Dedication of Pearl Harbor Dock
Marks Completion of Great Task
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HONOLULU, T. H. — Dedication
of the Pearl Harbor naval drydock
recently in the presence of Secre
tary of the Navy Josephus Daniels
and distinguished military, naval,
and civilian officials, marked the
completion of an important unit in
a navy and army construction pro
gram designed to make this island
of the Hawaiian group, Oahu, the
► Gibraltar of the Pacific.
The Pearl Harbor dock, work on
which was begun ten years ago, rep
resents an investment of more than
$5,000,000. It is one of the largest
naval drydocks in the world and
will accomodate any vessel now
floating the American flag.
Pearl Harbor, seven miles from
Honolulu by railroad, has been de
clared by naval experts to be the
finest natural naval base in the
< world. The entrance to the harbor
from the open sea is a little more
than fifty yards wide, the channel,
or canal, having been dredged in
the shallow coral. The harbor is
divided into three natural bays, or
lochs, with anchorage sufficient for
1 the entire American navy.
The first contract for a drydock
at Pearl Harbor was awarded ten
years ago and was for $1,750,000,
the dock to be 620 by 90 feet, much
too small to take modern dread
naughts. Dredging began in Sep
tember, 1909, and a cofferdam was
built in 1913.
When the cofferdam was pumped
free of water, to permit of further
construction work, hydrostatic pres
sure upheaved the entire structure
and left the work of four years a
mass of wreckage. Work was then
* suspended for two years, while en
gineers prepared new plans, and
was resumed in January, 1915. To
make a foundation that would with
stand the pressure, piling was driv- \
>en into the mud and coral, filled
in with rock, and 16 gigantic pon
toons, each containing 3,000 yards
of concrete, were floated into posi
tion and sunk.
Concrete and granite were used
‘in the construction of the floor and
, walls of the dock. It is estimated
‘the structure contains 150,000 cubic
| yards of concrete. The drydock is
' 1,029 feet long, on the inside, 100
!feet wide on the floor, with reced
ing walls, and has 35-foot sills.
When a warship is floated into the
dock, four 54-inch and two 15-inch
electrically driven pumps will empty
| the basin in two hours, permitting
■ of unusually fast work in the hand
ling of sea fighters.
Surrounding the dock are rail
road tracks for traveling cranes,
and the large and well-equipped
: machine shops and foundries of the
naval base are close at hand.
One of the legends of the old
j Hawaiians had it that Pearl Harbor
wus the home of the shark god, and
many grizzled heads were shaken
in grim foreboding when dredgers
first started to excavate in the
coral to provide a place for the
drydock. When hydrostatic pressure
wrecked the partially completed
dock in 1913 the fears of the old
Hawaiians were confirmed; they
knew nothing about hydrostatic
pressure and recondite engineering
problems, but they were sure the
wrath of the shark god had brought
confusion and ruin to the handi
work of man.
When the drydock was nearing
completoin, a number of Hawaiians,
one of them a foreman on the job,
sacrificed a pig and a white chicken
to the shark god. Some iconoclast
started the rumor that the pig and
chicken made the ultimate sacrifice
of their kind at a luau (native
feast) instead of going to the bot
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NOTICE OF CHANGE OF RECORDING PRECINCTS
Accor Jmg to a recently issued Court Order by
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Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be
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tom of Pearl Harbor for the shark
god. But the drydock was com
pleted on time and operates per
fectly, and to many a primitive
mind the carcasses of a pig and a
chicken bought immunity for it from
supernatural power.
AT COAST TOWN
There is nothing much at present j
in the Portland Canal district to i
warrant a rush there, according to i
Ira B. Ball, of Xenana. who is now i
in Juneau sizing up the coast coun- \
try. In a letter to his partner,
Billy Thomas, the pleasure-seeking
tonsorialist says the new town of
Hvder is not much talked of at,
.
Juneau yet. The town lots, he j
says, are obtainable only on a'
rental basis, the leases covering a
period of one year.
When Ball reached Skagway, on ‘
his way to the States on a vacation ^
trip, he took a launch to Juneau,
and liked the capital city so well
he decided to remain there a month.1
There is a shortage of barbers
there and the money-making oppor
tunities in that line so alluring that.
Ball could not resist the tempta
tion to get back into the harness
for a time.
When he landed in Juneau, he j
explains, he made for the Pioneer!
barber shop for a cleanup. He'
found the place well equipped, with
four chairs, but onlv one barber,!
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and the place was full of people at;
the time, waiting for shaves and j
haircuts. So, after he had been
shaved, he consented to hold down j
the chair while the proprietor went
out to eat. And he has been there
i
ever since. The first three days,:
he says, his earnings aggregated
$22. i
Ball writes that he has met many!
people in Juneau whom he knew
in the Interior. Red Henry is i
working in a pool hall. Mrs. Bill-1
son and daughter Betty are resi
dents of the capital city. Van
Houtan is employed in a sawmill.
Peter Johnson and Slim Hamill were
met on the street, and many others
were seen, whose names were not
recalled at the time of writing.
Things are good at Juneau. Ball
says, and he may stop there again
on his way back to the Interior,
later in the year.
Ball was in Juneau when the
Mears party passed through, and
he also saw Judge Wickersham,
when he arrived from the East to
begin taking testimony in connec-'
tion with his contest.
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Kotlik, up Marshall, 6 p. m., 7th.
Reliance, up Koyukuk river, 5:55
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Seattle No. 3, up Kotlik, 6 a. m..
:7th.
i Louise, up Holy Cross, 12:15 a.
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Washburn, up Holy Cross for
^Dikeman, 11 p. m., 7th.
Tanana and Kelly, at Chena.
Alaska, down Chena, 10 a. m.
Benchley, at Koyukuk.
Jacobs, at Gibbon.
Relief, down Nulato, 6 a. m., 8th. j
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GLYCERINE MIXTURE
FOR APPENDICITIS
| Nenana people can prevent appen-1
dicitis with simple buckthorn bark,;
glycerine, etc., as mixed in Adler
i-ka. ONE SPOOONFUL flushes the
ENTIRE bowel tract so completely
it relieves ANY CASE sour stomach, 1
gas or constipation and prevents ap
pendicitis. The INSTANT, pleasant
action of Adler-i-ka surprises both
doctors and patients. Leaves stom
ach clean and strong. A. D. Thomp
1 son, druggist.
In a letter addressed to Frank
Rourke, of this city, Ben Estby,
well-known former Interiorite, says
that Texas is enjoying a great
boom, with oil being found all
through the stale. But the Texas
climate is something else again.
The writer says he thought he
would take a change, so moved to
Iowa Park, a small town on the
Ft. W. & D. C. railway, west of
Wichita Falls and south of Burk
burnett. The move, Estby says,
was ‘‘out of the frying-pan into
the fire—hot enough to fry eggs
in the shade—110 degree.” As
for himself, he says he was fried
to a crisp at the time of writing,
i and considerably lighter in weight
than when he left Alaska, tipping
I the scales at only 167. Before he
iwent South he weighed 210.
| “There are a lot of the boys
from Alaska down here,” the letter
: continues, and among those men
Itioned are Frank Manley, John L.
McGinn, Henry Riley, Jack Des
mond, Pete Nichols, Jack Leach,
Billy Leak, and George W. Penning
|ton the last named having just
reached that part of the state when
i the letter was written.
The wages for drillers, he says,
range from S10 to $16 a day, for
i 12 hours’ work. But the grub, as
he puts it, is “rotten and high.”
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SCORES ARE NUMEROUS
IN GIRLS' GYM GAME
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The baseball game which took
place at Fairbanks on Sunday, be
tween two teams of girls, for the
, benefit of the memorial gym, con
sisted chiefly of running around the
(bases, more than fifty runs having
^ beer, recorded during the game.
■ The team known as the White Sox.
captained by Julia O’Leary, ac
cumulated approximately forty runs,
.and the other team, known as the
Red Sox, captained by Mary Miller,
was credited with about a dozen
runs during the five innings played.
The score-keeper is said to have
lost count of the runs aftVr the
; second inning.
But the game was largely attend
ed and much enjoyed. The receipts
totaled $94.50.
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