Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-10
NO MAINLANDERS
FOR
JOB, Is HIL0 TIP
Marshall Brothers, However,
Looked Upon as Possible
Bidders for Work

Especial Star Bulletin Correspondence
HIIlO, March $50 far as can be
learned here there is no representative
of a mainland contracting company
scouting around for information upon
which to base a bid to take over the
Hilo breahwater work from the Phila-
delphia company. or its bondsmen, as
it was rumored in Honolulu late last
week. ..-.:z
One who has been close to the car
rying out of the breakwater contract
since ii was first let to the eastern
company declares that he believes
there is nothing to the rumor.
Il have been keeping my ears to
the ground and / am almost certain
that there is no representative of a
mainland firm in Hilo. Neither do l
think the uneompleted contract is at
tracing much attention on the main
land. The big contractors on the coast
are unfamiliar with conditions here
and feel that if the Breakwater Com
pany of Philadelphia was unable to
complete the seawall the same diff
culties experienced by this company
would be encountered by Others"
However, the Marshall brothers of
Honolulu have confirmed the report
that they. intend trying to secure the
breakwater contract by their actions
since coming to Hilo. j. J. Marshall
arrived here from some point on the
Hamakua coast Saturday night and
met his brother George the following
morning. Since then both have been
covering a great deal of ground gath
ering data regarding the breakwater
structure. At first they intended to
return to Honolulu today, but find that
they have not secured all the informa.
tion desired and will remain over I'm.
til Friday.
During yesterday they made care
full inspection of the breakwater, 50
far as completed, and early this morn.
ing left for the Pahoa with R. w.
Filler, the superintendent Of the HiIo
railway, to visit the quarries from
which Ed Lord had made arrange
ments TO get stone when he took the
local management of the project for
the eastern company before it went
into bankruptcy.
1t was impossible to locate either
of the Marshall brothers today, but
that they will remain here until Fri.
day, and purely in order to look into
and make an estimate on the cost of
completing the Philadelphia contract,
was the authoritative statement of a
local resident interested in the mat.
ter. He would not state whether the
Marshall brothers intend to secure the
contract as private venture OF
whether they were acting for the
bondsmen of the Philadelphia people
Several representatives of the Uni
ted States engineering office in Homo
lulu have also been here since yes
terday morning, but they seemed to
confine themselves to an inspection oil
the dredging of the channel into Kuhic
bay, which was finished last week An
unconfirmed report is that they viii
recommend that the channel be made
five feet deeper in order to allow the
entrance Of vessels of greater draft tt
the bay and so use of the new wharf
NAV be secured by big ships.
The channel as completed is but 81
feet deep while vessel of the type
of the Wilhelmina requires that much
water. is the claim Of those who arr
circulating the report that the chan
mel dredging is to be continued.