Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-07-19
ABOUT THE LONG AGO.
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF THE
AFFAIRS OF is93 WANTED.
Honolulu and oahu Nearly Eighty
Years AgO-RecolIections OF
Father Bailey of Maui

of the Hawaiian Historical Society
last night was only small "a few more
than twenty being present when
". r. Castle, president, took the
chair.
Rev. G. NJ. Hyde, D. D., secro-
tary, made a statement of bust
ness done by the executive since
the annual meeting
ID. W. Corbett was elected a
member. A vote of thanks was
passed to the contributors of
papers appointed to be read that
evening, viz, J. F. Hunnewell,
NJ. M. Cover, Edward Bailey and
Miss Henry. 1t was resolved TO
publish the papers as well as a
catalogue of the society's library.
DR.. G. 7. Rodgers made the
following motion: THAT so many
and such persons as the
board of officers may think best
be requested to prepare written
narratives of what they perso-
nally saw, heard, did or partici-
pated in at the time of the revo-
luton Of January, 1898; said mar
ratives to be deposited among the
records of this society and not to
be read in public or published
without the consent Of the
authors
The mover said this was not
politics, it was history. 1t would
be valuable to get accounts of the
revolution from people who. wit
messed the events and who might
regard them from different points
of view.
The resolution carried unani-
mously
Prof. w. d. Alexander read
extracts from the diary of the late
James hunnewell of Boston.
The narrative began with the
shipping of the diarist on the ship
Hermaphrodite for the voyage
round Cape Horn to California
via the Hawaiian Islands in 1916.
He returned to these islands after
short stay on the Pacific coast. 1t
appeared that he was engaged in
the inter island coasting trade,
collecting sandal wood for export
from Honolulu. The accounts of
excursions about the island of
Oahu were full of interesting facts
about the people met and the fare
obtained, as we'll as observations
on the climate and scenery. In
dependence day was celebrated in
Honolulu on July 4,l818. The diary
contains a complete record
of arrivals and departures of yes
sells at Honolu, u for the time the
author was here in 1917 and 1918,
Spanish warships looking for pi-
rates were common visitors in
those days.
DR.. N. b. Emerson prefaced tn,
reading of some historical Nom.
oranda, contributed by Edward
Bailey of Maui, by relating some
of the ANCIENT customs. At tn,
dividing line between the ahu
puaas Of land rude altar wal
erected. Upon this at the APP
pointed times the people wer,
expected to lay their taxes. Un
til all the people of a village haC
paid, the tax collector and hi
party would not go away. They
had two dods with them on thes'
visitations. Mr.. Bailey, who i
still living, sailed from New Eng
land for these islands in 1886
He tells in these notes of a rumO
that Kamehameha Ill. was read,
to sign a treaty of annexation
with the United States the nigh
before he died, Shortly prior t.
Mr.. Bailey's arrival a large meteo
was reported to have fallen OIL
Lanai, and there WAS talk Whel
he came of lava flow on Hales
kala as late as 1901.
Other papers to have been rea
were deferred till next meeting,