The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-08-11

Drydock to be finished on June
Active work will be commenced in
September by the winning contractors
on the foundations for. the seven indus
trial buildings which are to be erected
on the Pearl Harbor naval station res
ervation, the contract to be completed
within three months from the date of
the commencement of such work. Bids
for the laying of the foundations will
be opened at the Office of Admiral
Cowles, U. 5. N, commandant of the
Honolulu naval station, on August 81,
and the contract for the work will be
executed within ten days of that time.
When the contractor thrusts his spade
in the earth on the reservation that
action will mark the commencement of
the creation of the naval station, which
| is designed to be the greatest under
the American flag, and when finished
will represent an outlay of ten million
dollars, including the cost of the dredg-
ing of the channel and harbor and the
drydock.
The foundations to be installed are
those of the machine shop, power plant,
foundry, forge shop combined ship fit
tiers, metal workers and boiler shop,
/ pipe and plumbing shop and combined
Woodworking shop.
Steel on the Way.
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on the Honolulu side of the drydock,
the machine shop being nearest the
dock. The buildings are of large size
and the structural steel with which
| they are to be built has been purchased
by the navy department The navy
asked for bids for this structural steel
believing that it could make better
deal for the material than contractors.
The buildings are to be erected on the
unit plan, and this involves all the
steel being fashioned so that the
pieces can fit any building.
1t is stated at the naval station that
the steel has been started for Honolulu
in shipments to be carried on the
American-Haw steamship line. via
Tehuantepec, and the first of the
$4,000 tons may be here in a couple of
months.
The foundations are to be all in
stalled three months after the work is
commenced. Meanwhile tenders will
he called for the erection of the build
ings upon these foundations, and by
the last of February all the seven in
dustrial buildings will probably be
turned over to the navy department.,
complete.
oficers' Quarters.
The plans and specifications for the
residences of the commandment and Of
ficers, which are to form group about
| opposite Kuahua Island, where the
powder magazine is to be located, are
now in the hands of the naval station
architects and will be sent to Wash
ingtOn the latter part of the present
month. 1t is supposed that the plans
will be approved without any delay,
and that bids for the erection of the
six or seven buildings of this group
will be called for in couple of months
and completed in the early spring.
Other contracts are pending, to in
elude the streets, railways ana sewers
throughout the naval reservation. The
plans and specifications are all now in
Washington and it is expected bids will
be called for in the near future. Al
though tenders are to be advertised for
at Washington, the same opportunities
| will be given local bidders, and it is
Thought by local contractors that they
VIII be able to underbid any mainland
contractors.
The work of paving the streets,
| building the railroad and putting in
the sewer system win probably be well
under way in the next three OF four
months.
Model Road System.
The department will call for bids for
Ohia wood block and btalithic for the
street pavements which are 10 be made
models Of road building in every re-.
speet The sewer, water and lighting
systems are 10 be modern In every way.
The one problem just now Is where the
water supply rs 20 be obtained, as no
fresh water can be located on any part
of the reservation, arteainn borings
having produced only backish water.
The water system installed by the Ia.
Wailan Dredging company AZ water.
town, the source being an nrtesinn we'll
on the M0analua estate Of Samuel Da.
mon, will ia all probability be taken
oyer by The navy department for the
Pearl hnrhor station and enlarged 20
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