The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-27
HARBOR CONTRACTS
TOTAL 100000
Honolulu, HiIo and KahuIui Work
to Go on During Summer
More COMBINATIONS.
(From Saturdays AdvertlseF.)

(From Saturdays Advertiser)
Eight hundred thousand dollars, APP
proximately, is to be expended in har.
Dor development in the Hawaiian ISL
ands during the next year, according
to the figures in tho Office of Major
Wooten, Corps of Engineers, U. s. A.
The Philadelphia Breakwater Company
which has the $45o,OOo contract for
completing the Hilo Breakwater, will
received formal notification of the ac-
ceptance of its bid about March l, and
in three months from that date must
commence work.
The company's engineers are now
preparing the machinery for shipment
from some of its eastern works TO Hilo,
and will follow it up with skilled work
men, who have been engaged in break
water building on the Great Lakes and
along the Atlantic Coast.
Major Wooten stated yesterday that
the LordYoung Engineering Company,
now doing substructure work on the
second Hilo Breakwater contract, should
have it's work finished by the time the
philadelphia. concern is ready to take
hold and lay the superstructure. The
Lord-Young company's contract is for
$4,000.
100000 for Kahului.
The Hawaiian Dredging Company
has received notification of the accept
ance of its bid for the dredging of Ka-
hului harbor about the middle Of this
month, and viii have to commence
work about April 1. The contract is
$4,000.
Alexander s. Baldwin yesterday re.
ceived q cablegram from Washington
that congress has appropriated $780,
900 to be applied on the Hawaiian
Dredging Company contract. The com
pany is preparing one of its dredgers
for service on the job and plans to
send the machine over next month.
Finish in Two Weeks.
The Standard-American Dredging
Company, which is dredging the chan
mel to Honolulu harbor, is working rap
idly wilh its dredge Turbine, and will
finish in about two weeks. The work
has been going ahead satisfactorily to
the army engineers. While actual
measurements have not yet been made
as to the depth, soundings on the work
show fairly uniform depth of thirty
seven feet. This is two feet, more than
before. The company was delayed in
starting the work and for failure to do
SO agreed to do the work for much less
than contract price. The engineer, how
ever, has made up on the contract by
permitting the company to dig two feet
lower The contract is n comparatively
small one, being only about 100000.
Torpedo Wharf and Wireless
The engineers are working en- their
own torpedo wharf at Fort Armstrong,
facing on Honolulu channel. The long
reinforced concrete piles, built by Mr.
Burbank of the army engineers Office,
are completed and are being allowed to
harden before being driven through the
coral formation. The boathouse for row
boats and launches is almost complete
De Russy Wireless.
At Fort De Russy, one of the wire
less masts has been set up. The other
is to be placed on adjoining property
now owned by the Hobrons. The Unit
ed States district attorney has been mo-
tilted from Washington to proceed with
condemnation proceedings to acquire
title to this land. When the property
is taken over the second mast will be
set. The wireless aerial will be similar
to that on steamships, being there sus-
nended hetween two maRta