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Show Native Dwelling in the Interior. continue until there will be enough water to float the greatest of the dreadnoughts. Pearl Harbor is to be the most strongly fortified naval base in the Pacific, if not in the world. The harbor har-bor is landlocked and is distant from Honolulu twelve miles. When the channels to the east, the middle and the west locks have been dredged, the harbor will be large enough to float the combined navies of the world. The work of construction has been under way more than twelve years and it was hastened materially after the Spanish war, and the occupation by the United States of the Philippine Philip-pine Islands. Hidden forts and disappearing guns of the latest pattern are to protect the new harbor. The guns will use smoke less powder so as to render their discovery dis-covery by an enemy more unlikely than otherwise would be the case. The most of the expense in connection con-nection with this great undertaking haa been for the cutting of a channel chan-nel through one side of a coral reef so that vessels can get to deep water Inside the harbor. The coral is of the i hardest character and, therefore, the work has been slow. But the results re-sults will be permanent and there will be no need of dredging to keep the channel open. More than 4,600,000 cubic yards of coral reef have been excavated to open the approaches to the inner harbor. The solid character of the coral reef will afford a fine foundation for the graving deck. The drydock has been planned on a large scale. It Is 720 feet long, 110 feet wide and fifty-five feet deep, large enough in every way for any battleship. Hawaii has the advantage over the Philippines as a naval base because it 1 Is nearer the American coast and consequently con-sequently American ships can get to coaling stations in a comparatively short time in the event of war. , |