Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-11-21
R. .MAIHESON TELLSOF PROGRESS
Of PRESS IN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

came the official organ. when deficits
In the business office. worried none.
This paper had a number of distin-i
guished editors. C. e. Hitchcock sue
ceeded Jarves, other editors being c.
G. Hopkins, f. o, Hall and A. Fer
nandeZ. .. IL. -
The Friend, the Oldest living .inhab-l
liant, came in 1S43,. founded by Rev.
Dr. Damon Though old, it Is still
vigorous. Then FOLLOW ed host OF
others, some to live a short time and
some to die soon. These included the
Cascade, the first organ of the Anti
Saloon league: the Sandwich Island
News, the first Honolulu Times. the
Weekly Argus, an 'agin the govern
ment' and each contributing to the
gaiety of the nation and doing its
share to boost HAWAII along.
reFhe Advert was born on July
2, 1856, and is still coming out little
bit stronger every day. AS, contem-
Goraries, from time, to time during its
early years, it had the Gazette, which
ii absorbed eventually, The ;Gonven-
ticn, which ran while the. constitu-
tional convention OF 1854 was in SEES
SION; the Church Magazine, which
! Bishop Willis later converted into the
Monthly Messenger and which has
been succeeded BY the Anglican
Church Chronicles the Daily Herald.
run by J. Layers, not H. N. Ayres;
Bennett's Own, Punchbowl, the MI
Heu, Walter Murray, G;bson's paper;
3 The Islander, conducted 10y T. G.
I, Thrum and others. -. =: '.5
"The number of spasmodic newspa
pers in Honolulu makes list too lone
for repetition. Some have been good
some have been not so coed, most oil
them have cost somebody considerable
and few of them ever made any money
Nothing is easier to start than news
paper, and nothing is so hard to keeT
going. n. :t=.'~
!, THE Bulletin first appeared on the
!, bilIboards. in 1881 and was what it's
name said, a daily bulletin, which was
pasted up and which gave the ship
8 ping news. Of the day. It soon be
came newspaper and from 1882 I'm
4 til its recent marriage with the Star
liit bumped through bumps alongside
the Advertiser and the Gazette. The
4 Star was born in 1893, as the annexa
ton organ, and the Star-Bulletih, witt
4 its present management and editor
4 resulted from the happy union .of tht
81 twp on July /, 1912. Several specia
.teditsons have so fafblessed this com
/ binaticn ! -
Honolulu now has two daily, Eng
) lish newspapers that, II I dossay i
myself. are creditable to the city AM
the islands. Honolulu demands /;
. great deal more from its English pres
than is either demanded or supple,
by the press Z any other America
lefty of like newspaper size. sa,
!, newspaper size because so far as tn
English papers go Honolulu is ct
! of about 10000 people. The Englisl
press not Only supplies the news t
these readers who pay for it, but
!. uD to the present has been payin
the cable and wireless tolls from Sal
Francisco for all the other papers O
every LANGUAGE en- every island. &a bul
den which is unfair. The four Jar
anese dailiss help themselves dali
and get their worlds news at the cos
of translation. The Hawaiian and OIL
j er papers do the same. Every dayfth
|, news paid for by the Advertiser an
the Star3Bulietin is lifted bodily an
: lssIlt out by wireless to the other is
ands. the newspapers of which rea
s the benefit Of the bills we pay" -.
2 However, we are coming out ever
day, growing every month and getsin
closer to the dividend mark-whic
may be taken for sign of progress,
+ 81 am sorry that you did not seleC
some kamaaina to tell of the histor
2 and progress OF the press We tav
: Dan Logan, the nestor of the profe
r sion. who started the Montreal Sta
:. in the backwoods of Quebec and cam
t to Honolulu the next day MIR. Ia
> rington was editor of tho Advertise
: when they used to keep one ZOOS