Arizona republican., 1906-07-14
IA HUNDRED YEARS
 OF A CITY'S LIFE
HOnOlulu as It Was, as It Is and as It
 Will Be.

P. R. Helm of this city, who is asso ciated with the Pratt Gilbert company came here from Honolulu. which was his home for many years. While he is as justly proud of Arizona as any of her adopted sons, he retains more than a passing interest in the island com monwealth that was his home for so long. He has just received and passer along to The Republican for inspec- ton a copy of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser of July ?, together with magazine number printed in honor ot the fiftieth anniversary of that news paper. These papers are accompanied also with a copy of the first edition of the paper, just fifty years before, re- produced from the files for purposes of comparison and as a souvenir
 The comparison, it may be said. shows very marked advancement in the art of publishing a newspaper and some notable differences in the matter carried by the two editions. The diff ference most quickly observed is that
 in the older edition one-half the paper is in the native language of Hawaii. There are also advertisements in the native language and the present day edition is somewhat illuminated by
  sible a half hundred years ago.
 The magazine section is a volume of l 120 pages besides the covers. It is not 1 only profusely illustrated but the pie lures are good, equal to the best news paper photography on the continent. | The magazine is printed on a good ] quality of book paper and is a credit
 to the publishers. The contents of the magazine are all that one would ex pect; an album of information descrip- | tive of the islands and Honolulu in i particular, together with the pictures : of her leading men and brief biogra- phies Of those who have made the civ
 ilization of the present city what it is as well as it's commercial prosperity.
 Among the pictures and biographies I are those of Queen LiliuokaIani and
 other members of the former royal l family of the islands, descriptive of ] their present life and surroundings.
 | But probably the most unique fea- | tuTe of the magazine section is series l of four pages assuming to be a repro duction, or more properly speaking 9 ! production of the issue of the Ad- vertiser of July ?, 1856, fifty years | hence. In these pages it appears that air navigation has been accepted as the 1 locomotion of the hour. There is a telegram from Denver announcing an accident that befelI T. F. LOngworth- ! a grandson of President Roosevelt, whose aeroplane scraped off the chim- neys of a number of sky pers. .'' disabling his steering gear. Another message announces the departure of Pope Charles I from Rome, for a visit
 to his old home in Baltimore. There is mention also of the friendly relations 1 existing between him and the presi- 1 dent Of Italy. Those are only speci-
 mems of a very interesting teegraphic ! page. There is a picture of Honolulu
 as it will appear in 1856 and there are some striking advertisements. One is that of the Balboa hotel, which is fifty 1 stories high and has three thousand 1 rooms. Every bedroom is circular and ! harbOrs no dust. Oxygen apparatus | in each room gives a supply of fresh
 air every night. Touch button and your bath appears. The body is Iaved ! with OXygenated water after which a few minutes in the drying cupboard lined with moving brushes and filled
 with dessicated air dries the skin and
 electrifies it. At the acreage in the 1 tower the patron can have his choice
 of any sort of air vehicle. etc. etc
 The improvements are all one could
 imagine and then some. Altogether the
 edition is a novelty and perhaps a
 prophecy. It gives a hundred years ot
 a city's life, half of which is yet to be
 lived.