Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-25
James Wakefield Tells AID Club
WHAT Honolulu Must Do to
BE Ready

Harb0r Commissioner James Wake
field, in a striking address before the
Honolulu Ad Club last Wednesday,
told of the needs Of the local port in
getting ready for the Panama canal
trade. The Star-Bulletin publishes be-
low some of the necessities as point
led out IN detail by Commissioners
Wakefield He said in part:
We have two classes Of ocean go-
ing traffic to provide for. lst. The
passenger or cargo steamer calling
for coal and supplies, but handling
little merchandise tonnage. End.
The passenger and cargo boats deliy-
ering and taking a large merchandise
tonnage.
For the former our pier wharves
are well adapted, but they are all de-
ficient in mechanical devices for coal
ing ships, while the water pressure
at the wharf is Invariably too poor to
give an adequate supply to a large
steamer within the limited time she
is in port; both these conditions must
be remedied to adequately serve ship
ping interests.
For the second class q start to
pIOtIuC has SUccu viii
Queen street bulkhead wharf and
sheds. This structure will readily
take care of the largest cargo that
has been brought into the port of Ho-
nolulu and care for it without con-
gestion and the resulting expensive
delays and waste of time of men and
teams
You are all interested in econo.
mics these days; take a look at the
handling Of cargoes on the Queen
street. bulkhead wharf after the dis
charge Of q big Matson freighter, and
contrast 1T with the conditions that
existed on the Hackfeld wharf where
the Matson business was formerly
handled. Today you see no teams
and men losing time for lack of NOV
ing and working space Formerly it
was an ordinary condition to see SO
or more teams, waiting for an oppor-
tunity to work. Merchants paying for
hours of idleness of hundreds of men,
horses and equipment 1t is safe
statement to make that merchants
can haul and handle freight from
the Queen street bulkhead wharf
33 1-3 per cent cheaper than similar
cargoes from che HacKfeld wharf. So
much for the yalle of working space
where large cargoes are involved
"Inter-Island accommodations are,
insufficient when business is normal.
Shippers are subjected to heavy
losses by enforced idleness of men
and teams. The only remedy for this
is better shed accommodations.
Pressing Necessities .
These are serious and many.
First, the port needs good coal and
lumber wharyes; second, the business
of the port needs the whole of the.
territory,s wharves In Honolulu har-
messed up with the Oahu Railway &
Land Company's, and the Honolulu
Rapid Transit & Land Conpany's
transportation systems; third, we
need the Fort street bulkhead wharf.
scheme put into working shape;s
fourth, we need cranes for handling
heavy cargoes, mechanical devices for.
coaling and mechanical devices for
handling cargoes.
TO provide these needs the last
legislature appropriated S450, 600 fremt
the loan funds, but at this time moth
ing is available, as the bond issue has
not yet been authorized by the presi-
dent Of the United States, and In con-
sequence no work can be proceeded
with. r.
Coal Wharyes. -
I'VE need these because the terri.
tory has no wharf in Honolulu harbor
at which a vessel can discharge a
cargo of coal This Is detrimental to
the interests Of the two large branches.
of the federal service operating here,
the army and navy, and is serious
handicap to the commercial interests
of the port. This condition throws all
the coaling operations into the hands
of one company, and unless remedied
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