The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-12-24
XMAS EVE IN 1857
Anniversary ofLanding of
Well Known Citizen.
Seven Months Out From Boston
PIace-People and Buildings.

Mr.. J. B. Anterior mentioned in a |
chat yesterday that Christmas Eve was |
the anniversary of his arrival in Homo |
lulu He reached this port from Bos- |
ton. December "a, 1857. The vessel
was the ship Siren, Capt. NJ, W. Green
commander The first officer was the
present master of the Edward May,
now daily expected from around the
horn, Captain Johnson. Jas. Green,
now lieutenant commander in the
L. S. N, was third officer of the Siren.
That trip of the Siren to the Islands
occupied seven months. She was given
up for lost Bad weather was the cause
of the slow voyage The Siren was
month at Rio undergoing repairs and
was a month rounding the Horn. Mr..
Atherton was the only passenger. He
celebrated his 21st birthday on the voy-
age. The only man he knew in Ho-
nolulu was P. C. Jones, with whom he
had once attended school in Boston.
| That had been some years before. Mr..
| Anterior made the trip on account OF
| his health, ne being quite sickly at that
| time The voyage made robust
young man of him. He had no inten-
| ton of remaining in the Islands, but
on being offered position with Castle
& Cooke, accepted it. He has been
with the firm ever since and is now
at the head Of it.
In those days the store of Castle &,
Cooke was near Kawaiahao church.
The move to the present location was
made in 1865. There were quite a
number of ships in port when the
Siren arrived, though the whaling fleet
had gone In the store of Chas. Brewer
II, Mr.. Atherton found John 0. DOmin-
is as bookkeeper and H. A. P. Carter
as clerk P G. Jones was with b. F.
Snow. Young Mr.. AthertOn had his
evening meal at John Ladd's home and
was then taken to a Christmas festi-
val for young people at the home OF
the mother of John 0. Dominis, the
present Washington place. H. A. P
Carter impersonated Santa Claus
There were a large number of people
present and everyone had a pleasant
time.
Mr. Atherton soon became acquaint
ed with many member of the foreign
colony He remembers we'll meeting
J. o. Carter, W. C. Parke and wife
H. Severance and scores of others
There were taro patches all the wa.
up Nuuanu avenue. The Hall HON
was just where it is at present S.
was Dr. Strangenwald's. DR.. Judd an
John Laid live "in the valley.
Dimond's place in Nuuanu was tn
same as at this day. John Patty wa
prominent young man then. Chas
Brewer second had welded the siste
of Franklin Pratt and their home wa
''in the valley"
r Rev. Eli Corwin was then pastor c
Fort Street Church. Quite a reviva
was caused in the congregation by
sermon by Rev. Edward Beckwith wit
y his theme the death on the way
/ the Coast of Mr.. Cody, merchant, VIII
! was very popular and whose death wa
entirely unexpected.
In 1857, Beretania street was a crook
ed footpath. There was nothing at a
on the Plains or PunchbOwl or in M
kiki or Waikiki or Palama. The prir
cipal buildings in Honolulu were: Gri1
baum & Co., the Waterhouse CROKER
store, Brewer & Co., the Legislativ
hall, Kawaiahao church and Washing
ton place. While the town was quiz
during the holidays in 1857, Christine
and New Years were very general
observed by the foreigners and by tt
natives as we'll. There were man
feasts and much singing. OF cour:
. no one here then had any thought TIL
Honolulu would some day be fiji
modern city with all the advance
features of civilization and Christia