The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-17
ARLINGTON
TO CLOSE
September Will See Its
Finish.
lend OF FAMOUS HOUSE
Alexander Young's Plans for New
Building Mean its Speedy
Demolition.

On September 1 the dinng-room of the
Arlington Hotel will be closed and about
the 9Th Of that month Manager Thos. Z.
in the hotel and vacate the premises for
ever. This is in accordance with the
terms of the sale of the McGrew property
and the preparations for building the new
street from Hotel to King in which the
Bishop Estate is largely interested. A
strip of land thirty feet wide will be Civ
en- by the Bishop Estate to the new street,
Alexander Young contributing like strip,
making fine street sixty feet in width,
with twelve-foot sidewalks.
After the auction of his hotel effects
Manager Krouse will occupy the Airing
ton Annex on Hotel street, on which he
has a lease for fourteen months longer.
next month practically ends the long and
famous career of the building which once
was the dwelling place of Bernice Pauahi
Bishop. In its palmy days the residence
was the scene of many an important So
cial function and many will be the re-
its walls. 1t Is contemplated to rear in
its place a handsome, modern structure.
When the Alexander Young building is
completed, taking in the entire frontage
on the new street and extending also on
Hotel and King streets there will be
many features connected with it which
will give Honolulu the reputation OF hav-
! ing as fine a hotel as can be found any
where in the Western States. The Alex
anGer Young block will be six stories in
height at the Hotel and King street COR
ners. Between these two portions the
building will be only four stories high
The ground floor is to be occupied by
stores. The six-story portion on the cor
ner of Hotel and the new street will
prct ably be leased by Mr.. Krouse and be
made into a first-clasS hostelry. He has
the refusal of that portion of the block
The fourth story of the central section
will also be leased and used partly as the
dining-room of the hotel and partly as q
roof garden for the general public, where
in all probability music and refreshments
will be the evenings features. There is
on foot plan to lease portion of this
roof garden to be fitted up as a theater oil
n: usic hall, but this matter will rest unit
the return Of Mr.. Young from the Coast
The music hall would be conducted mucl
on the order of the music hall in the toll
story of the Masonic Temple, Chicago.
1t is the intention to locate the kitch
ems, pantries and storage rooms of thu
hotel on the sixth story of the corne
building, nearly all modern hotels havini
ladcpted this plan
Mr.. Young has been endeavoring I,
secure property for right of way lead
ing from Alakea street to the rear o
the new building, so that all goods 70
the stores, baggage, and, in fact, every
thing that goes into or leaves the buildin,
can be operated from the rear instead o
using the street. This right of way viii
be wide enough to permit the passage o
two vehicles.
The Arlington Hotel is not directly il
the way of the newstreet, only the veran
idas and two or three feet on the Waikiki
wing. This will be shaved off in tn
process of street cutting