The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-12-16
CHANNEL WILL
Be OPEN BY
FEBRUARY |
Series of Accidents and Obstacles
Met and Finally Overcome =
Hawaiian Dredging Company
Announces 1t Will Have Com
pleted Kuhio Bay Contract by
End of Coming Month.
lFrom Saturday Advertiser

After meeting and successfully over
coming a series Of accidents and obsta-
cles that have intcrfered with the com
potion of their Ktlhio Bay contract the
officers of the Hawaiian Dredging Com
pany yesterday made the announcement
that the charmed will he completed by
February first, 1914. BY that date Hilo
harbor will have a straight channel
from the open sea, leading direct to
the government wharvcs. .
The board of harbor commissioners
and the llilo mercantile organizations
having recently taken cognizancc of the
delays that have attended the compile
ton of its dredging contracts the Ha-
wai.an Dredging Company states its
side of the ease. This company is now
working on contracts in Honolulu, Hilo
and Kahului harbors.
Early last spring it was found that
II would be necessary to make extern
sive repairs to the hull of the big sue
| ton dredge, b. r. Dillingham;, "A craft
| representing an investment of about
| Sl25,000. Heavy timbers and other re-
| pair materials were ordered last April,
| but these only arrived in the Islands in
| October.
| operated at hahului
The Dillingham; had been working on
| the Kahulu contract, while the "Gay-
| lord, - drag scoop dredgc. was en-
ployed on the Hilo contract. When
the Dillingham; was withdrawn from
| Kahumi the Gaylord was transferred
there to take its place and the Hilo
contract was left at Il standstill. Work
! progressed faVOrably at Kahului dur
| ing the summer, but when the winter
storms commenced there was trouble.
| The sand and mud dredged from the
kahului harbor has been loaded on n
scow, taken out to sea and cmpted into
| deep water. About ten O'Clock one
night not long ago, the scow with
| full load started out of the harbOr with
an inspector aboard and got into such
rough water that the inspector became
alarmed and signaled the captain of the
tug that was towing the scow to take
him Oft as he believed the scow was
sinking, In maneuvernG TO rescue the
inspector the tug got the tow rope
around it's propeller shaft and with its
tow was driven towards the breakwa-
| ter
The tug anchored, but the scow was
smashed against the rocks and finally
thrown clear over the brcalwater by
the tremendous rollers. and now lies
bottom up on the beach
Appeal to Harbor Commission.
The iIilo mercantile organizations
and the steamship lines ccntering at
Ililo took up with the federal engineers
she matter of the stoppage of the dredg-
ing operations in IIilo llarbor. The
United States engineers recognized the
fOrtuitOus circumstances which had in
terfercd with the fulflment of the
contract by the Hawaiian Dredging
Company within the time originally
fixed, and declined to order the discon-
tinuance of the Kahului work in favor
of lllo. The liilo organizations then
appealed to the harbor commissioners,
as has been stated above.
viii Tow Gaylord TO Hilo.
The Hawaiian Dredging Company,
now that materials are at hand, is
rushing repair work on the Dillingham;; ;
also the wrecking of its Kahului scow
leaves the Gaylord free. IL has there.
fore contracted with the steamer Hilo.
nian to tow the Gaylord from Kahului
, to IIilo next Monday
Not only will the drag scoop dredge
| tHNlOTu start lmlneulatclN on the com
pletiOn of the entrance to Kuhio Bay,
but the officers of the company state
that they expect TO have the repairs TO
the Dillingham; completed so that this
powerful suction drcdgc can again be-
gin work on the Kuhio Bay contract
within two weeks. Unless there are
further untOward happenings, IIilo Har-
Dor will have n straight channel com
nleted from the open sea by February
| /, 1914, so ttat any one of the largest
ocean steamers can tie up alongside the
government wharves
The Hawaiian Dredging Company
cannot use the suction dredgc in the
kahnlui open roadstead during the pc
Rod of winter storms aud is unwilling
TO risk the safety of its vessel there
ct this time OF the year II has agreed
however, with the federal engineers II
transfer the Dillingham; back to Ia.
hului fIarbor next March or April. after
It's kuhio Bay contract has been com
pleted and when letter weather con
diti0ns are expected 20 prevail.
There is therefore every prospect OF
the carly completion OF both contracts
20 the complete satisfaction Of the ship
ping interests, the Maui aud llilo com
incrcial organizations aud the United
states government