The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-03-09


for change from the present location
"We had agreed that the govern
ment should at any time have the right
to take over the wharf by paying the
railroad company certain amount The
Territory exercised its option and took
over the franchise, together with all our
maps, plans and drawings, paying us
$2400. II.
inter Island Substitute ",.
Later on the harbor board called
public meeting to consider the matter
of the proposed wharf, and the Inter.
Island company objected to the site and
proposed substitute plan, drawn by
Engineer Southworth. According to this
plan the wharf would start at the base
Of the present wharf and run diagon-
ally into deep water. The trouble was
that ID ran into water that was too
deep, as Mr.. Rowell had already shown.
So the Inter-1sland tacitly acquieseed
in the location when the board decided
to built the wharf where il is now To-
Gated. The wharf was placed there on
the best advice that could be obtain
ed and nobody can be blamed.
HtIt 10 HO HutsllOHt MI hui o
ton added in response to an inquiry
from Lyman, 'but that Hilo needs ad.
ditional wharfage room to take care of
its present and future commerce. Even
with the vessels that call there now,
the wharf is full nearly all the time.
1t is morally certain that some time or
other big ships are going to the wharf,
But the length of wharf is not going
to be able to take care OF the bust.
ness. More wharves are going to be
needed, and it is not too soon for this
Legislature to begin the work.
II am very strongly in favor of the
legislature providing for an investiga'
ton, if for nothing more. @''
Denies Talk Of Danger r.r =
The speaker denled fatty that there
is any danger from currents at Kuhio
wharf, and even that there are any
currents there. '"All the talk of cur
rents past Kuhio wharf is entirely un.
founded" he said. "There are no cur.
rents there. l was there two years ago
during the second heaviest storm ever
experienced at Hilo, and made ex
periments by throwing driftwood in
the water to ascertain if there were
any currents. There was no motion OF
the driftwood, even at that time. The
surging of vessels at the wharf is
caused by the rise and fall of the
waves" So .:-E,,. r..
Mr.. Thurstoh suggested that the com
mittee might easily get the benefit OF
experiments recently conducted by the
engineering department Of the United
States Army. He said he understood
that the engineers carried on u series
of experiments by turning loose in the
water off Kuhio harbor floats designed
to float AT varying depths-ten, twenty
and thirty feet below the surface, Their
position being indicated by flags pro.
ieeting above the surface. These ex,
periments ran over a period of a month
or six weeks. ~ was informed, " said
Mr.. Thurston, ''that they developed
practically no currents, '-.'
81 am strongly of the opinion that
the extension of the breakwater will
remedy the situation at Kuhio wharf
The breakwater has already radically
affected the situation. The lines that
the railroad company used to use tc
mIOT Ntsselh 10 tine. Wnuft nave Deen
reduced in size by one half. And every
one hundred feet that the breakwater
goes out makes radical difference Nat
khhio wharf,
Dredging Unnecessary
Mr.. Thurstoh said he didn't think
dredging on the makai side of the chan
mel was necessary, except to make a
little basin there. But the Waiakea
side of the channel, where big
knuckle sticks out, should be dredged
The first thing to be done was to i'm
prove Kuhio wharf itself-to put a
shed over that part where the Mauna
kea. docks and extend the warehouse
to the shore.
Thurston made a further brief state
mept in which he said:
81 don Z believe there's anything
serious the matter with Kuhio wharf
now. It's all prejudice and the pre-,
iudice viii wear off with time.'' He
added that be thought II would be O
good idea for the committee to 90 Ia
Iiilo and look over not only the wharf
but alan fhn nr0iacfad nan, ..iI A r,,as