Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-12-18
.RYDOCK PLANS
FOR COAST ARE
WELL ADVANCED!

Full details OF the plan for big
drydock at the Union Iron Works.
San Francisco, came In coast news
papers arriving yesterday, and dis
close the fact that on the coast it
SIS not expected that the Pearl Har-
Dor drydock will be completed for q
long Tina II at all The San Fran
cisco Examiner of December says:
Al gigantic drydock. costing two
and a half Millions, Will be built at
the Union Iron Works on San Fran
cisco harbor for Uncle Sans fighting
ships.
Secretary Of the Navy Josephus
Daniels has made his recommends
ton that the government enter into
extraordinary contracts with private
deck owners in order that the battle
ships III Pacific waters may. be as
sured of accommodat after the
opening of the Panama canal and as
soon as the plan is approved by the
nations lawmakers, the huge project
twin be started. Work win start as
soon as Congress has sanctioned the
contracts
When the dock Is finished the larg.
est dreadnougllts will be able to
find accommodation In this harbor,
and all repair work win be done on
the .country's best fighting vessels
within the liinitR of this city.
HAS to Seek Private Concern.
| The United States has been forced
| to seek the cooperation Of private
concerns through the utter lack Of
drydock facilities on the Pacific
ocean. The collapse Of the great
pearl Harbor dock in Hawaii, which
was to be the mainstay of the navy
on the Pacific, and the inacceSsibility
Of the Mare Island navy yard basins
until great amount of dredging has
been done have reduced the naval
resources on the west coast to one
dock at Puget sound, entirely too dis
tant from the Panama canal, to meei
naval needs.
1T has been found necessary, there
fore, for the navy department to plan
for the accommodate Of its big
warships with private corporations
and particularly with the Union IrOI
Works, which already owns docks or
San Francisco Iarbor
Former Secretary of the Nav!
Meyers, when he was here last Feb
ruary, discussed the question witt
President John A. McGregor Of thu
Union Iron Works, and after that in
dterview a proposal was submitted t
Congress. only to be blocked in the
house committee The same plaI
has been revived in the recent Visi
Of Secretary of the Navy Daniels, ant
the prospect is bright that Congress
will uphold the idea and sanction tn.
extraordinary contract with the Uni
on Iron Works.
VIII Be 100 Feet Long. ! ss1
The drydock planned by the Uniol
Iron Works is to be 100 feet long
100 feet wide and So feet deep. TIL,
present dock is $50 feet long. TIL,
contemplated dock will be bi!
enough to accommodate the larges
fighting ships that Uncle Sam Pre-
poses TO build. r. FL - -
yes said President McGrego
yesterday, 1--WE are only waiting TO
Congress to sanction the plan. w
will be ready to start the work a
soon as the contract is signed. Tn
drydock will ta4.e two years to build
It won't be ready for the opening o
the Panama canal, but will be bull
in time for the reception of the wa
vessels which the government vii
place here when it carries out tn
plan to station half the navy in Pa
eifie waters"
/ McGregor was recently in Wash
ington, comforting with the navy d.
partment officials concerning tn
irydock project. The plans hav
been prepared under the direction Q
General Manager Joseph J. lyman
Of the Union Iron Works. All tina
/ prevents the commencement OF tn
work is Congress giving its approva
The plan is to guarantee compens'
ton to the Union Iron Works on tn