The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume], May 04, 1898, Page 2, Image 2

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THE PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER: HONOLULU, MAY 4, 1S9S.
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A Bit for Two Bits
And some for four and more. These are JENNINGS' BITS, of which
we have a full assortment. Ship and house carpenters' Augers,
German Bits, Gimlet Bits, Car Bits, Extension Bits, and all sorts of
Bits.
Of other tools we will just mention the old, well-known Heller
Brothers' Farriers' Tools, of which we carry a full line. Every far
rier admits these to be the best made on earth.
We cannot give you a list of all the tools we carry in stock, but if
wanting anything in this line you are about sure to find same at
E. O. HALL & SON, Ld.
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H. HACKFELD & CO., Ltd,, Sole Agents,
Hamakua Plantation,
v Paauilo, Hawaii, H. I.
Mr. J. G. Spencer,
Pacific Hardware Co.,
Honolulu.
Dear Sir: The Secretary Disc Plow I pur
chased from you is giving us satisfaction. We
are using it to plow under a crop of lupins. They
are three feet high and very thick. Your plow
turns them completely under, at the same time
plowing the land fourteen inches deep.
I feel satisfied that with this plow the draft
for the same quantity and depth of work is as
6' to 8. That is, with the old plow, to do the same
work, it takes 8 good mules; with your plow it
takes only 6, and they are less tired at night.
Please send me another plow by first schooner
leaving for this.
You are at liberty to use this in any way you
may see fit. Yours truly,
A. L1DGATE.
WATSON, LAIDLAW & CO.'S
Water-Driven Centri
Which does away with two-thirds of the
floor space, three-fourths of the oil, and
the whole of the belting required for
drying sugar with the ordinary machine.
May be seen in motion on application to
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Queen St. nwJLJI-Jli A XSJT A 1 Wli
ATTN5 WEILL & .
Founders and Machinists.
213 Queen St., bet. Alakea and Richards Sts., Honolulu.
Invito Enquiries for General Ironwork; Iron and Brass Cast
ings. Ships' Blacksmiths. Cemetery Railings and
Crestings Made to Order: Samples on Hand.
REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
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A WHARF ARGUMENT.
PORTION OF THE ARGUMENT OF THE RAILROAD
COMPANY BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE
SUPPORTING RIGHT OF THE COMMERCIAL IN
TERESTS OF HONOLULU TO RE HEARD UPON THE
WHARF QUESTION.
If it is ronreilcd for argument's sake that tin Railroad
Company has no possible claim to ownership of wharf front
age in Honolulu Harbor as a matter of right, yet, it would be
the part of wisdom so far certainly as the residents of Hono
lulu are concerned to give it that right. The ownership of
wharves by the Government as against private individuals
or strictly private corporations should not necessarily apply
to, a .semi-public corporation like a railroad which is a public
servant whose affairs including the question of freight and
passenger rates are subject to direct regulation by the State.
The Railroad is already an immense benefit to the City of
Honolulu and that benefit is growing apace. The Road now
receives and handles over ninety thousand tons of freight
annually over its wharf in Honolulu harbor. With the new
enterprises now assured along the line of the road and estab
lished enterprise yet to be reached by extensions it is cal
culated that in five years time the tonnage handled by the
Road through Honolulu Harbor will reach three hundred
thousand tons.
Already the pay roll of the Railroad Company outside of
the pay roll for extensions which may be considered tempor
ary is from 5,000 to 7,000 a month, and expensive car, ma
chinery and repair works and shops are being built up at the
terminus in this City to meet the requirements of present
and future business of the Company. Iiy having its terminus
in the City of Honolulu the Company is committed to the po
licy of building up the interests of this town and of resisting
any diversion of business to Pearl Harbor when that great
lagoon with over twenty miles of wharf frontage is opened
up to commerce.
There is no more valuable artery to sustain and build up a
city than a railroad. Not only have great subsidies and
bonuses been voted to secure a railroad to cities in the past
throughout the United States, but they are still voting such
subsidies. Cities are as eager to secure railroads and to induce
.them to come by largesses as they ever were.
If the Railroad is "deprived of ownership or wharf frontage
in Honolulu, it will not remove its terminus from Honolulu
from pique or by way of retaliation. Railroad Companies
must conduct their affairs on business lines and if it still
pays them to come to Honolulu and to divert all the business
that they gather around this Island past Pearl Harbor to
Honolulu they are going to do it; but the question arises,
will not the exclusion from all ownership of wharves in Hono
lulu make it pay as a business proposition for the Road to
turn to Pearl Harbor as its terminus and to regulate its
affairs from now on with a view of carrying out that purpose?
Railroad -officials tlaim that it will. The Company owns a
mile of wharf frontage in fee simple on Pearl Harbor and has
live miles of fine wharf frontage there under a forty year
lease. It owns valuable land for terminal facilities, car shops
and for its employees, and it also owns large areas adjacent
to the water front for storing coal and lumber.
If the citizens of Honolulu are satisfied that the railroad
officials are mistaken and it will not pay them to move even
if they cannot secure ownership of a wharf front at Honolulu,
then they need have no fear that the Railroad Company will
move for it is a question of dollars and cents, but applying the
same reasoning if it turns out that it will pay the Company to
use its terminal facilities at Pearl Harbor and to build Pearl
Harbor up as against Honolulu just so surely will it be done. ,
Ownership of wharves in Honolulu is now a profitable pro
position for the demand for wharfage is in excess of the sup
ply, but put between twenty and thirty miles of wharf front
at Pearl Harbor into the market (and it will be in the market
the day 4hat Harbor is opened up) and if we 'do not shortly
thereafter have free wharfage tendered to the vessels in both
harbors to secure the benefits that come from their presence
and as a result of competition between the two harbors, we
certainly will have something dangerously near free wharfage
and the ownership of wharves then for the benefit of the peo
ple will be at a discount, the chief benefit arising thereform
will be the paying of taxes to maintain them.
The wharf question in Honolulu Harbor is in one sense a
national question but in another it is nothing but a municipal
question in which the City of Honolulu is primarily and chiefly
interested and should have the say. Throughout the United
States the cities, with a few checks, have the control and dis
position of the wharf frontage of their harbors as they also
have the control and disposition of their public parks, boule
vards, etc. Questions like this one under consideration are
generally decided either directly by the city which uses the
harbor or indirectly by its influence and wish. For instance:
even if the State reserves the right to alienate wharf lands,
they will almost invariably make the alienation if the city
directly interested so desires. So that really this is to a large
extent a municipal question in which the City of Honolulu is
primarily interested. If the Railroad had not been built and
we were today asking for the right to own wharf room on
Honolulu Harbor sufficient for the needs of the Company and
proved that we had plenty of money back of us to build the
road and it was left to the City of Honolulu whether we
should have the wharf room or not we do not doubt the result.
The Railroad would get the concession. The Railroad Com
pany claims it did get that concession before it started to
build, i. c. the right to condemn in fee whenever it was pre
pared to do so, and now that the road is built and the City is
getting the advantage of that road some are commencing to
begrudge the promise made, lint there is yet this other re
maining feature to be considered, namely, whether the exclu
sion of the Railroad from Ownership of wharf room in Hono
lulu is in the real interests of the people if the result is to
drive away from this city the terminus of the road and all the
business that necessarily or usually follow the terminus.
There is not a property owner, a storekeeper, or an owner
of real estate in the City'of Honolulu who is not benefited by
the presence of this road.. The money that it pays out in
wages goes directly among the laboring people who in turn
spend their money to the benefit of other classes throughout
the community, and the good the road will do to this town has
but just begun. If it increases its tonnage to 300,000 tons as
against 00,000 tons, that means a vast deal to this City. It
should also be borne in mind that a great deal of the trade of
this City with the other Islands is being diverted, not to re
turn. There were nine vessels in Hilo Harbor the other day
and there is plenty room there for more. Plantation after
plantation has commenced not only to ship direct to San
Francisco but to receive its supplies and goods direct back
again to the manifest detriment of Honolulu and that diver
sion has only just begun. There is no reason why all the
sugar from the Island of Hawaii, barring perhaps Kau, should
not be shipped direct to San Francisco, and this is true of
most of the freight on the Island of Maui.
Of course there are compensations for. Honolulu in the way
of increased foreign trade and an increase in the number of
foreign steamers making Honolulu a way port, still Honolulu
already feels the drain caused by this movement on the other
Islands for direct communication abroad and in addition
Honolulu has a rival still more to be feared fifteep miles awa.v
from its doors which is now asleep but which must and will be
roused into life within a verv few vears at the most.
Roth Representative Cannon and Senator Pettigrew said
emphatically that Pearl Harbor was going to control the for
eign trade and commerce of the Hawaiian Islands, and the
opinion of Representative Cannon is worth u good deal. He
stands at the head of a committee that controls appropria
tions covering annually hundreds of millions of dollars and is
thoroughly seasoned and experienced in the consideration of
those propositions that go to build up or pull down cities.
The Railroad Company urges that it would pay the people
to give the Railroad a wharf frontage on Honolulu Harbor
even if it conceded that it has absolutelv no ground for claim
mg such a concession as a matter of right. And when one
takes into consideration in addition to this the specific pledges
of wharf frontage solemnlv and voluntarilv conceded to this
Company by Contract, ('barter and Law, it certainly seems
both profitable and right to make the concession.
There is this further consideration. The deed of this entire
Republic and all its public lands has been duly executed on
our part and lies in Washington now awaiting merely accept
ance by the United States Government to eliminate for good
and all any sovereign power within Hawaii nei. Instead of a
Minister of Finance we will have a City and County Treas
urer; a Governor appointed froni Washington instead of a
President, and so on, and the absolute control and disposi
tion of every inch of public lands including Honolulu Harbor
will rest in the hands of the National Congress. They eait
sweep aside at their will the proposition that the people
should own the wharves. Who will control this City and its
wharves we do not know. Congress can make direct conces
sions of wharf privileges to private individuals if it chooses
and quite as likely to outside Companies as to Kamaainas.
It would be rather odd if the Oahu Railway Company, owned
and controlled within Hawaii nei, should be shut out of t he
ownership of any wharfage frontage by its own friends, and
after we had accomplished this and annexation had come we
should find Congress either directly or indirectly disposing of
the harbor front to Tom, Dick and Harry to suit its own pur
poses. We might wish most heartily for one hour again of
power to use it to give to our own home railroad and to our
citizens who own it the wharf privilege that we foolishly shut
them out of. Rut whatever 111113" ue result under annex
ation, we prophesy that when the wharf front and tide lands,
of this country shall pass out of our hands to a distant Con
gress much of the enthusiasm among us for the ownership of
all the wharves by the people will wane when the people
comes to mean, besides ourselves, sixty-five of seventy mil
lions across the water.
In the United States any man who owns land bordering on
the sea. or navigable lake or river has thereby and without
asking leave of anybody the right to build out and make
wharves and other structures for loading and unloading
freight. The Courts of the United States early decided that
"Riparian proprietors have the right to erect bridges, piers
and landing places on the shores of navigable rivers, lakes,
bavs and arms of theWa if thev conform to the regulations of
the State and do not obstruct navigation; the right to make
such an erection terminates on the point of navigability."
I Again the law on this point in the United States is thus
stated :
"liy the common law the riparian owner has the rigjit to
establish a wharf on his own soil. This being lawful use of
the land the right is judicially recognized in this country. and
riparian proprietors on ocean, lake or navigable river have
under virtue of their proprietorship and without special legis
lative authority the right to erect wharves, quays, piers and
landing places on the shore if these conform to the regula
tions of the State for the protection of the public and do not
become a nuisance by obstructing navigation. This right has
been exercised by the owners of adjacent land from the first
settlement of the country. The right terminates at the point
of navigability unless special authority be conferred because
at this point the necessity for such erections ordinarily
ceases."
If Pearl Harbor is to be developed under American law
then every land owner having frontage on that lagoon will
have the right to build out his wharves undisturbed and to
use those wharves for loading and unloading vessels of iill
descriptions at his pleasure. If such be the case wharf front
age will certainly be at a discount and what now seems such
a valuable gift to the Railroad Company may look very differ
ently within a short time. Meanwhile is it not the part of
wisdom to bind this Railroad and all its interests Irrevocably
to the development of this City? To accord it such recogni
tion that it will spend so much money in the development of
its terminus in Honolulu that it will not pay for the Company
to move elsewhere or even to consider such a proposition; so
that it will continue to haul all the freight that it gathers up
around this Island past Pearl Harbor into Honolulu City, to
the benefit of every man, woman and child who has a dollar
at stake in the maintenance of the commercial supremacy of
this Citv?
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Decoration Day
IS NEAR AT HAND,
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and CEMETERY WORK (in detail).
CARVING AND INSCRIPTIONS.
Prompt and careful service given to
all work intrusted to me.
ARTHUR HARRISON,
Queen and Fort Streets.
With Washington Feed Co.
Sight restored to all by
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OFFICE: Love Building, Fort Street.
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