The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-05-09
Opened To Bay and Sea, With
Bandstand and Amusement
Facilities, Place Is Designed As
Social Center For HonoIuIans
HARBoR BOARD MAY ACT
ON SCHEME IMMEDIATELY
Old Oceanic Dock and Custom
House May Be Forced To Make
Room For Big Improvements
Now Under Consideration


big changes for Honolulu's water
front are contemplated in plans for Q
recreation pier, or roof garden, on the
upper Aoot Of the three proposed piers
eight, nine and ten. D..
Y The lower, or ground floor, will be
utilized, Of course for freight, and will
BE- equipped with all the modern con
teyihg machinery and other facilities
possible, but the upper floors will be
deypted to the people of the city, a
Place where they can gpther and amusC
themselves In the cool breezes from the
harbor, and with the panorama Of the
Oahu coast spread before them.
flPu Tried In New York
The plan Of a harbor front recreation
pier as sort Of social center has been
tried successfully in New York, Boston
end Chicago, and the engineers Of the
b0nrd Of harbor commissioner who
have designed the proposed recreation
rier have based their plans on the west
ern idea, with notifications to suit the
Hawaiian climate. The recreation sec.
lion Of the piers win be open on the
4anka side, giving . full view of the
bay and sea. ST..
In order to carry. ont the plan, which
u TO be htbmitted to the harbor boart
u its.nseting next Tuesday, il will b.
psgessary TO tear down the old ocean,,
dock and remove the old custom house
structure from its present site, to make
way for a cold storage plant, or ware,
house, us well rs to make other chang.
cs.if the 'front.', so well known t.
81 kamaainas. az
Cost Half million ..~@
The total cost of the, substructure.
row under construction, and the sheds,
with, the recreation floors, will be in IN,
reighborhood of 100000. The founda
tions win cost $2S5;000 and the shed,
&l75,0O0 approximately The entir.
structure is to be Of concrete rein
forced with steel where necessary, and
the equipment Is to be of the mos'
lcdetn and Gre proof character obtain
able.
The plans for the recreation piers, r
sketch Of which is published this morn,
ing, call for benches and seats for rest
ing and D band stand where the Hawai-.
Inn band and others, can play on, steam
Gr days Other features may be intro,
nnced later, but that 10 as far as tho
scheme has got to date. 1t is under
stood of course, that the recreation
floors may be used for public meetings
FOR fetes and festivals held under cove
and for any other public purpose for
which they may prove fitted. -
IT IL also hoped that the place will
become one Of the chief resorts Of tho
people Of Honolulu at night. The light
tuG effects, as provided the plans are
said to be elaborate and ornamental.
Plan Clock Tower
As the sketch shows the roof gardens,
will include the upper floors of all three
piers. These piers form a great U, sew.
Pral hundred feet long on the sides and
coupled up at the bottom with pier
zine. This leaves u large court ward II
the center, the site of the present Gus,
tom house. A clock tower is to stand
~ one corner of pier nine, and the light
house service is TO be given a skeleton
tower upon which the range light is TO
stand. H.
The original plans, as shown in the
sketch, included a great cold storage
plant, to stand on the present site of
the old custom house structure, but in.
vestigation by Mr.. Forbes has shown
that the Hawaiian Electric company
and the Oahu Ice company both have
Ane refrgerating plants, and 1t Is be-
keved quite possible that there will be
10 demand for additional storage space
than that already available. 1t is there,
fore more than likely that the idea of
4 cold storage plant may be abandoned
md the space devoted TO a warehouse,
or leR an open court, paved with con
eEete, for parking teams and automo'
bilfs. ", ?,
The sheds, which are to cost in the
peighborhood Of 100000 with all
equipment installed, contain 10000
square feet Of floor space, and are
Manned to accommodate three or four
6f the largest ships at time. The
supcrstructure ID 10 be reinforced con,
crete, and viii be practically fire proof,
aid Mr.. Forbes yesterday in describing
the plans. The substructure. or foun,
dation, which IL to cost $685. 900, is al.
ready under construction, and work is
70 be pushed upon it as rapidly as pos,
gible. The most substantial form of
sonstrnction 10 being used, the piles be.
ing elssive concrete and steel cylinders