Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-10-24
7ENTATIVEPLAN
FOR HIL|O WHARF

the Hilo Railroad Company and the
board of harbor commissioners has
been prepared and will be submitted
TO the board at its next meeting. An
invitation has been sent to the Hilo
board of trade to have a member pre-
sent at the meeting which may take
place Saturday next. The discussion
will be public and is slated at the
present time to open at ten o'clock.
The proposed terms OF the agree
ment are first that at the Territory's
expense and without cost to the rail-
road a wharf. warehouse and APP
proaches thereto equipped with rails,
switches, cross covers and mechani-
cal sugar handling power plant shall
be constructed and maintained.
Second that the railroad company
shall have the right to use the wharf
and shall also be allowed to run a pipe
line over II which may be taken up
at the expiration of the lease. An
office may be built on the wharf for
use of officials of the road Or Of ves-
sells doing business with the road.
Third that all vessels doing bust
ness with the railroad shall have
preference right to the wharf. A pro-
viso Is entered In this connection.
however. stating that the railroad
company shall use reasonable prompt,
ness and dispatch In the loading and
unloading of It's cars and the removal
Of freight SO that the wharf shall be
rs little encountered as possible.
That subject to the said preference
rights and to the agreements herein
set forth the wharf and warehouse
are to be available for the use of
others on the same terms as is avail
able to the railroad and the ships
aforesaid. No, higher charges shall
be made to any vessels. person or
corporations, doing business than the
lowest charges made to any other
vessel of similar tonnage and char
acter.
A proviso Is made that the agree
ment between the railroad company
and the American Hawaiian steamship
company. given below. shall be incor-
porated In this agreement. The obi
cations laid on the railroad are that
1t shall act as a common carrier for
the term OF ten years from the date
when such service shall begin. II has
also to furnish the power necessary
for the operation of the mechanical
sugar handling plant, maintain the
same Except such portions as may
by ordinary wear and tear need re-
placing which will be done by the
board) and operate same charging to
the owner OF freight not more than
twenty-five cents ton out of which
1t shall pay to the board three cents
a ton In full payment to the board
for storage on the freight placed In
warehouse and handled on the power
plant.
This charge Is to include taking
sugar from cars adjacent to the ware
house, or from vessel lying along
side the wharf and delivering the
same to the warehouse, piling II there
In. and. rehandling, transferring and
delivery to vessel lying alongside
the wharf. 7.,
All the obligations OF the railroad
In connection with its agreement with
the steamship company shall be made
over to the board. All moneys col
lected for docking ships at the wharf
and for wharfage on freight using
same wharf and for storage OF freight
on wharf shall be the property of the
Territory. All moneys coming for
loading. unloading or handling OF
freight. done by or through the rail-
road or Its employees shall be the
property of the railroad.
No sugar for oversee shipment shall
be stored or deposited upon the said
wharf except In the shed. this Is not
to be construed. however. that sug-
ar cannot be taken from the ears d.
rect to the steamer.