The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-13
PUSHING THE
HARB0R WORK
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The big pipe connecting the Railway
wharf with the fish pond at Iwilei has
been completed and it is expected that
by Monday the dredger Reclamation
will be pumping the mud and filth of
the harbor bottom out into the pond
! where it will help make good land
where now is a swamp. The Reclama-
ton has not been used in the dredging
of the harbor heretofore. It was con-
| structed out of portions of the old gov
! eminent dredger which was sunk in
/ Pearl Harbor some years ago. The
dredging will be done in both the slip
between the Railway wharf and the
Hackfeld wharf and between the Hack
| field wharf and the Inter-Island Com
pany's docks. The work was partially
done when the docks were built but The
Territory never completed its half of
| the job. This will bes done now. It
| is proposed to dredge the slips to thirty
feet. This was the depth in the part
of the work done by private capital
but it is doubtful whether the slips are
more than twenty-seven feet now IN
| those places.
The work to be begun Monday viii
mean the deepening of the entire Slip
to thirty feet. There is not any use in
cutting any deeper at present, as thirty
feet is the average depth of the chan
mel. When the government gets at the
will be dredged to correspond with the
depth obtained in the stream. This win
probably be thirty-five feet. The work
to be dore Immediately will be a great
help to tine Pacific Mail Company as
their big liners will be able to dock at
their own wharf unless especially heayi-
~ loaded. Heretofore they have had
to go to the Navy dock when drawing
more THAI twenty-six feet.
The Improvements to the quarantine
station bring up the possibility of har-
Dor expansion in that direction. When
the Federal government purchased the
Quarantine Island from the Oahu Rail-
way & Land Company the railway COM
pany agreed that when the government
wished to dredge deep water channel
to the island in order to allow ocean
steamers to come close up to the sta
ton they would bear half the expense.
The dredging of this channel would give
about 1000 feet extra wharfage space
and would open up Kalihi harbor. which
makes a very good overflow basin for
shipping.
In connection with the plans for har-
Dor improvement Secretary Mcclellan /
arranged a meeting of representatives
from the Chamber of Commerce, the I
Nj f1fs "a VA
shipping houses of the city with Lieu I
tenant Slattery, U. S. A, yesterday. +
Mr.. Mcclellan acted in behalf of Dele +
gate Kuhio. The meeting was held at I
the Office of Lieutenant Slattery in the +
Young building yesterday at IL a. m.
and was largely attended. The prelimi- I
nary plans for the improvement of Ho-
nolulu harbor, drawn up by the Lieut.
enant, were unanimously approved. 1t
was suggested that q larger cut than
that planned be made off Lighthouse
Point and it is likely that this will be +
The plans as they stand
mean an increase of one-third in the
size of the harbor. At Lieutenant Stat
tery's request complete statistics of the
commerce of Honolulu are being pre-
pared by the Chamber of Commerce.
T. NJ. Swanzy is supervising the work.
ThoSe present at the conference with
Slattery and Secretary Nc
Clellan We're: Chamber of Commerce
by E. d. Tenney and H. A. {
[senberg; Col. J. H. Soper and j. f. /
Hamburg representing the Merchants ]
Association; F. NJ. Swanzy of Theo. H.
Davies & Co, ". G. Irwin and w. NJ. !
Siffard of w. G. Irwin & Co, T. w Kle-
,ahn of Hackfeld e Co, j. A. Kennedy
If the Inter-IsIand Steam Navigation
20, j. a. Gilman of Castle & Cooke,
Waiter Dillingham; of the o. r. & L.
%, Harbor Master Fuller and Senior
Plot Macauley.