The Hawaiian gazette., 1907-08-02
REVOLUTION IN
COAL HANDLING

The Inter-Island Steam Navigation
Company which recently purchased the
Bishop wharf near the Honolulu Iron
Works. now has plans for its 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 Mcana
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 q
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-1sland 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 mat the coal sup
ply of these islands because of the vis-
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, license, which is in effect 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
cal CT ether III rand. shall not fa1
d,,Wn on the road below. IT autho:-
iz : the maintenance of the viaduct fo-
thirty years after its completion. ard
re,l1 Tres q. rental of s25 a year TO lie
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
Navigation Company. Ltd. a Hawai-
ian corporation, is the owner of the
property 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 sail
Channel Road from said junction; and
Whereas, said company is desirous
of constructing viaduct or overhead
way for the purpose of the carriage of
coal and other merchandise between its
properties so situated as aforesaid:
Now, therefore. this indenture wit
nesseth that I, C. S. Holloway. Super
intendent 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
acknowledged, 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 500 years from the date OF
completion of said viaduct, the license,
permission and right to erect and main
tain over and across Channel Road. sit
uate in Honolulu, Oahu, Territory OF
Hawaii, and at any point within 69
feet of it's junction with Ala Moana
street as now laid out, viaduct or
way for the purpose of the carriage OF
coal and other merchandise, said via
duct at all points to be of a height OF
not less than 90 feet clear above the
present grade of said Channel Road;
the said Inter-Island Steam Naviga-
ton Company, Ltd. yielding and pay
ing to said c. S. Holloway, as such
Superintendent of Public Works. or his
successors in office, the sum of twenty
five dollars on the first day of January
each year of said term that said via
duct shall be maintained
The said Inter-Island Steam Naviga-
ton Company, Ltd. further covenants
and agrees that so long as said via
duct is maintained, it shall maintain
said viaduct at a height of not less
than 30 feet clear above the present
grade of the said Channel Road, that
it shall construct the viaduct of steel
or iron or other safe material, and at
all times maintain the same in a sub
stantial and safe manner with sucn
guards and protection as to prevent
the falling of coal or other mercnan-
disc into said Channel Road. and that
said viaduct shall be so constructed and
maintained that no supports, posts
poles or stays shall be placed upon the
said Channel Road or sidewalks or the
said Ala Moana street or sidewalks
but that the same shall be placed who'll
w without said road and street and
shall not rest upon the same.
In witness whereof the said parties
have caused these presents to be duly
executed this Both day of July, 1907
C. S. HOLLOWAY,
sunerintendent of Public Works OF the
Territory of Hawaii
INTER-ISLAND STEAM NAvIGA-
TION COMPANY, LTD.
Rv lanes A. Kennedy. president