The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-08-12
HILO DISCUSSED
WHARF LICENSE
Most Representative Meeting
Ever Held on Big Island Was
Harmonious One.

HIDO. August S.--rhe best and most
representative public meeting of Hilo S
business men ever held was that one
Of Saturday afternoon last in the cir.
cult court room. BY actual count there
were few more than one hundred peo.
pie present.
The object Of the meeting was to
discuss the question OF license being
granted the Hilo Railroad Company to
build a wharf in Reed S Bay. h. L,
Richards, president of the board of
trade, acted as chairman, and G.. H.
Wears as secretary. The result of the
meeting is that the people of Hilo, by
a large majority vote, state that they
have no objection to the granting of
the license, but want TO be assured
that there shall be free access to the
wharf by public road, and that the
Legislature be ask for an appropriation
to build such road. To this the rail.
road had no objection, but the point at
issue was by whom the road should be
built, and this has been settled by the
decision to ask the Legislature for an
appropriation.
Remarks were made by William Nc.
pany; John A. Scott stock holder in
the Matson Navigation Company; ]. T.
NOR, The manager of Papaikou; G. H.
Wears, County Attorney w. H. Beers,
and L. A. Thurston, the general man.
ager of the Hilo Railroad.
Full Debate.
The subject was debated thoroughly,
from all sides, in a calm and dispas-
sionate manner. Mr.. Scott probably
made the best speech that he has ever
delivered here. He spoke of his asso.
citation with Captain Matson for TWEEN,
| ty-fve years in all his enterprises, and
that it was the intention of the Mat
son company to gradually replace its
older steamers with better ones as the
Hilo trade increased and demanded the
change. There would be no objection
to using the wharf but there should be
public means of access to it which he
thought. should be built by the railroad.
It was this for which he contended,
Follow Good Example.
Mr.. Thurston gave a history of the
building of the Hilo Railroad, paid a
compliment to Mr.. Scott for his good
work as n member of the former Hilo
road board in building good roads with
good culverts, The railroad, after con-
sideratiOn, decided to follow this eX.
ample and put the best work possible
into the new Hamakua line, work that
would last for many years. He paid
a well deserved. tribute TO B. F. Dill
lingham for his enterprise and persever-
ance.
Mr.. Thurston felt that the railroad
should not be asked to build a public
thoroughfare to the wharf, but had nc
objection to the people having access
thereto during business hours and upor
the arrival and departure of steamers
The railroad moreover would assist the
government in building such a road il
carrying cinders and hubble at cost.
The Irrepressible.
During the meeting, Representative
Alfonso offered a resolution to the effect
that only citizen labor should be EN-
ployed in building the wharf. This wa
not accepted by the chairman, but Mr.
Thurston said that preference would b.
given TO citizen labor whenever possible
to employ it,
Union Heard From.
The Hilo Labor Union, on FRIDAY
night, passed resolution in favor Of
free ingress and egress to the public
The union now has three hundred
members.
Every candidate for the legislature
from the Island of Hawaii. viii prob
ably he asked to vote and work foi
an appropriation to build a road to tn,
new wharf. and it is hoped that Hilo'
business will soon grow enough to war
rant the building of two or three NOR
wharves.