The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-15
Rms E0R COMPLETION
Of WORK ON H|LO AND
KAHULU| BREAkWAT TIERS
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! THE rates for hauling rock Tor
! breabwater. purposes in carload Iots
from, any point on the lines OF the Ma
bului Railroad Company TO point on
or near the L. S. government break.
I ya-er at the shore end of the kahulul
/ breakwater will be eight cents per ton
! of 20O0 pounds per mile of actual maui.
| Contractor for breakwater to load ana
unload cars.
s.This rate will be subject to change
should the railroad company be required
! 10 construct new lines or extensions 10
! existing lines of railway for tins espe
| cial purpose
| Williams Explanation.
!. n. S. Wiuams, superintendent OF
the Kahului Railroad Company, was
| seen Yesterday afternoon, relative TO
the protest of the Lord Young company
concerning the bid of the kahulul Rali-
road Company. and its alleged refusal
to give the Lord Young Company
| freight rate on rock. He said:
1.-The Lord Young company did not
ask the Kahului Railroad Company for
a simple freight rate on rock from
given point to another given point
They asked the railroad company to
give them a bid for furnishing rock; for
hauling the rock so furnlshed; for fur-
nishing and laying track from the pres
ent TRACK of the railroad TO quarry
and for removing certain tracks now at
the ,breakwater and substituting other
tracks therefor.
'.Neither law nor commonsense re-
qulres a railroad, any more than any
other company. to do all of these things
for wouldbe contractor, unless the
railroad chooses so to do.
"Moreover. the terms of the specifi-
cations of the breakwater specifically
state that if any bidder is interested
in any way in any other bid. such fact
will disqualify the bidder so interested.
''Now as a matter of fact the Lord
Young company wanted the kahuluI
Railroad Company to be directly inter
ested in their bid to the amount of
about seventy-fve per cent of the cost
of their work. If we had acquiesced in
their request our bid would have been
disqualified.
.'There is no law prohibiting a rail
road company from bidding on gov
eminent contract. The kahulul Rail
road Company happens to be favorably
situated in order to do this work. That
is no reason why it should divide the
work and enter into partnership with
some other would-be contractor.
1.-The fact that the Kahului Railroad
Company has made a tender to build
the completed breakwater at Kahului,
including heavy rocks weighing many
tons each in the superstrueture, for
$1.S5 a ton, while the lowest bid for
substructure in the Hilo breakwater,
with maximum weight Of only one
ton for the heaviest rock, was $1.S4 a
ton. demonstrates the absolute good
faith of the Kahului Railroad Company
and that it has taken no advantage of
its having plant already on the
ground and that the government has
received low bid for the work. -
Official Answer to Protests.
The further answer to the protests
of both companies, MADE by Williams
to Major Winslow, which follows, adds
to the foregoing. In his letter he said:
Referring to protest filed by Lord
& Young Engineering Company at the
opening of the proposals for the con-
struetion of the extension of the Ka
hului breakwater in your Office this 14th
day of October, 1910, we would say
that this company declined to quote in
tending bidders rates for quarrying an
delivery of the necessary rock for the
following reasons:
"First-Quotation from general in
structions for bidders: Reasonable
grounds for supposing that any bidder
is interested in more than one bid for
same item will cause rejection of all
bids in which he is interested
'The legal adviser to this company
on Maui advised US that this might be
so construed as to cause the rejection
of the bids which this company was
then preparing to submit, had we given
the quotations asked for.
Second-The Kahului Railroad Com.
pany, in bidding for the breakwater
construction desired to deal directly
with the United States government. and
as those parties who inquired for thu
delivery of stone were evidently inter
ested only in placing the stone on the
breakwater, it was decided to put in
the alternative bid covering a price to
the United States government of stone
delivered on cars. thus giving your de.
partment an opportunity to call for bids
on the placing of the stone alone in the
breakwater, if deemed advisable
''Third-We would call attention to
the character of the inquiries made bv
parties who claimed they intended to
bid on this work.
Hllo Breakwater Bids.
According to the tenders for the con
struction of the Hilo breakwater. which
were also opened yesterday morning in
the office of Major f. Eveleth Winslow
the Lord-Young Engineering Company
Will get that sought-for contract,
providing it is awarded to the lowest
bidder
This company bid $l.s4 per ton for
the substructure, that figure being fiftv
cents below the next lowest The Nor
gan Dredging Company, one of the
latest engineering companies to enter
the field, bid $3.50 per ton on the sub
structure.
The only contractor bidding on the
superstructure was D. f. Metzper. who
turned in q bid of 50 235 on +b;e ,.: