The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-15
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The judge went down town. purchased
some medicine for his headache, drop
ped in at a cigar store for a purchase.
spent about twenty minutes viewing
the moving pictures at the corner OF
Bethel and Hotel streets, leaving when
the cineamatograph made his headache
worse, and then took hack for nome,
seeing the sky lit up by flames as he
progressed and thinking the fire was
far up the valley. He soon discovered
it was his own house being destroyed.
All Wan, the Chinese cook, states
that soon after the judge left for down
town he cleaned up the kitchen floor, so
as to have the house in perfect trim
for the homecoming of Mrs. Humphreys
and the children today, and then he
closed the house and went to stay all
night with a friend in Waikiki. He
says that there was nothing left lit
when he left the house. The gas stove
was out; there was no fire in the coal
range; there were no lamps burning,
the house being illuminated by electrics
and the electric lights, even, had been
turned out Nor was there any light
left in the servants quarters immedl-
ately in the rear of the house. All
Wah smokes cigarettes, but he says
that last night he had not been smok-
ing for some time before leaving the
house.
A Chinese laundryman sleeps in the
servants quarters, but he had left the
house before All Wah left.
Fred Church was recently a guest at
the home of Humphreys, during the alb
sence of the judges family, but Mr..
Church was not at the house yesterday,
having gone to Waialua several days
ago and not yet having returned.
Painters had been at work on the
house for few days and the day be-
fore the fire had completed the second
coat Theq had left, says All Wah,
about three-quarters of a gallon of
paint in the basement, but he did not
think this was anywhere near the kind
ling or coal which is kept in that six
foot cellar.
No one seems able to offer any de-
finite suggestion as to the origin of the
fire. Those who noticed it in the early
stage, however, are all of the impress
sion that it originated either in the
kitchen or the servants quarters, prob
ably in the Kitchen or near there, for
the kitchen was burned before the SER
wants quarters.
A Hawaiian family heard the cries
of Chinese from the store and looking
from their own house, mauka of the
Humphreys place, saw flames shooting
from the ROOF. Speculation alone can
at present be used in regard to the fires
origin.
Policies in the Liverpool, London &
Globe cover a proportion of the loss,
though of course there are effects des-
troyed which have a greater value than |
that which may be reckoned by dollars |
and cents.
some oil paintings, extensively framed,
of the judges grandmother holding his |
mother as an infant, of his father and
of his mother 1t is thought that val
liable portraits of Mrs. Humphreys
mother and the judges grandfather are
destroyed, though there are some of
the effects in a neighbours house still
to be gone over for inventory.
Insurance covered jewelry and wear
ing apparel, but fortunately the jewelry
insured for 1000 and valued at mucn
more, was not in the house. That
which had not been taken by Mrs
on her trip to the mainland
was in the judges safe at his downtown
Office. Mrs. Humphreys and the chill
dren also have with them large guam
tity Of clothes, comparatively little of
their wearing apparel having been left
in the house. Plans and specifications
of the house which was destroyed were
also saved, being in the judges safe.
tits possible that the Humphreys will
rebuild following the old plans.
One policy insured the house for $4,-
900, including outbuildings, and an
other insured it for $3,4OO The main
contents were insured as follows:
SSOO-Wearing apparel, etc.
81 ,90O-Household and kitchen furni-
ture, trunks, valises, pictures, linen,
bedding, etc. H1IRMW
$60O-TurEish and other rugs, mat
ting and mats.
S50O-Pictures: Paul and Virginia"
and might"
S2OO-Bronzes, porcelain and china,
asses and art subjects.