Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-09-26
IN FOREIGN PORTS
Saturday, september 2s.

'pany.
Cut Glass Galore
Speaking of the damage OCCASION
ed by the shake Sunday night, 1t is
simply wonderful the amount Of gem
uine cut glass that was smashed. Al
though the damage sustained In any
single instance. by either private
family or business house, has not ex-
cceded $50. there was triie over
three million dollars worth of cut
glass dislodged and smashed on the
floor by the 'quake-that is, II your
correspondent is to believe all the re-
ports Of disaster to this particular
line of goods. AT the hospital. DR..
Hayes reports the brick chimney
cracked across and the upper portion
turned halfway FOUND on the lower
base. The High School suffered no
damage. At Ferndale station, on the
Hilo railroad, the water tank came
to the ground.
Damage Down Town
The Serrao building. at the corner
of Shipman and Bridge streets, is
cracked slightly on both frontages.
The bottled pickles, sauces, jams,
and other things fell in mass in
the Serrao and Turner groceries, a
beautiful blend of sweets and sours
pouring out as soon as the doors
were opened. Glassware and bottles
In SerraO's, Demosthenes', and other
places went from bar to floor, the
liquid stocks in pantries and whole
sale houses also blending with the
broken glass. There was much
cleaning up to be done except at the
Peacock wholesale house. where Aus
tin has his goods wired in and conse-
quently lost only one bottle OF sake.
But the Peacock block was not so for
tunate, the four corners on the Bridge
street side of the Hilo Bank win
dows are Clipped Off. though moth
ing touched them. There is crack
In the plaster In the bank several
feet long and several inches wide,
VIII ich also shows in the County At
torney's Office on the other side of
the wall. In the sitting room up
stairs and in the hall there was here
and there light sprinkling of plas-
ter on the floor. and the big water
cooler went off its base. At Holmes
store 1t was the crockery that suffer-
ed most. Soap fell to the floor In
barber shops, a window in the Inter-
Island Office was smashed. two win
dows In the Herald office were brok-
en- and one press was moved five
inches out of plumb. The top OF the
little shoe shop next door was about
three inches out OF place overhang-
ing the sidewalk, and 1t has since
been moved back into position. The
Hilo drug store lost couple OF bot
ties. everything there being wired,
and there was no damage at Ken
nedy's jewelry store, not even a piece
of cut glass cracked.
1t was near Kalapana that three
houses, occupied by Hawaiians, fell
to the ground. At the Hawaiian Ma
hogany camp, Superintendent Sam
johnson was thrown from his bed.
He Immediately rushed to the mill,
where he found all the lamps upset
and eXtinguished, but no damage
done. At Waimea. Charlie Hall Ian
ded on the floor after retiring early.
Al the plantations, the mill machin-
cry is being carefully examined. and
from all parts of the Island the re-
ports come of more or less severity
In the shake and of more or less dam
age. The private houses seem to
have suffered the most and the loss
from broken furniture and glassware
must mount up to many thousands
of dollars from all parts Of the ISL
and.
Link Banqueted
The banquet given on Tuesday
evening to Link McCandless at De-
mosthenes Hotel created little less
excitement than the earthquake. 1t
was certainly an up-to-date affair,
and the lucky ones who gathered
about the board surely had the time
of their lives.
Breakwater
The work OF laying the track on
the new piece OF roadway from Wal
akea to the breakwater site has
been going on since last Monday, and
II is expected that this particular
span will be ready for trains in
about ten days. A dozen carloads of
ties are on hand and more are on
the way. so that there will be no de-
lay on that score. Quite large
gang are busy ballasting, laying ties,
and spiking rails west of the rail
road shops. The shore end is all
ready for business. The Office build
Ing, that will accommodate the book-
keeper, craftsman, and Mr.. Metzger's
ONCE Is completed and painted. The
big track scale has been installed