The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-09-23

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sinn ahd tetins tha name webster.
asked hin NJ BE- Wa ans relation ~
ihe rfeat r4niai Webster ~ shith 10
quickly fepnf1 NYfs sif. . Hm his
tfnhdiaihet The Admiral apparently
arpfet lated he humof ~ the situation.
Ha hf webster was smaller man
than the avefare sratceiy wtlrhlnR
hundred pounds but though diminua
i've 10 size. h. had an active brain
ana made himself felt on several oc.
rasi1ns by his ability 10 legal matters.
AMI IN connection with Mf Reynolds
formerly alluded 20 conducted several
very important cases
on the opposite side OF tho street
were the premises Of Pierce A Brewer.
Their building was quite retired from
the street and their large premises
were occupied by store houses This
frm were the successors to James l..
Hunnewell. who was an officer on
board the brig Thaddeus. that carried
the first missionaries from Boston TO
the Islands and who afterwards re-
turned 90 the islands and entered in
To- a very successful business career.
There was but one more building on
the same side OF the street, and that
was located on the corner OF Fort and
Hotel. occupied by the dry goods store
of Robert Davis. a native of Honolulu,
half white, finely educated in the
United States. and afterwards Judge
OF the Police Court.
Crossing Hotel street mauka on the
right hand side was a small building.
the first occupant of which I do not
recall but subsequently Dr. Mott
Smith and DR.. Hildebrand We're located
here with an apothecary store on the
lower floor and a dentist Office above
The next premises was quite a large
building of two stores, plastered adobe.
and known as the French Hotel. Next
mauka, were the premises occupied by
Capt. John o. Dominis father of the
late Governor Dominis. who lived here
until Washington Place was built.
After Mr.. Dominis had moved, the
place was occupied by the American
consul, Mr.. Terrill. Then came the
premises now known as the Sisters
School and then the Roman Catholic
church. And about this time, on the
corner of Beretana street and Fort,
was built the large residence of Mr..
Charles Brewer. / recall distinctly, at
this period, the planting of the hau
trees along the sides of the roads.
They We're cut UP in the mountains,
some ten or twelve feet long, destitute
of any branches, and the trunks were
about the thickness of mans arm.
These We're stuck in the ground, and
the earth filed in around them. To
what size they may have grown since
then your reader can tell better than l.
(The last succumbed with the erection
of the Mcintyre Building.-Ed)
On the Eva side of Fort street on
the corner of Hotel stood the dwelling
house of Mr.. John Colcord, a black
smith by trade, very worthy man.
There We're no other buildings of note
that 1 remember on this side of the
street until We came to a somewhat
narrow lane extending from Fort
street to Nuuanu, and about midway
of this lane on the makai side, was
the cottage of the we'll known Father
Damon, the seaman's chaplain of the
port Few men of that time We're more
respected by the seamen and lands
men than was the chaplain. He Off
ciated on Sunday at the Bethel to the
small congregation that attended the
iNi'tS uuliHE Tie Oll StdSOIS. DuE-
ing the time that the whale ships were
in port the room was generally well
filled with sailors from the ships.
Speaking of the chapel reminds me of
an incident that occurred there which
caused me some embarrassment. A
ship had arrived in port for wood and
water with a large number of Nor
mon emigrants, under the leadership
mon emigrants, undtr the leadership
of the afterwards famous Sam Bran
nan of San Francisco notoriety. An
evening meeting was announced, at
which the said Brannan acting as a
Mormon elder presided. l had in some
way become possessed with the idea
that these Mormons had been recruited
| from the Methodist denomination.
from the Methodit denomination.
During one of the pauses in the SER
vice, 1 started to sing to a familiar
"Ponnyroyal meter" as it used to be
called at home, the we'll known hymn,
When l can read my title Clear
with the Pennyroyal variations, land
wipe my weeping eyes" Two or three
voices in the crowded room essayed TO
help, but left me on the second verse
to finish it alone. Not willing to ac-
knowledge defeat, l started the third
verse, which l had to sing entirely as
a solo. As l could not read a note OF
music and sang only by ear, remem-
bering only the old fashioned peculiar
tiles of the tune, my effort was not
success
| Branching off from Fort street as
We go mauka, there was a bit of road
extending its somewhat crooked way
from Hotel street to Beretania street.
On its left-hand side was long two
story coral building in which Dr. r.
! w. Wood had his office. In the upper
story, it might have been a few years
later, Capt Newell and his family re-
sided, Capt. Newell will be remem-
bered by the residents of little later
period as the commander of the vessel
which bore away from the islands to
China, Hon. George Brown, United
States Commissioner, who had ceased
To be persona grata" to the Hawai-
ian government, and also the we'll
known and popular Capt John Dominis.
The vessel and her passengers were
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