The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-06
{. D. HALL Z SON. FINE
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goods. The building caught fire twice
on the Fort street side, and a lot of
Photographic, films, brushes and similar
articles were burned on the inside of
the room.
Two of the plate glass windows at the
Golden Rule Bazaar and one at the
Bulletin office were wrecked. The new
Mcintyre building at the corner escap-
ed injury except some broken windows,
although the fence around it was or
fire several times.
During the entire progress of the fire
the gravest fears were entertained
for the safety of Levers & Cooke
lumber yard. One engine with two
streams of water was detailed to watch
out for this place, and excellent work
was done. Almost adjoining Hall &
Sons is wooden shed, very Old, light
and highly infamable. Near it on the
Waikiki side is another building of the
same character. Both were on fire re-
peatedly and at one time it looked like
the former would certainly go, and
that the flames could not be kept out
of the lumber A bucket brigade was
organized and did valuable service in
extinguishing live Goals and squelching
small fires.
The Hall building burned with re
markable rapidity. BY o'clock it was
practically a smouldering heap. The
King street wall, which was supported
by pillars, and made up largely of glass
soon went to pieces and fell out into
the street. At daylight two of the ca
gines were withdrawn, and Number 8
was left on guard. Water was contin-
uously poured on the ashes for hours.
Although at such an unseemly hour
in the morning, hundreds of people
fiocked to the fire. They came from
all parts of the city. Thousands of
others watched the display from their
verandas. 1t was with difficulty that
the police kept the crowds back during
the night Numerous electric wires were
down for a full half hour, and added
a new and terrible danger. Soon, how
ever, the electric company shut off the
circuit affected The cable of the tee-
phone company, passing in front of the
store, was ruined the casing and filling
being burned out. Numerous single
lines were also knocked out.
Fire Chief Thurston say that the
cause of the fire was almost certainly
spontaneous combustion. He attri-
butes the origin to oily rags and other
intlamable MATERIAL on the first floor
: and in the cellar This opinion seems
: also to be shared in by men employed
in the store. The character of the
goods in the building were such as
would admittedly assist the progress
of the fire, there being considerable
oil, gasoline, gunpowder, etc.
The e. o. Hall & Son building wher
fully completed and fitted cost $62 21O
Other fixtures added later would bring
the total cost of building and fixtures
up to nearly $685. 900 There was on the
building insurance for $50, 600. The es.
timated value of the goods in the store
was $15O,0O0, but Mr.. Hall states of late
the stock has not been so large, al
goods not required for immediate use
being kept in the warehouse on Queer
street. He has not been able to figure
up accurately, but says he believe
that the actual cost of goods in the
store viii not foot up much over $40, 600
The insurance on the merchandise is
$4,000. If Mr.. Hall is correct i'm his
hgures the actual loss to the concern
viii be in the neighborhood of $52. 900
and the insurance companies will sacri
flee $4,000.
Mr. Hail looked around this morning
for building in which to resume bust
ness but failed to find one that was sat
isfactory He said later that after
looking over the goods in the ware
!,
that he did not have enough to start on
anyway, and that he would rebuild at
once. 1T will take several months to
get new stock here from the east,
explained Mr.. Hail. "and in the mean
while the new building can be well
under way The new building will be
very much like the old one, with any
slight alterations that we may in the
next few days decide to make. | have
opened temporary office on the second
floor of the Safe Deposit building which
will be my headquarters until we are
ready to occupy the new building"
Levers q Cooke have taken an office
in the Stangenwald building. They
will reOccupy their old store as soon
as a roof can be put on and the build
ing is renovated.
E. o. Hall & Son have "a warehouse
near Allen street in which is kept a
large quantity of their wholesale stock
Inc building destroyed carried the
stock of their retail establishment
Early this morning the officers of the
company established a temporary ONCE
upstairs in the Hawaiian Trust Com
pany building.
Soon after the alarm of the fire was
given employees Of Levers q Cooke ar
rived on the scene and going into the
Levers q Cooke building gathered up
all papers not kept in the safe and
ttook them to a place of safety. BY this,
little inconvenience to the accounting
department of the firm will arise from
the immense quantities of water with
which the building was flooded.
The Mutual Telephone Company got a
pretty severe rub in it's lines. 1t ap-
| pears that the lines tO Palama Kalibt