The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-05-23

IN NNill ~ " lousy hff'tiH '"
III pr. Serene bishop, loosns back
- over the many chang.s which
have occurred since his return after re-
reiting HE education IN tie United
states. the evolution Of a citv from the
village which then occupied only a
small portion Of the plain vhich eS-
| tends from the mountain 10 the sea.
Dr and Mrs. bishop came to their
island home early In 1853, 30 that nearly
half century has passed since they
I took up their life work here.
when I returned after an absence
81 thirteen years said Or. Bishop yes
terday, n was struck by the many
changes Primarily civilization had
advanced among the native Hawaiian
pcople. They were then generally
clothed, which they were not when ]
went away The major portion of the
T residents OF Honolulu. however, still
lived In matched houses. In fact. the
town was almost entirely composed OF
this kind of dwellings.
"One Of the greatest changes was In
the cutting through OF the roads. Nuu-
anu avenue had been opened its entire
length and Fort street had been opened
as driveway. These had not pre-
V!ously been open. When / went away
there were only the Punchbowl road.
Peretania street, King street and Mer
chant street. This was the condition
of the city I'm 1910. Another great
change was the disappearance of the
old fort, from which the street takes
it's name. This old fort stood where
the Hacltfeld building now stands, the
site being, of course, larger. The es-
pianade which has for so long been
the seat of much business was not
then in existence. The land then ceased
considerably above the point where the
Customs House now stands.
"All Government business was then
conducted in the old building which
now stands just waikiki of the post
office. The various offices were there,
and | remember well seeing az clerks
In the Finance office under DIR. Judd,
Warren Goodale and Asa Thurston,
fathers respectively of William Goodale
of Waialua plantation and l.. A. Thurs
ton. Charles r. Bishop was then in
/ the Custom House as collector.
THE settled portion of the city was
then substantially limited by the pres
ent Alapal and River streets and maui
ka at School street. There was hardly
anything outside of those limits and
the remainder was practically an open
plain. Above Beretania street, on the
slopes and beyond Alapai street, there
was hardly a building of any nature
+ whatever AT that time, of course,
there was small boarding school for
the children of the missions at Puma
hou, under direction of Father Dole.
This little structure alone interviewed
between the city and Moilili, where
about the church there were few
houses These were all of the native
matched kind and were inhabited by
the native people. The plains remained
open certainly until within twenty five
years. before there was any building
there of any description.
Another feature which was notice
able was the absence of a variety of
foliage. The almost universal algaroba
tree was then only to be found in the
gardens and yards, as it was new
conner and had not begun to spread.
There were few trees and the palms
were not in great variety at that time.
I'VE came down in the largest sail
ing ship OF that day, the Sovereign of
the Seas. arriving here in January, 1858.
The ship was towed into the harbor by
a long line of native people who grasped
the hawser and walked along the reef.
1t was after this that oxen We're sub
stituted for the purnose of bringing in
ships. There was a path along the
reef which bound the entrance, which
Is a natural break in the outer reef,
and along this the men and oxen
Walked in nulIinc In n shin n,archir =,
tbrouch tho u,atsr Irsida tho bo,.hny
we found probably 100 whaling ships of