The Hawaiian gazette., 1877-06-20
City improvements.

DURING the past twelve months quite a
number of new edifces have been erected in
Honolulu. AS it may be of interest to such
Islanders as are now absent, to keep posted
in these signs of material progress, We will
mention some of these for their benefit
Among the new stores recently completed,
or now in the process of construction, is a
brick one-story edi6ce built by DR.. Hoffman,
for drug store, and now occupied by him as
such, situated on the makai side of Merchant
street Just opposite the p C. Advertiser Office.
1t is covered with corrugated iron, making it
freproof. The interior is high and neatly
fitted up, and has an air of perfect order and
neatness. The well-known old corner, where
the Doctor has for SO many years dispensed
medicines and oracular wisdom, has been pur-
chased by Messrs. Bishop & Co., who will
shortly pull down the old stone building now
standing on the site, and erect in its place
handsome two-story brick edifce, with a
frontage of fifty feet on Merchant street and
thirty feet on Kaahumanu street, to be occu-
pied by the Bank.
Mr.. S. Magnin, well-known clothing deal
er, now does business in a brick store lately
built by himself on Nuuanu street, short
distance from King street. 1t is of about the
same architectural proportions of DR.. Hoff-
mann's drug store, and contains the largest
plate-glass windows in town. On the corner
of Fort and Hotel streets, on the site of the
store of Messrs. Grunwald & Schultz, recently
DESTROYED by fire, has just been completed a
very neat one-story brick building, erected by
Mr.. c. E. Williams, and containing three COM
modious apartments designed for stores.
in few weeks, removed the old wooden
structure which has been occupied for many
years past as a grocery store, on the corner of
King and Fort streets, together with some of
the adjacent buildings, and will soon erect in
their place fine brick edifce.
In addition to the improvements above men,
toned, Messrs. G. Brewer & Co. contemplate
the erection, at an early date, of large two
story ireproof building on the corner of Fort
and Hotel streets, now occupied by Messrs.
A. S. Cleghorn & Cos dry-goods store, the
lower part of which will be devoted to stores,
and the upper part to Offices, etc. Besides
these buildings, all of which are freproof. the
appearance of the business part of Nuuanu
street has been much improved by the erec-
| ton of a number of wooden structures which
are chiefly occupied by Chinese storekeepers.
Among the private residences recently bull
in town there is nothing very pretentious
most Of them being comfortable cottages, cost
ing in the region of from three or four thou.
sand dollars each. Among them we would
mention-to commence on the upper part o
Nuuanu Valley "a large story-and-a-hal
house now in the process of construction fo
Colonel Mark Robinson, just opposite the pa
ternal mansion; a story -and-a-half house be-
longing to Mr.. E. B. Friely short distanc,
below Judd street; a two-story house jus
completed for Mr.. P. G. Jones, below th
Parker place; very pretty brick cottage be-
longing to DR.. Hoffman,, on the lot above hi
former residence, which has been purchased
by Mr.. j. D. Brewer and considerably enlarg-
ed by two-story addition.
The " plain" which old residents will re-
member as sodry, and dusty, and disconsolate
has improved very rapidly within the last few
years. Numberless algeroba trees which al,
scattered all over its broad area now give i
quite park-like appearance, and many of tht
lots have been enclosed, and in several o
them are 10 be seen pleasant looking cottages
in the midst of gardens of flowers and shrub
berry. On the corner of Beretania and Alapa
streets is recently completed cottage in tn
midst of verdant grove which almost hide
it from view, belonging to Mr. E. G. Damon
and a little further on is one occupied by Mr.
7. G.. Thrum. On King street, beyon,
Thomas Square, is new house belonging t.
Mr. Alexander Young, and on Punahou Avenu,
is comfortable cottage occupied by Mr.. A
Jaeger.
While on this topic we must mention new
fence just put up by Mr.. W. W. Hall along til
front of his grounds. 1t consists of neatI,
TUNED wooden posts, and iron rods bent SO a
to form a tasteful design, the combination
making the most elegant construction of tn