The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-15
o,t One Tender Presented for
Maui Harbor Construction
and Is Protested.
CLAIM UNFAIR TREATMENT
1wo Contracting Firms Charge
the KahuIui Railroad With
Illegal Participation.

IF the Kahului Harbor breakwater,
rbsu the tenders were opened in the
.#se Of Mai. f. EveIeth Winslow of
i. sngineers, and only one was found,
accompanied by several protests from
other woud-be bidders.
Tho protests are varIously based on
.so fact that the Kahului Railroad
Company has refused to quote rates on
bauling rock FOR the breakwater and
an the assumption that it is itself a
bidder. contrary TO the rules of the
interstate commerce commission.
On this last point, the Lord Young
Engineering Company, which fled the
most emphatic protest, mentions a rul-
inc which forbids railway corporation
from bidding on federal work which in
wolves carving stone used over its own
lines.
In answer to this, Superintendent
Williams of the Kahului Railroad de-
res that his company is barred from
the work.
The other protest was filed by the
Morgan Dredging Company, by its presi-
dent J. 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 $1S5
a ton and the second $i.35 a ton. The
bids and protests will all be forwarded
TO Washington and there passed upon.
The whole matter will probably be laid
before the interstate commerce commits
sion tsf decision.
he Lord Young Protests.
In President Ed. Lords protest on
behalf Of MS firm he says:
1.-THE Kahului Railroad Company is
public service corporation and is the
only means by which the rock specified
by yol for the construction of the
breakWater can be brought thereto. It
impossible for us to bid without a
rate from the railroad company, which
owns the only line to the breakwater
ana controls the only suitable rock
available for the construction.
Because of the action of the Ka-
aulul Railroad Company in declining to
furnish US a price per ton for rock, in
eiuuihg hauling the same, as set out in
our letter Of October 2. 1910, we are
unable to compete with the railroad
company for the work. We therefore
MAKE TINS our protest against awarding
contract for breakwater construction
:. hanulul Harbor, Maui, Territory of
hawaii, under Specifications in accord
ance with your advertisement Of Sep
.smoer IA 1910, on the ground that the
aaaalui Railroad Company, which will
V most benefited by the construction
W tue hreakwater, and which prior to
t ,ae appropriation under which the work
ae.eia referred to is to be carried on.
uau TOT Its own convenience constructed
aportlon of said breakwater. has de-
s..hea to place the bidding for the work
lyon a competitive basis and seeks TO
v'saih the advertised work for itself
atlts own price.
l., on the further ground that the Ka-
u haiiroad Company is railway
r aia and can not, within the
..'ea States Interstate Commerce
Al, nd upon federal work which in
wives carrying stone used in the work
0Ser It's own line,
Prohibitive Rate.
resident Belser of the newly organ
!; ,Pl i: morgan Dredging Company. stated
= ais oifleial protest, as follows:
:. acting under information quoted to
W.; " your Mr.. Quinn and your Mr..
pa.'oinofe, to wit: that the Kahului
a. 1 se. company would quote a rate
sna Hi'y cents per ton for furnishing
~ rayins All trackage from shore end
Can 'n r. breakwater to quarry in
Mp foar Gulch, do all the hauling.
;auihg the furnishing of necessary
NJ d4'Phenf, and give free use of quarry.
brs,,naVe investigated the Kahului
S;,a aAwater with the intention of bid
Niag On same.
Son nave, however, been unable to
ntss ga from the railroad company any
II; III winch would enable us to submit
WI On said breakwater.
~ Railroad Replies.
rson.. NAHUM railroad 5 replies to the
os Si.s's Of the two contracting com
sta.ss vary In but one respect, as it
il a, 10 The Lord-Young company that
,atSs not care at this time to give
Tho ~ 40 olher bidders and while stating
anv r"lns 10 the Morgan Dredging Com
eop:i,a auded the rate which the latter
INSIDERS prohibitive.
AMI y ITS letter to Messrs. Hoors
per;n User Of the dredger company. Su.
said: "IuiamS OF the railroad
feel We We; regret to say that we do not
ton disposed ~ to make bids on any por-
10 to- 10, 81 the work of the breatwater
eOn ,r,ld parties at this time. as this
strn pany Is about to bid for the con,
Who'll si ., Of the breakwater as a
The ss ss,, IN effect, was identical with
s"er given the Lord-Young com
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