The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-07-03
BIG INCREASE.
SHOWN IN
SHIPPING
Total Number Of Vessels Touching
at Honolulu During Past Year
Aggregated s,s4s,O12 Tons, e4O,-
17S Tons More Than in Previous
Year = Figures Submitted to
Harbor Commissioners.
lFr0m wednesday Adyertiser.l

(From Wednesday Adycrtiser.)
Harbormaster w. r. Fosters report
for the year ending yesterday, when
AZ was presented TO the board Of haf-
Dor commissioners, shows that during
that period the tonnage passing
through the port Of Honolulu Increased
enormously over the record for the
preceding year. The figures arc as fol-
lows:
Number Of steamers entering the
harbor between July /, 1913, and June
30, 1914 inclusive, aga; gross tonnage
3,276,3s0; number Of sailing ships
seventy; gross tonnage 1862.
Total number Of ships, steam and
sail, 534; total tonnage, 3,3lS,0l2
Increase in number of stcaners,
.eighty.Aye, increase in tonnage $40, IT'S.
. Decrease in number Of sailing YES
sells twenty-nine, decrease in tonnage OF
sailing vessels 1880.
Wharf Needs Repairs.
Yesterday the board Of harbor com
missioners went very thoroughly into
the question Of what 10 do to Pier
No. 7, the Alakea street wharf to make
the structure cafe. This wharf which
was built eight years ago has recently
been carefully inspected by Engineer
r.. B. Park who found that the whole
structure is very much in need of re
pairs The wood block pavement was
laid directly on the fonr-ineh planking
without any interpreting underneath,
lhe Dioeks. 1nens too, the noorlns
was built fiat instead Of having
drainage crown and, the center of the
wharf, which carries the load has sunk
so that rain water runs in towards the
shed walls instead Of out. The four
inch planking has rotted out in COOL
many places. The stringers and bracing
are also affected by dry rot. Both
stringers and planking are infested
with white ants,
Fender Piles Destroyed.
The ohia fender.pilcs have been en-
tirely destroyed by teredo. About Ave
per cent of the piles supporting the
wharf are badly infested with teredo
and larger percentage liave begun to
show decay at tho vital point of every
wooden pile-4bctween wind and water.
The roof trusses arc infested with
white ants in several places.
The whole pier is badly in need Of
repairs and the question that Is bother
ing the harbor board Is how TO repair
government property. when there is no
money available for tho work.
Funds Not Available.
1t will cost over ten thousand dollars
to put the Alakea street wharf in such
condition that the floor structure will
last as long as the piling which supports
II, and that will not be moro than fiyo
or six years.
Commissioner +. b. Mcstocker be-
lieyes that the right way to do il would
be to put down reinforced concrete
seawall, and then put n dirt 6ll under
the wharf. This would last practically
for all time. tg. fH..s. .r.
There was long discussion by Com
missioners James Wakefield and T. M.
Church and Engineer X. b. Park in
regard to the relative cost and litc of
concrete piles, eonerete'plastered wood
piles and coppered piles. The grade of
copper now available is not as good
as what was sold twenty years agoy be-
cause it contains traces of zinc. The
zinc impurity is eaten out by the sea
water, 50 that after a few years sub
nergence the teredo mollusc can bore
through the copper as IL II were wood.
hiOueTn copper sheSbinB 10 pIithe anu
easily punctured. -
The harbor commissioners say that
the blame rests with the Legislature and
not with the engineers. The legislature
'nevcr gives enough money TO build a
decent wharf, and so every one of them
has to be renewed in its entirety every
ten or fifteen years. III properly built,
Mharyes ought TO last fifty years.
The Alakea wharf needs 5000 square
yards of new decking, and the board
would like to know where they are
going to get the cash to pay for it.
This and several other matters will
come up for further consideration next
week. .l.i
Harbor Data to Be Circulated.
Permission was granted the Inter
] Island Steam Navigation Company to
cut Off forty feet OF the outer end Of
the cradle OF the old marine railway.
Commissioners Wakefield and Church
were appointed committee TO prepare
la report on the harbor facilities of Hilo
and Honolulu. When this is ready tho
board win request the chamber of com
meree TO send the data TO all consular
representatives of tho United States
and to all chambers Of commerce and
commercial organizations throughout
the world.
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