Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-03
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of $4,000 per month Most Of this
money has been spent right here in
the city.
Rear Admiral Walter e. Cowles, who
tits month received orders 'letA' hlnS
him from command of the Honolulu
naval station, and assigning him to
command the Pacific fleet, has kept
in close touch with the many details
of Pearl Harbor construction work,
and to him much credit is due for
the woodworking organization that
| has been built up.
The public works officer, in direct
! charge of the entire project, is still
| Civil Engineer E. r. Gayler, no
change in the personnel of the Office
| being made during the year, with the
execution of the relief Of Assistant
Civil Engineer Burrill by Assistant
| Civil Engineer c. A. Bostrom. In all
likelihood Mr.. Gayler will be left here
| to complete the work that he has so
successfully conducted to date, and
| will be allowed to see the compile
| ton of the big projects.
Bureau Chief Sees Work.
-
Harbor's speedy progress was the Wis
it here last summer of Rear Admiral
Stanford, chief of the Bureau OF Yards
and Docks, who came here personally
to study existing conditions. The re-
suit of the visit was that he return
ed to Washington with first-hand In
formation that is already working for
, the good of the local projects.
t In his last annual report, Admiral
Stanford says of the work at Pearl
Harbor during the past year, and the
plans for the future: ~ -
i "a 35-foot ship channel has been
, completed from the station to the sea
, The six shop buildings will be ready
, to receive machinery in December
, The power-plant building is practical
, ly closed in, and the plant itself viii
be in partial operation before the enc
! | of the fiscal year. Storehouse, ad
: ministration building, marine barracks
and quarters, and six sets OF navy
II yard quarters are under contract
Plans for the hospital buildings arr
: in preparation, and work will be ad
:. vertised shortly Outside power dis
, | tribution mains, cOnduits, roads, ant
, other general yard improvements ar
| actively under way. Plans are Il
preparation for the lumber store
& house, paint and rigging loft, patter1
v shop, storehouses, and latrine, author
lied by the act of August %, 1911
This act authorized an increase in. tn
e disable length of the dry dock to 100
g feet. Supplemental agreement cove
5, ing this change is ready for sigma
" ing with the work Work is in prC
IS gress on a concrete basin, with whal
T. to store 100000 tons of coal and d.
H. signed for future extension to doubI
II this capacity"
u Many Contractors.
;, During the past year a number {
;, contracting firms have been opera
-, ing at Pearl Harbor, each maintain
-, ing a separate organization. The COZ
- tractors of the principal projects, t
gether with the contract on whlC
~ they have been operating, are as fC
~ lows: Hawaiian Dredging Co., cha
II mel and harbor dredging; San Fra
u cisco Bridge CO.. drydOCk; Lord. ! our
W Engineering Co., naval magazine
Spaldng Construction CO., maril
OF barracks and quarters and naval OF
us GERS quarters; J. H. COncannon Ct
Nv seven industrial buildings, administr
ar ton building and general stOrehOus
nd On September l, 1912, the publ
works officer and the general stor
as keeper moved their Offices and stat
er, to Pearl HarbOr. and for the last thr
ii months have been administering Z
job on the ground.
The early part OF the year W
re- marked by the stay of the entire |
ar cihc fleet in port The 'a'torn
10 West Virginia, South Dakota, Colora
a aid Maryland arrived in NoVemb
his 1911. under command Of Admin
lie, Thomas. with Admiral Switzerland
'ut commander Of the second division.
'lIl March II. 1912, Admiral SOnthel Ia
ne hoi>ted his flag as COMMANDER
OF chief. Admiral Thomas returning
Ia tie Pacific coast on the West virgil
on and TIE balance of the fleet Sdl!In5
,iN' q ongapO, +. |.
le' A short stop was made in ms p
10, on the return trip several EONtA'
'no G and last September tn" cruz
, , Maryland paid Honolulu 2Hrther 81
Ino When Secretary Of Stat kL0i was
Iht ,,.,,o,Cor ON ~outo to JaUln to ate