Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-02-19
PACIFIC CLUBS
6Da80IBBAYs
AGAIN RECALLED
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lCOUIluuCu. PoEaC SO1
iison, William Webster, John Janison
Charles Gordon Hopkins, H. Eos
brooke, James Gilman and Thomas
Harding.
They started the club in an old
cnestory building behind old Liberty
Hall" which has long since disap
reared That was in 1851. They
were stfll there when Joined In 1888
but a year afterwards we moved into
building on Alakea street, which Is
now old and dilapidated, but still
standing opposite the Christian
church.
After that we we're constantly on
the move for a while until we got into
our present quarters in 1867.
Once in Adams Lane.
= In 1856 we moved out Of the Ala.
kea street building and into Adams
lane, into q house once occupied by
the late Judge Robert G. Wylie.
aWe were there only short time
before we had to move cut on &C
count of a new building which was
to be put up on the site for David L
Gregg, who was then United States
minister. That building is now &C
cupied by Mrs. Louisa Brickwood and
is known as the Hale Emma building.
@It was late In the SOS that we
moved into our present quarters on
Union street, though we occupied
only the property facing on Union
street at first. It was an old two
story building, originally built for an
American club, and the property was
owned by William Wand. We moved
in there under arrangement or rental
and continued to rent the same prem
ises until 1867, when we purchased
the land for $4,000. and began to- live
under our own vine and fig tree. We
occupied the property adj
joining our present premises run.
ming through to Alakea street.
Made Club Their Home.
. Club life in those days was very
different in Honolulu from what il
Is now. Very few of the members
bad other homes, and they made the
club their home. We often enter.
tanned distinguished visitors, and the
club was always open to admirals
and officers of the war ships without
regard to nationality.
i am not so well informed as to
the other clubs. but they were all
similar In nature to the British Club,
which is now the Pacific Club. There
we're several American and one or
~,y<S snf,.h. 1,.,< =, ~ 49,,
we're lasting, and I think they were
III dissolved and done away with by
he year 1875. q.
For several years there was q
,ig Ainoeiean club on the spot where
he Hawaiian hotel now stands. The
asst American club had its headquar-
ers on the Coney property opposite
he Palace grounds. The president
believe, was Daniel Waterman.
~ Both Of the big American clubs
for several years, but later
III clubs OF prominence were ab-
orbed' BY the British Club the name
# which was changed to the Pacific
Hub IN 1892, when our members rof
ther nationalities had grown to out
lumber the English In the member
hip roll
luke Of edinburgh Guest
kamehameha ~ and Kamehame-
. v often visited the British Club, |
nd King Kalakaua and his brother,
'rince Leleihoku were both members,
s were also the various members Of |
he Diplomatic Corps The Duke OF |
visited Hawaii In 1868,
nd while here was the guest Of the |
british Club.
The British and Pacific Club had |
ne doubtful period, and the mess de-
artment had to be suspended. VIII
am Pendefgast and myself kept the !
hub up, and later 1t picked up and |
OF ON the road to prosperity again.
:. Times have materially changed,
nd our club is merely a club IN the /
ense Of other clubs, where one may
ave mess" play game Of Billiards,
nd spend leisure evening, but we
Id kamaainas have fond memories /
{ the time when our club was home, I
ostelry and everything
COPPER ioined in 1893.
AS for myself, continued DR.. (
COPPER following his reading of the
xtract, cit was my privilege to be-
1me a member in 1893, and up to-
lie time of my becoming a benedict +
We years later it was in truth my +
lome, hostelry, and everything
From 1893 to 1898 were trouble
ome times politically in the club.
he membership was rather evenly +
ivfded between the Royalist and OPP
osing factions; still, with, all Of the
olitical friction existing there was
tile evidence of It in club life, each
srson respecting the convictions OF
le other. Good breeding prevented
ny demonstration of feeling calculat-
| to disrupt the general atmosphere
good fellowship which prevailed /
slieve was the only candidate elect
! to membership in 1893. Il
II recall with pleasant memories
Ie regular mess at the time, consists
e of Governor Cleghorn. who was
resident Of the club, and who was
zen living in a cottage on Emma
luarel DR.. Robert McKibbon, T. NJ. n
saPkar n pr,cca w - law Jo0anh !