The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-18
GL|MPSES OF
OLD HAWAII
Excerpts From the
Polynesian of
1916.
AN INTERESTING
NEWSPAPER
A Thriving Commerce-Temper
ance Question Capt. Cocks
Estimates of Population.
N INTERESTING copy of tn

A N INTERESTING copy of the
IN Polynesian of Saturday, Febru-
airy IA, 1916, has strayed into this
loffice. The paper is of four pages. each
page having four broad columns, and
the advertisements taking up about six
columns and a half. The editor was
James Jackson Jarves, since and until
lately widely celebrated in literature,
and one of the advertisers was Benja-
man Pitman, said to be brother Of
the inventor of shorthand writing.
Among the trade announcements on
the first page the familiar name of
Patty appears, but most of the names
are unfamiliar The principal article
is a letter from Lima, Peru, to the edi-
tor, touching the latter's history of the
Hawaiian Islands, in which the opinion
is expressed that Captain Cook great
ly overestimated the population Of
these Islands. One of the reasons Civ
en- is as follows:
Captain Cook had no data except the
| assemblages on the seashore. He saw
considerable numbers there, no doubt,
and very probably One-fOurth or one
third of the whole population, for the
people were very DESTROYS of seeing
the ship, and above ALL the new god,
as they supposed Cook to be, and be-
ing then as now interchangeable pedes-
TRANS, they translated themselves (old
and young men and wOmen) from point
to point with marvellous facility and
rapidity.
Politically the Islands were then agi-
tated over the Kings introduction of
white ministers. His majesty went to
Maui to explain the move to the ma
tives there, and among other things,
said:
The King has chosen foreign minis
tiers. Mr.. Richards went as u subject
with Haalilio. More have been needed
and chosen. No land has ever been
taken by those who have taken the
oath of allegiance. Bad aliens are
| alone dangerous to the kingdom. The
| King has watched and wept over his
| soil until he chose those men to aid
him, and he is now at rest
Those men," Mr.. Richards, Mr. Judd
and others, We're chiefly missionaries,
who are now accused, as a class. of
| the very offenses which, as the King
shows. were committed by the carpet
baggers of that day.
| The commercial statistics of the port.
given for 1916, have footings as fol-
| lows:
Five hundred and twenty
| three whale ships, with their
outfits, at $4,000 each $40, 800, 900
| Value of oil and bone ...... 9,S23,070
! Eighteen merchantmen, $4,000
| each 1dA non
Total ...................$20 500, 467, 010
Under the head of -Four Days Later
News From the United States" We
have:
By the bark Angola, Captain Varney,
| III days, direct from Salem, we have
| four days later dates from the United
| States, but by them no political news
of interest except there had been fresh
riots in Philadelphia, and that leaders
| Of the disturbances in the anti-rent
| districts of New York have been con-
| demned to death.
The temperance question, like the
poor. has always been with us. In the
Polynesian it cropped up behind an
advertisement of Henry Mcfarland
This lad" is worth printing in its en-
tirety:
Henry McFarlane respectfully in
! forms the merchants and other gem
tlemen residing on Oahu, as also the
| captains and officers of vessels fire.
| quenting this port, that he has opened
the Commercial Hotel at the corner of
the road leading to the Nuuanu Val
| ley, just past the residence of DR.
| Rookie.
! H McF. has taken into consideration
| the wants of comfortable sleeping
rooms for strangers in Oahu. and has
| so provided for their future wants in
! that respect that he trusts, while he
! indemnifies himself for the Considera-
| bic expense he has incurred in altering
| and adding to his house that his ef-
! forts to accommodate and add To the
| comforts of his patrons viii be at
| tended with the desired success.
| The charges for board and lodging
are reasonable with every regard to
| neatness and good attendance.
! II. McF. has on hand and viii at all
| times be supplied with Wines of su-
perior quality, Spirits pure and una
| dulterated, Ale and Porter of the Dun
| bar and other celebrated marks; Lem
| on Syrup. Peppermint, Syrups. Lemon
! ade, Soda Water. etc. And last, but
| not least, the situation of the house is
! so salubriCus that those who have once
been 50 kind as 10 patToniZe the eStab-
| lishment viii leave il with regret and
anticipate a return to il with feelings
Of delight.