The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-06-03
NO NEED FOR WORRY,
SAYS ADMIRAL MOORE


"The people of Honolulu need not
be in the least uneasy over the sug
gested abandonment of Pearl Harbor,"
said Real Admiral Moore, commandment
of the naval station, when shown the
above despatch by The Advertiser. He
was considerably surprised at hearing
that Rear Admiral Stanford had pre-
scented n report such as the despatch indi
Gated and ventured the opinion that
the report could not be exactly correct.
"The drydock mt Pearl HaroOr will
be built he says, 'but it may be a
more costly job than the government
at first contemplated. | cannot, of
. course, 90 into details of all that has
. been going on in connection with the
work and the Investigation, but from
conversations that | had with Admiral
Stanford, ] am led to believe that he
did not make any such fiat recon-
mendation as your wireless says. At
least, / cannot understand why he
should have made such a statement, if
he did make it.
"At any rate concluded the ad-
miral, 81 wish | were as sure of some
day getting million dollars as | am
SURE lHdtt VIC uUCh VIII
be built
Going Right Ahead.
81 have not had the slightest init
nation that Admiral Stanford was to
make any such recommendation or file
any such report said Walter f.. Dill
lingham, president of the Hawaiian
Dredging Company, which dredged the
dock basin and which is interested in
the further building of the dock, under
the contract to the San Francisco
Bridge Company. GIVE are going right
ahead with the Investigation at Pearl
lIarbor and have received no intimatiOn
that further investigation will be use
less. Are you sure of the authenticity
of the reporti ] certainly hope that
It will turn out to be not correct. -
Kirby Smith Startled.
Civil Engineer Kirby Smith, U. s. N,
who has had much to do with the de.
velopment of the project and who has
always expressed the greatest optimism
regarding the future of the big naval
work, was startled when The Advcr-
tiscr read its message to him over the
telephone. "This is a. decided sur
PRISE he said. When asked to ex.
press an opinion on the alleged report
of the chief of the bureau of yards
and docks, Mr.. Smith politely side
stepped.
"Under the circumstances, can say
nothing, of course,' he said.
Harris to Stay Here.
1t was learned last night that
Civil Engineer Harris, U s. N, now
in charge of the Investigation of the
dock site since the departure of Rear
Admiral Stanford for Washington a
few weeks ago, would not leave today
IN the steamship Sierra for the main
land as he had planned. He is still
deep in the midst of his investigation
and is not yet prepared to make final
report to Admiral Moore
Since the disaster to the dock on
February II many new features in con.
nection with the site and foundation
have come to light through more
strict probe of the conditions than was
previously made. These developments
have caused prolonging of the work
of the naval experts, and the services
of Professor Jaggar, the voleanologist
were finally secured to assist the officers
in determining the real physical status
of the formations underlying the dock
bottom. ~. 49,
The announcement from Washington
that the dock project rs planned viii
be abandoned, may be the preliminary
to another statement advocating the
use of a floating drydock for the sta
ton.