The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-02
THE M'CANDLESS
BLOCK WILL BE
THREE STORIES
Handsome Modern BIock1tosRepiace
Old Shacks---UncIe~ Sam
Tenant.

I prisms in their AGILITY 10 .7efract th'
light and make the interior as hgh-
as the street above. TIE bar loci
| prism1 have three points so arranged
as not TO permit any of the light Il
strike the rear prisms but to throw
the entire light received through tbt
prisms to the rear of the building.
basement. In addition to this tn sr:
VIII be a light we'll for the Iighci:' 6
Of the rear of the basement, 50 thai
that part Of the building viii lie VI
TO the most advanced metropolitan
ideas of office lighting,
For the accommodation of the Star
there viii be rear entrance to the
basement from postoffce alley, for
newsboys. etc, and for getting the
mail 10 the postoHce. The height of
tina stories Will be Is - and 10 feet
respectively and the height of the
building from the sidewalk to the top
Of the fire wall viii be so feet. The
King street. the corner and the first
Bethel street stores will have base
merts in connection. The King street
store is the only one which has not
been spoken for as yet. Another fea-
t1re of the building viii be sidewalk
elevators for the facilitation of the
handling of goods desired to be placed
in or removed from the Easements.
Taken all in all, the building viii be
2 credit 10 the New Honolulu The
buildings which are being removed :-re
more or less historic. There was
time when a Chinese planning mill oc-
cupied the greater part of the site
Of the McCandIess building. At that
time there We're blacksmith shops On
King street and none Of the present
modern structures had been erected.
There has been pake restaurant next
to the postoffice since the time when the
memory of man runneth not to the con-
trary. About the time of annexation,
the enterprising pake who then ran the
joint thought he would make a great
hit by making the sign on his res
taurant agree with modern history and
so he changed the name of it to what
was intended to be a compliment TO
Representative (now Senator) New
lands, the introducer of the resolution
of annexation. But the intelligent
painter evidently informed the pake
that there was no such name as New |
lands and that he should have it prop |
srIy spelled, so for several years the
sign squeaked with every wind bearing |
he label New Land" restaurant.
The Oriental invasion" also onsrIb-
Ited to the history of the place A
japanese barber shop and then another
me alongside it captured the Bethel
treet side and finally old Muller the
ocksnith was forced out and a pake
o>ksmith hung his shingle out in his
lace. White the painter had a shop
here for a while. but he, too, was
orced out and went up to Union st.
he removal of Jeffs in December left
he block in the absolute possession
f the Orientals except for Johnson's
andy factory. that being the place
here Miller. the Hotel street candy
ian. started his career after he bios
3med out from his street candy :
agon.
The second st9ry Of the restaurant {
as the Home Rule party headquarters
1900 and before and after was the :
ice of ]. L. Kaulukou and other Ha- ]
6 ian lawyers. And long before that, j
e whole building vas one of the
-weIT' foreign boarding and lodging ;
,uses of Honolulu The second story g
the King street shack was at one :
ne the Office of Princess Theresa's
.rious efforts in the newspaper line :
ID was also the office of J. NJ Poe 6
e, the Hawaiian lawyer. who in 1890 y
the legality Of the method :
which the Delegate to Congress =
As elected. Although he was roundly y
lighted al. at the time. he had the Z
tisfaction Of seeing the last Legis- II
.ure amend the law to provide ex- :,
essly for the election Of delegate, Il
US partially, at least, confirming his a
'eiraI contention.