The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-05-19
HIL0 WAR IS
OVER; ENA
TO DOCK
Captain @. v. Olsen Informs own
er That 100000 Dock Is ALI
Right and That Landing Could
Be Made with Perfect Safety
Endeavors to Obtain Reduction
in Wharfage Charge.

IL looked for while as though the
irresistible had met tho immovable !"
at Hilo, when the owner of the ship
John Eha safd he would not send his
ship to the wharf and the ehartcrers
said they would not give him their
freight unless he did. .s
However, the owners decision was
based upon lack OF correct information.
He had been informed that the wharf
was unsafe and the approach rocky
and dangerous.
When the Ena reached Hilo the cap
tain examined the situation for him.
self. He found the wharf magnih
cent 100000 structure; that the fed.
erai government had dredged channel
more than 800 feet wide through the
bar 10 IL; that the Territorial Harbor
Board had installed mooring buoys at
every point where buoy could pos.
sibly be- needed; that the Federal Light.
house Board had installed marking
buoys all around IL; that the arm OF
Hflo harbor, where the wharf il 10.
Gated, " as big as the whole Of Homo
lnlu harbor put together, and that IL
is protected from the rough seas by
the partially completed braakwater
which the federal government is build
ing at cost Of $1,000, 600.
The captain thereupon cablel 10 his
owner in San. Francisco that the wharf
was all right.
The owner replied, passing the buck
up to the captain, telling him to use his
own discretion about going to the
wharf. f, : .t,t.
The captain ,immediatelg, decided To
go to the wharf and will do so. He
endeavored, however, to get a redue,
tion of the regular wharfage charge
Of two cents per registered ton but
the board did not see its way clear
TO grant the request.
The following is the certificate Of
good character which Harbormaster and
Pilot Mosher gives the wharf, and the
correspondence between the captain of
the Ena and the Harbor Board:
Captain Mosher's Report.
Captain Mosher, hsrbormaster and
pilot at Hilo, has made the following
official report upon the status of Kubio
bay wharf, in Hiio harbor, the new
government wh1rf: 10y
ere safety Of vessels living at the
Kuhio bay wharf, would say I can see
no reason why vessel Of almost any
size cannot lay with perfect safety
alongside the wharf. I'LL"
There has been Installed or built
a nineteen-tOn mooring of solid con-
crete TO moor vessels to. together with
three moor mss Of 5000 pounds and 1000 |
pounds, with suitable buoys and anchors
attached.
"As to docking and plotting a YES.
sci to and from Kuhio fhv whsrf. |
feel that there is mot the slightest dan.
ger in so doing, as there is at dead low |
water net less than thirty-two feet six |
inches, and that in only one or two |
places that It is not necessary to 90
over in coming in or out of the chan. |
mel; therefore ] think, from a pilot
that there IL no danger |
whatever for vessel in going to the |
wharf, and should think that she is
much more safe moOred alongside the |
wharf than lying in an open roadstead
10 load sugar. '-..,G ",
"The narrowest part of the channel
now Is over 800 feet wide, and almost |
perfectly straight. one; therefore I |
'arnot SEQ any possible obstruction TO |
vessel going in. lying ~ wharf and |
coming ont in perfect safety"
Captain Win Go TO Wharf.
..--. HIEO, May Is, 1914.
Hon. Board Of Harbor Commits.
sioners. Honolulu, IT. H,--Gentle-
men; intend to 90 alongside the
rev wharf at IIilo with the Saline
shin John Ena. and find that they
are going to charge me two cents
a ton per day wharfage, which I
think IN tho much, considering Il |
is an outside port, have to furnish
all mornings, ard no vessel been
there before; also wharf consid.
cred unsafe. There is no shed on
the wharf. although that would not
have anything to do with my lord.
ing; but from other vessels com.
ing there, discharging cargo, then
tho shed would be needed SO /
think for me going there now, there
should be some reduction.
] spoke the matter over with
Captain Mosher, but he could do
nothing, so ] am applying to you,
hoping you will take the natter
up and let mo know at your EARL,
est convenience. t.-.l
Very truly Yours.
&c.,. 49,. C. v. OLSEN. (S,),
Master Ship John Ena.
Decline TO Reduce Wharfage.
Honolulu. May 10, 1914.
O. V. Olsen, ESQ., Master Ship
John Ena, Hilo, Hawaii ~ Dear
Sir: In reply to your communities.
ton of May Is, re Wharfage
charges at Hilo, win say that your
request for reduction in charges
cannot he granted. ~. r.. ..
Our reasons for not allowing this
reduction are as follows -.
In Kuhio wharf we furnish
wharf similar, IL not better than
the wharves that are furnished in