Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-07-08
COMMERCIAL MEN
|. CONTINUE FIGHT
FOR BIG HARBOR

ing OF Honolulu farbor by the cutting
OF a 600-foot channel in Kalihi bay
and dredging of Kapalama basin, the
Chamber OF Commerce OF Honolulu
yesterday adopted the report of its
marine committee and same will be
forwarded to Washington in the near
future.
A lengthy letter, setting forth the
needs of Honolulu in the matter OF
waterfrontage, together with state
ments from number of interested
parties, including steamship and har-
Dor officials. will accompany the re-
port on its journey across the coun-
try. .." ..:..
The report of the committee, COM
posed of G. Fred Bush, j. l.. Mclean,
c. p. Morse, T. H. Petrie, L. A. Thurs
ton, Noman Watkins and H. NJ. Whit
ney, is divided into Is sections and
is filled with statistics pertinent to
the question involved.
The following sections. taken from
the report, carry the most important
information relative to the harbor
question:
The lack of wharves with adequate
fuel-loading facilities, both for coal
and oil, has caused the construction
Of lighters for the purpose, and it is
not, therefore, necessary in all cases
for ships desiring fuel supply to come
TO a wharf; but upon many occasions
it Is too rough outside of the harbor
for such lighters to be able to furnish
fuel to ships anchored in the outer
roadstead The ships should be able
to anchor in still water. This can
only be provided by extending and en-
larging the harbor. = ~
Formerly, when commerce was car
ried on by smaller vessels, ships I'M
able to get to wharf, anchored in
the harbor. Ocean-going steamers
have grown in size so rapidly that a
wharf must be at least 500 feet Icng
to be considered as available for
ocean steamer service. s
There is no longer room in the
harbor for ocean steamers to anchor
away from the wharyes. At the for.
mer harbor anchorage grounds the
harbor is only 100 feet wide, and
500-foot steamer anchored there would
block the harbors As above noted.
five battleships. IN addition to the
regular mercantile ships, filled the
harbor, as far back as 1908, the 9TH
err battleships being obliged to remain
at anchor in the open ocean. Like.
wise, whenever the u. 8. North Pa.
cific fleet of cruisers visits Honolulu,
1t fills the harbor to capacity. .w
While no one can predict exactly
what number of additional ships will
cross the Pacific or come to Honolulu
after the opening o6the Panama canal,
ii is submitted thai the people of Ha-
wall are justified in basing. at least
to some extent, their estimates of
probable increase of commerce upon
the same general estimates and ex-
pectations that are being used by all
other ports surrounding the Pacific;
and these, without exception, are to
the effect that shipping and commerce
will be greatly increased
Ports all around the Pacific are inn
proving and enlarging their shipping
facilities to the extent of millions of
dollars, in the confident expectation of
an early and great increase of ship.
ping and commerce 49,
Surely not all of them are mistak-
en-. ..-. -..-@
With equal certainty, even though
Hawaii does not directly increase it's
shipping and commerce to the same
extent as do mainland ports, or even
at all, the incidental effect of the in
crease of business by other Pacific
ports will be to also increase the bust.
ness of the port of Honolulu, as the
ships transacting such increased BUSH
ness of other ports, stop at Honolulu
as an incidental port Of call and sup.
ply. -.-.
Honolulu alone is making no addi-
tional preparation for an increase OF
business. Why? -
els it reasonable or logical to be-
.lieve that after years of rapid and
steady growth. the commerce of Ho-
nolulu is going to suddenly stop grow.
ing?
is it reasonable or logical to ex-
Epect that the business of every other.
port in the Pacific will increase after
the Panama canal is in operation
and such result is confidently expect.
ed-and that the business of Honolulu
alone will not increase? ,
I'VE submit that it is reasonable and
logical to expect that the normal
growth of the commerce of Hawaii, for
the past 10 years. will continue, or.
at least will not retrograde. and that
the anticipated stimulating effect upon
other Pacific ports occasioned by the
Lopening of the Panama canal will pro-
duce like results upon the business OF
Honolulu, the most centrally located
EDort of them ALL