The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-05-05
THE FRISCO
PAPERS

great newspapers of the city were nat
urally the first establishments to rally
from the shock They did not miss an
issue The papers of April Is were out
before the disaster on the 18th the
three morning papers issued joint
edition consisting of only four pages.
BY the next day each paper had its own
plant somewhere, and from that time
on the editions rapidly improved The
Examiners first issue of its own after
the earthquake, on April 20, contained
the following call to its lest staff:
ITO Members of The Examiner Staff;
"Au members of The Examiner STAFF
are requested to report for duty at
once at the office Of the Oakland 'Irib-
une,' eighth street, near Broadway
Oakland. Passes to Oakland may be
obtained by applying to Boatman
Crowley at Crowley's Boathouse'
Meigg's wharf"
The first days papers after the shock
are all devoted to hopeless, increasing
disaster, but by Sunday, the 22nd, came
the announcement of an end of the hre
and a reviving of hope. With the same
day came returning business and from
that date on the newspapers were lit
erally flooded with all sorts of unique
announcements. Firms of all sorts
rublished advertisements calling en-
ployes together and announcing that
salaries would be suspended. All sorts
of business and professional men has
tened to announce where they could
be found, and firms wanting to put up
buildings advertised for men who could
do the work.
In all the papers We're column after
column of personals" published by
the thousands of people who were try
ing to find relatives and friends. by
means of this sort of advertising thou
sands of separated families got togeth-
er. The Examiner of April q contain
ed list of four or five thousand tele-
grams uncalled for at the offices of the
Western Union Company in Oakland
and about three solid pages of per
sonal" advertisements by the lost and
those seeking them. There were also
pages of announcements of relief bu-
reaus and temporary headquarters.
mo interruption of Business" is a
sample line from the Ads, while the
words Temporary Offices were part
of nearly all. Other characteristic Ads
were of address wanted" Still an
other class was that of many priests
and ministers, who published cards
stating where they were to be found
Another kind of AID, which made its APP
pearance with cheerful sound was that
announcing payments of dividends.
The corporations able to do so took
particular pleasure in announcing in
big letters that they would pay In
COIN"
There is no end to the variety of the
notices thus suddenly flooding the
press. Cemeteries announced their
readiness to receive bodies, and denied
rumors that they We're wrecked. De-
tective agencies, medicine men and real
estate men rushed into print, and one
very suggestive real Ad had for it's
heading in big type the words "A
| Home For You" Announcements of
where lawyers could obtain new libra
| ries were also common, every library
in the city having been destroyed.
The Hawaii relief bureau was among
the advertisers, Fraser having inserted
the following notice:
NOTICE.
"All Hawaiians please communicate
with e. A. Fraser, 52S Stanyan street,
San Francisco. All cable messages
will be forwarded free of charge, and
any necessity provided for"
The following is a sample of whole
pages of the Personal advertise
ments:
"Alf. M. Jackson of 225 Sth st. is safe.
anna Gavin-Come to Hanford +;
bring boy; wire me for ticket. JERRY.
Information wanted of an old color
ed lady, Mrs. Charlotte Miller, partly
paralyzed; when last seen was on Ge-
airy ST., near Leavenworth; a white wo-
man named Lie was with her.
IF anyone hears or knows the where
| about of DR.. c. l.. McPike who had a
dental office on the corner of 9th and
Howard SITS, The Brunswick, please
let his anxious parents know if dead or
alive. 2525 California st.
Alice Helsing-Father at Nelson's,
$50 14th st.
"Lost-On Sunday night, a yellow
setter dog; answers to name of Jack;
$40 reward Royal Livery, Franklin
and 18th SITS"
These are only samples of page after
page of such notices, some pathetic in
their appeals for news, others more or
less amusing with with their hints of
| interrupted love affairs Thousands of
mothers advertising for lost sons; faith
ers, brothers, sisters, seeking to find
their lost ones, made up pages of ad-
vertising matter of thrilling human in
terest. AS showing how numerous
such inquiries We're, a single issue OF
The Examiner contained more than
two columns, in the smallest kind OF
type, of "Nevadan Inquiries and In
formation"
The following Honolulu notice APP
peared in the news columns: