marked out by Congress the place where the
Station should be built Should the Channel wharf over
ue immigration Department. of the valuable
which the Territory the harbor to it. CAPTAIN
interests OF the harbor mind with relation government
ced his department at Washington few days asking in
ctons as to the immigration Station and that the
commissioner privileged look
m under no could buildings be
present.
1T Is the belief among waerronters
tor the immigration
adjacent to the Channel wharf, for which Congress
the Commission became
he Nan wharf often referred Quarantine wharf The
stage near the lighthouse also called Quarantine"
that the Commission referred
called the Channel wharf If this the intention of
was to place the Immigration Station Quarantine Island
on land adjacent the Channel and
adjoining the Quarantine Station 1888 " ~ 49,