Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-21

Nln6ty-tnree years age Hast odIub@
day the little bark Thaddeus arrived
at the port of Honolulu from New
England, carrying the first mission
aries from Boston to the Hawaiian
Islands. Shortly after this II more
vessels arrived, bringing other pio-
neers as reinforcements to those who
composed the first shipload.< Following
the arrival Of the first vessel the mis-
sionaries were wont To congregate
every year and hold rollcall, these
informal meetings finally developing
into society known today as the Ha-
waiian Mission Children's Society. In
1858, with the arrival here of DIR. Hal
sew Gulick, the first of the second gen
Grafton of missionary families to Ha-
wall, the large number of missionary
children in the islands at the time
we're stirred into organizing this so
ciety to perpetuate the work OF their
parents. r.. =
The annual meeting or the Hawaiian
Mission Children's Society was held
last Saturday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock
at the old Mission Home on King
street. where is located the first frame
building to be erected IN the islands.
The meeting was attended by more
than l25 persons, including the de-:
scendants of the pioneer missionaries,
local church and mission, workers ana
a number of invited guests not con-
nected with the society. Those pres
'ent gathered In a large tent in the
rear of the little frame building, and
here for an hour the roll was called
by President Dillingham; the descend
ants of the missionaries responding as
their names were called. Twelve BAN
ners. each bearing the name of one
Of the twelve ships WHEN were among
the first to arrive here! were carried
by boys, and as each descendants
name was called, the banner with the
name of the ship which his ancestor
came over on, was raised.
First came the brig Thaddeus, which
arrived at HONOLULU April -, lS2p
The second reinforcement OF mission
aries arrived in the schooner Active,
February 4, 1923; third ;-ship Parthian,
March 80, 1928; fourth ship New Eng
land, June q; 1881 : fitA ! ship sAveriek,
May IL, 1892: sixth. ship Mentor, May
i, 1898; seventh, ship Henespont, June
6, 1895; eighth, bark Mary Frazier,
April 9, 1897; NINTH ship Gloucester.
May 81, 1871; tenth, brig Sarah abb
gail, September 81, 1912; eleventh,
brig Globe, July Is, 1874; twelfth, ship
Samoset, November 26, 184S. II
Many of the earlier families to al
rive in the islands were well repre-
sented at the meeting, all descend
ants turning out in full force in cele-
,bration of the, day. Twenty-eight de-
scendants of the A., S, Cooke family
were present. while the 1ChamDerl1n,
Rice. and Judd families were we'll rep
resented. AS shown by the calling OF
the roll, descendants of the following
pioneer families were present: Judd,
Castle, Bingham, Thurston,~ Whitney,
Bishop, Chamberlain, Gulick. Andrews,
Clarke, Baldwin, Emerson, Lyons,
Parker, Smith, Hall, Johnson, Dole,
Rice, Rowell, Taylor and Forbes.
Following the calling of the roll, the
members of the society listened to the
report of the board of managers, COM !
posed of 3. D. Bond, George K. Carter,
w. R. Castle, A. B. Clarke, G. H.
Cooke, S. B. Dole, H. P. Judd, Mrs.
Theodore Richards, w o. Smith and
G. N. Wilcox This report contained a !
list of nominations of officers for the !;
following year and, as this report was
accepted by the members,
the following officers weret thereby
elected to hold office during the COM
ing year: F. C. Atherton, president; !
A. F. Judd, vice-president; Mrs. R. w.
Andrews, secretary and recorder, and
l.. A. .Dickey, treasurer.
1t was also voted to apportion a
fund known as the mission fund into
several benevolences to be used only
for direct mission work. Out of this
fund SIS was appropriated toward the
support of a girl at Maunaolu who is