Statewide County HI Archives News.....Hawai'ian Chronology and the United States -- Part 10. June 30, 2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 July 11, 2008, 1:38 am Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands June 30, 2008 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 June 30, 2008. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Historical Collections of Hawai'i Keepers of the Culture A Study in Time, of the Hawai'ian Islands. Hawai'ian Chronology and the United States -- Part 10. by Darlene E. Kelley. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chronology -- Part 10. ++ 1884.-- A census reports 80,578 inhabitants, an increase of 24,000 in twelve years. Chinese population in Honolulu reaches 5,000 while the number of Chinese doing plantation work declines. Chinese population in the Islands is now 18,254, three times as big as in 1878. Portuguese population in the islands stands at 9,967, up from 486 in 1878. First census to include a catagory for " veterinary surgeons " reports two; A.T BAKER of Honolulu and Dr. JAMES BRODIE, who is appointed later in the year as government veterinarian on Maui. The circulation of silver coins showing a bust of KALAKAUA, minted in San Francisco, brings CLAUS SPRECKLES a profit of $150,000. New Hawai'ian silver coins put into circulation. Hall of Records ( Kapulwa Hale ) foundation laid. First Trade union forms. Postal Money order service with the United States inaugurated. Chinese banana farmers ship 126,413 bunches from Hawai'i to San Francisco, the third largest export crop for the year. $4,638,000 worth of imports arives in Hawai'i; expors total $8,095,000. Paris-born artist JULES TAVERNIER arrives in Hawai'i. For five years he lives and works in the islands, producing many paintings of Kilauea Volcano. PRINCESS BERNICE PAUAHI BISHOP, great-granddaughter of KAMEHAMEHA I dies. She was born to PAKI and Konia . Called PAUAHI, was the Kings heir as his direct descendant. In 1872, Kamehameha V, who was ill and close to death asked PAUAHI to be his heir but she declined. She married CHARLES REED BISHOP in 1880. She traveled abroad with her husband. In 1876, they were received by Pope Pius IX and were presented to the Court of Queen Victoria in England. PAUAHI'S cousin, PRINCESS RUTH died in 1883, leaving the bulk of her estate to PAUAHI, With this gift, she came to own most of the KAMEHAMEHA lands, totaling almost nine percent of land in the Islands. She and her husband loved children, but beng childless, she wanted her property to benefit the children of HAwai'i. A year before her death, she added article thirteen to her will, directing the establishment of the KAMEHAMEHA schools and a board of trustees to oversee the school's mission of educating girls and boys of Hawai'ian descent. Today these schools are still funded by her estate. U.S. MARK TWAIN publishes "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." ++ 1885.-- April 25 -- Queen Dowager EMMA dies at age 49, She died of stroke. Hawai'i's first roller coaster erected in Central Park, an amusement park at the corner of Beretania and Punchbowl streets. Foundation of a new police station laid. Hawai'ian Rowing and yachting Association formed with King KALAKAUA as president. REV. S.C. DAMON, Seaman's Chaplain at Honolulu since 1842, dis at age 70. LILI'UOKALANI excursion party on the steamer Iwalani visits the island of Nihoa. CAPTAIN JOHN KIDWELL imports the first Cayenne pineapple; this variety soon dominates in the islands. Postal money order service extends to England. $3,831,000 worth of imports arrive in Hawai'i; exports total $9,069,000. Labor treaty brings first big wave of Japanese immigrants to Hawai'i. Nine hundred forty Japanese arrive in Honolulu aboard the City of Tokyo. Wilder Steamship Company opens ne route to volcano via Keauhou. KALAKAUA'S nephews, attending military school near San Francisco, are noticed " giving interesting exhibitions of surfboard swimming as practised in their native land." Sumo wrestling first introduced to awai'i when a group of Japanese immigrants at the Immigration Depot engage in a series of matches witnessed by the king and other notables. Two teams, each consisting of twenty amateur wrestlers, compete for the prize; ten tubes of " sahkee." a popular drink. ++ 1886 - Japan relaxes its laws against emigration, and a great wave of laborers from that country begins to arrive; In 1896 Japanese comprise no less than one-fourth of the population. KING KALAKAUA is so impressed with an exhibit of electric lighting, he uses his own private funds to buy a boiler, engine, ad generator to produce electric light for 'Iolani Palace. Two years later elecric street lighting replaces gasoline lamps in Honolulu. A jubilee celebration marks KING KALAKAUA's 50th birthday. A huge Honolulu fire rages for three days and destroys over eight blocks of Chinatown, including homes of 7,000 Chinese and 350 Native Hawai'ians. Ocean Island becomes a dependency of the Hawai'ian Kingdom and is renamed Moku Papapa; it is noted as a source for guano fertilizer deposits. SANFORD B. DOLE, future president of the Republic of Hawai'i, appointed to the Supreme Court as Associate Justice. Hawai'ian Embassy departs for Somoa. Legislative sesson of 1886 goes on record as the longest thus far in Hawai'ian history, lasting 129 working days. Postal Savings Bank established. $4,878,000 worth of imports arrive in Hawai'i; Exports equal $10,457,000. Earhquakes acompany falling of the lava lakes of Kilauea. Pipe laid to bring a supply o water from Luakaha in Nu'uanu Valley is connected with mains at Judd Street. New Zealander LOUIS von TEMPSKY organizes the Big Island's polo games. U.S. -- The Statue of Liberty,a gift from the French people, is dedicated in New York Harbor by President GROVER CLEVELAND. December 8 -- The American Federation of Labor is formed at Columbus, Ohio, with SAMUEL GOMPERS as first President. ++ 1887 -- The KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOL for boys, under the terms of the will of BERNICE P. BISHOP, opens in Honolulu; the girls' division opens in 1894. January -- A mission headed by JOHN E. BUSH arrives in Samoa to begin implimenting the program of KALAKAUA to assist Hawai'i's " primacy in the family of Polynesian states." January 20 -- The Senate in Washington inserts an amendment in the renewal of the reciprocity treaty with Hawai'i, giving the United States the exclusive rights to set up a coaling station in Pearl Harbor; this right is never exercised during the period of Hawai'ian Independence. Treaty is renewed for 7 years. June -- The armed vessel Kaimiloa, sent by KALAKAUA to impliment his policy of primacy in the Pacific, arrives in Samoan waters, but the mission is aborted. July 6 -- KALAKAUA is forced by the Hawai'ian League, formed to fight for a more liberal constitution, to sign the " Bayonet Constitution."; W.M. GIBSON is allowed to leave for the mainalnd on July 5 to avoid being lynched. QUEEN KAPI'OLANI and LILI'UOKALANAI attend Queen VICTORIA'S jubilee in England. New Cabinet is appointed with W.L. GREEN as Premier. PRINCESS MIRIAM LIKELIKE, sister to KING KALAKAUA dies at age 36. $4,944,000 worth of imports arrive in the Islands; exports total $9, 529,000. Teachers, first required to pass an examination before being hired. SCOTT WILSON collects a single specimen of the Kona Grosbeak in Kona distict at 5,000 feet elevation; he describes it as a new genius, Chloridops. Missionary and physician J.W. Smith dies at Koloa, Kaua'i, where he served since 1842. Severe earthquakes shake the district of Ka'u, Hawai'i. Lava flows from the summit crater of Mauna Loa, running through Kahuku, Ka'u, to the sea. Celebrated " Madras Case " tried before a jury results in damages against the government of $22,942. The Madras, a British ship, had arrived in Hawai'i unannounced and demanded port entry under a United Kingdom treaty. Hawai'ian officials violated the treaty by refusing quarentine for the ship. First general convention held to noninate Nobles from the island of O'ahu and Represntatives from Honolulu. ++ 1888 - CHARLES REED BISHOP adds " a large, new and independant structure " to KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOL for a preparatory department. Large addition built on Kawaiahao Female Seminary to accomodate increasing enrollment. Whooping cough kills 104. Honolulu remains protected from Smallpox reported in San Francisco through quarentine restrictions and regulations. The first Kaumakapili Church opens on a Sunday on Beretania Street in downtown Hawai'i. "Paradise of the Pacific", magazine started, presently known as Honolulu Magazine. Hawai'ian Tramways, Ltd. starts a mule-car service in Honolulu and is subsequently taken over in 1903 by the Honolulu Rapid Transit & Land Company. B.F.DILLINGHAM starts Oahu Railway. Park Beach Hotel is the first hotel built in Waikiki; it ceases operation within a year, later becoming the stately mansion of JAMES B. CASTLE. Minister of Finance announces government bonds will no longer be issued due to the increasing amount of deposits in the Postal Savings Bank. September quarterly statement of the Finance Department shows a cash balance of $144,538 after all claims against the government are paid. $4,541,000 worth of imports arrive in Hawai'i; exports total $11,708,000. First diffusion process plant for sugar manufacture received, introduced by COL. Z.S. SPALDING for Makee Sugar Company, Kaua'i. PRINCESS KA'IULANI starts the machinery to bring electric light to downtown Honolulu. Power is provided by a government-owned water-driven plant in Nu'uanu. Lighthouse at Barbers Point erected. Passion fruit recorded in the Islands. First Filipinos to make Hawai'i their home are a band of acrobats and musicians. U.S. -- GEORGE EASTMAN patents a box camera that becomes the popular Kodak. ++ 1889 --The first section of an inter-island undersea cable is laid between Maui and Molokai. A parcel-post system is set up in co-operation with the United States mail. W.D. WESTERVELT, author of books on Hawai'ian legends, first comes to Hawai'i. January -- The chartered yacht Casco arrives with ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON and his family aboard;; the noted Scottish author spends six months in the islands and writes some of his best stories about the region. STEVENSON is to return briefly in 1893, after the downfall of his royal friend LILIUOKANLANI. New road on Maui opens to Haleakala crater and a carriage road of "easy grade" is being constructed from Lahaina to Wailuku. Track laid through nine streets of Honolulu for a street railroad or tramway; covering 12 miles, the tracks are divided into four routes; King Street, Waikiki, Beretania and Nu'uanu. July 30 -- A brief revolt against the new constitution, headed by ROBERT WILCOX, is put down by JOHN HARRIS SOPER; it results in seven deaths and a dozen wounded among the rebels. Father Damien dies at Kalaupapa of leprosy, contracted during his years of ministry work at the leper colony. CAPTAIN T.H. HOBRON dies. First trial over O'ahi Railroad, referred to as DILLINGHAM'S Folly occurs. $5,439,000 worth of imports arrive in Hawai'i; exports total $13,874,000. A small, temporary church is built on Emma Street, marking the beginnings of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawai'i First anthurium plants brought from London. Electric light plant extended and number of street lamps dubled. Kaua'i Industrial School established at Lihue. September 4 - The first train runs on the O'ahu Railroad. U.S. The Indian Territory of Oklahoma is opened for Reservation settlement. ++ 1890 -- The McKinley Tarriff wipes out the advantages formally held by Hawai'ian sugar producers over other foreign growers. Queen KAPI'OLANI donates land to house Maternity Home. Hawai'i is first foreign nation to receive and welcome the Charleston, Caliornia's first constructed cruiser of the new U.S. Navy. Industrial school for Hawai'ians established at Malumalu, Kaua'i with ROBERT W. ANDREWS as principal. Inter-Island Telegraph Cable Company lays Moloka'i and O'ahu channel sections of cable but suspends operations after faulty cable is discovered. S.S. Farallon inaugurates direct trade between San Diego and Hilo. Steam Coasting service augumented by arrival of the Hawa'i ( wooden ) from San Francisco and the Claudine ( iron ) from Glascow for Wilder's Steamship Company. $6,962,000 worth of imports arrive in hawai'i; Exports toatal $13,143,000. Electricity becomes widespread. First of three ostriches arrives in Honolulu by order of DR. G. TROUSSEAU who is testing visability of ostrich farming in Hawai'i. WILLIAM TUFTS BRIGHAM appointed curator of the BISHOP MUSEUM. During his 30 year tenure, he publishes works on Hawai'ian worship, feather work, stone impliments, ancient houses, kapa ad volcanos. U.S. -- Chief Sitting Bull is killed during the suppression of a Sioux uprising. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ to be continued in part 11. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/hawaiian2nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 13.6 Kb