Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-11-15
sATURDAY......... NOVEMBER 49, 1884
The yeic cum nan.

considerable attention, although no iull descrp-
ton Of its plan has so far been published.
The lot on which it is building has about II3
feet frontage on Merchant street and depth
Of about 50 feet
The building will consist Of 4 stories and
basemen, occupying square surface Of 90 feet,
a inches front; by S. feet 7 inches depth; and
will rise IS feet from the sidewalk to the sum.
nit Of the 6re.wlll, the basement being partly |
below the sidewalk.
The basement will contain corridors and |
II cells. Cells and corridors will be arched |
and all 9 feet from floor to centre Of arch.
There will cells about II feet square, cells |
feet 8 inches by Q feet 6inches. and cell
81 feet by Q feet. Both cells and corridors
will be loorcd, walled and ceiled with concrete;
lighted by grated doors or windows Tor both
and ventilated lin addition to windows and
doors or both) by 5-inch iron pipes-as will
hereinafter be described.
On the first floor will be 2 rooms for the dep
u,y marshal, one ID. 6x23.3 an examination
room Tor the police judge, ANNA police
judges private room, 6xII 4cells, each Sx9.6
and cell io.6xIr. Allthe rooms in the frs, and
second story to be 10 feet high.
In the second will be police court room IS
xs6 feet OF this will be a clerks room, az
sIo and a waiting room, I4xI9.
The front elevation will display, in the
basement, grated windows in the first story
4 windows and ailarge double door feet wide
and 10 feet high, led up to by fight of steps
AFFECT from the sidewalk to the floor in the
second story, five windows
The basement, cells and floor OF the new
building are nearly completed all the CORR.
doris and cells are walled up and arched and
the full thickness Of concrete in now being put
in. The concrete employed is made of parts
rock. parts sand and one part Portland ce
nent-the mixture being carefully attended to
before the molding takes place. All the cells
and corridors were first fashioned in wooden
easements, between, outside of and over which
the concrete was placed and allowed to harden
These wooden cases have not yet been removed
and the solidity Of the basement may not
surely be determined until they are. The
government engineer, however, is confident
tina, the work will stand any pressure that may
be put upon it,
The use Of concrete is assuming greater pro-
portions and, when properly prepared has the
endorsement OF the best engineers of all nations,
For foundations, piers, aqueducts and even
entire buildings, the best descriptions Of con
crete are now employed extensively in the
United States and Europe-notably the grea,
vanne aqueduct whichsupplies OF Paris with
water. The Notwithstanding tunnels-.is
over 90 miles long and section OF it, 81 miles
in length, is bull, OF concrete, known in France
as "beton agglomere The light house at
Port Said, Egypt, the gothic church at Vesinet,
near Paris the arches OF the Municipal Bar
racks Of Notre Dame, Paris over 81 miles of
the Paris sewers. several public works in
England and numerous houses in New York
City are instanced by writers on the subject
in evidence Of the remarkable combination Of
strength, durability and cheapness of well pre-
pared concrete.
The ventilation Of the cells and corridors
and partly by the" Banner" system OF pipes
and cowls," which are funnel shaped hoods
OF iron. zinc or tin, placed on the top Of the
pipe in such a manner that the wind rushing
through into the small end and out of the
large end, acts as a suction pump, drawing the
air from the pipe and thereby causing fresh
air 10 enter and circulate in the cells. That
is the Mso,y Of it bu, whether the practi.
cal working OF this ventilation will be what is
claimed FOR ii. cannot be fairly assured in
advance, unless il may be shown, which is not
yet clear to the writer, that precisely similar
application of the principle has been made
elsewhere.
In the basement OF .the new city hall the
ventiatng pipes enter the cells in the center
Of the semi.circumterence OF the arched roofs
nearly 9 feet from the floor. These pipes ther
run on, to the walls, under the hrst floor, and
are carried upward to the roof How il /,
possible to obtain adequate upward circulation
for the vitialed air in the bottoms of the cells doe,
not appear one can understand how the ali
in the upper portions Of the cells can b,
drawn up but how the vtiated air, heav,
with carbonie acid gas, can be disturbed by tn,
action is no, so clear, Aud It does not appea
that the DRAFT from stree, window through cor
ridor, lin the mauka eells OF from corridor
window through yard door. lin the maka
ceilslor from corridor door through window, tir
the interior eellsl can be adequate
To an observer, no, himself builder OF
sanitary engneer, the ventilation as at presen
outlined seems inadequate. A gentleman o
much scientific reading and considerable prae
teal insigh, nts sanitary building says that In
Banner system, TO be effective, must eonnee
It's pipes with the ali near the ador, as tn
heavy vitiated ait cannot be otherwise re
moved. The government engineer in eharr
of the new city hall contends that tn, sys,er
will ventilate the cells adequately SO far as III
Z purity OF the air is concerned, and that tn
thickness Of the walls will make the cells con
pAratively cool
How long |. will take the concrete walls an
settings to dry is question no, ye, determined
Apparently many months must elapse beior
they will be iii for human beings to sleep in
anless they are dried by artificial heart
The lighting seems to be cruelty insuthcien
uhen II Is remembered ihatthe city hallcelsa al
inasadsd merely as detention places ior phi
easu fAs,Ssd and no, es.pisisi Of ofienses; an