The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-13
NEW SCHEME FOR
HARB0R FRONT
Commissioners Have Plan for
Wharf Warehouse and Slips
on Allen Street.

A broad wharf, foundation for ware
houses, reaching into the harbor with
bulkhead line between the Fort street
wharf and the far corner of the pro.
posed Kilauea wharf, is the project
now advanced by the harbor commits
sion as the solution of the wharf, trans
portation and warehouse problem.
Three of the commissioners, Messrs.
Campbell, Wakefield and Berndt made
a personal inspection of the site of the
proposed wharf Saturday accompanied
by Harbormastsr Foster, and agreed
that the idea can be carried out sue.
cessfully and with less expense than
could the original scheme. This was the
creation of slips paralleling the Alakea
| wharf as far as Fort street.
The new plan is the most ambitious
development proposed since Superin-
tendent of Public Works Campbell pro-
posed year ago to build wharves,
utilizing the site of the present Gus
tomhouse to carry out the project. The
new plan looks to the concentrated de-
velopment of the harbor in that section.
A bulkhead wharf, the commissioners
believe, would give sufficient wharfage
and warehouse room to accommodate
the increase of shipping during the
next ten years.
No Dredging Needed,
The bulkheading of the pierhead line
will eliminate the heavy expense of
Ilrnlvin,r O.. nhn e1s,, ,,1o
the dredging of three separate ship
slip on the Eva side of the Alakea
of the Alakea wharf plan. The com
missioners realize the value of wharf
on the opposite side of the slip, which
will probably be known as the Kilauea
wharf From the end of that wharf,
which will afford room on the Waikiki
side for shipping, the bulkhead wharf
the end of the Fort street wharf. This
would make frontage of $40 feet in
length, while on the slip side there will
be 600 foot length. Back of the
wharf the shed and warehouse area is
| practically unlimited and can run up
as far as Allen street.
The commissioners suggest changing
the Oceanic wharf to some extent so
that the shed will be extended down
to the end of what is now called the
Fort street wharf.
Want Railroad Connection.
|, In order that steam railroad COM
munication can be had the commits
sioners are of the opinion that right
of way should be secured by the leg
islature through the Allen & Robinson
lumber yard, the track then running
past the Oceanic wharf, the Kilauea
wharf, the Alakea and Richard street
wharves. aa '*' @sH
If the legislature can be induced to
take over the Allen & Robinson lum'
Der wharf, the Territory will command
the entire waterfront with the exception
of the Oahu railroad wharves at the
Eva end of the harbor, and the United
States wharves opposite the naval sta
I tion.
The railroad runs practically to the
end of the Inter-Island wharf soon to
be occupied by the Matson Navigation
Company. This wharf is to be fitted
out in q manner which will enable the
Matson company to handle its great
cargoes under one she'd The present
building will be extended out to Queer
street.
The commissioners believe, also, thai
the Inter-Island company should have
the use, at least temporarily, of thu
Waikiki end of the wharf, which has
been known as the Mauna Loa wharf
and now used as a berth for the
steamer Kilauea.