Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 9, 11 Ianuali 1894 — TO BUILD A PALACE. NOW AT HOME TO OLIGARCHISTS. [ARTICLE]

TO BUILD A PALACE. NOW AT HOME TO OLIGARCHISTS.

| Col. Claus Sprcckles Invests i In San Francisco Propcrty- | Cians Spreckels has just booght ■ a large block of property on the : ! awell part of Van Jiess avenue , | aml intends to build a magnifi- . i cent mansion there. i Every one who knows Mr. i ! Spreckels knows that he has long ! | been casting his eye on "N an Ness , avenue with a view to buying a fine plaee of residenco property. | I It bas taken him a long tiroe to | make up bis miml, but he has j ma de it up uow, and as a resnlt | owns the largest frontage on the j I avenue of any propert\ owner ' from Market to Union. and where ex-Alcalde Burr has blocked the marcb of progress. When Mr. Spreckels does a tlung he does it —aml that’s what has happeued in this case. He has gone in foi residence property on an Ness avenue, and has gone in for it heavilv. Hardiy any one in San Francisco who kuows the towu, but kuows the Greenewald resideuce, ou the southwest coruer of Clay and Van Ness avenue. It is a beautiful plaee, and ihe residence is built iu au attractive style. Mr. Spreckels set his eyes ou tbat property and tbe more he saw of it the more he wanted it, aml the more he \vanted it tbe more tbe Greenewalds wanted to keep it. Finally, bowever, he wou the day, and this morning the papers were sigued transferring the Greenewald property to Mr. Spreckels. Otto Greenewald was the agent in tbe matter for his mother, Mrs. Simou Greeuewald. Mr. Spreckels paid §90,000, but there was not enough to suit him. When he eame to inspect the land he thougbt a bigger ’ froutage woukl suit him better. So he set his agent to work and bought after a deal of dickering the adjoiuing property to the south. The price he paid for this —whieh was 50 feet frontage —has heen kept secret by the agents. Mr. Spreckels got his property pretty eheap. He now owns a frontage of 187:6. iuthe raost fashionable part ol \an Ness avenue. That i? not all. Notwithstandiug that the Greenewald residence is one of the finest in San Francisco, Mr. Spreckels does uot like it. He was shown over it. “Yes,” he said, “it’s very fine, but I don‘t care for it particularly. It’s niee enongh, bnt 1 propose to tear it down. When I live iu a house I like to live in one to suit myself. So I will . have to build my own.” The improvements are to be torn down at onee therefore, and Mr. Spreckels is already arranging for tho erection bf what will be a veritablo palaee. The neighborhood is already j the fashionable center of San ! Francisco, and perhaps there is i nothing more indicative of the ; Spreckels’ intentions to eutertain i society more extensively than : they have heretofore than this purchase in the heart of the fashionable qnarter. On the northwest corner live J. B. I Stetson and his family, who have ; always assumed a large plaee iu i, the affairs of ton in San Fruncisco. On the opposite corner—i j the northeast—is the property of ' that other distinguished leader of hnanee and politics, Henry L. Dodge, whcse wife reigns as a ’ leader of societ>*. The property bact of Mr. [ Spreckels’ purchase on Glay { street is owned by Mrs. M. Israel. | Directly opposite Mr. Spreckels’ new home is St. Luke’s Chnrch ! Episcopal denomination—the fashionable chorch of a | fashionable sect. A new chnrch | is soon to be erected in plaee of present structare. Ou the west- | ern b!ock of Van Ness, between jSacramento and Glay, the only | other proporty owner isJ. H. j Neustadur. who has a channing I residence on tbe corner of 8acraj menio and Van Neas.—Dai/u jport.

No “Fcnce” Undcr Our Flag. i It is a terrible thing for the i present administmtion to do the square thing by Queen Liliuoka- | lani, so we are inforraed by | uearl every jonrnal m the land. opposed to Cleveland and reforra. | But they forget. perhaps. that before Harrison disavowed the I work of Minister Stevens thnt he I and his administration stood , , ready to pay the Queen §20,000 . a vear and her nieee an ont- ; ■ right payment of § 150,000. If . ! there had been a genuine revoln- ! tion unsupported by American j gnns, such a deal would bo superi fluous. The last Administration ' found that the tipping over of the I throne was a wrong done by ! | American brute force and they j wanted to smooth the raatter over !by a payment of money. Cleve- : land prefers to returu the stolen S property mther thau keep stolen goods or turn the State depart- j ment into a ‘ feuce' ! for grabbed | goods. —Lonell Star. — - — " ~ ” I