The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-14
SARGENT TAKES OVER PART
OF THE CHANNEL WHARF
Building Will Be Altered Today to Meet lmmi
grafton Bureau Needs--Did Congress
Make Mistake in Wharf Names?

When immigration Sargent concluded confer
morning OF the various steamship
companies relative taking portion of the Channel wharf
for immigration purposes arrangement fears
bv the business community immigration De
Dartent intended the Channel wharf altogether thus
depriving the Territory of the accrling from it
Commissioner Sargent the the Ha
waian evening he denied that the wharf to be taken
and brought under the direction of the immigration
Bureau stating arrangement until the
immigration Station could be built. =
anything have done regarding the establishment Of
the station?' asked.
ITO make everything plain Commissioner, q will
that the purpose personally
under immigration being carried Since have had
charge department has been all those who
conducting this line of Congress- you appropriated
$4,000 immigration Station Honolulu
the Channel wharf Half hour after arrival
wharf found that
navy w d @ tb f t g d budnos which befois
Washington and submitted the Secretary of the Treasury The
matter satisfactory arrangements
whereby the station will be erected this land within few months
arrangement made the handling
immigrants arriving here The United States Quarantine service
steamship representatives this morning and
arranged that should be permitted take large portion OF the
make the necessary that everything will be in
immigrants arriving the steamship from he
Immigrants will again be permitted Quarantine
only they satisfied the requirements
6erng s Ee sheep and taking be F over that way to the
Island will be thing OF the past They are human beings and beve
immigrant"
taking part
the immigration Department intends shortly take
been deriving Is that asked.
1T replied Commissioner. "As said before this
merely will interfere the
torial government collecting its wharf revenues there.
rs station here have tug"
Il hope When back Washington ask
appropriation be used placing aboard ncom
vessels AS have depend the of DR.
Cofer of the United States Marine Hospital Service We need
and l am going make the effort one
The Channel wharf epidemic
by the merchants of Honolulu depended Legislature
The wharf general connected with
establishment have amounted about
the of Hawaii The
owned by the United controlled
by the Navy Department. and the Territory therefore only
atWl the Navy
thereby
resulting of which the Territory stands much need The
Navy Reservation which adjacent the Channel wharf,
marked Congress where the
should be Should
Department. the valuable
which the Territory the arbor would be
ROdman the
interests OF the harbOr with relation local
uctonS the immigration Station and received reply the
immigration Commissioner privileged look the
but under circumstances could buildings be erected thereon
recommendation the immigration
the Channel wharf
the
he Channe wharf
o wharf which leads to the Quarantine Island from the little landing
lighthouse also called
suggested the
called the Channel wharf If
place the Immigration
adjoining the Quarantine Station Il