The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-03-15
.BULKHEAD PLAN
WINS APPROVAL
Harbor Commission Suspends
Pier and Slip Scheme
Little Interest Shown.
(From Thursdays Advertiser

(from thursdays AdVertiser.)
Bnlkhead plans for the harbor front
from the Oceanic wharf to the Eva
side of the Alakea wharf, and from
the makai end of the Oceanic wharf
along the Allen & Robinson frontage to
Queen street. were approved by the
harbor commission yesterday afternoon,
the passage of the motion suspending
the pier and slip plans proposed in 1908.
Should the bulkhead plans prove i'm
practicable or fail to give the berthage
and storage accommodations claimed for
the scheme, the commissioners may
favor a return to the original plans.
Little interest was manifested in the
bulkhead plan by shipping and mercan.
tile circles. But three or four represen-
tatives of these interests showed up, in.
Gliding Mr.. Drew of Castle & Cooke,
George Davies of IT. II. Davies & Co.,
President Kennedy of the Inter Island
company, and L. Tenney Peck of the
First National Bank. General Macomb,
department commander, attended to
learn what action the commission in
tended taking with reference to the
lower Fort street property, controlled
by the war department and now wanted
in connection with the plans of develop
ment of the Allen & Robinson harbor
frontage.
At the opening of the discussion Com
missioner Wakefield attacked figures Of
Chairman Campbell with reference to
space included in wharves under the
old and the new plans. His figures he
had had computed by Architect Kerr
he said. Mr.. Campbell replied that the
plans on which Wakefield had worked
were not on the scale he had used.
Bulkhead Plan Not New.
Mr.. Campbell gave history of the
waterfront development, calling atten-
tion to the fact that the bulkhead
scheme was thought out during the
regime of H. Z. Cooper as superintend-
ent of public works, approved during
Mr.. Holloway's term, but abandoned
later for the pier and slip plan. Mr..
Campbell expressed the opinion that the
opening of the Panama Canal, while IL
will have an effect on the development
of the port of Honolulu, will not make
It as great a port as many have pre-
dicted.
As to the necessity for acquiring the
eustomhouse site for the development
of either plan Mr.. Campbell said the
United States government would never
stand in the way of increasing port
facilities. However, the customhouse is
there and will have to be considered
in all plans. Mr.. Campbell called at
tention to the early desire to bulkhead
the Eva end Of the harbor which if
carried out, would have done irrepar-
able damage TO the port. He cited this
instance to show how every plan must
be carefully weighed before It is Of
ficially adopted.
Mr.. Wakefield gave some figures to
strengthen his argument that the bulk
head plan will give berthing room for
fourteen large steamers and diseharging
room for thirteen The pier and slip
plan would give room for fifteen berths,
but only diseharging room for nine YES,
sells, he said. The bulkhead system will
give wharfage storage space for $4,000
tons of cargo, he argued.
General Macomb's Opinion.
General Maeomb referred to the Fort
street property Of the war department