The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-13

lars. Presumably their building cost
as much more, SO 1000 were invested
by this firm. On the opposite corner
the Spreckels have erected a shell that
is occupied in part by stores and as
offices, and an opera house. Further
along is the stable of the Volcano
transportation company which helps
people from the train to the volcano
and from town to the outlying settle
ments and plantations to the north.
Up to within few months the Pea
cock building has held the palm as
the best built structure in Hilo be-
sides being the only fre-proof one
Today, however, the belt goes to the
masonic fraternity for the best con-
crete building in Hilo and the best of
its kind in the Territory. At a cost of
forty thousand dollars Kilauea lodge
has built place that will be everlast-
| ing. Being practically three stories it
will top the Peacock which is on the
opposite corner; for it has but two.
The ceiling of the lodge room is TWEEN
ty-three feet high and the area large
enough to accommodate any gather
ing that may be there unless it be
that at the dedication ceremony. Fred.
Harrison was given charge of the con-
struction of the temple after a man
from the Coast had made a failure of
it. The mistakes of that man cost
the lodge a lot of money and if it
was to be done over again the call
would be on the Honolulu man as
patronizing near-home industry. The
lower floor of the building will be for
eff T fO1
in for all of them
Just a block below the Masonic
building the Hackfelds will build a
concrete structure of two stories at a
cost of fifty thousand dollars. John
Bohnenberg, who has had charge of
the wood work in the Masonic Temple
will be put in charge of this building
by Fred Harrison who has the con-
tract for the construction. 1t will be
a great addition to the architectural
appearance of this place and there is
room left for other improvements on
the same street. The stable building,
while not an eyesore. is something OF
a wart on the face of the street and
the section of the town would be vast
~ improved if another building and
another building and another business
were installed Practically it is the
only place in the block that is not
credit for at the other end are two
good buildings and the intervening
ones are not half bad.
Demosthenes Lycurgus, who recently
purchased the Hilo Hotel, will put inn
provements on it to the value of seven
thousand dollars as soon as he can
get the men and material Among the
additions to the hotel will be con-
crete building to be used as a kitchen
and there will be other work done
about it that will make it one of the
most attractive buildings in the town
Contractor Harrison goes to Homo
lulu on the steamer that takes this for
the purpose of consulting Hackfeid
relative to putting cellar under the.
new building. There is room enough,
he says. to go down and not strike
water difficult proposition in Hilo
to go anywhere beyond a foot below
the surface and not find a flow. He
says the rock is there for the concrete
and if ne does not take it from the
cellar he will have to take it from
the quarry where it will be more ex-
pensive.
1t is not difficult to see where a hum
bred thousand dollars worth of build
ing improvements are in progress here.
And this is a healthy sign; for the i'm
provements are in the section where
the Anglo-Saxon nests. If there could
he a CONFUSION that would shake up
the waterfront, or a tidal wave that
would change the Typography and the
rhysical complexion of that part of
the town. Hilo would be benefited ana
beautified.