The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-14
THE PACIFIC
Commercial A0Oertlstr b.


We have noted with extreme interest GER
tain statistics TO be found in the official
Compendium Of the Tenth Census GSSOJ
OF the United States Of America which
give information a TO the humber Of Ha-
waiians who were in the States at the date
of the census and their distribution among
the different States. We reproduce this
table below, and would like to draw general
attention to the prominent points Of the iI--
formation it conveys. Foremost among
them j. the fact that, with the single ex-
ceptiOn of Montana, there Is not u State or
Territory in the Union in which Hawaiians
are not to be found. II was well known
that many natives OF this country had
sought to mend their fortunes among the
gold and silver fields Of California and Ne
vada. But that there should be any num-
Der of Hawaiians than i'm those
States we were not prepared to learn. In
point of fact scarcely more than one-fouTth
of the whole are to be found in those States.
The whole number Of Hawaiians in the
United States is II47. OF these 293 reside
in California, and s only in the State Of
Nevada. Ii has been popularity estimated
that about 600 natives of this country had
emigrated to the States and Territories on
the Pacific coast. The statistics show both
that this estimate is very far below the
mark, and they also show that the popula-
ton from Hawaii is very much more wide
spread than anyone had ever ventuTed to
suppose The largest number Is to be found,
as might have been expected, in California.
Next in order rank Massachusetts, and New
York with 80 and 81, respectively. Indiana
has SO, and then we have a sudden drop to
Ohio with -. We should have expected
a. GuI 4Lot 49,, raro u,ora In Oraoon Than
say, in Pennsylvania. But such is not the
case, the numbers being Oregon rs, Penn
s~ylvania rs. In each of five States only
one Hawaiian is to be found. These are
Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, Yer
mont, and West Virginia.
There must, of course, be among this
large body of our feIIow-countrymen, who
were residents in the States ON the first of
June, 1880, a considerable proportion of
white Hawaiians, descendants of Ameri-
cans and others who nave formerly been
resident in these Islands. There will also
be included n certain number of merely
transient inhabitants of the United States,
passing through on their way to other
countries, or paying short visits to their
friends in the States. But, after making
all the allowance that can he supposed
necessary for these classes, there must
still remain n large part of the
whole number who are native Ha-
waiians of the original race. Recog-
nizing this we feel some curiosity As to the
inducements or motives which detain
them in foreign lands, the position in which
they find themselves there, their success in
life and the culture they may have acquired,
in comparison with their fellow country.
men who have remained faithful TO their
native soil. We hould certainly like to.
know something more about these strag-
9Iers II47 is n large number in comparison
to the whole native-bOrn population OF these
Islands which can hardly be estimated at
over 80, 900, If indeed it be so much.
Not so large q proportion of these self
exiled Hawaiians live in the big cities as
we might reasonably have expected. There
were II9 in San Francisco, 4S in New
York, 81 in Boston, % in Philadelphia, Is
i'm Lawrence Mass, 16 in Brooklyn and Il
in Chicago. Out of the fifty principal cities
of the Union none but those just named
can muster double figures in its record of
Hawaiians. Taken together the fifty cities
contain in all $50 Hawaiians. The prepon-
derance i'm San Francisco is not surprising,
but the small number in Boston is so.
Natives of the Hawaiian Islands in the United safes
and Territories according to the census d l9D' 1