The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-22
HONOLULU INSTITUTIONS.

community rejecting credit upon its
public spirit and intelligence are
the Y. M. G. A. and the Library
and Reading Room, established in
the centre of the city, on opposite
corners of Hotel and Alakca streets.
Public Libraries and Y. NJ. G. AS
have, of late years, become fixtures
in every civilized city in the world.
In this city, the Library and Y. NJ.
G. A. buildings are among the best
specimens of architecture we have.
The affairs of both institutions are
conducted by active business men.
Some of the most "solid men, of
Honolulu may be found, incident
ally at their rooms, and regularly
at their meetings. The Library
rooms are well stocked with some of
the choicest literature of the old
world and the new. The janitor,
Mr.. Ferguson, is sure to accord visi
tors courteous reception; and
when any particular book is asked
for, it is promptly forthcomingf
Noticeable in the fine array 0.
volumes that meet the eye, are the
works on Hawaii, its history, its
characteristics, and, in short, every
thing about it. Polynesia in general
and the countries washed by the
waters of the Pacific Ocean, also
come in for large amount
of space. All tourists and authors
of note, who have written about
China, Japan, and the islands
of the Pacific, seem to have
been mustered from the four quarters
of the literary world to be assigned
niche in this temple OF mind.
Honolulu journalism, in bound vol
umes of newspapers reaching back
to the earliest days of its civilization,
is fully represented. Any person
who will take the trouble to turn
over these files, will find mirrored
along the years, the various phases
of development and progress through
which the social, religious and po-
litical institutions of the country
have passed. The Library and
Reading Room is supported by men,
bership fees, and any citizen not
already a member, will be making
an investment creditable to himself
and to the city by enrolling his
name, whether he has occasion to
participate directly in its privileges
or not.
The Y.M.C.A., as its name indi-
Gates, is an organization having in
view the Intellectual, moral and re-
ligious elevation of it's members and
of all outsiders who can be brought
within the scope of its influence.
The tables of the large reading room
in the building are well laid with
the newspapers and magazine litera-
ture of America and Europe, as
well as the local sheets. The read
ing room is open and free to all
comers. The manifold operations
of the society consist chiefly of re-
ligious meetings and visitation OF
families and are carried Oh under the
superintendent of the General Secre-
tary, Mr.. Fuller. An employment
committee frequently does good ser,
vice to strangers by putting them in
the way of work, and by this means
alone, ruin is cheated of many vic
tins. Free education, in its freest
form, provided so far as the accom-
mediation will warrant, is given, in
the form of evening lessons in ma
thematics and bookkeeping, fol-
young men, unable to avail them
selves of the advantages of the day
schools, but who are desirous of inn
proving themselves in these branches,
so as to be the better qualified fol-
business pursuits. The association