The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-05-23
Golden Wedding "reminiscences Of Distin'
guished Citizen who Has Seen Hawaii
and Much OF America.

buildings occupied ~ the Wsii-tn.it
merchants Now there are scarcely any
traces ~ the oif buildings which were
then accounted - good. I can rptnem.
Der only one historical building. that
being the main room formerly occupied
/ by HaCkfcid A Co. at the rear OF their
new building. That vas at that time
tho legislative and Judiciary buli1lus
kawaiahao church was then much In
the same condition as now on the
site % the lately destroyed Kaumaka-
pill church there was structure %
adobe and thatch The present Caiho.
lie Cathedral was then in existence
But, as I said. the major portion Of
the dwellings OF the city we're the
matched ones Of the native people.
The native population formed the
great body % the population then seen
upon the streets. They were always
moving about and at work. They bore
burdens upon the Hawaiian yoke or
mamake. which with it's load at both
/ ends, very much reseimbled the method
Of carrying which liz followed by the
Chinese at present time The men at
work generally wore shirts but nothing
more I'm the way of apparel. At that
time there was scarcely a wheeled We
AA'A' W Ni' 'lANs Nii'n NtIt
TO be seen were OK carts, with occa-
sionally a hand cart. Saddle horses
were here I'm very small numbers Thir-
teen years before when / left home
there We're no saddle horses or prac-
tiCally none. When ] returned | found
that the few here were held very high
from SIS to $3.50 each. But the matter
of horseback riding became such a
craze that within ten years the prices
Of horses had fallen to from so to $50
each. In fact in 1860 one could get a
very fair riding horse for from $40 to
sl5 At the time OF which | speak
there were no large plantations or
ranches. The cattle We're just begin
ming to multiply upon oahu, and beef
was generally obtainable where ten
years before it has been very scarce
indeed.
AT the time Of which / am telling
you the wages of the workmen of the
country were very low. The rate of
pay for a native worker was about 25
cents n day or the average There
were no Chinese in the country except
a few traders There were. too, a few
/ Lascars scattered about, but they were
/ very few. They had come here as sal
Tors, and had remained on the islands.
There were also a few Cape Verde
/ Portuguese, who had come here in
whalers and liked the place. The ma
tive people at this time had declined to
about 10000, but were most conspic-
uous element of the population. There
/ were very few half-white people as
most of those who are so well known
/ and remembered are of n later period.
THE roads Of the time were not a
great Improvement upon those of the
i earlier days, but were still very inferior
to what they should have been. The
principal ones were horse trail, which
lei to the Pail, and DIR. Judd had ex-
tended and reconstructed that down
the other side until there was a good
horse trail connecting the city with the
various districts on the koolau side of
the island. There was very passable
road down Eva and Waianae way.
\ Once while making the trip down to
/ Waialua, to which there was good
horse trail, / discovered that even at
that early day the cattle had made
great nroads into the forests of II
plants which had heretofore clad the
foothills and upland pasturages, even
to the highest tracts. There was prob
ably horse trail to Waikiki but there
We're only a few houses of the native
dwcllers there.
1.-THE natives took to horseback riding
with great facility and it is true that
as the horses became cheap and every
one had his horse, the people gave up
SUIT rlullS, as tHOuSH tHeI lued WAS
to have rapid progress and they aban-
doned the older method for the newer
one. The sport of surf riding was even
disappearing when j returned though
some of the outlying islands had great
deal of 1t.
THE foreign community was when
returned much as 1t had been when last
| was here. There were the two ele-
ments. the missionary families and the
! white who engaged in hllSl-
ness. There was still n great deal OF
feeling between the two elements, but
it was abating, and finally almost en-
tirely passed away There were a few
of the older missionary Fanatics living
here. making their headquarters about
the Kawaiahao church settlement. but
fonce year there was always gath
erng here for the convocation in May
! when the missionaries met in the old
Kawaiahao school house, which stands
still at the rear OF the church. Perhaps
the real reason for the differences
which were then so staring were that
the missionaries were engaged In en-
, deavoring TO reform the deeply degrad'
, ed morals of the Hawaiians. while the
members of the other portion of the
community were by no means seeking
such an end. This created the greatest
friction and there were constant clash
es between the two classes, but thu
! presence in both OF good women mad
: it possible for time effectively to abat
this friction. Hr
when We returned we often saw tn
+ two young princes, afterwards ka
= mehameha " and kamehameha V. oil
the street. They were dressed will
care and carried themselves with grea
E dignity. The old missionaries had b,
no means lost their influence, and wer
e still as a body full of activity"
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