Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-24
PIER Probe WILL
BEGIN ON MONDAY
Five Messages Wait lnvestiga'
tors; Trip to Meet Forbes
Said to Be Road Charge

| Senator J. II. Coney Of Kauai, chair
man Of the special committee appoint
ed TO investigate the construction OF
Piers s. 3 and 10. announced today
! that the committee will hold its first
meeting next Monday morning at s: IS
O'Clock. II Is understood that the COM
mittee will discuss some general plan
upon which TO carry out the inVesti-
| cation.
! The committee from the territorial
senate that has been appointed to in
vestigate and report on Piers 8, 3 and
10, Honolulu harbor. will find among
other things in their Investigations
! tive messages between Charles r.
that time acting superintendent of
public works.
Auditor Is Not Rushing"
The five messages are still unpaid
by the auditor. He said today that he
is not holding them up in the literal
sense OF the word, but that he will
not rush payment on them until the
special committee has reported. The
messages are interesting. One of
them. from Forbes, proposes that an
expert on wharf construction be
brought from San Francisco by the
superintendent of public works.
Under date Of January IS Wood
ward sent Forbes the following mes
sage, directed TO the St. Francis Ho-
tel, San Francisco.
"Armitage, 6ere, Andrews COM
niittee making complete investigation
piers. No report yet. Advise imme-
date return. Will meet you quaran-
tine. ;.s'a J. -. Woodward.
On January 29,' having heard that
Forces was i'll in the Adlers Santa
rum, San Francisco, Woodward ad-
vised his chief to delay return to Ho-
nolulu, as follows:
"Do not come until recovered. Gov
ernor advises await arrival WiIheimi.
ma. Will write"
Forbes Sends instruction
On January 81, Forbes sent the fol-
lowing to Woodward:
Operation Thursday. Coming vii.
heIn,ina. Want harbor board give me
hearing. Don't make payments with
OuS uCQuCtIOTISs NdFU pOUTV OQdIIT8S
payments until report is made. Have
divers report made. Keep all state
ments made by contractor or cykIer.
Shall ] send expentI who designed San
Francisco concrete aNharves?" g.
TO this messagesW oodward replied
.enl january % f. =
"lnstructions carried, out. Do not
send anyone" .st.f 9. =
The fifth message is from Wood
ward to Forbes; Adlers Sanitarium.
San Francisco ~, -: -
Meet you In Hfio, Great Northern"
it says. ~. =
Woodward met Forbes, going up to
the Crescent City on the. Mauna Kea
at the expense OF. the sanitation fund,
according TO the auditors department.
He returned on the Great Northern,
for which the book shows a payment
of $1750. This bill is charged to Wal
akea road inspection. ="
House Waits Action
Representative Norman K. Lyman's
committee on lands and public i'm
proyements is still waiting to hear
from the senate before taking any
further action on the investigation of
Piers 8, 8 and 10.
1--WE would like to have a joint in
vestigation," says Lyman. "and if it
can be arranged ! would suggest a
committee composed of three mem.
bers Of the house and three members
of the senate. We could save con
siderable expense by working togeth.
err r..
Lyman has heard. however, that the
senate committee is considering MAX
ing separate investigation.