The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-16
DRYDOCK SITE
AWAITS CRIBS
President HindeS lnspects Entire
Building and Dredging
Plant.
BULKHEADS TO BE LOWERED
Navy Department Breaks Ground
for Great Nursery of
$4,000 Trees.
BULKHEADS TO BE LOWERED
(From Wednesdays Advertiser.

Within two weeks the San Francisco
Bridge Company viii be placing false.
crib-bulkheaded sections in the excava.
ton for the $2,OOO,oOO naval drydock
at Pearl Harbor, and in November,
1912, the company expects to turn over
to the navy department what is hoped
to be the finest drydock in the world.
S. G.. Hindes, president of tbe San
FrPncisco Bridge Company, who has
been here for couple of weeks looking
over the drydoek site, made an inspee,
ton yesterday of the preparations for
starting the work, and also visited all
of the dredgers now at work on the
Pearl Harbor dredging contract. Mr..
hlndes leaves for San Francisco today
in the Oceanic liner Sierra and may
not be here again for about six months.
MIR, Hindes stated yesterday that ev-
erything was ready for his company to
buckle down to the work, as soon as
the dredger Reclamation, of the Hawai-
IAN Dredging Company, polishes up the
floor of the excavation at the upper end
The Reclamation is to. work gradually
back from this end and when It
emerges into the harbor the cleaning up
will have been finished.
How Work Will Be Done.
The bulkhead sections will be lowered
into the excavation ffty-fve feet and
the water will then be pumped out,
leaving the interior ready for the fill.
ing in of the cement, which will have
depth over the floor of twenty-five
feet tapering up at the sides to seven.
teen feet in thickness.
Each bulkheaded section can be work
ed separately and the work will pro-
gress by divisions. About seven million
feet of lumber have arrived at the site
! by deem water vessels, or is on the
way. The great beams which are to be
used in the false crib work have been
in the hands of the carpenters for some
time and have been bolted and shaped,
and when the dredger gives way for
the first section little time will be lost
in getting the timbers down.
The contractors are preparing the
great bins for the rock and other ma
terial which will go into the drydock,
and the quarries in the canyon through
which the Wahiawa section of the Oahu
railway runs, is being prepared to turn
out the rock required for the great
job. The machinery for the quarry
work is on the ground and is being in
stalled.
Gould Supply Honolulu.
4 The machine shops for the contrac-
tors are up, the storehouse is filed with
materials needed first on the Job and
another biz storehouse is being erected.
The engine house is already running
full tilt, and the power house, in which
; have been installed powerful motors of
sufficient power to light the city of
i Honolulu, is about ready to perform its
! part of the work.
The machinery for preparing the
! pump well for the drydock is being
placed in position. Railroad tracks are
being laid in the vicinity of the dock,
I and is connected up with lines which
/ tap the main line of the Oahu. Railway
| There is vast amount of work being
!! done at the dock site, where for two
years scores of men will work steadily.
Being a government job the contractors
know that the work has to be finished
on time, and according to Mr.. Hindes
and Mr. Smith, the latter being the
! superintendent for the San Francisco
Bridge Company, the navy department
will get its great dock on time
Presidents Inspect Plants.
w. +. Dillingham;, president of the
Hawaiian Dredging Company, which
has the contract for dredging the bar
and channel, and has dredged the dock
site as well, conducted Mr. Hindes over
the entire reservation yesterday, the
trip including also visit to each
dredger. Mr.. Hindes found the dredg.
ers South Bay, California, Pearl Bar,
! Governor and Gaylord, working directly
| fbn har tuba ha, .1I \.
excellent progress during the past two
weeks owing to smooth water, although
there is a heavy swell.
In the channel he found the new
J dredger Turbine, which went to work
idea being tested for water dredging
work, is gouging out a jutting cora
reef on the Eva side of the channel
about opposite the old salt house on the
Puuloa shore. This section iuts out into
the channel considerably, although OF
: the Waikiki side there is deep water
and great width, but it is necessary t.
take out this tongue in order Il
straighten out the channel
Turbine Doing Good Work.
The Turbine is a peculiar maehin,
with knives reaching out and fairly rip
. ping out the banks. Although the
dredger had been at work only one day
considerable progress had been made
Mr., Hindes aud Mr., Dillingham; both ex
pressed themselves pleased with tn,
work performed by this dredger. Tn,
dredge is driven by electricity, the cen
/ tnfugal suction valve revolving at the
relative speed of 4l00 feet per minute
This draws the dredger material up into
the pipe line and the debris is forced
out at the outlet into ninety feet OF
water, filling pocket.
Preparing TO Beautify Yard.
With the Reclamation at work In the
dock site the Hawaiian Dredging Com
pany now has seven machines az work
representing an investment Of about d
million dollau
The navy department under tho droe
ton az Ciyil Engineer Roy Smith, v =
~, ia planning far ahead 10 beaulify
tho naval station. The department. haa
iuu started ploughng up section u