The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-29
Housing of Engine No. 5.

The preliminary for housing the Engine
of China Engine Co. No. was the trans
fer from the house of Mechanic Engine
Co. No. 2. At IL 20 A. NJ, the process
sion proceeded by the Hawaiian Band,
members of the Engine Co, No. 2, draw
ing the engine, and members of the
various companies, but Co. No. 5, march
ed in body along Hotel street, down
Fort, King, and up Mauuakea streets to
the new house of Engine Co., No 5 and
was there met by the members of Co.
5 who divided into two ranks and gave
an appropriate salute as the procession
passed. After the housing of the en-
CINE, Foreman Ryan OF No. preSen ted
an address as follows:
Officers and Members of China Com
pany No. 5, Gentlemen: The duty of
housing your machine having devolved
upon the members of Mechanic Engine
Co. No. 2, it affords me pleasure on this
occasion to congratulate the members of
China Company No. upon the attain
ment of this object. While standing
upon this, the threshold of your new
house, [ recall to mind your old two
story wooden building, now a thing of
the past, which was situated on King
street in a lot not many yards from where
we stand to-day. 1t was on a Sunday
afternoon, on the 18th day of April, 1887,
that you ceased to occupy the place, and
while you were absent from there with
your engine bravely battling with the
confagration of that day, you had the
misfortune to see your own house, as it
were, burn down, thus leaving this
machine without a house. After patient
waiting, YOU have now the most sub
stantial and comfortable Engine house
ever built in this city. To me this pre-
sent occasion marks new era in the
history of the Honolulu Fire Depart
ment. | now have the pleasure and
honor to deliver you this machine, which
No. 3 has carefully housed during the
time that you remained homeless.
Foreman Hang Sam of Engine Co.
No. responded saying:
Mr.. Foreman and gentlemen OF Me-
chanic Engine Company No. 2: On be-
hall of the officers and members of
Engine Company No. 5, thank you for
the honor conferred upon US. In receiv-
ing our apparatus from you, am re-
quested by the members of my company
to convey their thanks as follows:
To His Excellency L. A. Thurston,
Minister of the Interior, for adhering to
our long-felt want. To Mr. c. B. Wilson,
Chief Engineer, and his assistant engin-
GERS, for their strong efforts towards the
| building of our new engine house. To
| the members of the Board of Represen-
tatives of the Honolulu Fire Department,
| for promoting the we'll being of our com
pany. And to the Honolulu merchants,
| for the liberality to raise the means
wherewith to furnish our new house.
Thanking you for the kind services you
have this day rendered US, we now in
vite you to join US in the partaking OF a
collation. which we have gotten up fol
the entertainment of our friends.
No. was cheered at intervals by
the members and by final salvo OF Chi
nese fire-crackers The ceremony there
closed, all were invited to the upper
room to partake of a sumptuous feas
there prepared. There were present
at the table His Majesty the King, Chic
Engineer Wilson. Asst. Engineers
Asche, and Norton, Fire Marshal White
ex-Engineers Geo. Luacs, j. Mott, and J
w. Robertson, J H. Soper, j. II. Boyd
E. B. Thomas, H. NJ. Whitney, Waite
Hill, B. Ordenstein, officers and mem
beers of the different fire companies anC
a few Chinese merchants of the city
The following toasts were drank.
His Majesty the King, our fireman
King responded to by His Majesty.