The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-13
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PRESIDENT STILL URGING.
The interest taken in the matter O
the improvement of Pearl Harbor per
sonally by the President, was brough
out at the meeting of the trustees yes
terday in a portion of a letter writer
by Fl. P. Wood, which says:
II think 1 told you that the sam
day had my interview with the Pres
ident, Representative smith, of South
ern California, and Hon. M. L. Ward
representing the San Diego Chamber
LOT Commerce, called at the White
House and upon urging their reques'
for a dry dock at San Diego, improve.
ments to entrance of harbor and in
crease in Notifications, President Roos-
eveIt told them that he was deeply
| interested in San Diego but" the meas
ure of greatest Importance to the Pa
| cific Coast at this time was in his
opinion the immediate improvement Of
| Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and he was
very glad to see that the San Diego
Chamber of Commerce, together with
other similar organizations, took such
broad view of the matter as was
so plainly evidenced by their letters
Representative Smith told me this
the same afternoon
PEARL HARBOR BORINGs.
In his report President Morgan re-
ferred in detail to the boring work now
going on at Pearl Harbor, at the ex-
pense of the Chamber. The borings
from the Shark Pen point to the Wal
pic point, in the inner harbor, have
been completed. These borings have
been to a depth of from forty-five to
fifty feet and in all cases, with the
exception of two borings at Waipio
point, have shown the material to be
removed to consist of mud, sand and
a. little loose coral. At the present
time the borings are being taken at
present two hundred feet entrance.
The reports of these borings are
eabled to washington and written re-
ports showing estimates of cost of re-
moval of material in dredging and
based on these reports are sent to
Washington by every mail.
ENTERTAINMENT OF FLEET. !.
In connection with the coming of the
Pacific fleet, the report said:
In company with Mr.. F. L. Wa1d-
ron, chairman of, the Entertainment
Committee appointed by the Mer-
chants Association, I called on Gov
ernor Frear, relative to arrangements
being made for the entertainment of
the fleet while her.
y I'VE suggested that, instead of mer-
camille bodies taking charge of the en-
tertainment, the Governor and the
Secretary appoint about thirty or fifty
of the residents to form general
committee to attend to this matter.
THE plan would be to have Mr..
Mott-Smith act as chairman, and to
include in this committee men repre-
senting different nationalities here,
thus bringing the matter where all
shall take part in the entertainment.
IT submitted the following list of
members of this Chamber to be in
Guided as members in this large COM
mittee:
James F. Morgan, ]. P. Cooke. F.
NJ. Swanzy, E. D. Tenney, e. I. Spald-
ing, c. NJ Cooke, B. F. Dillingham;, L.
Tenney Peck, w. Pfotenhauer and S.
NJ. Damon
INADEQUATE WHARF FACILITIES
A report was presentedein connection
with the complaint lodged by T. FL.
Davies & Co. of insufficient wharf ac-
commodations for the American-Ha-
waiian vessels, the lack of care exer-
cised by that company in transship-
ping it's freight at the Isthmus and
the mixing up of freight after it had
been unIoaded here. The committee
which had this affair in hand reported
that it found much ground for the
complaint, although on consultation
with the American Hawaiian represen-
tative here much of the blame was
plaC6u on cOnSlgneeS not removing the
goods arriving for them in proper time,
thus over-crowding the warehouse at
the railroad wharf. Mr.. Morse stated,
however, that he would take up the
matter of additional warehouse room
with the o. r. & L. Co.
The report was adopted, and the re-
port from the Superintendent of Pub
lie Works as to the plans of his de-
partment for the extension of the Ho-
noIulu wharfage system, presented in
connection with the report, was re-
ferred back to the committee for con-
sideration. This report is given in full
elsewhere in this paper.
WILL STILL ACETATE
Il. I. Spalding remarked that the
community seemed to be as far from
getting revenue Glitter stationed here
now as when they first took the mat
ter up. the sending of the Manning to
other duty leaving Honolulu again
without any prospects He urged that
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