The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-09-15
TURNED DOWN
TRIP PETITION
Harbor Board Courleously De-
cllned to Reconsider Us
Former Appointment.

AIlNV ~ NANNVlMhHttN hh0 appointing
Captain Foster, although Captain Trip
was given the credit Of having served
the Territory we'll and faithfully, the
members have been surrounded with
people wanting to put TrIpp i'ack, want
ing to appoint somebody else or want
ing to knock Foster. Some corpora
tions which had formerly favored the
change, yesterday appeared on a petit
tion, signed by all the leading shipping
and plantation concerns, asking for the
retention of Trip.
The petition read; 1--WE, the under
signed, having observed from the Homo
lulu newspapers that you have appoint
I'd man to succeed Captain Trip as
harbormaster for the Port Of Honolulu,
reg to petition that your action be re-
considered and that you continue Cap
tam Trip in Office until such time as
he may give evidence to your honorable
body that he is not qualified to assume
he duties that the new port regulations
may impose upon him. This was
signed by H. Hackfeld & Co., Brewer
& Co., American Hawaiian Steamship
Company, Tnter-Island Steam Naviga-
tion Company, Hawaiian Fertilizer
Company, Associated Oil Company,
Union Feed Company, City Feed Com
pany, Alexander & Baldwin, Hind,
Rolph & Co.. Hustace-Peck Co., f. R.
Stackable, collector of customs; J. M.
Dowsett, Fred L. Waldron, Bank of
Honolulu, schaefer & Co., McCabe,
Hamilton & Kenny, Allen & Robinson,
Levers & Cooke, and others
Petition Tabled. -
The communication was received by
the committee of the whole, which later
reported to the board that it had laid
the petition on the table. The board
endorsed the action of the committee of
the whole, but without, as it expressed
it, offering discourtesy to the petition
signers.
1t developed during the informal dis
cussion among the board members that
the only Democrat ON the board had
won out in the matter of appointments
; as Captain Foster, the successor of Cap
tain Trip, is a Democrat. He did not
know it at the time, and neither had
the other members considered his politi-
! cal affiliations. Mr.. ATcStocker stated
emphatically that he would like to be
quoted as stating that the rum0r that
he and another member of the board
had fixed it up 4" to take Captain Fos-
Fter off the hands of Hoogs & Belser"
was completely at variance with the
truth.
Contracts and Contractors.
Two bids were opened for furnishing
the lumber for replanking Hackfeld
| wharf, the lowest bid being entered by
J the City Mill Company at $17.75 per
thousand feet for oil 900 feet. Levers
I & Cooke bid was $19.l5 for 100000
feet 3x12, delivery in los days The
City Mill Company agree to furnish the
} lumber in ninety days. The City Mill
Company was awarded the contract.
j. A. Gilman, for the bitulithic paw
} ing company, was present to speak upon
written proposition, which was read
{ to the board, in which he agreed to
put down a testing area of bitulithie
[ on any wharf in the port. He stated
that ne had received assurances from
his company that wharf covered with
bituhthic in Portland was satisfactory
and had been laid for year. At first
D it was agreed by the board to let him
nut down, free, an area of 10x50 feet
D on the new Richards street wharf, buC
as it would be given a practical test
on the entrance to the Hackfeld wharf,
d the commission later decided on that.
The paving company will lay the
strip agreed upon next Monday morn
a ing and afternoon.
Data on ohia.
1t Col. Sam johnson, manager of the
Pahoa lumber mill, Hawaii, came before
the board to make inquiries as to what
the board called seasoned ohia wood
blocks for paving, stating that prospec-
D tive contractors for paving the Rich
VI ards street wharf and others, were ask
ing him if he could supply this or that
d class of blocks He was given tho in
formation and is now ready to meet
VI any or all contractors.
" Kahulu improvements.
The committee of the whole dis
A cussed the application of the Kahului
Railroad Company, through Alexander
NJ & Baldwin, to commence work on a
wharf the bulkhead of which is back
W Of the proposed site for wharves, which
location is just at the angle of the
d shore and breakwater. The proposed
wharf site selected by the Territory in
agreement with the railroad company
n some time ago is now shoal water and
is not deep enough for lighterage pur-
d poses The company wants to deepen
the site for its lighters to lead back
d to the proposed wharf on. which they
ell have already started.
The commissioners authorized the
n chairman to obtain from the attorney
general an opinion as to the Territory I
rights along the shore, using the former
ID agreement and maps as a basis, and
also to draw up new agreement
d whereby the dredged material shall bs
deposited back of the wharf TO be used
NJ by the railroad company, but the whole