The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-12
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there will be no inside rooms, except
ing where small cubicles are neces-
sary.
Entering through the main doorway
a rotunda thirty feet in diameter will
be met, from each side of which pas
sages will extend to various portions
of the building. The general office
and assistant secretarys Office will
be just across the rotunda, handily
situated to meet visitors.
To the left of the rotunda the games
room will be found where tables for
checkers, chess and other indoor
games of similar nature will be in
stalled. Continuing along the hotel
street side comes the reading room,
which will be amply fitted up. On
the right of the rotunda will be the
music room, the main staircase lead
ing to the upper floors, and a short
stairway leading to the spacious base
ment. Beyond the music room will
be a large lanai 40 by 20 feet, open
ing on to the courtyard in the center
of the lot Adjoining the music room
and the lanai will be the billiard
room, in which three pool tables and
one American billiard table will be
installed, and back of the billiard
room, at the mauka end of the build
ing, will be the cafe and kitchen.
In the main lobby just nearthe ro.
tunda is to be drinking fountain and
trophy cabinet, wherein any prizes
won by Y. M. G. A. teams will be dis
played. A corridor from the rotunda
will run parallel to ,Hotel-street open
ing into a spacious hall capable of
seating between $50 and 300 persons,
this hall can also be reached through
the boys entrance. 1t is proposed to
devote this room to educational or re-
ligiOus meetings. Beyond the hall
will be large gymnasium and ply
steal directors office, reached by a
passage leading past the hall and also
from the boys entrance. The various
entrances which are provided are for
the reason that it is not considered
advisable for the boys and the men to
be continually coming into contact
with each other. AS arrangements
now stand the boys and the adults will
not cross wires in any portion of the
building. Though they may use many
| features of the Association in com
mon as far as is practicable it is de-
sired to keep them from interfering
with each other, and this will be at.
tanned by the enforced use of the va,
rious entrances and passages. The
ceiling of the gymnasium will be from
twenty to twenty-five feet high and
will extend upward FIR a story and
half. 1t is to be 73 feet by Al on
the floor. In this room all the APP
paratus work will be done, and for the
use of members there will be great
variety of appliances. Wrestling,
rowing and bicycle riding machines
will be among the many accessories
in this room. A running track is also
to be marked out, thirty laps to the
mile. Back of the gymnasium there
will be two hand-ball courts, one above
the other, each eighteen feet in height
These courts will be regulation in
every respect, being fourwall courts
twenty feet by forty in size and spe
cially arranged for ventilation. An
other feature of the athletic side OF
the building is that the gymnasium
handball courts and games hall will
each be provided with a visitors gal
lery with ready access to the public
and entirely Independent of the floor
space of the rooms themselves. Visit
ors can came and go without in any
way interfering with whatever exer
cises, games or competitions are in
progress and visitors will not be able
to gain access to the gymnasium OF
other rooms from the galleries, with
out retracing their steps to the mem
bers entrance.
ImmediatelyNCn entering the base
ment will be installed the attendants
counter, where towels, etc, will be
stored. Business men using the base
ment will find their lockers on the Ho
tel side of the building, where full
length lockers will be provided to en-
sure clothes being temporarily put
away without being creased by fold
ing. A liberal supply of hot and cold
shower baths, lavatories, etc. have
been allowed for, and large lounge
room. in which a pool table will be