The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-01
WORK STOPS
At PEARL
HARBOR
Partial Temporary Shutdown to
Await Plans for Having
Greater Dock.
TO BE HUNDRED FEET LONGER
Means Quarter Million More
Added to Contract Price and
a Greater Station.
TO BE HUNDRED FEET LONGER
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q The plans for the Pearl Harbor O
% drydOck are, in all probability, to o
% be amended to make of it the o
@ largest drydock in the world. The o y
q present plans, which are being o
@ worked out, call for n dock with o
@ plane surface area of 64,4S0 % +,
@ square feet; the new plans are for o |
o one of 79,200 square feet, dock o
% one hundred feet longer and six o
@ feet wider. 0I
o The enlarged dock will cost o
@ nearly half million dollars more O
@ to construct than the one upon o
@ which the original contract was %
o let, making the total cost of the @
o enlarged docking plant in the q
o neighborhood of two and quar- o
o ter millions. 81
o While the government is plan o
o ming twenty-eight thousand ton o
o battleships, it is also the intention o
o. to have the Pearl Harbor repair %
o station large enough to handle %
o them. The twenty thousand ton Q
q Delaware has a waterline of 80 %
o feet. and the latest planned super. o
q dreadnoughts will have a length %
o over all that would tax the capa' o
o city of the dock as originally OF
o planned. Sl
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within fifty feet of the end. AS the
dredger worked in, it dredged to the
required width and cleaned out thirty
FIVE foot depth. Another dredger will
be used to work down TO the fifty-foot
depth.
The company will have to suspend
some of its operations as the changes
proposed will affect the depth and width
and to continue work would involve
double labor which can be done at
one time by waiting until the plans
of the secretary Of the navy are finally
adopted and the new specifications is
sued.
One important piece of work that
will be suspended is the excavation for
the sump or pump WELL In all likeli-
hood the location of the pump well Will
be changed and the present location
abandoned altogether. This, of course,
depends upon whether the new plans
are adopted.
One item that will have to come up
for consideration for equalization is
that of lumber. General Manager w.
f. Dillingham; of the dredging company
had ordered two large shipments of lum-
Der, and both shipments are on the
water en- route from the Sound to Pearl
Harbor. The schooner Ariel is bring
ing 100000 feet and the Amaranth
1900, 900 feet. The lumber has been
sized to meet the specifications for the
Acting on official advices from Wash
. a., la a1
Harbor drydock on the present contract
has already been suspended.
The Hawaiian Dredging Company
which is excavating the site for the
drvdock for the San Francisco Bridge
Company. to whom the drydock contract
was awarded by the navy department
has been working ON the original plans
calling for length of $40 feet, a width
of l04 feet and a depth of fifty feet
The secretary of the navy has recon-
mended an enlargement of the drydock
his new plans calling for a dock 72O
feet in length, 40 feet in width and
about ffty-fve in depth, and has asked
Ior an additional appropriation Of $425,
600 to complete the work. The original
contract price for the 620-foot docB
was $l750,000.
In addition TO this there will un
doubtedly be another emergency appro
priation, as the contractors will hav'
to be given an extension of time, an'
owing to the changes in the speeifea
tions, much of the material ordered an
ON the way. will not be of the require
size for the greater drydQck. Thes
changes will involve more or less eS
penditnre for new materials and th
differences will have to be equaized.
The Hawaiian Dredging Company ha
exeayated the original drydock site I
d20foot dock and If II is TO be ftte
into the 720foot dock, ii will have I
be rehandled and resawed. The con
pany feceiyed its notification froi
Washington after the shipments weI
ready for sen. The lumber will arriy
here In a short time.
The Mats0n schooner w, II. Marst0
Is en- ronte from Mare Island 10 Pea
lafbof loaded with drydock machi
cry. Almost the entire plant used
constructing the Mare Island drydo,
u being sent 10 peafl llarhor. II
iInftnn Is now ont twenty two da
aud should arrive within a week, y
lumber IL 10 be used for the false wo
nud crib whieh viii he lowered ia
the excavation and llled ia will ca
cffif md other mairrals
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iHlf nHfY yard Nlli he established
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handle ihe vast Amount II mHlptla
mnrl ~ which All hn Natfami
haaff fhffa aili b. hmsIlug ffan
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