The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-25

going up. On the opposite side of the
street is the six-storied buildings cceu-
pied by a music company and another
| department store firm. This marks the
upper end of the new Market street as
1t IS at present constituted. From an
architectural standpoint the fire and
earthquake were a blessing. 1t so far
outclasses the old Market street that
there can be little comparison between
the two. What with twenty large build
lngs on Market street within length
OF three-quarters Of a mile. the build
ings costing from s350,00o to $4,000. 900
and over, the new Market street will
not have it's SUPERIOR anywhere in the
United States within few years.
THE DIRECTOIRE GOWN.
The Directoire gown. about which the
whole world of women is still talking
excitedly, has appeared in San Fran
cisco, and two short months after il an
| peared at the Paris racecourse worn bv
| two suit models, who at that time seem
ingly fred the shot of fashion heard
round the world 1t first appeared on a
wax figure in large department store
/ on Van Ness avenue, and womAl, yes,
and men-but they were on She out
skirts of the erowd-iammed the side
walk in front of the store TO get view
of the famous sheath gown. Before the
! town had finished talking about it an
other department store of Market street
announced that they had Direetoire
gown which would be shown on a living
model. Horrors! The gown was enough
of sensation, and the idea of having
living model, while old in the East.
was new in the West, and combination
of the two made people gasp. However,
the model turned up, after the first
model hired had fed after reading the
announcements, and the first day some
six hundred people viewed the gown.
Sunday, the following day, the an
nouneements appeared again, and on
Monday the store was fairly swamped
with struggling femininity. Four ele-
vators running constantly carried the
people to the floor where the model
slowly paraded up and down and back
and forth. In a period of FIVE hours
over five thousand people viewed the
gown. The comments were varied. but
it is safe TO say that as a general rule
the people were agreeably disappointed,
The gown was startling in its concep-
tion, of course, but at the same time
the method of wearing it depended sole
~ upon the good sense of the wearer.
The general concensus of opinion seem
ed to be that the gown would set the
styles for the winter without any doubt,
but there would be no more hesitation
about wearing it than there would be
about wearing a low-cut gown-the cut
of the gown depending, as before said.
upon the wearer. The day after the
model appeared, however, some daring
maid, under the chaperonage of her
mother, or some elderly lady, ftraded
the length of the Rue de Fillmore in
the sheath gown. As drawn by an II
resistible magnet, Fillmore street, as the
women passed by, turned en- masse and
followed, one block, two blocks, and
then the crowd growing denser, and al
hurry call having gone in for more po-
lice, the woman hastily got into cross
town car and was whirled away.
SHOE-sHINE BY ELECTRICITY.
crowd of men. and some women,
standing in the hallway of one of Mar
ket street. s office buildings. with their
feet in boxes. attracted my attention
the other evening, and / stopped to IN
vestieate The crowd gazed with pro-
found interest at the large boxes
which looked like weighing machines,
but in which ethey had placed one foot
| watched. The lights on the machines
suddenly went out. Everybody changed
feet-or rather placed the other foot IN
a box. Another minute and the lights
went out again. the second foot was
withdrawn, darby whisked broom
up and down the clothes, and the peo-
pie walked out-with a new shine. 1t
is San Francisco s latest novelty and
invention, a shoe-shining box which
gives a frst-class shine for FIVE cents.
1t is an electric arrangement, and so
successful has it been that already the
Italian colony is up in arms, and plan
ming counter attack of some kind
upon this enemy which bids fair to pre-
vent their early return TO the land of
sunny cit with the small change of |
the American population. It works to |
perfection All you do is TO put foot |
in foot-rest in a box. drop a nickel IN |
the box, press button, and then wait
thirty seconds. It is uneanny, putting |
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