The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-20
Our New Police Station.

The basement story o! the new
Police Building has just been com
pleted by the contractor, Mr.. John f.
Bowler, in a manner which reflects
great credit upon his skill.
Great care was then taken in the
excavation for the foundation, that it
might have solid bearing upon the
underlying coral.
The entire structure, foundation,
walls, arches, and floors is q mono
18th, composed of concrete made in
the same proportions used in first
Four parts of hard, broken rock, two
parts of California North Beach
sand, and one part of the best English
Portland cement.
The dimensions of the building are
SO feet frontage, by depth of So feet.
The height from the floor to the
spring of arches is feet the rise of
arch Is inches, or One-eighth of span ;
depth of center of arch II inches. The
outside walls have a thickness of 27
inches, the inside bearing walls q
inches, and the partition walls II
inches.
The basement contains ten cells,
averaging one hundred square feet of
floor room, and one large cell feet
by 81 for the special convenience of
refractory plantation hands, or any
unruly mob who may be guests of the
Government. Each cell is ensured a
perfect ventilation, in addition to the
natural draught through doors and
grating, by system of four-inch
pipes passing from the top of arches
to the side walls through which they
run to the top of the fire-wall of the
building, and are there surmounted
by Banner" cowls.
The corridors are feet in width
throughout the building, and all cells
and corridors are arched on a radius
proportionate to their width. The
iron gates and cell doors are not yet in
position, but are being made by Mr..
Robert More, the well-known ma
chinist, and will probably be COM
pleted inside of thirty days.
All the cells and corridors are to be
whitewashed, and the now-excellent
light will be thereby increased.
Great fears were expressed by some
of our citizens, while the building
was in course of construction, that
the light and ventilation would be
entirely inadequate. But a short
visit would now convince even the
most skepticaI that it might be very
desirable place to spend some OF our
warm days-even as prisoners.
The design of the bailding is by
Mr.. Julius Smith, the Superintendent
of Public Works. Fror3 an inspec-
ton of the plans it is evident that the
new Police Station will prove to be a
very commodious and well-arranged
building. The most has been made
of the site and of the money that
could be devoted to it's construction.
With the details of the concrete work
now completed Mr. Smith appears to
have taken the most praiseworthy
pains and he may be proud of the re-
suit, which is undoubtedly the finest
work of its class that has been done
on the islands, and would be a credit
to architect and contractor any
where.
1t has already been said that the
construction of this substantial base
ment reflects credit on the contractor,
who has done his work faithfully, al
though those who are acquainted
with the work say that it must have
! been carried on under the dishearten-
ing assurance that it would end in a
! loss to him. Mr.. Bowler's works in
! his own line are we'll known in this
! town, and he is a man who values
| the reputation he has won as both
| skflfull aDd honest in whatever he
| undertakes. All the disadvantages
he found himself laboring under with
/ this contract seem only to have made
! him the more determined that the
! basement of the new Police Station
should be the best piece of concrete
work ever turned out in these islands
and he has succeeded.
Tn view of this being the first com
| plete structure of the kind in Homo
| IuIu if NAV he of interest to OuI