The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-09-20
HUMAN ENERGY is CHIEF
NEED OF HAWAII E. FAX0N.
BISHOP SAYS IN SPEECH
Only Oriental Field Can Furnish Supply Of
Labor Necessary For Plantations, He Thinks;
Worlds Great Menace Not yellow
Peril But white Peril"

TINS hell or war Will make deep i'm
preston and bring radical changes in
our national life that we must wait for
time to unfold
"The great burden of the future, to
my mind, will be the waNbnl, the pay,
ing for the immense destruction-of these
years Of carnage, years that have
strained the credit Of the wOtId,-and
in the reckoning also the care Of the
disabled and the dependents Of those
whose lives have gone into the general
smash will add to the burden. We will
get our part Of it, We are getting some
of it now, as the financial resources Of
our Allies have reached the point where
the I. s. 4. is the main prop.
"IprhapS in what I have thus far
said ] am wandering from the subject
assigned. but it is difficult to get down
TO the local phase Of the situation,
without considering the fundamental
elements that will be for or against
US. when it comes to the scramble for
existence, for prosperity, and against
adversely after the war
President Dillingham; Of our clam.
Der Of commerce has given an outline
of procedure to be followed. in order to
Qualify or connect with the ideas of
Nr. j. n. Rossiter Of the Emergency
Fleet CORPORATION, on the subject of
the American merchant marine and its
maintenance on the high seas, 90 that
we here in the Islands will occupy our
proper place. and do our part in this
great work from this time forward
His suggestions, as to harbOr ENLARGE
ment, facilities, dry docking capacity
commerce, are worthy of careful con
sideration, and committee of the
chamber is now working ont tentative
plans thnt may require federal assist,
ancP, and also good deal Of enter
prise and broad visioned venture on
the part of local capital. Substantial
work has already been done, rf which
We can very properly take account,
and it is to the credit of orr much
hPrated Inter Island Company that they
are TODAY prepared to bunker vessels
in a modern. expeditions manner.
Does this community know that
the Inter Island coal handling plants
can deliver fuel to vessels calling there
, for from barges only at the rate of 300
tons per hour, provided the ship is prop.
, crly equipped to handle it, ] am re.
liabIy Informed that this port is as
well equipped, perhaps better, than any
other Pacific port exPeditiouslv to re
ceivP aud deliver coal for bunkering
and other purposes. An inspection Of
the new Inter Island concrete $50 foot
pier carrying its coal handling plant
will add conviction to this statement
! tI.man barn ossambIod kno,v In,. w.
I Ro.sitar krnw tbot 55o f,nt A.,
n JocL i; oIr.o1r in oouroo Of ,.,-.ru,.
! tiop NV tho TntarJslord Cnru.n, -,
t tho nthcr sida If the harhor rkHu;s,
I n 600 foot niar ~ Generate corstruc
p tiop to e,rry a oer.r,l vo,oh,,,o w.,
Y tom tbo dry locL Ia b,,jlo ,,,,s.l, ~,
thc siye oF Tho Motsnr;, and ,ho >Io,,
e md tho prasaut p,ci6c NIou li,,.. o,,
a viii no ohI. 70 IRE opo o,J =, Ioo.
!, of ouv vessel HkeIv IN cntar ,nr h.r
hors for renairs to ruIder ar scrav
+ Items That Count
o ''Thp barbor imnrovements uf IN,
' Tertiary ara also , very sulst.uti,
| item in our preparedness nroorom an,
/, the new ni.rs Numbers Z 5o7 70 q 81
/ feet and 10 559 feet. will have hertbin,
), oaunrity of 100 running feet md
I further 100 feet at Pier I6 Thrs,
piers will be eouinned with onI 90,
suunrr feet of shed suarc. which exr4rd
II the covered area Of MI over roy.re,
e wharvrs TODAY One side Of on, horho
II sand Island is vet untouched nx n sit,
1 for an extensive wharf .ystem ana "a,
v hive olso almost unlimited nos ;h;litin
! Of EXPANSION if il is found nece ,sorv +,
omen n channel "a tho KaIibi Tosin