Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-05-19
CHANGES OF ELEVEN YEARS
Pastor Cruzan Finds Almost a New
Town OF Honolulu.
Annexation Strength on the Pacific Coast
HllO Has a Puture-lt viii Be
a Center.

Pastor Cruzan, as he used to be
known here, kindly appointed on
the street yesterday afternoon to
meet the present reporter at the
BULLETIN Office this morning.
Rev. j. A. Cruzan, last but one of
the pastors of Fort street church
before its merging into Central
Union church, as veteran journ
alist and past master printer takes
kindly to newspaper premises.
Nothing seems the same t,
me about Honolulu except Punch
bowl and Diamond Head" said
Mr.. Cruzan on taking the proffer-
ed chair.
There has been an entire
change in the business heart of
the city since eleven years. All
OF the Punchbowl slopes have
been built up. Out on the Plains
there has been great trans
formation. There was scarcely
house beyond Lishman's
and Lunalilo Home when L left
eleven years ago. 1t was nearly
all pasture. Charles Cookies and
w II. Castles houses were away
out then.
"The roads up Punchbowl and
up Tsntalus were notiD existence,
only bride paths leading to those
SUBMITS. 1t is like new town
to me. Still 1 have not been
around very much so far. l have
not been out Waikiki way yet.
Neither have l seen Kane hameha
schools. The school for boys had
been open about year before l
went away.
(How his benevolent eyes will
twinkle when he goes out tbere!y
"rhen there is that fine bust
ness block where the old Fort
street church stood. On the oppo-
lite side of Beretania street were
nothing but shanties, and the
same diagonally across where the
handsome new fire station stands"
Mr.. Cruzan had nothing e-pe-
clally to say about Pacific Coast
development, presuming that the
people h-re were we'll posted on
the subject.
Senator White, in his opposi
ton to Hawaiian annexation" he
remarked, docs not represent his
constituency. Probably four.
tifths of the people in California
are for annexation"
The reporter volunteered disin.
clination to pry into Mr.. Cruzsn's
attitude toward the movement at
Hilo to call him to the pastorate
of the Foreign church there. His
opinion on the development of
Hilo was, however, deemed a legi
innate subject of inquiry.
l think Hilo has future" Mr..
Cruzsn replied. A great trans
formation is evident there, but the
place is only in the midst of it.
OF course Honolulu will always
be the center of things. There
must come time, however, when
Hilo will have railway down the
coast from Waipio, and that will
make Hilo quite a center. When
sugar dividends become reduced,
The planters will have to study
economy in the handling of the
product. That will bring about
the railway.
" The development of the agri-
cultural resources of the island of
Hawaii has only just begun AS
yet the ground is merely scratched.
L did not get up to Olaa, though l
would have liked to see the coffee
paintings. A party had been ar.
ranged to 60 up with me, but on
account Of the fatal turn to DIR.
Wrtmore's illness the trip had to
be abandoned"
Mr.. Cruzan, in answer to a
question, told of his enforced re
t,rement from journalism. Six
ears ago the ministers of the
CongregationalCo Council forced him
to take editorial charge of the
Pacific. As they said, he was the
nnlu nna of THAR nnm her having