The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-02-16
MILLION DOLLAR
COAL PLANT is
ASSUMING SHAPE
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important Development For the
Port Promised In This Big
%....' Enterprise

Rushing work on the new bunkering
nlant Of the Inter. Island Steam Naviga.
ton Company on the makai side Of the
harbor and upon the Eva side Of the
site Of the proposed KRlihi channel, the
Hawaiian Dredging Company expects
TO complete the project within between
four and FIVE months. This million dol
lar investment Of the Inter.Island com
pany is nov about sixty per cent com
plcted as regards the concrete struc'
lures and fifteen per cent as regards
the steel superstructural work. T.,
The harbor angle Of the bunkerinR
pier IA now almost completed, the super
structure being in large part raised and
joined and the concrete work finished
Work is proceeding on the pier along
the slip which runs from the harbor
over six hundred feet into what has
been known as the Dowsett property.
now the property Of the Inter.Island
company and bound later TO become the
center Of large part Of the harboI
activity. g..
Solid Concrete Pier
Eighty per cent Of the piles Of the
entire work have been completed and
placed, seventy-fve per cent of the
caps have been set and fifty per cent
Of the decking completed. The pieI
is of solid concrete throughout, abso
lutely no pains or expense having been
spared TO secure the finest materials
and workmanship, according to the en-.
gineers. H e..
This work has been progressing so
quietly and so far removed from what
Il now the active part Of the water.
front and city that little attention has
been paid to IL. The fact that il will
eventually take to that side Of the har
Dor a great deal Of the work that has
kept the present waterfront busy, that
Il Is, in short, extending the waterfront
by q third more than its present extent
has not been realized. s.A....
Costs Million
Norman L. Gedge, secretary-treasureI
Of the company and in active manage.
ment of the many phases of its work,
stated yesterday that the company has
the greatest hopes of the usefulness
to the port of this expensive undertak
ing, which win cost in the neighbor
hood Of . million dollars, property
dredging, and construction all consider.
ed. These hopes, he said, are based
upon the eompany's optimism regard.
ing the future of Honolulu, and that
while many persons have impressed
their doubts as 10 the justification Of
such expense, the company is fully con-
WINGED that il is justified. The same
unwillingness to grant the usefulness
Of other Of the eompany's undertak,
ings, he continued, such as the floating
drydoek and other important port i'm.
provements were evidenced previously
but in each case the company's faith
in Honolulu as world port has proved
well founded. l.. ~. r"
Gould Sink Ship N"E
Tn a fahciful way of speaking these
new bunkers of the Inter. Island com.
psny on the other side Of the harbor
are capable of delivering to a vessel
alongside two hundred and fifty tons
Of coal in two and half minutes. OF
course, no vessel calling here is capable
Of receiving that much coal in the time
stated, and the dumping Of so much in
the bunkers at one time would as like
as not knock a hole in the bottom of
the ship. SO far as the capacity Of
the bunkering machinery is concerned,
however. the feat is actually possible.
Two large ships can be handled at
once, one at each angle of the pier.
The harbor angle is 200 feet long, that
the slip six hundred. Coal can be de.
lyered on either side and received at
one side. The coal piles will be in the
rear of the piers, connected with the
bunkering machinery by the most
modern apparatus,
NJ. b, Carson, supervising engineer
Of the InterIsland company, the gen
eral representative of the company on
the job, stated yesterday that this plant
Is the equal of the government plant
at the Panama Canal, long held up to
the world as model. j., =. :. .
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