The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-14

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edge that his services have been. at all
times. a service for what his conscience
has told him to be right. Surely that
is an honorable consciousness for any
man to have who has been so long in
the service Men do not live long in
Journalism in these later times. The
life is more strenuous. now perhaps
perhaps the men who are living it are
not of the same stern fiber that the
fathers were.
1T is long time. long. long time"
Mr.. whitney said. yesterday. his mind
going back over the years that are
gone. the years so full Of busy use.
Truly. the years that man uses go
fast. Il was boy. little more than
that. in the printing house of Harper
e Bros. in New York. when my
thoughts turned toward this far off
island country. was the foreman OF
Harpers. I served them two years, and
served the Bible Society two years
But was with the Harpers when the
opportunity came to me to come to
the Islands. It came through the late
Tr Tudd He ,,,ada nc On cffa, ~, 1
behalf of the royal government and
accepted it. I met DR.. Judd and the
two Kamehameha Princes. Lot and Lii
holiho. in San Francisco. These two
were kings. afterwards. you know, as
Kamehameha " and Kamehameha ".
I came from New York to meet them.
They came from the Islands to meet
me. That was in the days of the gold
excitement. in 1s49. 1t was no light job.
making trip to California in those
times. I came by way of the Isthmus.
and had to wait a long time to get
passage to Panama. It cost me 5000
in gold, that far. when I did get it.
'"rhen they did not have steamers
enough to take the people away from
the Isthmus. and so had to wait
there three or four weeks to get a
passage to. San Francisco. And that
cost me $500 more. 1t was different
then from what it is now, you see.
came from San Francisco in brig
to Honolulu, making the run in four
teen days. a quick passage. had only
one. fellow passenger on that voyage,
Mr.. Gorham d. Gilman. He is still
living in Boston, where he has made
a fortune. Everybody was good to me
in Honolulu. I was put in charge of
the government printing office at once,
the royal family was most kind TO me.
and for two or three years was the
editor of the PoIynesian newspaper.
had everything my own way.
Then started the Pacific CONNER
cial Advertiser in 1856. and ran it for
fifteen years. 1 gave up the paper.
in 1870. at which time
Black & Aud took hold and ran it for
some years. I took charge of the
paper again in. 1878. and gave it up
inally in 1896. For some years before
hat date. however. Henry Castle had
,een the editor.
For seventeen. years I have been the
.ditor of the Planters Monthly. That
publication was begun in 1882 and for
wo years W. o. Smith was the editor.
Afterwards Lorrin a. Thurston was in
barge for two years, and then I took
old and have been in the harness ever 6
ince. Fifty-four years! That proba-
ly seems a long time, to you have !:
cen compelled to let go Ny eye-sight
; so bad that I can scarcely see. 1t
, impossible for me to write. Oh, !:
m willing to quit. I have been at
-ork long enough but the old face 3
addened as he said it. For where was
yer the man who was willing in his
cart to quit? 9
'.It has been a long day" Mr.. Whit (:
ey went ON. "a long day. But the :
-ork has been worth while. I have 2
zen many men come and go. am =
lnnosf the last of the old-tiners left, 9