The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1881-07-20


z The following is the Chronicle notice OF tho
social event which befell one Of your townsmen {;
aTbe first wedding of last week was that of Miss
McCoppin, sister Of Frank McCoppin, and William
Brewer of the Hawaiian Islands, which took place
at 70 o'clock Tuesday, the l4th at the residence
of Mr.. McCoppin, on the northeast corner OF
Waller and Laguna streets, the Right hev. ARCH
bishop Alemany performing the rites. After the
ceremony the few invited friends, about thirtyVe
in ALL sat down to splendid breakfast, which
was enioyed until the hour OF departure arrived,
when the uevlv-nlarred couple left the city Tor q
trip through the Eastern cities. Miss McCoppln
was married in a satin of light-olve bronze TINT,
combined with brocaded satin, with trimmings OF
chenille and silver-gray fringe. MI. ana MS;
Brewer will return TO this coast IN the fall, and
after spending some time here, will then go to
their home in Maui"
SCHOOLS.
One of the things which strikes an islander
visiting here are the troops of children all over the
eity-especially is this so, where the schools are
dismissed The noisy urchins I'LL the streets, and
spread out in all directions living, lively trlsky
specks of humanity. Where are the homes that
will take all these in-who will care for and man
age these irrepresslble young ones 1helI nun
bers equal good sized army, as the following
statistics show. They alone outnumber all your
population: "There are according TO the last
school census 20 1856 children IN this CITY, VI these
1888 are the children of native parents, lUf4O are
of mixed parentage. 023S are of foreign parents,
and 2755 were born abroad. Under TINS al
mirable public school system, most OF t-ese
children are gathered in, and can without cost
oct a more than common education. 1t Is cause
of considerable grumbling from some, and
argument from others, that the schools teach TOO
much. THESE cannot approve OF tne Puohc
schools teaching the higher mathematics, lahgu-
ages music drawing, bookkeeping. etc, for say
they the three RS when drilled In, are all the
public chest ought to contribute for the making OF
an average citizen. The cost per scholar Is ROW
nearly double what it is in the East, and largely IN
$50 H. ~, Hrtolu Erunrn
European countries. The School Board TINS year
call for $4,000, and assure the taxpayers il.t
they cannot get on with less. The Board employ
over 100 teachers.
do something in the way of retrenchment OF city
expenses, skip over other departments, whefe
money iudiciousy lavished means votes, and
begin retrenchment twhere most tdfhey"s wnetner
of CITY country or family beein) viz with the
children's education. The Board of Supervisors
"rake down the Board of Education to S63O,OOO,
upon which the School Superintendent threatens a
"mandamus" to be informed OF the cause why
and the School Board get into feyer-as to, can
the schools be carried for the amount named, ana
the majority say no. and the proposition Is made
to shut up the schools two months; ana the
teachers, vino have been pruned last year on their
salaries down 10 point of DESPERATION cry out,
1--WE don't care pin, what comes next y And
the Supervisors, who labor under the accusation
of being desperate politicians and ignorantfellOws
saw, I'VE don't care for the threats and the
clamorr' And as the fight is still progressing,
parents and children do not know if schools will
keep or not this year.
MIDSUMMER.
You tropic birds may not and cannot appreciate
the miseries of midsummer on these higher
latitudes The daylight hangs on so at the end OF
the day, and puts in such an early appearance IN
the morning that it is really distressing. Think
of being warned by 81 AM. that another day Is
beginning, while you remember having only fairly
dismissed its predecessor at 81 Pm. Then too,
the danger one incurS when out on an evening
lark of having the risen sun light home his IN
steady steps, at an hour as Bohemian ex-
pressed itwhen zone lamp-post in hand. IS worth
two on the next block" Gay devotees of pleasure
also have to look sharp if they mean to "go home
before morning." A little experience Of these
long DAYS makes one sympathize with .Algy y:
Approach of midsummer: Fwed-' Haw; what
do YOU do with yourself tonight, dear boy 2.
Alpy-. Nothing, neutrality-suspicious. little of
that. Fact is, these light days 1t gets SO awtully
late so awfully early"
ECONOMIES.
Labor saving devices are the present road to
wealth He who can produce the cheapest secures
the market II our planters pursued now the
wasteful ways of early days, when labor counted
last in the item of cost, and main strength and
stupidity were chief factors IN producing sugar
not even our Treaty prices could save our bacon"
One wants to mix with these communities where
competition is fierce and penny saved is more
than penny advantage in sale, to appreciate how
old industries thrive and new ones make place TOT
themselves. This moTalizing comes from Observ-
alton of small things, seeing some things done
not in a wonderful way-but so different from
years ago, when time was not counted; and no
account was made of labor saving appliances \
stout dray was on the wharf with single man,
the driver to get load of pipes of wine. Unaided,
he never could have rolled those casks upon his
draw although its floor was not more than two
feet from the ground. Nevertheless, he backed
his dray up to his intended Load, and having
placed two of the rungs of his dray as " skids.
he quietly proceeded from a winch under the
Il oil, IN ruhfa eli
after being placed aud pointed, WAS without any
punching, Juggling, or swearing, directly rolled up
ON the dray by his single arm at the crank OF the
winch. Six casks made up his load, quickly made
up by this simple device, and at minimum cost of
muscle Similar devices are to be seen every
where in the transportation service. At steamer
landings where celebrity is an object, five and six
casks are eased down gang plank by sings at
once, and trucks loaded to degree, which would
have appalled, a dock hand years ago, made easy
to handle by balancing one load over the wheels,
stand ready on boat or wharf, for instant change
of place when the landings are reached
SORTS
The admirers of the poetess of Bunker Hill Day
who probably expected TO the poem in full,
next day in the glorious garb of print, must think
the reporter fiend He contents himself with a
single extract instead, merely sampling It as one
might a tub of butter-leaving the great public TO
, imagine where the joke comes in. The balance OF
the poem has not been called for. The President
of the Association welcomed tue guests, who num-
Dere0 about ON, ana lutEoQUCtQ tue new A. -.
Brewer, who, after prayer, read the poem, which
was contributed by some unknown who signed
herself Augustine NJ The following is the
extract:
Then let rs now, while gathered here
Resolve this day shall ever be
public day, to our nation dear
Devoted sacredly TO Liberty.
Last week in a down town store, a man had
placed board across an elevator well and syas
standing thereon, when it broke and he fell some
sixty feet to the bottom. His back was broken so
that death came shortly to his release, but he fell
upon man at the bottom who was rendered
insensible through conclusion of the brain. Three
tys afterward in the hospital he opened his eyes
and inquired what's happened y Three days IN
cold Oblivion, knocked out of the world IN fact
when his soul looks again out OF his eyes and
wants 10 pick up its history of the lost hours.
Suppose the senses had never more been restored,
and the soul had entered upon that bourne from
whence NO traveller returns would then have CRED
out what's happened p Although cause for sur
prise and curiosity would have been thousand fold
greater. The great mystery would have been
solved, yet We living would not be any the
wiser for 1t.
Two gsntsel sinners were prlaslng the Revised
Testament the other day, "Oh! said they 10 more
hell now, that's been done away, nothing but
Hades in the new text" Indeed don't be too
sure that Hades would be comfortable, yon may
sigh for the old fashioned fires yet
Why are gracsless young men permitted 70 exist
fellows who en- sneer al pretty conceii, and rot