The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-02-09

How many people realize tina
Honolulu is soon to have handsom
city church, with all the modern con
yeniences and comforts-with fine
spacious and airy auditorium, and
Sabbath school room which will max,
the most wicked and unregenerat'
bad boy indisposed to play truant OF
SUNDAYS? With view to obtaining
some information for the public OF
the status Of the enterprise, an AID
yERTIsER reporter went over the
building in the company of Mr.. Lish
man, the contractor, and member OF
the building committee, to both OF
whom thanks are due for informa-
tiou most courteously rendered.
The church fronts on Beretanla
street, where it IS approached by a
fine flight of granite steps, but the
aged will no doubt prefer to enter at
the side door on Richard street,
which lets them in without any step
climbing.
Entering by this door we find our
selves in an aisle about seventy-hve
feet in length, running across the
building. This aisle or hallway IS
connected with the Sabbath school
by a number of large folding doors.
The school room Is IS feet long by
As feet wide, and very high and airy.
At the east end will be gallery 80
46. and there will be accommodations
for not less than 600 or 700 children
in all. The room will be wainscotted,
the walls finished in rough plaster
suitable for tinting and the timber
work and large beams OF the roof
will be covered with a glazed varnish,
so that the hall viii present an ap
pearance similar to the very beauti
fnI audience room at Kamehameha.
As the largest and finest window in
the building, with its splendid dis
play of stained glass, IS to open into
the Sabbath school room, 1t Is safe to
say that there will be no more attrac-
tive and delightful place of assembly
in this city than this which Is de-
signed especially for the benefit of
the children. The library will be
conveniently placed in the adjoining
hall.
Another particularly attractive
feature will be the ladies' room 1925
at the left of the passage, which will
be tastefully arranged and large
enough for many of the ladies meet
ings. At the other end of this
same passage way is the kitchen
with large window through which
the supplies at church socials will be
passed almost directly into the
school room.
The main entrance into the audi |
forum is of course from the front on
Beretania street. Mounting flight |
of twelve stone steps, and passing
the beautiful granite pillars of the
entrance way you find yourself IN |
the vestlbule, ten feet in width, from |
each end of which stairways lead to
the gallery and tower. When the
doors have once swung behind you,
you find yourself in the auditorium,
the pulpit and organ loft fronting |
YOU. The auditorium is 68x7O, or
almost exactly square. Fifty two |
feet above the floor is an Octagon |
yentilator in the roof with a dla-
meter of twenty four feet The floor
slopes gradually down from three
sides to the pulpit, which will be
placed just below the organ and |
choir loft. The latter is 24x2lx3O |
feet high affording room for a large |
choir aud as fine an organ as the lib |
erality Of citizens will purchase.
Numerous large windows will furnish
abundance of light and air TO room
which Is twice as high as the CORE
spending one of the present church,
and which can hardly fail to be cool.
The seats, Of antique oak, will be
placed in curves, and will accommo-
date 500 people. The inside finish of
the auditorium is to be the same as
that of the Sabbath school room.
Mention should also be made of
room upstairs, 26 by 80 feet, which |
looks down into the Sabbath School,
and will be used as convenience die |
tates.
The church building IS 167 feet
long and 81 wide, the gables 20 feet
high, and the corner tower when com |
pleted will reach a height of about
100 feet. The entire structure, with
the exception of the granite to be
used In the front and the wood for |
the last Is feet of the tower, is to be |
built of the hard volcanic rock, used |
to such beautiful effect at the Kane |
hameha School. The rock has all |
been duarried on the Kamehameha |
estate, the permission having been |
granted for a nominal sum, and work !
began a year ago. 1t is being pushed |
rapidly forward with prospect of |
completion by September or October |
if funds and credit do not both col |
lapse. The weekly pay roll amounts
to about $500, all day work, divided |
between 20 men at the quarry, ~
stone cutters and masons, IA white |
carpenters and II helpers, the hands |
being Portuguese and other for
eigners.
The church was designed by Geo.
A. Bordwell, of San Francisco, and |
is similar to church in East Oak
land. The windows will be filled |
with cathedral, Venetian and other
xpalescent glass, in geometricsl
~.hgures, a contract for ali of them