The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-27
HAS
4 BIRTHDAY
Many Celebrate 3OOOth
issue of japanese
Journal.

or of the issuance of >the three thou
sandth number of the paper
The announcement was also made of
the successful thirty candidates in a
voting contest who are to be the
especial guests of the shinpo at ban
quet to be given on some future sun
day to be decided upon shortly by the
thirty.
Proprietor Shiozawa was the host and
the editorial and tpye-setting rooms
on the second floor of the newspaper
offices was devoted to the reception of
the guests. In one of the small rooms
We're tables on which were spread lob
ster and potato salads, sandwiches and
in ice-bound tubs near by We're dozens
of bottles of beer. and in a cooler not
very far away, reposed a number of
bottles of champagne
On the metal awning outside the Sec
ond story window a platform had been
erected, on which was placed a kineto-
scope machine and stereopticon, from
which We're flashed upon a screen
erected in a yard opposite, pictures of
the late war both on land and sea, hui
morous pictures, and photographs of the
Japanese Emperor and Empress, Ad-
miraI Togo and other prominent peo-
pie of the sunrise empire.
One of the main displays on the
stereopticon was the picture of the
thirty successful candidates who had
been voted for by the subscribers of
the Hawaii Shinpo. The leader in this
Nuuanu street merchant.
The plan of the contest was to vote
for men in number of professions and
the three highest in each division were
chosen by the judges. The successful
were as follows:
observation-disclosures Takakuwa, va
mamoto, Oxide.
Hotel men-Messrs. Kobayashi, Kan
10, Shinshuga.
Physicians-Dr. Uchida, DR.. Oyama,
DR.. Haida.
Barbers-Messrs. Dol, Sekiya, Yo-
shiga.
Tailors-Messrs Matsuki, Fujimoto,
Matsuda.
Restaurant proprietors - Mochizuki,
Sunouchi, Seichokan.
Hack and Draymen-Daimaru, Full
Ia, Tanabe.
Small Farmers-Mr. Kuwabara of
Maui; Mr.. Sano of Ka-
huku. Oahu; Mr. Wakita of Honolulu.
Artists-Mizutani, Ono, Akimoto.
Interpreters-Negoro, Tashiro, Saka.
AS each candidates picture was flash |
ed on the screen a shout of approval |
went up. Many of the successful can |
1idates being present, Proprietor Shio- |
zawa adjourned to the ante-room, and |
starting with glasses of beer felicita- !
tons were exchanged. Later on in the |
evening champagne was INDUCED in, to !
which the guests did justice, while |
shouts of ''Banzaii Banzai!' could have |
been heard a block away. Among the
'oreign guests We're United States Dis |
rict Attorney Breckons, United States
Marshal Hendry, Secretary E. NJ. Boyd
If the Promotion Committee, and rep
esentatives of each of the daily papers.
All the Japanese newspapers We're also
represented. 81
4 A. o. 70 0Y~aT ieff
plans, all the money that
lie would receive for additional sub
criptions up to the close of the con-
est, would be devoted to the enter
of the candidates and friends,
nd that this fund amounted to about
1900. This being the case, the cele-
ration of the issuance of the 3000th
lumber of the Hawaii Shinpo will be
ne of the largest events of the kind
in Honolulu in recent years.
wen the Taft reception, as far as cost
, concerned, will dwindle into insignifi-
ance The Shinpo of September %
avs: III
1.-The settlement of arrangements for
he entertainment and of how the l
honey shall be spent. is left to COM ,
littees and to the thirty who are
ected as winners in the great contest. I
he plan as outlined now is 70 invite
Il the subscribers of the paper to a
avs entertainment on some Sunday, | V
aving programme of games and
her entertainments for them, prob
bly, at Mochizuki This is a matter :
be settled by the committees con- t
,rned, and by the thirty men elected T
hese will be called to meet and dis
ISIS the proposition, also TO decide how
le proceeds of the contest shall be
,ent. The days sports are to be fol-
wed by a banquet to the thirty, at
hich there viii be a number Of in