The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-09-03
Advertiser Photo.

Parks, Assistant Engineer Burrell, Ma
jor Long, Captain Mark, and other
marine corps officers from Camp Very,
received the members of the Congress
sional party on the veranda of the ad
ministration building and without loss
of time the party was conducted to the
naval tug Iroquois. The party first
passed company of marines under
Captain Robard, who presented arms,
and four fourishes of-drum and bugie
were given, followed by a salute of
seventeen guns for the Governor.
The trip to Pearl Harbor was de-
lightful, the sea being smooth as a
millpond. AT the entrance to the chan
mel the. tug passed the sea-going dredge
South Bay which is at work on the
bar. AS the tug passed in the piles
marking the Waikiki side of the chan.
mel showed where other dredgers have
cut out projecting reefs which have
hitherto been an obstruction to naviga-
ton. The dredger Governor vas work
ing on a reef which is one of the larg-
est jobs between the old Shark Pen
and the bar, and is one of the import
ant ones, for when the reef is out it
will give fairly straight channel to-
wards Bishops Point. The Reclamation
was at work on a projection below
Waipio Point.
How Dredging Is Distributed.
w. F. Dillingham;, head of the Ha-
waiian Dredging Company which has
the channel and harbor contract, ex-
planned to the members of the Naval
Committee, and also to members of the
Military Committee, that by an ar.
rangement with the Navy Department,
the million dollars of the first section
of the contract was being expended
mainly between Waipio Point and the
sea entrance, including the bar. When
the members looked at the gradually
Strengthening line of channel and saw
the vast amount of work which has to
be done to cut out a thirty-fve foot
depth from hard coral, they could un-
derstand how easily the money goes.
The congressman appeared to be i'm
pressed with the necessity for the com
plete removal of Waipio Point ON the
lines suggested by the naval engineers,
and an appropriation for this work is
| expected of the next Congress.
| Where the drydock is to be built the
| visitors saw some boring machiRes. 1t
was explained that these were ascer.
tanning the nature of the material
which will shortly be attacked by
dredgers. As the drydock is to be one
OF the most expensive jobs in the de.
velopment of the naval station, the site
was source of much questioning on
the part of the visitors.
Mr.. Dillingham; explained that al.
ready three-quarters of a million cubic
feet Of material had been dredged from
the channel.
The tug passed around Ford Island
aud came 10 an anchorage of the
Peninsula wharf and the guests were
landed in the COmmandant's launch,
three trips being necessary to put them
all ashore. Captain Rees and the of
heers accompanying the party bade the
visitors goodbye at the landing and re
turned home on the tug. The Captain
was warmly thanked by the Congress
men for the pleasure they had derived
from the sea trip, and particularly foI
me knowledge they had gained OF tbs
battery and naval station sites,
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special train 10 Leilelua, Conductor
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