The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-28
A HOTEL
FOR HORSES
.EquineP aIaceNear
the Business
Center.
BROWNS HOTEL
STREET EDIFICE
A Thoroughly Modern System oil
StabIing Horses and Caring
for Vehicles.

waiian Hotel could for several rea-
= sons never have opened at a more
opportune time; as a matter of fact, the
very fact that it was open at the time
yards saved the hacks and horses of
several hackmen, who had just removed
their hacks, some of them upon the
very evening of the fire, from that
place to Mr.. Browns stables.
Built at very expensive figure after
the design of Mr.. r. w. Swain, the
architect, it makes a very handsome
appearance on the outside, where its
white-columned front faces the Ha-
waiian Hotel and in the interior, where
both the finish and the utmost regard
for cleanliness and sanitary condition
show all the features of modern stable
building, not TO be rivalled elsewhere in
Honolulu
Built well from the ground up
says Mr. Brown, the owner of this "ho-
tel for horses" and so it most certain
ly is, having a solid foundation of coral
rock and concrete three feet in depth,
while the massive timbers and heavy
pinnings and rafters insure the utmost
solidity
Mr.. Brown has built for time; he has
a thirty five years lease on the prop
erty upon which his building stands
and he intends to have it standing there
at the end of that time barring. of
m, Ill
The constructor. Mr.. de Fries, also
deserves all the praise which the own
er unstintingly lavishes upon him;
from the bottom of the founda ton to
the very top of the ridgepole every
plank and stick fits to hairs breadth.
Take the level and put it on any
board in the building and you'll find it
exact" said Mr.. Brown
The stable is a two-story one. the
lower floor being reserved for carriages
office, two corner stores and a harness
room. while the top story is for the
horses
The floor of the bottom story is of BIZ
luminous concrete, with rills running
through it at places to lead off the
water from the washing place. In one
horses, with rills converging in star
shape to trap in the middle, which,
as does also the washtrap upstairs,
connects with the city sewer
The harness room is neat and clean
as a pin. Especially noticeable is a
rotary device of Mr.. Browns own in
vention, by which the cleaning of a set
of harness is made very easy, as it
saves all the shifting involved by the
usual peg.
The office is furnished with an annun-
ciator, connecting with the Hawaiian
Hotel, the Pacific Club and the Off
GERS Club. The telephone number is
1911, being also the number of the pri-
vate hackstand connected with the sta
BILE. The two corner stores will I'M
doubtedly prove very valuable because
of their proximity to the hotel
From the ground floor a wide runway
leads to the upper story, where the
horses are kept; this gangway is COW
cred with rubber mating, making
slipping absolutely impossible.
In tbs upper story the absence o
heat ani all the iisagreeable doors
generally associated with a stable is
surprising. The place is a marvel of
cleanliness and healthfulness. The
height of the roof makes the ventila-
ton perfect, and the special roof pa
secures GOODNESS not otherwise OBJ
tainable.
The floors, double with asphalt be-
tween them and over them. are laid
with slight slant so as to make the
waste-matter collect in the washtrap,
and this, as well as the movable slab
floors, with which all the stalls are fur
nished, makes the cleaning very easy.
All the old bedding and manure is col
lected into the manure shoot, leading
down to the ground floor, whence the
refuse is daily carted away
There are fifty-four stalls, five by
four and one-half feet in size and two
box-stalls
There is another great feature which
we, especially, with the recent disas-
trous Stockyards fire in mind, cannot
commend too much: this is the great
precaution exercised against fire. Alb
solutely no smoking is permitted up
stairs and only electric lights are
used. Then no more hay is stored than
is necessary for immediate consump-
ton, Mr.. Brown preferring to take the
trouble of carting the hay often to hay-
ing such source of danger on his
premises. Besides this the building is
fitted out with several fire hoses, al
ways laid out and ready for action.
KILL THE DANDRUFF GERM