Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-11-17
HlRBORbOARD TO
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ON PIER NO. I.
Superintendent Sheedy of In
ter-lSland Requested to Sub
init Data and Plans,

The board of harbor commissioners
today requested General Superinten.
dent Joseph E. Sheedy Of the Inter:
Island Steam Navigation Company TO
prepare and submit plans for huge
coal bunker and conveyor at Pier Z
tor the accommodation OF the big
transpacific mail aad passenger ships
which invariably doeF at that pier. -
The board was a-most unanimous
in approving the idea, which was
brought to it by Superintendent
Sheedy, but as the territory has no
funds Immediately available for the
project the IHter-lsland, which wiz
make most use OF the eapparatuS,
agrees to advance the money and con-
struct it, under a plan whereby the
territory may take it over at a future
time when the funds are at hand, re-
imbursing the Inter-Island company.
The specific terms of the agreement
have not been definitely fixed yet, Su-
perfntendent Sheedy being asked this
morning to prepare his plans and a
form of agreement and tender it to
the board In formal manner. He read
lily consented, promising to present
the entire proposition in writing as
soon as he. can formulate it, and the
board will hold a. special meeting, TO
consider the project II that Is found
necessary. s......
Shesdy says the bunker and convey
or win cost in the neighborhood Of
$4,000 or $4,000 AS outlined BY
him the plan will be to erect q big
coal bunker at the makai end Of the
wharf. On this coal may be elevated
to, a point level with the roof, then
sent along the full length Of the pier
on the Waikiki side to any point on
an endless chain bucket system and
dumped through covered ehutes into
the hold Of the vessel. He assured the
board this feature would create no
more dust, and not nearly so much
confusion as the present method Of
loading coal at that wharf from barges
and carts. He said he preferred the
territory should bufid the conveyor,
the Inter-Island company using it on
q rental basis, paying on a basis OF
tonnage handled. - He was unable to
make an estimate of the amount of
coal that would be handled thus in a
year, though he asserted ii would be
considerably lessthan 100000 tons. :
"You must know" he said, that 1t
will not be our company which stands
the expense OF the coal handling. We
sell our coal. as lit lies In the yards,
the shipping companies paying for the
handling from ,thas.yard to their yes
sells. It costs them about rs cents "a
ton now. To get their business ut the
proposed conyeyorS the charge must
be less than thatd 81 -
But there are, at least 10 ships en-
route to Honolulu now, for coal, and
the better the facilities are for sun
plying them the n.ore business you
viii get. We. the Inter-1sland, have
two special coal barges built now and
we can build more. We can supply
these vessels outside the harbor inst
as wei as inside, But If you can give
them the facilities of pier and con
veyor such as this enc, they will pre-
fer TO cbme inside, especially when
they can thus get the: coal cheaper,
Thus the territory viii reap a larger
profit in Wharfage. It is Ia the added
that the territory VIII make
is money. e ~
Sheedy estimated the bunker and
conveyor should Rave a capacity for
handling IS or 100 tons Of coal per
UNlaTVr 4 80 ,