The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-12-04

L06f6 was out Ouo CdIIIdSS uOiSo anu
wheeled vehicle Except the little 60
carts | have mentiOned) at the islands
large white horse named "Rocky Noun
tain from the route by which he had
been brought, and tWo-wheeled open
gig, was then owned by Peirce &
Brewer, and being in constant requisi
ton for invalids in need of an airing was
called the Hospital carriage" After
streets and roads about the city had
been graded, other vehicles and carriage
horses were imported, among which was
heavy English chariot which had been
sent by Queen Victoria to Queen Pc
mare of the Society islands where it was
useless. The great number of private
and public carriages now here surprises
me, and my wonder as to how all the
latter are supported does not cease.
The agricultural resources of the Group
were as yet undevelOped, though its pos
sibilities in that direction were being
recognised by foreigners. Rude ma
chinery for sugar-making, had been put
in operation by enterprising residents in
various parts of the islands. The first
sugar plantation on what was then
thought large scale, was established by
Ladd & Co. on the Island of Kauai in
1887 or g, The first number of the
HAWAIIAN GAZETTE, which was issued
July 30, 1886, speaks hopefully of Kauai
enterprises, and praises some samples OF
preserved oranges and corned beef
shipped from there to the Honolulu
market. The same number also con
tains letter from the King approving of
the establishment of newspaper, which
[ will quote:
''To Stephen D. Macintosh, Honolulu.
~ assent to the letter which you sent
me. 1t affords me pleasure to see the
works of other lands and things that are
new. Ii | was there | should very much
like to see. have said to Kinau, make
printing presses. My thought is ended.
Love to you.
By KING KAUIKEAoULI."
His Maiesty's desire to encourage for
eign enterprise was commendable,
though his ideas as to the needs of
newspaper were somewhat cloudy.
There were no horses or oxen trained
to work in those days. The first pillow
which turned up the virgin soil for cane
planting on Ladd & Co.'s land, was
drawn by host of natives. In June,
1910. native boys arm was crushed in
a sugar mill in Nuuanu valley, but do
not recall the name of the owner of the
mill
The only foreign church at that time
was the Seaman's Bethel, supported by
the Seaman's Aid Society in New York.
Rev. John Dell was the pastor. He
was succeeded, after an interval, by the
late Rev. S. G.. Damon, a valued personal
friend, whom you all knew and esteemed.
During that interval an effort was made
to have an Episcopal church established
here, and the service was for time read
every Sunday in the Seaman's chapel by
the American Consul, P. A. Brinsmade.
In 1910, the year in which the mis-
sionary Williams, and his companion,
were killed by the natives at Erromango,
the native schooner Keola capsized, with
loss of nearly all on board, and two wo-
med performed the almost incredible feat
of swimming twenty-five miles IN about
thirty hours, to the shore at Kahoolawe,
one of them carrying her husband on her
back for a long distance till he died from
exhaustion.
While perhaps more attention was
| being given to the cultivation and manu-
facture of sugar than to any other branch
of agriculture, and as the result has
shown with reason, various experiments
were being made and more or less capital
being invested (and buried) in other
directions. A silk plantation was started
on large scale at Koloa, Kauai, where
| the mulberry tree was planted over
many acres, silkworms and machinery
imported, and three operatives, who had
| been taught the business in large es-
tablishment in Northampton, Mass,
brought out, at large outlay, and with
sanguine expectations of large profits
which were not fulfilled. Coffee planta-
tons were also established on different
| islands, with equally sanguine hopes,
and most of them with equal loss, though
in some localities, coffee is still grown
and | believe at a profit.
In August, 1910, a shipment of 200 tons
of sugar was made to New York by the
bark Flora, the largest shipment that
had then been made. By the same
vessel the first shipment was made of
raw silk, which was pronounced unsur-
passed for evenness of thread, strength
| and gloss. By the same vessel Rev.
Hiram Bingham and family, the head of
the American Mission, sailed for home
after twenty years labor among the
natives.
In the same year (184O) the Poly
nesian, a weekly newspaper, was estab-
| liShed by James Jackson Jarves, the
Sandwich Islands Gazette having died
natural death. After ably conducting
the paper for year and half, Mr.
Jarves left the islands for home, return
ing in 1874 and resuming it's publication.
When he left in 1941 there was a general
wish among the English-speaking resi-
dents that the paper should be contin-
ued, and I was asked to take charge. l
consented with reluctance, as / had no
time to spare for the duty, no experience
and no training in editorial work, and an
editor OF paper so isolated from the rest
of the world had no easy task before him.
But good nature being one of my virtues
or faiIings, l consented, and after sitting
up late nights and consuming much mid
night oil, concocted glowing editorial
and prospectus, full of grand pledges of
what intended to do and what intend
ed not to do, and triumphantly issued
my first number, of which large edition
was printed. Wondering why my printer
did not send for the copy which had
prepared for the next weeks issue,
learned, to my horror, that after work
ing off my first number, he had cele.
brated the great event so heartily, that
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