The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-18
The list of turntables aroused the ed,

itor, who wrote:
Commercial Hotel-We would call
the attention of the public to this es-
Enlistment, opened lately by Mr.. H.
McFarlane, who has had considerable
experience in the line of mine host"
and will, no doubt, do all and more for
his friends than he promises in his adj
VertiSement. The bar we con-
slider a decided objection to any hotel.
and although it may not prove a bar
TO custom, 1t too often is to health and
reason, and we could wish that, to its
many other advantages that of a tenn
perance house was added to the Com
mercial Hotel. We cannot in con-
science commend in a hotel what We
would condemn in a house for seamen,
and we hope the time is not far distant
when both gentlemen and Jacks viii
willingly forego their daily potations,
or at least indulge only in those which
cheer but not inebriate, a goodly list
OF which Mr.. McFarlane offers.
There were no typesetting machines
in those days, but the Polynesian did
very we'll without. Under the caption,
"Quick Work" it said: Mr.. Peacock,
compositor in this office, set up. one
night last week. 1000 ems in seven
hours, handling in that space of time
more than 10000 types. We wonder
if any lady could take as many stitches
in the same time. We don't think
certain young friend of ours could beat
that in talking"
Naval visits were plentiful in the old
days. Following is a list of warships
in Honolulu harbor between January
aud NoI-a,,,b ar.
U. S. Frigate Brandywine, Command
er Parker
U. S. brig Perry. Paine.
H. B. MS corvette Talbot. Sir T.
| Thompson.
FIR. corvette Heroine, Lecointe.
Z. S. corvette Levant, Page.
Z. S. corvette Portsmouth, Montgom-
| cry.
H. B. MS corvette Modesto, Bailey.
U. S. frigate Savannah, Commander
Sloat.
H. b, MS ship of the line Colling
wood, Rear Admiral Seymour.
H. 3. MS brig Frolic, Hamilton.
L. S. corvette, Warren, Hull.
II. 3. MS frigate America, Hon.
| John Gordon
U. S. frigate Constitution, Percival.
H. B. MS Ketch Basilisk, Hunt,
condemned and broken up.
1t is interesting to note the future
career of the editor of the Polynesian,
James Jackson Jarves Johnson's En-
cyclopaedia says:
| Jarves, James Jackson-Art amateur
and writer; born in Boston, Mass, Au-
gust 20, 1918. He travelled extensively,
visiting California, Mexico and Central
! America, and resided for some years at
Honolulu. In 1S4S he was sent as Ha-
waiian special commissioner to Wash
ington, London and Paris to negotiate
commercial treaties. He remained in
Europe, residing chiefly in Paris and
Florence, and later in Rome, studying
art and forming the gallery of old
masters, illustrating the history of
Italian art, which subsequently became
the property of Yale College The
King of Italy made him a Chevalier of
the crown of Italy for his services to
Italian art. Mr.. Jarves wrote several
books: "A History of the Hawaiian
Islands," Scenes and Scenery in the
Sandwich Islands and Central Ameri-
! ca" QS434D; Partisan Sights and
French Principles" (two series. 1855
| so; italian Sights and Papal Princi-
! pies" Confessions Of An Inquirer"
"Kiana: a Novel, Q857); Art Hints"
| Art Studies" The Art Idea" Art
Thoughts" The Art of Japan" 'Ita-
| liam Rambles" Died in Tarasp, Swift
zerland, June 2S, 1883.
The Polynesian had the weekly field
to itself until the Advertiser entered
it in July, 1856. A few years later the
old journal though subsidized by the
government, dropped and faded into
nothingness