The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-08-13

lere, mostly frame and the material
5 all imported. The firm of
levers x Cooke largely control
he lumber and building material in
crest in Honolulu. On their wharf and
y their warehouses YOU VIII find thOus-
lnds of feet OF pine lumber from the
Puget Sound, redwood from Eureka,
glass and corrugated iron
from England Germany and Belgium.
They carry a complete line of mattings
from China and Japan and have two
large fOur-masted scho0ners, the
Robert Levers and the Alice Cooke.
These schOOners on their trips 10 other
ports for lumber and other goods carry
thousands of tons of sugar. This com
pany occupy a large building on Fort
street where they have their offices and
saIesrOOms. Here you will find a COM
plete stock Of builders hardware.
paints wall papers and mating. The
above company is composed Of Robert
Levers, +. J. LOwrey and c. NJ. Cooke.
They have a large trade also through
out the other Islands.
Many new frame residences viii be
erected on the Island especially IN the
suburbs Of Honolulu during the next
twelve months on the new electric car
lines. Buena Vista a property formerly
belonging to the late John Patty has
been purchased and laid out in magnln-
cent lots for building purposes by
Bruce Warning &, Company. This COM
pany have also a new subdivision call
ed Punahou tract. of about twenty
seven acres on Wilder avenue The
electric car line viii also pass by on
two sides of this property. This Is a
charming spot for a home and many
have already completed building, real
ling that the rapid transit Will make
this property valuable for private resi-
dences. They are now filling the lake
of the Cvclomere Park which comprises
abOut 10 acres and when completed Will
he laid out in lots, and lies mauka OF
the Queen street car line. This tract
is part of the original kewalO purchase
Mr. Desky is manager OF Bruce Warlne
& Company, who control the real eSl ate
business on the Island. They are locat-
ed in a handsome suit of offices in the
Progress Block.
1t is rumOred that in a very short
time the new electric road viii be erect
ed and the. horse cars thing OF the
past
They have now a fine electric plant
which the Hawaiian Electric Company
established five years ago. This com
pany furnishes light to the whole city
with the exception of the Government
/ buildings. We had a very pleasant visl
! through their buildings and Mr.. Theor
! dOre Holman, the genial manager per
sOnalIy conducted us through the pOWs
/ house, ice-making and cold storag
plants. In addition to lighting the cit,
| and homes with electricity they als
furnish electric plants and generator
of all descriptions and have on hand
1,av Il oil a
electrical goods.
In connection with their electri
light business they have an ice and re
frigerating plant. In the lce-makln
department, they have a Fricke ic
machine. capacity fourteen tons of &c
every twenty-four hours and one hun
dred thousand cubic feet of cold stOl
age. The ice manufactured is strict
pure as the water is boiled twlc
and filtered five times before freez
ing. How the soldier boys oil
enjoy this pure cold water, an
the Electric Company kept severe
clean barrels well filed with water tC
their use during their stay in Homo
lulu. The whole output OF the ice pIa1
is sold to the Peoples Ice COmpan.
The cold storage is an immense DullC
ing divided off into a great many sci
arate rooms which are kept at ten
perature of from 81 to As degree
Here you will find real Alaska weathF
, and wish you had your seal skin sac
: with you. In several OF the large room
hundreds of dressed beef were hun
along on pulleys, in the other room
were tons of butter, cheese, fruits, an
; poultry. and one large room is d.
, voted to fish and canned oysters. II
doors to these rooms are about
inches thick and weigh 100 lbs; the
are made of mineral wool.
The weather here is so warm that IL
- ice plant is indeed a blessing, for we
f ice not manufactured here the co
f would be so great that it would
= imDOssible for all to keep perishab
) goods for any length of time. The mi
I and butter here is greatly affected
- the extreme heat. Many have g0l
into the dairy business on these Is
4 ands. but after the loss OF much Tim
. labor and money have given 1t u
There is now established here what
I known as The Dairymen's Associate
: who have offices on Fort street, Wi
! A. E Weirick as manager. This Ass
. citation supply the greater part Of Il
population of this city with milk, crea
: and butter Their plan of carrying
a dairy business is somewhat differe
y than in the States, but as it has prOv'
a success many Of the dairymen on Il
Coast have adopted the plan of tn
r. association. They receive all the mi
p and butter from eight large diaries
,. Gated on the Island and deliver t
= milk at less expense than the dairi
= coul& themselves. The COWS of the
y diaries number about eight hundre
o The milk that this association deliv
o to the public is strictly pure, and co
= sidering the heat and poor pasturag
. compares very favOrably with the pr
f duct from the Coast Rental
. pasturage here is very high indeed, a
: the COWS tortured continually by
: insect called the horned fly soon
e off Butter is 40 cents per pound a
d milk 10 cents per quart, and when o
n considers the difficulties to be met wit
il in this business, the above prices a
d very low.
/. There iS very LITTLE feed raised IN e.