The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-12

nue., putting up temporary structures
ana teams are moving debris from lots
which are to be utilized at once. The
indications of industry are on all sides
Inc foundations for a large building
for the White garage were laid before
the fire on the lot bounded by Market.
Van Ness avenue and Fell street. and
on THESE temporary one-storv frame
structure IS being put up rapidly
The avenue between Ellis and Eddy
streets is not paved, and it is now cut
up like country road, the dust being
very deep and horses having to strain
, to pull loads over it,
MEN DOING BUSINESS
/ IN PECULIAR PLACES.
mere are signs uD on the Hotel Bal
tlmore. on Van Ness. between OAR
feH and Geary, announcing that it is
now open for business Accent is
placed on the word open as all the
windows have been shattered and the
ventilation is complete. A candy and
lce-cream store next to it, though
oiaekened and showing evidences OF
disturbance, is doing a rushing bust
ness.
The greatest display of enterprise yet
noted on the avenue is on the north
west corner of Post, where the Empo-
rum has leased mansion and has
some goods on the counters already
A large sign announces that this i'm
portant concern has S2500O0 worth of
merchandise on the way Two fifty
vara lots will be covered with build
ings in addition to the house already
up, carpenters having already made
considerable progress with this work
and an attractive front will be put on
the big store.
Sign painters who make placards
and banners while you wait are Iiu-
merous on Fillmore street, and none of
them has an idle moment. Merchants
lawyers and other men who want to
put up announcements on this now
busy thoroughfare are overwhelming
them with orders.
1t is not easy to move along Fill
more street at present. as. the side
walks are thronged with people and
the roadway filled with all sorts of
vehicles. A box or a plank is enough
for many cigar and tobacco dealer
TO do business on; an optician who
was burned out has his present stock |
displayed on a fence. and various
ing persons of meager means but |
strong commercial instincts who are |
unable to rent store space and yet are
determined to catch the trade of the 1
passing crowd.
Ffllmore-street prices are still rea-
sonable and competition is lowering !!
some of them Oranges We're being
sold at three for 10 cents until yester-
whom a a a
large wagonload which he disposed of
at two for a nickel, or a dozen for 80
cents. Soft drinks can be had for 5
cents on almost every block. and
'honeycakes filled with ice cream are
offered for a nickel.
A great variety of signs are up along
Fillmore street. The spelling is gener-
ally according to Webster. but in some
places there are indications that the
painters dictionary was lost in the
danes.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAw ARE
NOT MUCH NEEDED.
Many attorneyS-at-law have taken
'ooms on and in the neighborhood of :
Fillmore street but lawyers do not ,
seem to be needed at this juncture, .
md, finding his occupation gone, one ,
If them put out his sign as a real es- ,
ate agent yesterday. +.
Wagons of many makes, with horses
# various degrees of energy attached
O them now are used as conveyances 7
o and from the ferry, a charge of %
ents being made for the ride. Cheap
hairs placed in them, and they dol
lot look comfortab BILE. &c
Of ha Int
n the southeast corner of Fillmore t
nd O'Farrell streets was begun yes /
erday and Baldwin & Howell leased v
early all of them in a few hours. The b
Royal Shoe Company took the corner L
tore at $500 per month Robert Atkins I
nd d. Jacobs & Son. two others at t
200 each, and Lyons the tailor one at f
$50 per month. A building is also go Fl
lg up at the southeast corner of Fill n
lore and Post streets, and Baldwin & {
lowell leased the corner store in ii to Il
'oheim the tailor for -$275 per month.
Weinstock, Lubin & Co are to To- o
ate at the northwest corner of Fill h
lore and Post streets, and a store with d
large area will be erected for Ra- d
haels at the northeast corner of Fill a
lore and Geary streets. Armand Call
aus sign is little off the line. being il
t the corner of Webster and Suffer {
The cheering information is that San Ct
Francisco is not threatened with a wa II
,r famine and that all of the citys II
,urces of water supply are intact.
robably for TWO or three more weeks, r
owever. there viii be a necessity for q
,nserving the limited supply that is al
DIV coming into the city, for the rea- w
N that this supply cannot be en- m
rged until a serious break in the
main across the marsh. nl
ear San Bruno, leading from the st
-ystal Springs reservoir, is repaired. 20
ntil this break is repaired San Fran al
sco's supply of water Will be limited In
IL. 900 600 gallons daily, and con- ~
ierab BILE amount of this supply is now DC
ing used to fill the various reservoirs
roughout the city. Some of these W.
are full and some are fill Oil
y SLOWLY Within a few DAYS the re