Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-01

BULLE IN 5
VIGOROUS
GROWTH
Starting as Shipping Sheet, II
Rapidly Forged Straight
to the Front


On the first day of February 1882
the first printed copy Of the "Uaag
Bulletin" was posted on the outside
@ahS OF the Honolulu Hale" ~ tha
firm Of ]. w Robertson q Co, whose
Ilace Of business was there al that
tire. That first issue of the BAH
Bulletin was ten by fifteen inches inE
size, and printed on only one side 81
the sheet
Herewith is given a fac-simile Of
that first issue, and il will be noticed /
that the merchants of that early day ]
as well as those Of the present day.E
were in no wise backward in using1hef
3ulletin as medium for business pub. +
Lefty.
When the daily printed issue Of the
Bulletin was inaugural ed-thc, prcpr- 1
etors of the sheet we're the subjects Of
1eers and jokes by their many friends.l
who predicted that il would be a sort
of novelty for a short time ana would
then fall by the. wayside. Still. desI
pite'the sneers and jokes, he Balleiinl
was a success from the start, and Mr.
Robertson himself confessed that hn
did not expect the sheet would {
amount TO much As new ideas oc-
Cured to him he flashed them on thel
public. and this paper was ore Of
them The posting of The Daily BulleI
rim was al first q novelty, but il soon
became a feature Of the city's lifoI
The people enjoyed reading the posted
editions. and il was not leng until
Mr.. Robertson received suggestions
that il would be the biggest kind OF a
business move on his part if he would
distribute copies Of the paper To int1ri
ested citizens throughout the city. +
New Paper Grows,
One month after the first printed
) issue the size of the sheet was iu-j
creased TO 12 by Z inches, and was
printed on both sides of the paperi.
+ and was further enhanced ia value hG
IIbeing distributed free throughout tlldi
city. The only collections at hat tiH'a
iINere for IN advertisements that a1.t
peared in the sheet4
On the twentieth, of that Sane
month the patrons of theApaper were
.spotified that subscription price Of
rs cents a month would he at oecnl
aced on the delivered sheet. With
lis price on the paper the subserip-
bon list went right along growiaT.
Tie Advertiser, al that time a rather
slow-going weekly, said all kinds Of
KmalLsized things about the new DALI
Bulletin venture. and predicted a short
life
AS IL is ALWAYS best TO Let other l=
people tell Sf your big doings it IS
here quoted what the Advertiser sail
Of this paper on the eleventh of Feh-i
'ruary, 1882:
"Messrs. j. w. Robertson q q.
have commenced the publication cf
their Daily Bulletin in printed form.
The first number of this important az
dition To our list Of local newspapers
made lis first appearance on the Is
The proprietors confine themselves q
ihey were won't to do i'm their written
bulletin TO the statement Of facts
without comment The Daily Bulle.
tin gives full shipping news to the
hour OF publication and brief accounts
of local news"
ON Nav /, 1882 the Advertiser a.
peared rs a daily This was a spur
TO further efforts on the part of tn"
pioneer daily and the Daily Bulleiil
came out on April oath as a four-pagn
paper with a special editor in the per
: son of Henry Sheldon From that dav
on the Bulletin took its proper piac
i'm the community affairs of the city, i
and became such factor that in thu ,
month of January. 1883. the paper was !
sold. for the reason that il had grown /,
10 such, proportions that Mr.. Rober-
son could no longer devote the tim
TO The paper from his other business
II messed 10 the proprietorship Of Wal
ter Hill. Later Chas: Il. Bucklanf
tool, the cditorship. and from him i
pasSed to Daniel Logan. II was abor'
This time that the paper was incoG 5
porated and il was then given a homo \
Of its cwp' on Merchant street at thu i
Mace adjoining the present Associate /
GARAGE II
Troubles Conquered. ~
During the political trouble IN 1872 }
the Bulletin gathered to- itself peck !
Of trouble. and was down numbe' :
of times but never out, and although
The mortgage then held against the
s7aper was foreclosed. and the PLAN
sold the same energy that is incorpor
ate6 in the Bulletin today was bacl,
of il then. i'm <he person of 3. l., Fin
nov and il was soon demonstrated 6
that when the plant was sold the Bul /
lctin did not go with it. and the sub
scrihorS got their paper just as iii
nothing had happened" and 20 ruE I
il in a little harder il was made ar
daily issue of eight pages instead OF I
four Not a single issue was dropped ;
during the trouble
kftcr Fiuney had gotten the Eul
Ietin well on. its feet again he had an
UNDERSTANDING with a. V Gear and
others who were running the "inde
: incident" with the result that he IN
Gdpcndent was absorbed by tho Bur {
1etin Shortly the paper was brought IS
under the sole control OF Mr. Geart FL
who ran4it i in connect ion with his y
large real estate business.
New Era,Begins.
In June, 1889. Wallace +. Farrins- t
ton took.ybe editors chair Of the Bni.l !
letin. Aying bought an interest m {
The paper with Mr.. Gear and the IN. {
corporation Of the company took place l
Mr. Harrington taking up larger
amount of the stock. In 1899 tue
Weekly Bulletin was added TO the BUS
mess. and il can be found = IN even /.