The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-03-11
MOANA HOTEL RECEIVES GUESTS
TOMORROW.
Visitors to be Shown Through This
Afternoon and Dinner Tonight
Thrum's Annual on the New Hotel

Moana hotel, at Waikiki beach, is all
ready to be opened tomorrow morning.
Manager Smith has everything in place
and this afternoon is showing visitors
through the magnihcently furnished
building. Tonight he will entertain the
directors of the company. a party of
newspaper men and other guests at
dinner. The party viii be taken out in
automobile carriages.
The Moana hotel Company has a cash
capital of $4,000 and the privilege of
increasing TO $3.50, 900 O. G. Traphagen
was the architect of the building.
Thrum's Annual gives the following
description OF the big, new hotel
The front view of the new hotel af-
fords most pleasing and permanent
impression. From the beautiful grounds
near the street the building rises maies-
tcally TO its great height its perfect
delineation. graceful carving and ele-
CANT finish. accumulated by the bright
sunbeams forming a picture not soon
to be forgotten a secondary balcony.
supported by fine stately columns, over
hangs the front entrance Each of the
many sections of the building has it's
own pretty lanai and each window viii
have graceful awning as an addi-
tional comfort to guests
The main hotel has. approximately.
seventy five rooms. This does not in
clude the entire lower floor and the
large Peacock cottage on the grounds.
The lower or first floor of the hotel
is given over to billiard parior. saloon
office, library reception parlor, etc. tt
is planned TO make a CLUB house of the
Peacock cottage until such time as II
may be required for regular hotel pur-
poses. The rooms ON the second, third
and fourth floors will accommodate 1870
guests, although seventy-6ve are an
That are counted upon in the companys
estimate of business The rooms are
large and are SO joined together that
they may be fitted i'm any number or
manner for family or excursion parties
Above the hotel proper is a central tow
er in which is "a fifth floor, and above
that is a covered roof garden. From
the latter a perfect view is to be had
of the sea and most of the city of
Honolulu. This roof garden is large
enough for receptions and dancing par
ties. The hotel has its own electric
plant which will supply power and light
1t will run the up-to-date elevator.
I furnish light throughout the buildings
and grounds, give power to the laundry
and speed the fans in the dining room
Inc advantages of a laundry i'm the
hotel will probably be better under
stood by people of Honolulu than by
visitors from St Louis, Chicago or New
York. Laundry work is carried on here
| by Chinese, for the most part. In con-
sequence, the menace to health has
been generally acknowledged but no
remedy has ever been put into effect
| The Moana hotel will keep this item of
It's business under ii own eye.
The dining room of the hotel will be
in an addition extending over the water
1t viii be as magnficently furnished as
the other departments of the house,
and will have accommodations for from
$50 to 300 people. Under the dining
room are the bath rooms, about seven
/ ty-five in number These are fitted
/ with all modern appliances and conve-
| niences happy arrangement Just
here is that the bathrooms are direct
| ly accessible to the surf so that in
leaving the water person is not obig-
ed to walk along the beach in the cool
air before changing
The Moana hotel is certainly in a
most excellent position, both for con-
Venience, beauty of surroundings and
natural advantages. 1t is environed on
| three sides by the richest foliage of the
beach; from its lanais there is not a
more enhancing view of mountains and
! valleys: at the rear are the swell and
the white caps of the sea. and in the
/ distance the boundless pillows, visible
until shut off by the Western rim of the
Hawaiian heavens