The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-06-26
NAVAL STATION
WORK RUSHED
Lord, Young Engineering Com
pany Rapidly Garry Out
Its Coptracts.
(From Thursday Advertiser.j

q - ~ w. = Vthk "fNkAnEAAAHA 49,
pany is rapidly completing It's contract
Jobs on government work at Pearl Har.
Dor. Yesterday Mr.. -Young turned over
the keys for the two officers quarters,
both being eommodions two-story frame
structures, which were erected at a
cost Of approximately 100000,
Yesterday afternoon concrete wss he
ing poured for the second floor Of the
double quarters for marines, an inn
provement which will cost $4,000.
The building will be two stories and
of entire concrete construction.
Five Buildings Finished.
seFive Of the twelve magazine build
|ings are practically finished, and work
NJ well under wav on tho other seven.
WhilShthese buildings are Of various
sizevp they will average so by $50 feet
in dimensions,v The construction is Of
steel and boIl6M tile. The total cost
Of tbislwofk win be S20O,00
All thesd twelve bnildihgs are on
kuhua Island;and in addition the Lord
Young Company 7ls greeting on that
isianae two zone .ttopyN frame gunners'
buiIdinss, ut d'spmbined cost of $4,000.
Work Has bbccnh p1nlpleted on the
erection, Of the qpamrboib oil tank,
which the Lord Young company took
under ,sabieonifaet from he Treadwsll
Constrnetioha0om OF Pitttburgh, to
furnish the laborgpnlbt AIl,thc nate
rial was prepared On thu msinland and
was sent here ready foF Assembling.
The lratorihl weighed AZ tons, and
l35,0o0 riveta wefe nsedn Forty five
days were TeqpiEeq TO cqmplete this
.,lse EleEatad Watpr Tank.
~ Another 90 efhe,ble Jobs awarded to
the sT,ord- YDnhgQ COMPANY ,at the naval
sfatioHl ~ that ,ofiIbe elevatcd water
tank work on which ahns Aalso hcen
NEARLY complefed This tank, which has
q eApaeity Of 253 s es, kalfons Is mount
% ona steel tower and isecf the hcmi.
PfpbUriealiftype,c pbe itbpinOst hpoint is
fe5 feet from Tia ground hpd The lqwer
side ~ elevated 90 fcoi!e The weight OF
the tank is 10f tons tAecorling to Mr..
Young, he believes il ltb be- The largest
tank on Islands, anil u the first of
its type to be cipcts|l IN Hawaii II
was constrVetedi ~, the IOes Moines
Bridge e. Iron Company Of Pittsburgh,
and its purposeuis to,providc . reserve
water Vsupply for tho naval station.
Water will be elevated TO the tank by
pumping, aud apress1fe to, any part. of
tho navy grounds will be afforded,
sEpbalkipg efyfhe wbrk ON the water
tank and .also on the oil tank, Mr..
-oung esgia sb S.asDset
a81 Native Labor Employed. "A.
paf0n both these jobs tho Lord Young
Company emRloyed all native labor.
Though muShFof the'wDflS necessitated
tile hiring of Slsilled mechanics, it was
not necessary for Atfs to send to the
Coast for single man. and both Jobs
were quickly and splendidly done. Dur
ing the progress of work on both jobs
an average of twenty-five men q day
were employed
Among other work which the Lord
Young Company is going is that Of
building one-story addition to the
MeCandless building, at King and
Bethel streets, which win cost $4,000.
The construction is Of steel frame with
brick walls. Twenty-Five men are EN-
ployed.
IN Another job is that of installing
water and sewer systems on the KAPPA,
lama and Kewalo properties Of the
Bishop Estate In referring TO the
Kewalo reclamation project. Mr.. Young
stated that If legal obstacles were re-
moved the work contracted for by the
firm could be completed in fifty days.