The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-11-16
HILO WHARF MATTER SEEMS
MORE MIXED Up THAN EVER

There was a meeting of the harbor
commission yesterday at which T. A.
Petrie Of Castle & Cooke stated that,
if the Matson steamers used the pro-
posed government wharf at Hilo, the
company would want assurance that
they would have a clear berth and
wharf space whenever they arrived.
This was the answer to the qucs-
ton of whether the Matson company
would use the wharf after it was
built.
Chairman Marston Campbell, in the
midst of a long discussion on the
wharf which led to no decision, pre-
Cipitated an idea that had just oc-
wharf an echelon form whereby each
steamship company would have an
independent berth, the railroad COM
pany running it's tracks so as to reach
the respective steamer docks.
1t was pointed out that, unless the
Hilo Railroad Company had assurance
, s..a. Tie steamship companies would
use the wharf and the cars, there was
no use in its laying tracks to the
wharf under the pending agreement
or any other plan. Without an agree
ment between the commission and
the railroad the commission could not
build the wharf, according to the
terms of the legislative appropriation
The chairman spoke of the serious
effect of delay on the interests OF
tered into in the next two or three
months it would be February at the
earliest and March or April, prob
ably, before a piece of timber was
started for the wharf site and the
legislature of 1918 would be I'D
jouTned before the wharf was fin
ished The legislature would thcr
have no opportunity to see whether
the wharf was working right, and the
additional appropriations necessary
to make the wharf the proper length
for all shipping interests would no
be forthcoming In that event, will
the breakwater completed, Hilo would
stand to lose much of it's chances fl
development from the Panama Cana
traffic.
Commissioner Mccarthy who hai
been the most outspoken member Il
opposition to the proposed form o
agreement, even remarked: "If / wal
connected with the Hilo Railroad Com
pany I would not think of running
my tracks to the wharf unless l hat
assurance that the steamship com
panies would go there with thei
ships and use the wharf l would no
do it otherwise"
Developments at Hilo.
HILO, Nov 13-Last week the Flo
Dolulu papers stated that representa-
tives of the Inter-Island Steamship
Company had asked the board of har
Dor commissioners for an opportunit!
to present some changes in the Hill
wharf plan. That was all.
Vice President Mclean of the Inter
Island company; Captain Haglund
the company's port captain, and Cap
tain Peter Johnson of the Wilhelmni
paid a visit to Hilo, and more partic
ularly to Kuhio bay, recently. :
seems fairly certain that the changes
which the company proposes to place
before the harbor commissioners arr
based on a report made by the three
gentlemen named, and that it will as
not only for a change in the plans o
the wharf itself, but that the position
of the wharf be changed
The proposition to change the loca
tion of the wharf comes as somewha
of a surprise, as it has generally beer
stated at public meetings and else
where that the location of the whar
at the corner formed by the present