The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-02-03
Local Happenings Of Hall and
- Quarter Century Ago y
Glimpses Of the Town and Townfolk
From Advertiser Files Of This Week
~ - in Years 1861 and 1886 ~ -
FIFTY YEARS AGO.


Disgracefui Attack on q Religious
Society. -Chureh.goers, attention. 1.-THE
annual sale Of slips and sittings''
in the Fort street church comes OF at
the church on Monday evening next, az
half-past seven o'clock. So the COM
munity is informed by the Board Of
Trustees. What would our ancestors
have said about building churches on
speculation; and what would the print
tive Christians have thought about it,
whom it is SO fashionable nowadays to
invoke as orthodox patternsi Sell the
right TO high seats in the synagogue,
and in the eyes of the prOfane-lbefore
whom We are enjOined to let our light
shine-making money the criterion of
godlinessl We believe the Fort street
church is the only one in this city that
makes merchandise of its aceommoda-
tons. Were the pews ('tslips and sit
tings y only sold to actual members of
that church, we might have looked upon
it as am internal arrangement, which
needs not necessarily have concerned
the public; but when public vendue is
publicly advertised, and by virtue of
his money alone the rich profane, who
seldom or never attends, is permitted
to buy up choice seats, and thereby
crowd the poor but constant attendant
into places where light, hearing and air
are defective, we have the right, and
we feel it a duty to comment on the
transaction, as giving the scoffer and
the infidel additional cause for scandal,
and morally tearing down with one hand
whatever may be built mp with the
other. In heaven, as in a mill, "first
come is first served, - and such, in our
opinion, should be the rule also in every
church that pretends to initiate the
order and beauty that reigns above.
We clip the above from the last issue
of the government organ (The Polynes-
ian), as q fair specimen of what the
ministerial journal is. The ministers
uphold a newspaper apparently for no
other object than, as occasion may Of
fer, to vilify and abuse portions of the
community who are the best and firmest
supporters of the government. Because
the ministers do not chance to attend
the Fort street church is that any reas-
on why they must allow their organ to
snap like an angry eur at that society,
because it chooses to raise its support
in the most convenient mode practic
able, mode resorted to in every civil
lied country7 But what business has
the government to NEEDLE at all with
the "internal arrangement" of this or
that church, What business have the
ministers to say that the Fort street
church must not sell its sittings at auc-
ton, stigmatizing its policy of raising
its support as "making merchandise of
its accommodations. :" They have none.
And we charge the government with an
open, unjust and fragrant abuse of the
confidence reposed in it by its citizens
1t affords another instance of the inn
policy of the ministers seeking to con-
duet a newspaper. There is not a
person connected with that church or
any other who viii not condemn the
government for its base act. The pub
location of the article just day or two
before the sale, would indicate that they
had motive to influence the sale and
damage the church, and the result would
should they have succeeded to their
heart Is content, as the auction sale this
year amounts to $4,000, against $3,100
realized at the sale last year. To prose-
cute the government organ for damages
would of course be useless, but it richly
deserves it.
What Printing Once is Not.-A
printing Office or editorial room is not
a place for lounging nor is it a public
reading room. The exchange papers are
taken for the EDITORS use, and not for
that Of the public. Advertising is a
part of the regular business of the pub
Usher, and he does not expect to do it
gratis, any more than a. man builds car
riages for nothing, And, finally, an
editor is not to be considered the uni
versal arbiter of all disputes, the
general champion of all the distressed
or the handspring of the government.
If you have business with an editor,
transact it with all reasonable dispatch,
and leave him to attend to his duties,
and do not annoy him by Interruptions,
by reading his manuscript, or by carry
ing off his exchanges. If you have no
business with him stay away.
New Flour Mill.-We learn that
Messrs. O. H. Levers, g. p. Judd and s.
Savidge have associated themselves to-
gether for the purpose of building a
new flour mill, to be located on Mr..
Levers premises, and driven by his
steam engine. The cost of building and
machinery is expected not to exceed
So, 900, and the whole is to be completed
by the end of May, 1861. They propose
to grind wheat for any one who wishes
first come first seryed--bnt will be
themselves in the market to purchase
wheat for cash. They have already
taken measures to procure the very best
machinery, and hope to have n mill
adapted TO the wants Of the islands.
Notice. -Le Progress do L'Oceanie
Lodge, No. 1924, A. p. & A. NJ, under
the jurisdiction OF the Supreme Council
Of the Grand Central Lodge Of France,
working in the ancient Scottish Rite,
holds it's regular meetings on the Wed
nesday nearest the full moon Of each
month, al the old Lodge Room, 10 King
street. Visiting brethren respectfully
invited TO attend. =. @. Jones, seeFe.
taTy.
There is "a anecdoie Of an editor o.
old times, who, when be Was short Of
matter, o. grndged the labor Of type
setting ToQuiaifa "a mt IL into mini