The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-04-05

LIBRARY AND READING ROOM AssocIATIoS-An
adjourned business meeting was held on Saturday
evening last at which the organization of the Asso-
citation was completed by the election OF the fol-
lowing nine gentlemen as Directors, viz: Alfred S.
Hartwel, Alex. J. Cartwright, Alex. Young, Jas.
II. Black, Jas. Ashworth, L. May, DE. c.. T
Rodgers. P. Dalton and Andrew Hepburn. The
officers were instructed TO inquire into the ex.
pedlency Of having the association Incorporated,
and report at the regular business meeting this
Saturday evening. The prospects of this organ
iZatiOu for usefulness and permanence are all that
could be desired. Nearly three hundred members
have already signed the roll and the best possible
spirit prevails throughout. The Board Of Ofcers
and Directors held their first meeting on Wednes-
day evening at the house OF one OF their own
number and transacted a large amount of Impor-
tant business. 1t has been decided that the read
ing room shall be kept open every day except
Since our last issue Mr.. 4. J. Cartwright has sent
in a handsome donation to the library, consisting
of ~ffty-four volumes. Mrs. Armstrong has also sent
a large engraving Of Washington handsomely
framed, to ornament the walls Of the rooms. We
take this occasion to once more urge upon those who
have any books which they are willing to give,
that they should either send them TO the rooms Of
the association in c. E. Williams building, or notify
the officers when and where they may be called for.
Word may be left either at the reading room, with
Mr.. I. G. Thrum, Fort Street, or with Mr.. VIM.
johnson, K~aahumanu Street. The members are
reminded that the regular business meeting Of the
$500 1890 r.
seven O'Clock and that q large attendance is desired.
In our report last week of the public opening
exercises, the name Of Rev. DR.. Hyde was accident
ally omitted from the list Of speakers. The Doctor
is a member of the association and one Of its best
friends, and we regret exceedingly that this over
sight should have occurred.
IMPROVEMENTS on THE EspLASADE.-Since the
great fire, now sixteen months ago, q number Of val
liable improvements have been made on the esplanade,
quite altering the appearance of that locality. ANY
one who had left town previous to the fire and should
now return, would hardly recognize the ~neighbor-
hood. First comes the new Masonic Hall on the
corner of Queen street quot yet completely with the
adjoining store of A. W. Peirce & Co., both two-story
brick buildings and enthusiastically handsome. Then
we come to the extensive Brass Foundry, Barrel
Factory and Rice Mill. (all of brick) of Mr.. J. A.
Hopper, of which We gave an extended notice some
time since. On the opposite side of the street is the
planning mill and carpenter shop of Mr.. Geo. Lucas.
The building is one story, of brick, 80 by 40 feet,
and IA feet in the clear. 1t is to have iron doors
and shutters, has an iron roof, and thus will be fire
proof. Here is all the latest improved patent ma
chinery for planning, moulding, saving and mortic-
ing wood, and 1t is interesting and surprising to
note how human labor and time is saved by the ap-
plication of machinery, and the work better executed
too than by hand. Two men with these appliances
can do the work of twenty in the old style. Here g
board II by IA inches wide, and 60 feet 10 length
can be smoothly planed in a very few minutes. The
boiler house, of iron, in the rear of the main build
ing, is Is by "a feet. The Engine which runs the
machinery is of 20 horse power, capable of being
worked up to 80, and has attached a Blake's patent
supply pumr.-Farther down on the same side Of the
street and opposite the Custom House, is Mr.. J. I.
Chayter's new brick blacksmith shop and carriage
factory. The building, which forms the corner Of
the new street running South from Fort street, is 81
by p feet, of two storeys, the lower being II feet and
the upper 10 feet in the clear. There are two neatly
built brick FORCES on the ground floor for doing light
and heavy iron work, and the upper story is to be
fitted for carriage and wagon work. This building
is also to be completed as q ~freproof. and it is the in
tention of the proprietor to lead the water into the
upper story by q two-inch pipe, in order to be pro-
yided in case of a FIRE The desirability of the class
of buildings lately erected on the Esplanade is so sp-
parent, that we anticipate but o few years will elapse
before the wooden buildings in that locality will dis
appear and their places be supplied by substantial
brick structures.-As another Improvement in this
neighborhood, we note that the government has re-
Gently laid out and commenced to fill in q continuation
of Alakea street TO the steamer wharf at the end of the
Esplanade. 1t would be well if the old portion of
Alakea street could be widened some twenty feet.