Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-08-02

h't d''ioh WI WI SubJt'b anu Tue
prompt granting OF wharf license I
to the Hllo Railroad Company on the
lines now under discussion. We are,
yours very truly, 4
BISHOP & CO."
At the conclusion of Superintend-
ent Campbell's remarks. Attorney
Hemenway, representing the Matson
Navigation Co. Castle e. Cooke. the /
IEter-lsland Steam Navigation Co. |
and c. Brewer & Co., read the pro-
test of these companies made to the
granting OF the license to the Hilo |
Railroad Company.
There were four points raised in |
this objection, the first that there
should be a provision In the license
providing for public approach to the
wharf, 50 that comsignees should have
a choice in removing their goods and
not be compelled to transport them
over the line of the railroad com.
pany. The second point was that
the wharfage charge was wrong, as
no charge was made on wharves In
Honolulu. Third. that there should
be mn charge far s,orave AZ tho rail.
road had the only onnroach IN tho
wharf and might delay the delivery
of goods so that storage charges
could he collected Eourth that ar
or taking over tho wharf nc IN. yov.
ernment there wouId s,uI ho opIv
the railroad apnroacb and the rail.
road would then have n monoro,v IN
taking freight IN and from, tho lock
| After the reading NJ ,his n,,ition
nj obiections the Covarnor asked
anvope who carod 10 aadros, tho
mae,,nV
r n petrie renrose,,ir, ros,,o G.
Cooke tben asked tho, Mr. rhnrs,on
answer tbeso ohioc,ions ra,sod In ,ha
protest.
MIR. Thurston. speakinr for the
Hilo Railroad COMPANY. told of the
development of the railroad and of
HiIo as n shining mort for sugar
during the past decade. He told of
the work done in Washington To get
the breakwater augmentation and tho
promise Of the railroad IN extend its
lines when the breakwater was as 4.
sured. lie had asked the shining
firms to helm finance the building of
the wharf and the railroad company
would promote the work. The meet
| ing at Hilo To consider the harbor
lines was the largest meeting of
| Americans he had ever seen and at
that time he had told Of the wharf
proposition. Others NAV acquire
stock of the company which ia build
Ing the wharf. as he stated at that
meeting. but no offers for stock had
come. nor had any objections been
made from the time of that meeting
until last Friday.
As IN the no,nts roised nv tho
obiectors n there was M inius,ice
in the lipbteraye comnany CHARGING
1ftv cents n ton now thera could
hardly be Injustice I'm wharfage
charge Of Ave cents a ton In re
gard IN tie annroach IN the nronosed
wharf Tburston said that this would
probabIv cost 400 600 having 20 ha
200 feet long ana twentv-tbree feet
from the bottom IN the ton who're
the tracks would he laid To mako
the approacb wide enough for !,
wagon road would nearly double the
cost. and as the railroad had mo nee
for a wagon road. n should not be
required to build II. hut this should
be done nv the public The wharf
was three miles from HIlo. and nj
the outward cargo would be through
cargo brought in by the railroad anil
not coming from Hilo itself
| There Is no obli,ation OH any
shipper to use the wharf" said
Thurston; freight can be dis.
charged into lighters from steamers
lying alongside the wharf as we'll
There is no monopoly in this wharf
| There are two miles of frontage and
any OF the shipping companies may
build their own wharyes. Il ia so
far from town that drayage is al
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