The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-02

The Inter-Island Steam Navigation
Company which recently purchased tbs
Bishop wharf near the Honolulu Iror
I Works, now has plans for it's utiliza-
ton quite beyond ordinary use. These
plans include the utilization of an area
of land owned by the company on the
Waikiki side of the Channel Road,
which is the road running from Ala
Moana to the United States Immigrant
station and the boat clubs. This
area of land extends from Ala Moana
opposite the Honolulu Iron Works.
nearly if not quite to the Planters
| building mauka of the immigrant sta
ton. The plan is, to connect the Bish-
op wharf with this area of land by a
viaduct or overhead way, across Chan
mel street. BY this means coal ships
berthed at the Bishop wharf can dis
charge their cargo of coal into over
head conveyors, which will carry it
across to the area in question where
it can be stored in sheds or otherwise,
without the expense of carting it.
On the other hand the vessels of he
Inter-Island fleet can be coaled in the
same way by coming to the wharf and
receiving their coal from the main sup
ply over the viaduct, also without the
necessity of carting it,
In view of the fact that the coal sup
ply of these islands because of the Wis
its of war vessels is likely to be a more
important matter in public estimation
at least, than it has been in the past,
the significance of this move is con-
siderable.
The company has just received from
superintendent of Public Works Hollo-
way, a license, which is in effect a fran
chise, for the erection of the required
viaduct over Channel Road. The IL
cense requires that the viaduct shall be
built of steel or iron or other safe ma
terial, and shall be maintained SO that
c al or ether m a. ,as.ndiy,. shall not fan
down on the road below. 1t authoc-
izsS the maintenance of the viaduct Tor
thirty years after its completion. and
retIU Tres a rental of $25 a year to he
raid The license in full as filed with |
the Registrar Of Conveyances is as fol-
lows:
Know all men by these presents:
That, whereas the Inter-Island Steam |
Company, Ltd, a Hawai- |
ian corporation. is the owner of the |
abutting on each side Of Chan |
mel Road at the junction thereof with |
Ala Moana street, Honolulu, and for a |
distance of over $50 feet along said |
Road from said junction; and !
Whereas, said. company is DESTROYS
of constructing a viaduct or overhead
way for the purpose of the carriage of
coal and other merchandise between it's
properties so situated as aforesaid:
Now, therefore, this indenture wit
nesseth that I. C. S. Holloway, Super
ntendent of Public Works of the Ter
ritory of Hawaii, in consideration of
the sum of ten ($10) dollars to me in
hand paid, receipt whereof is hereby
and of the covenants
and agreements by the said Inter-
Island Steam Navigation Company,
Ltd. to be kept and performed DO
hereby grant to the said Company and
It's successors and assigns, for the term
Of thirty (30) years from the date of
completion of said viaduct, the license,
permission ard right to erect and main
ain over and across Channel Road, sit
late IN Honolulu, Oahu, Territory of
Hawaii. and at any point within so
FEET of it's junction with Ala Moana
street as now laid out, viaduct or
way for the purpose of the carriage of
,oal and other merchandise, said via
luct at all points to be of height of
lot less than 20 feet clear above the
present grade Of said Channel Road;
he said Inter-Island Steam Naviga-
ion Company, Ltd, yielding and pay
ng to said c. S. Holloway, as such
of Public Works, or his
successors in office, the sum of twenty
i've dollars on the first day of January
ach year of said term that said via
uct shall be maintained.
The said Inter-Island Steam Naviga-
ion Company, Ltd, further covenants
md agrees that so long as said VIA
uct is maintained, it shall maintain
aid viaduct at a height of not less
han 20 feet clear above the present
-rade of the said Channel Road, that
t shall construct the viaduct of steel
r iron or other safe material, and at
II times maintain the same in sub
tantial and safe manner with such
yards and protection as to prevent l
he falling of coal or other merchan-
Use into said Channel Road, and that
aid viaduct shall be so constructed and J