The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-04-18
.DRYD0CK BOTTOM
MAY NOT RESIST
Dock Basin Believed to Be Shat
tered-Ventura to Arrive
Here Tonight.

WHAT will close examination of the
bottom of the Pearl Harbor naval dry
dock reveal!
The conditions which have already
been ascertained by Rear Admiral
Stanford and Naval Engineer Harris
as to the state Of the bottom are kept
secret, and the full extent of the
damage to the dock by the "'blowing
up' of the entire structure February
II last may not be made public for
sometime.
When the debris is cleared out so
that detailed examination Of the bot
tom can be made, engineers are of the
opinion that il will be found to be bad.
ly torn and shattered by the pulling
up of the foundation piles. The latter
were covered with concrete and all
were forced upward. breaking the con
crete apart and rendering the bottom,
it is believed, more unstable than be-
fore.
The question that has now arisen in
connection with the consideration of
the Gayler plan to lower moulded con.
crete blocks into the dock basis, is
whether the blocks would not sink into
the pockets which may have been form
ed by the tearing out of the bottom.
These blocks will weigh several tons
each and are to be lowered end up, the
spaces between to be filled with con.
crete.
This is one of the vital questions
which will be considered by the naval
experts and some plan may be adopted
to surface the bottom over before low
ering the blocks.
Ventura Tonight.
Between seven and eight o'clock to-
night the Oceanic steamship Ventura
will arrive from Sydney, via Pago
Pago. The agents are not certain when
they will despatch the vessel for San
Francisco. but believe it will be any
where between eight and twelve clock
Saturday morning.
The liner steamed 377 miles on
Wednesday up to eight in the evening.
This was an excellent steaming record,
as the vessel worked against head
winds and seas. The vessel will be
passed in tonight by the quarantine of
ficials if itsis Off port before nine
clock.
The Ventura is taking out, in addi
tiOn to II large number of tourists,
more Islanders than usual Among the
latter will be Mrs. y. j. Lowrey, Mrs.
Henry Watcrhouse, Miss Sturgeon, Rob
ert |. Lille, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Hor-
ner, Mrs Henry Renton, Mrs. $. q.
Sterritt, stephen Mcrrick, formerly of
Mills Institute, and family, X. II. Lee,
a. i. Mackaye and Mrs. Henrietta G.
Hull.
About twenty-five persons, who have
applied for passage, will be unable to
get away owing TO lack of accommoda-
tions.
Manchuria This Morning
The Pacific Mail steamship Manchu-
ria will arrive from san Francisco at
ten this morning. The vessel will dis.
charge GOO tons of freight. The agents
do not expect to despatch the vessel
for Yokohama and Hongkong until to-
morrow forenoon about nine or ten
o clock. The Manchuria is bringing
ninety-tiVe cabin passengers for Homo
lulu.
Alaskan En- Route.
The American.Hawaiian freighter
Alaskan is due early next week from
Seattle and Tacoma with Pacific and
sNlldIllC 'uu0l SllplHtnNS. ne laIttf
were forwarded via Tehuantepec route.
| The Alaskan has New York and west
bound cargoes numbered 332 and 1888,
which were shipped from New York on
February % and March 3 in the freight
crs American and Dakotan.
The Columbia is the next vessel to
follow the Alaskan. The Columbian will
sail from the Sound May 6.
Claudine In From Maui.
! With varied shipments of freight the
lnter-lsland steamer Claudine arrived
from Maui ports early yesterday morn
ing. Purser Kibling reports 2000 sacks
of sugar awaiting shipment at Kipa-
huu. The A.-H. freighter was taking
sugar ut Kaanapali when the Claudine
left.
Algerine Due Today.
The British gunboat AIgerine is due
today from Tanning Island. The trim
little gunboat is on the way to Esqui-
mault from its annual cruise in the
South Seas. The vessel touches at a
number of small islands over which the
British flag flies in the South Pacific.
The Algerine is a twin-screw sloop of
1850 tons and carries two Al Arm
strong guns and four automatics. 1t
also carries four commissioned officers
and crew of fifty. The vessel is com.
manded by Capt. Francis Brooker,
Royal Navy.
The warship will be met by Lieu
tenant stevens, U. $. N. captain of the
yard, and the courtesies of the port
extended the visitor.
The Algerine is expected to remain