The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-03-13
What May Come With En-
couragement.
CENTRAL SITE FOR BUILDING.
Merchants Agitating Scheme-FOrt
and Beretania the Corner-MOdern
in Every Way-Roof Garden-Sub-
StantiaI and Handsome Building.

A new hotel Gas been the sub
ject under discussion by the pro-
gressive merchants during the
past two days and from informa-
ton obtained yesterday the matter
seems to have a reasonable show
of success.
The idea is to erect an attractive
three-story building at the corner
of Fort and Beretania, owned by
Bruce Waring & Co. The hotel
will be modern in every way, even
to roof garden. The lot akes in
besides the Irwin property that
known as the Mossman property
on Beretania street.
The building as projected will be
of brick and stone and will contain
one hundred rooms On the first
floor there will be twelve or thir-
teen stores similar in style and fin
ish to the one now occupied by N.
S. Sachs. The roof garden will be
feature of the hotel, and will be
arranged after the style of the eel
ebrated roof gardens in New York.
Besides being a modern restaurant,
where the guests of the house and
their friends may have their meals
served, there will be a stage large
enough for frst-class entertain
ments.
The roof garden will be fitted up
with the most comfortable and ap-
proved furniture suitable for the
purpose and will be a flower gar
den in almost every respect.
Guests may sit at their tables and
enjoy their dinners midst flowers
and potted palms.
Bruce Waring & Co. were seen
by an ADVERTISER reporter yester-
day and questioned as to the
rumors. Both Mr.. Waring and
Mr.. Desky were reluctant to talk of
the matter until assured that it
had been canvassed by the busi-
ness men.
Mr.. Waring said: eve bought
the property from w. G. Irwin as
an investment, intending to erect
two-story building, the lower
part to be used as stores and the
second floor as a lodging house.
When our intentions became
known an influential gentleman
called upon US and suggested that
we erect a hotel that would be a
credit to the city The suggestion
pleased us very mqAh but when we
considered the cost of such an un-
dertaking, we found it would re-
quire more money than we had
uninvested to carry it through.
"We calculated that building
such as the people here would re-
quire, would cost, including the lot
$150,000 and while we would like
very much to go ahead with it, we
saw it was not probable that we
could. This was our answer to the
gentleman who made the proposit-
ion.
"Then the matter was taken up
by a few merchants for the pur-
pose of raising whatever difference
might be necessary to carry out the
project. We were waited upon
again and in the meantime we con-
sidered the matter in a business
way and from every point of view.
There is a great risk to run in the
starting of such an enterprise, be-
cause few hotel men that the peo-
pie here would care to have,
would be willing to take the place
unless some liberal inducements
were offered.
"You know, perhaps" said Mr..
Desky, ''that hotel men are born,
not made, and they are not as
thick as men in other lines, and
what is needed in an enterprise of
this sort is capable manager.
After due deliberation," con-
| tinued Mr.. Waring, ''we decided to