The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-01
How the People Get the Daily
DOings of the City.
THOSE WHO SERVE UP THE NEWS.
Four English Dailies and Any Number
OF weeklIes and Monthlies-Short
Histories OF the Various Publications,
With Pictures OF Principal Editors.

Newspaper work in Honolulu is
necessarily limited. There being only
very few steamers from the Coast,
news from the outside world is not
obtainable except on the much looked
for steamer day." Even from the
other islands, the news does not reach
the capital city oftener than once
week on an average, so daily news
paper is absolutely dependent on the
matters of interest to the public that
transpire from day to day in this city.
When this view of the matter is taken
it is little surprising to those who do
not live here, to find that there are
four daily newspapers, and any num-
Der of weekly and monthly periodicals
published III Honolulu. More than
that, in the majority of cases the
newspaper standard is higher than it
is in the States, as news of sensa-
tional nature, such as the Coast and
Eastern papers seek for with great
avidity, and are willing to pay big
prices for, is not one of the stocks-in-
trade of Honolulu journalism. Several
papers have made an effort to pro-
ceed on sensational lines, but they
have all met with an ignominious
failure, and have one by one sunk out
of sight.
? The Oldest and best-known daily
| paper in the islands is the ADvER-
TIsER, edited by Henry n. Castle. 1t
made its first appearance as weekly,
on July 2, 1856, with III. M. Whitney,
the present manager of the paper, as
its editor and proprietor, and contin-
ued under that management until
1870, period of over fifteen years. 1t
was then sold to Messrs. Black and
Auld, who conducted it until June,
1875, when Mr.. Auld retired from
the firm. The whole plant was pur-
chased by the Hawaiian Gazette Com
pany in 1888, when the present editor,
Mr.. Castle, took the reins of the edi-
torial room and has held them, with
a few intermissions, ever since. Sew
eral months after the revolution of
1898, Mr.. Castle left for the United
States and Arthur Johnstone assumed
the editorial chair during Mr.. Castles
absence. In December last Mr.. Castle
returned and at once re-asSumed his
duties.
Both the ADVERTISER and the GA
zETTE, the English weekly issued by
the Hawaiian Gazette Co., have been
staunch supporters of the Provisional
Government. 1t is the first paper in
the Islands that openly advocated an
nexation to the United States, having
done so some years before the revolu-
tion of 1898 was dreamed of. 1t has
long been an eyesore to the supporters
of the monarchy, as it exposed a
number of the doings of the old re-
glme, notably the police department
under G.. B. Wilson.
The Daily Bulletin started as a
manuscript bulletin of shipping news
and important items, posted up by J.
w. Robertson d Co. at their news
stand in Honolulu Hall, where the
Bell Telephone central and the law
offices of G.. w. Ashford and J. A.
Magoon are now located. The manu-
script bulletin was originated by III.
M. Whitney, present manager of the
Hawaiian Gazette Company, who was
then PostmasteT-Ge General, and the only
bookseller and stationer in town. On
February 1, 1882, the paper appeared
printed on one side of IS K 10 inch
sheet, and entitled 81. w. Robertson
& Co.'s Daily Bulletin" 1t was en-