The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-05-15

y deputy employed safe opener
other than one with whom MulcreVy
had contract, and the County Clerk
declared that he would not allow the
demand of 800 safe which was
asked.
After the papers had been deposited
in the temporary office of the County
Clerk at 2511 Sacramento street, Mu!-
crevy applied to Chief of Police Dnan
for a detail of patrolmen to guard the
records.
Librarian George II. Clark of the
Public Library announces from head
quarters, 2435 Sacramento street, that
about 10000 books were saved-a good
working collection of standard reading
matter. reference books and fiction.
All books are being received at the
branch Libraries, 2435 Sacramento
street. Sixteenth and Market street
1864 Mission street and Fourth avenue
and Clement street, Richmond, also at
the several deposit stations in the out
! lying districts. Books in the hands Of
borrowers should be returned as above.
The library trustees will meet next
| week and endeavor to effect an imme-
diate resumption of the service, so that
residents may, during the enforced
leisure of day or evening, have reading
| matter to entertain them. This will be
valuable service, particularly as the
public is the only lending library left,
the Mechanics Mercantile and the
Booklovers' having been wiped out.
MUSEUM IN PARK
Is BADLY WRECKED.
| hn ial at he rly
has been closed and the approach to
1t barred by ladders stretched across
the broad pathway. The cement path
was Uttered with stucco shaken from
the Egyptian facade, the doors were
padlocked and the huge bronze Dore
vase some twelve feet high was tilted
over on its foundation. Alongside the
museum a balustrade of stone was
shaken to pieces. Part of the brick
wall and the zinc cornice on the south
side of the museum were thrown to
the ground, breaking down two of the
/ dragons blood trees and carrying along
two of the huge columns which were
shattered into fragments. Part of the
adjoining wall was cracked and shiver-
ed, pieces of 1t falling out. The west
|
building masses of bricks fell through
the skylights, and even the curator's S
house did not escape, stucco and
bricks littering the ground around it.
Curator John w. Rogers removed to
6l5 Sixth avenue. A big block OF
granite lying ON the ground outside the
museum being exhibit $3.50, was crack
ed across the middle. Some beautiful
pillars of Cotton and Inyo marble
broken by falling, had been removed
from the museum and We're lying out
side with a pile of broken glass and
other debris
Inside the museum is n sad wreck
except the back wing where the Alas
kan exhibits are. The are gallery is
damaged. but the pictures are little
hurt, although n few of them will have
to be reframed, Some of the mum.
mics, after surviving the trials aud
vicissitudes OF some 5000 or 5000 years
were smashed into bits. The china
room would make collector or d
careful housewife weep, Many OF tn,
beautiful vases are ruined and nearly
all the statuary was thrown down and
broken. The show cases We're gener,
ally smashed ana the work of cleaning
up and estimating the damage, now go
ing on IL considerable.
TOWER AT THE FERRY
ls PRONOUNCED SAFE
Tho tower of the Frrry draot Is al
last declared io be- safe, lmmrdiatel,
following the big quake. ana until Yep
recently the thousands nf passpnFerl
going thrnugh tho hulldtuu haN,
shown some irrpiiatiou while passint
under the shadow NJ ihr lufiy pile
which appeared tu have "a slight ilsl
Had thu lnNvr fallen no hundreds O
toms nf hripk lud Stone would hANi
crashed through eNoDihlng lo pe,
mCk
| Yesterday morning rrpflirni Fpfal
Of tho linIhur commission vas in
formed hf lhv mHu u phaTge ~ ihi
IppHlp lhat lhs lpNfF might noe h'