The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-21

the largest vessel, that would ever enter
the harbor. had been built.
The Hawaiian government deepened
the harbor. dredged out a channel and
lowered the bar at the entrance there
to. established a lighthouse there and
one at Diamond Head, Honolulu enter.
ing upon her career as a future COM
mercIal port. soon to have world i'm
portanee. The passenger liners in
creased in size, ard today the best tyne
of vessels for this trade is represented
IN such liners as the Mongolia and
Chiyo Maru, palatial ocean travellers.
In Washington, officials of the war
and navy departments and congressman
are watching the Hawaiian Islands. ana
sending vast sums of money 10 mako
the harbor deeper and bigger and tha
channel wider and deeper. and flank
ing the coast with the most advanced
type of lights TO guide Mariners
vast difference between the DAYS of
the star guided Hawaiian, and the
compass and lighthouse guided navi-
gator of modern times
Down on Hono1ulu's waterfront
where dust from great coal piles fiji
the air and the hum of machinery. the
creaking of whips and the putting of
engines denote industry. may be found
today the latest machinery and aids in
coaling steamers and discharging car
goes from their capacious holds. The
latest advance is the great coal hopper
near the naval station. where steel
towers loom high above the ground. far
above an elevated railroad where a
huge crane hoists great clamshelI buck
cts filed with coal, deposits the load
IN cars, which are worked along the
elevated road to discharge their loads
into chutes which lead into a ships
bunkers. Cost something? Yes. thou
sands upon thousands of dollars, but a
saver of thousands.
The old wooden warhsips of the Po-
tomac class have given way to the
great armored. cruisers of the tvpe of
the American cruiser Tennessee. the
British fighter Bedford, the war
scared warship Idzumo of the Japa-
nese navy, the gray-clad Calabria of
Italy, and the trim, saucy little .Arcona
of the Kaiser's fleets. They find, not
an anchorage in the harbor. but moor
ings alongside wharves as fine as those
in New York and San Francisco.
But to Honolulans a warship is
warship, whether wooden frigate or
paddle-wheel cruiser or modern steel
battieship. To the womanhood of Ho-
nolulu the decks of a warship were
| made to dance upon and a place for
flirting with brass buttoned and gold
laced officers, formerly for the king to
visit and be received with royal sa-
lutes, and always to be the center of
social activity.
now teens with huge. bulky-looking
| steam freighters, which have almost
crowded the oldtime but graceful-look-
ing windiammer out of the trading be-
tween the Islands and ports in other
parts of the world. Masts and sails
have given way to engines and deck
derricks. The smaller holds of the
sailing vessels have been replaced by
the vast cargo spaces of the great
steamers which carry from eight to
twelve thousand tons as against the
| thousand TO two thousand tons of the
| graceful sailers. The development of
| the harbor of Honolulu has been grad
| ual and steady, and has elevated the
| port to one of the most prominent in
/ the Pacific, and is source of better
percentage of income to the United
! States government than almost any
| other on its list.
Almost ready for opening is the new
! Alakea wharf, whose shed looms up a
most imposing structure, whose front