The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-08
QUARANTINE
CONTRACT
IS AWARDED
Fertilization sites-Harbor Dredging
Trip to Japan---Dr. NeiIl's Report---Im.
migration and Secret Service.
(Mail special to the Advertiser.o


WASHINGTON. D~ c., August 26.-
At last the contract for the quarantine
plant and retaining wall at Honolulu
has been awaEded. Some time next
June, if everything favors. the work
should be completed in the manner
Congress designed ii should be by
appropriation made two years or more
ago. Cotton Brothers Of Oakland, Cal,
as is already known in the islands,
have been awarded the contract, their
figure, on the revised or second bidding,
having been s62 $685. The Supervising
Architects Office of the Treasury De-
partment has already sent them notice
that their bid was the lowest and along
with that notice has gone a contract to
be executed. The Oakland firm must
alsu furnish bond to the amount of
fifty per cent. of the contract.
The other bids were: John Ouder-
kirk of Honolulu, s63,545; Hawaiian
Dregding Company, Limited, s63. 900; W.
II. Hoogs of Honolulu, s64,433. In the
original bids the figures of the COM
petfng firms We're: Cotton Brothers,
S59,855 the work to be completed in
z1ine nlonEns; Ouderkirk, S62, 800, with
AR eight months limit; Hawaiian
dredging Company, s62 800, work to be
completed in go days; and W. II.
Hoogs, s6.3, 800. limit for completion 225
days. III .l1e second list of bids only
Cotton Brothers entered time limit
nine mont as-according to the Super
vising Architects office. The new bids
from Honolulu firms We're cabled here
by DR.. Cofer, of the Marine Hospital
Service at Honolulu. No bid was enter
ed from Healy Tibbetts Construction
Company OF San Francisco, which was
one of the low bidders in the first COM
petition.
The Supervising Architects Office has
no special information yet about how
soon Cotton Brothers will enter upon
the work. but it is taken for granted
that the work will be begun forthwith.
Separate bids We're made on the dredg-
ing, that being the item which caused
the trouble about the first bids. The
figures submitted on this We're: Cotton
Brothers, $500; ouderkifk, $1,000; Ha-
waiian Dredging Company, $4,000; and
sAy. II. Hoogs, $3.50 As the War De-
Wartment is to do this dredging, under
ehe appropriation for the improvement
Of the harbor no account was taken by
the Supervising Architects Office of the
separate bids. DIR. Wyman, surgeon
general of the Marine Hospital Service,
has been apprised of the award to
Cotton Brothers. He is gratif1ed that
the prospects are good now for the
work 10 go forward.
Henry G. Ginaca has assigned to c.
P. Thielen, of Honolulu, one half inter-
est in his patent on a system for har-
yesting sugar cane.
FoRTIFICATIoN SITES.
The Department of Justice has the
papers, affecting titles to several forti-
fcation sites in Honolulu, with a re-
quest for an opinion as to the valid
ity of these titles. Special Assistant
General Charles w. Russell {
said today that it would be some time
before the department could give its
answer. The papers in the leper hos
pital site are also still with the de- 6
partment, but Mr.. Russell is unable to I
complete a. scrutiny of them just at '
present.
Gen. Alexander Mckenzie, chief of b
engineers, stated that the War Depart
ment is proceeding with the business t
Of acquiring perfect title to the sites a
already purchased, but, as is well un- n
ierstood. can, at present, do nothing f
beyond that. I'VE shall simply have c
% wait added Gen. Mckenzie, "and Z
aw our rents from the cottages To- p
Ated upon the government property. is
believe the titles now unsettled are o.
Q three little pieces of property out ST
heFe at Waikiki. Friendly suits have te
cen instituted in certain cases to re- d
move the clouds of titles. We have not Vi
ven secured all the land we need yet,