The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-10-18
But One Tender Presented for
Maui HarbOr Construction
and Is Protested.
CLAIM UNFAIR TREATMENT
Two Contracting Firms Charge
the Kahului Railroad With
Illegal Participation.
lrrom satnrday,s 8 Advertiserl }

tion Of the Kahului Harbor breakwater,
when the tenders were opened in the
Office of Maj. Z. Eveleth Winslow of
the engineers, and only one was found,
accompanied by several protests from
other would-be bidders.
The protests are variously based on
the fact that the Kahulu Railroad
Company has refused to quote rates on
hauling rock for the breakwater and
on the assumption that it is itself
bidder, contrary to the rules of the
interstate commerce commission.
On this last point, the Lord.Young
Engineering Company, which filed the
most emphatic protest, mentions rul
ing which forbids a railway corporation
from bidding on federal work which in
wolves carrying stone used over its own
lines.
In answer to this, Superintendent
Williams of the Kahului Railroad de.
nies that his company is barred from
the work.
The other protest was filed by the
Morgan Dredging Company, by its presi.
dent, ]. J. Belser, who claims that the
railroad refused, not to quote rates, but
to quote rates which made it possible
for them to bid.
The Kahului Railroad offered two
bids, one on the delivery of stone and
construction of the breakwater and the
other on delivery only, for the govern
ment to construct The first was $1.S5
ton and the second $l.35 a ton. The
bids and protests win all be forwarded
to Washington and there passed upon.
The whole matter will probably be laid
before the interstate commerce commits
sion for decision.
The L.ord-Young Protests
In President Ed. Lord Is protest on
behalf of his firm he says:
''The Kahului Railroad Company is
a public service corporation and is the
only means by which the rock specified
by you for the construction Of the
breakwater can be brought thereto. 1t
is impossible for us to bid without a
rate from the railroad company, which
owns the only line to the breakwater
and controls the only suitable rock
available for the construction.
Because of the action of the Ko'
hului Railroad Company in declining to
furnish us a price per ton for rock, in
cluding hauling the same, as set out in
our letter of October 2, 1910, we are
unable to eompeteswith the railroad
company for the work. We therefore
make this our protest against awarding
a contract for breakwater construction
at Kahului Harbor, Maui, Territory OF
Hawaii, under specifications in accord
anee with your advertisement of Sep
tember IA, 1910, on the ground that the
Kahului Railroad Company, which will
be most benefited by the construction
of the breakwater, and which prior II
the appropriation under which the worl
herein referred to is to be carried on
had for its own convenience eonstruete,
a portion of said breakwater, has de
elined to place the bidding for the worl
upon a competitive basis and seeks t.
obtain the advertised work for itsel
at its own price.
f'On the further ground that the Ka
hului Railroad Company is railwa.
corporation and can not, within tn,
United States Interstate Commerc
Act, bid upon federal work which in
wolves carrying stone used in the worl
over its own line. -
Prohibitive Rate.
President Belser of the newly organ
ized Morgan Dredging Company, stated
in his official protest, as follows:
"Aeting under information quoted t.
us by your Mr.. Quinn and your Mr.
Whittemore, to wit; that the Kahulu
Railroad Company would quote a rat,
of fifty cents per ton for furnishing
and laying all trackage from shore ent
of Kahulu breakwater to quarry il
Camp -Four Guleh, do all the hauling
including the furnishing of necessar.
equipment, and give free use of quarry
we have investigated the Kahulu
breakwater with the intention of bid
ding on same.
''We have, however, been unable I
secure from the railroad company an
rates which would enable us to submi
a bid on said breakwater."
Railroad Replies
The Kahului railroad Is replies to tn
requests of the two contracting con
panies vary in bat one respect, as
stated 10 the Lord Young company tina
it did not care at this time to Civ
rates to other bidders and while stain
the same to the Morgan Dredging Con
pany, added the rate which the latt'
considers Prohibitive.
IN ITS letter 20 hehhFh. HOO
and Belser of the dredger company, s
perintendent Williams of the railroa
saidi
owe regret TO say that we do NJ
feel disposed to make bids on any po
tion of the work OF the bFeakwRt
l. third parties at this time, as IN
company Is about 10 hid for the co
strueuop OF the breakwater as
whole.
This. IN effect, was identical wi
the answer given the Lord Young col
panY, but in this ease he appended
regular circular which tho railroad hl
evidently prepared for bidders m
stated
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