Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-16

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Wall e Dongherty's superbly stock
ed and beautiful new jewelry store
was opened last Saturday and Satur-
day night to a crowd that numbered
hundreds upon hundreds and repre-
scented the leaders in business and
professional life and society. From
nine until two o'clock during the day
and from seven to ten in the evening,
Mr.. Arthur F. Wall and Mr.. James ID.
Dougherty together with their large
staff of assistants, welcomed their
hosts OF friends who came to see the
new store in the Young Hotel Build
ring and to. compliment the proprietors
on the formal opening of an establish
ment of which Honolulu is proud from
the first.
The. evening hours were notable for
the thrOngs OF visitors. With many
OF the male spectators in evening
dress and women in opera cloaks,
with motors humming outside; lined
up in long rows against the curb on
both sides of the street, with the big
shop illuminated, beautified with q
profusion of flowers and ferns every
where. and with quintet club dis
coursing music from a concealed
bower up in a sort of gallery in the
rear, the occasion took on the semb-
lance OF q brilliant society event. It
was an opening that augured we'll for
the success Of the enterprise, while
those who had come to wish good,
luck to the new venture remained to
exclaim at the really remarkable dis
play of rich Jewels and silver and cut
glass, and the unmistak eable 'up-tos
dateness Of everything
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Mr.. wall and Mr. Do,iehzrty have
created 8 remarkably beautiful in.
terror, and one which reflects taste
and appropriate furnishing and finish
ing TO remarkable degree. The first
thing to strike the eye of those who
called Saturday at the opening was the
beauty Of the woodwork used in Tx
lures, paneling and castings The
wood is CircassianA walnut, the first
seen in Hawaii. Il is 9 handsome
light brown wood with darker grain
ings, and its general effect is a nat
ural combination of the chasteness of
maple and the richness of mahogany,
cherry or oak. The wood takes al
fine glossiness of surface without al
shiny effect.
This Circassian walnut sets the
effect of the whale interior in strik-
ing yet not loud key. It gives
uniQueness without eccentricity, and
forms an attractive surrounding for
the visitor. There are high wall
cases of this walnut on each side of
the main shop, and down the center
are long showcases forming an OBJ
long oval. The wood used as the
base of these cases is Of the sameI
walnut, which gives fine effect with
the clear glass above.
The wood was ordered from thel
mainland during the recent lengthy
trip that Mr.. Wall and Mr.. Dougher-
ty made to order their stock and tol
secure the latest ideas for an up-to-
date jewelry establishment
Electric Fixtures Handsome.
The electric fixtures, which were
ordered through the Hawaiian Elec-i
trio Company from selected patterns
are unusually handsome, there beingl
wall and pillar brackets and high
hanging chandeliers. When lighted,
the room is filled with soft glow
which furnishes plenty of illumina-l |
ton.
4 The decorative work on the upper
pillars, walls above the cases. and
the ceiling is striking. Indeed, It'll
was done by the mainland expert, |
Mr.. E. Wichman, who will be rel
membered as the man who decorated
the Castle home at Waikiki. and who
was persuaded to come here just fort
this present decoration. The ground
work is pretty buff, with trimmingsl
Of dusky red, and in the frescoing the
artist has worked out designs bring |
ing In emeralds, sapphires and other
precious stones, with the firms fWD,f
monogram occasionally used.
The showcases in the front center
are devoted to diamonds, of which
the stock lis as remarkable as the
fine quality, and to gold goods, of
which there Is also a very large line.
Then in the wall cases, beginning on
the left as the visitor enters and
continuing around the room, are the
splendid line of silver goods, includ-
ing the Gorham and Towle silver, In
ternational Silver Companys manu-
facture, toilet goods, clocks, silver
novelties, an extensive line of silver
frames for pictures and photographs,
leather goods, travelling cases fitted
bags and other modern conVeniences,
Gorham plated ware and remark
able line of cut glass including the
Hawkes. cut glass and the Sinclair
cut glass, the latter of which has
never before been seen in Hawaii.
There is line of silver depositl
goods, opera glasses. field glasses, a