The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-12-08
NEW PLAN FOR HID WHARF
HAS SERIOUS OBJECTIONS


fore tts hafbof ssmmiasionsIs aealn
yesterday. abd ihs ttisf ffatoft q tht
meeting was tho pftseuitli6h ~ tke
lsiug.inud steamship cenipshy 81 q
pian 81 wharf and unFseslea new hta-
ton fof the same, designed By Csanty
Engineer southworth, Of Hllo The
plan calls for wharf approximately
500 feet long aria 100 feet wide. With
double railroad tracks down eash aits
and a sixty foot shed down the tontor.
Il provides a berth on each side Of the
wharf for q 500 foot steamer, with
room on each side at the inner end
for an Inter-1sland boat. II provides
for separate sugar storage in separate
warehouse at the shore end of the
wharf, at ono side and parallel thereto.
The plan was approved also by tho
Matson Navigation Company, the Vol
cano Stables Company, Brewer & Co.,
and Captain Peter johnson.
Objections to Inter-Island Plan.
The commission asked If the Hilo
Railroad had any objections to the
wharf plan of the Inter-Island com
pany, and II 30, WHAT
L. A. Thurston replied on behalf OF
the railroad company that he had only
received copy Of the Inter Island
/ plan the day before and had not had
time to make much Of a study Of it
and was not, therefore, prepared al
this time to present any exhaustive
criticism. He stated that on the face
of the proposition, however, there were
several points which should have the
attention of the commission as they
bore upon the economy or efficiency OIL
the wharf. Among these points were
the following:
!. Tile wharf planned pointed in I
different direction from that submitted
in the plan by the Hilo Railroad Com
pany and also from that presented b,
the public works office, and would con
sequentIy affect the position and direc
tion of, the. entire future wharf system
of Hilc. ~. Is s.t-.!t5ra, ;af.ss ha,
Leas Permanent,
@. The wharf projected five hundred
feet on, one side and 800 on the othe
side into deep water. Ab0ut half Of tn
wharf, therefore, would have to b
built on piles, which made temporRr,
structure, while under. the. Failroa,
plan, the entire wharf, except q row o
four piles down the side, would be on
permanent fill, and no greater cost thai
a pils wharf, g y
| Ptling ia Eighty Fest of water.
8. The deep water, in which tn
fnteT-IslRnd wharf Us proposed to b
located, had been tested by behring's b,
Engineer iRowell, and no bottom wa
found at eighty. feet below the susfac
Of the water, except soft mud. Nj
Rowell had reported that this was to-
deep to be practicable for the buiidin
of q wharf within the limits of reasonH
BILE expense. No showing had bee
made BY the Inter. Island to disprov
Mr.. Rowell's statement The Later
, laland people at the meeting admitte
that they had made no additional bol
ings and relied upon statement b
i County Engineer Southworth that tn
mud would hold the piles. 50
4. All of the wharf and freight haT
ding experts had advised that a she
sixty feet wide and 500 feet long woul
be required to hold an incoming carg
of $500 tons of merchandise, the size
cargo that must be provided for. Th
railroad plan therefore, provided tw
sheds each 500 feet by sixty so as I
provide for two deep-sea steamers a
once, one Matson and one American
Hawaiian
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