Statewide County HI Archives News.....Hawai'ian Chronology and the United States -- Part 12. July 1, 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, 1:40 am Keepers Of The Culture, A Study In Time Of The Hawaiian Islands July 1, 2008 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 July 1, 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 12. by Darlene E. Kelley ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chronology - part 12. ++ 1896 -- The population before annexation is estimated to total 109,020: Hawai'ian and part-Hawai'ian, 39,504; born in Hawai'i of non Hawai'ian ancestors, 12,844; foreign born, 56,672. The Honolulu Normal and Training School is set up to educate skilled teachers. The Government ceases to aid private schools. Council of State votes a full pardon to LILI'UOKALANI. First Koreans to establish a residence in the Islands are two ginseng merchants and families. One hundred sixty-three Chinese -owned stores operate in Honolulu, 72 of them are in Chinatown. The Islands produce 443,569,282 pounds of sugar at a value of $14,932,172; 15,885 gallons of molasses produced is valued at $1,209. $7,165,000 worth of imports arrives in Hawai'i; exports total $15,515,000. At present time, Schools in Hawai'i total 187 and educate 12,616 students. DR. LAUSCHNER, acting surgeon of the SS Austrailia, gives the islands first demonstration of the X-ray. U S -- Ford's first Automobile built. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN delivers " Cross of Gold " speech at Democratic Convention in Chicago. GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER becomes director of Agricultural Research at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and begins work on utilization of common crops, including the peanut, sweet potato, and soy beans. ++ 1897 -- Another annexation treaty is signed in Washingon by President WILLIAM MCKINLEY. February 5 -- The first motion pictures to be shown in Hawai'i are several brief scenes screened by Edison' Veriscope. PRINCESS KA'IULANI-- accompanied by her father A.S. CLEGHORN, returns to the Islands for a short visit after an absence of eight years spent abroad for education and travel. Chinese establsh their own hospital on Robello Lane. First two electric elevators in the islands are installed in Honolulu's Emmeluth Building ( King Street at Bishop ) and the Mott-Smith Building ( Fort and Hotel ). Vineyard Street opens, running from Nu'uanu Stream through to Punchbowl Street. Portions of Fort Street widened; new beach road to Waikiki completed. Two-story tower and tower building of Central Fire Station at the corner of Fort and Beretania streets receives finishing touches. Sugar crop for 1897 estimated at 226,000 tons, the result of improved machinery and cultivation, rather than enlarged acreage. $8,838,000 worth of imports arrive in Hawai'i; exports total $16, 022, 000. To offer outrigger rides through the surf to tourists, a group of native canoes owners in Waikili forms Hui Pakaka Nalu, the first formal organization of Beachboys. ++ 1898 -- Hui Aloha 'Aina Anti-Annexation petitions contaning 21,269 signatures delivered to QUEEN LILI'UOKALANI in Washington, D.C. PRESIDENT MCKINLEY annexes Hawai'i to the United States; the islands' territorial govenment is not establihed for another two years. Hawai'ian flag hauled down in the presence of American and Hawai'ian dignitaries and the American flag is raised. Attended by the crew of USS Philadelphia. April 24 -- Spain declares war on the United States, and the Congess retorts on the 25th, retroactive to the 21st. As a result, the Hawai'ian Islands assume strategic importance ad troops, an infantry regiment and a battalion of engineers, set up a temporary post called Camp McKinley, near Diamond Head. Red Cross Society organized by 300 women in Honolulu. Honolulu Rapid Transit and Land Company granted franchise by Legislature to operate electric railway system. CHANG APANA joins the Honolulu Police Department. His chinese ancestry, undercover skills and determination to crack unsolved cases, inspires the " Charlie Chan " character. First cash registers introduced in Hawai'i. First Spanish contract laborers arrive. Total number of laborers employed on various plantations in Hawai'i is 25,881. Coffee exports total 494,919 pounds. CHUNG KUN AI opens importing business as well as a company to bore wells for irrigating sugar and pineapple plantations. Later, he and associates found City Mill Company. Korean merchant PACK JANG-HING arrives in Honolulu aboard the China, ready to do business. Honolulu Sugar Company established in Halawa. $11,651,000 worth of imports arrive in the Islands; Exports total $17,347,000. Hawai'i's first golf course built in Moanalua Valley by SAMUEL MILLS DAMON, A GARVIE and head landscape and gardener DONALD MACINTYRE. Makawao Seminary on Maui totally destroyed by fire. First motion pictures filmed at Hawai'i include several scenes taken by two Edison photographers on their way throug Honolulu. Earliest known recordings of Hawai'ian music available including " Honolulu Cake Walk " and " My Honolulu Lady." Seven inches of rain falls in three hours in Honolulu, causing floods in Nu'uanu and Pauoa Valleys. Property damage leaves 300 people homeless; four people on O'ahu drown. U.S. -- February 15. - USS MAINE, American battleship, explodes in Havana Harbor. April 24.- Spain declares war on the United States. May 1.- Commodore GEORGE DEWEY wins a seven hour battle at Manila Bay. July 3. - Spanish fleet is destroyed off Santiago, Cuba. ++ 1899. -- PRINCESS KA'IULANI dies at Waikiki at age 24, the daughter of ARCHIBALD CLEGHORN and PRINCESS MIRIAM LIKELIKE. She grew up during the reign of her uncle KING KALAKAUA. She lived at her fathers's Waikiki estate 'Ainahau and left Hawai'i as a young woman to attend boarding school in England. She was Queen LILI'UOKALANI'S heir apparent. QUEEN Dowager KAPI'Olani dies. Construction of a sewer system for Honolulu begins. Kaimuki and Pacific Heights subdivided into residential tracts. Princess Ka'iulani School at Palama erected. Island display sent to Omaha Exposition in Nebraska, with a 4,000 square foot display viewed by an estaimated 900,000 people. Number of immigrants arriving in the Islands this year totals 20.311. Hilo wharf built. JAMES D. DOLE starts his 60 acre plantation in Wahiawa. First American Bank of Hawai'i established in Honolulu. Nahiku Rubber Company on Maui is the first rubber plantation on American soil. New Sugar plantations established at Ola'a and Kona ( Hawai'i ), Maunalei (Lana'i ), Kamalo ( Moloka'i ), and Kilei, Nahiku and Maui Sugar Company (Maui) Chinese rice growers put 9,130 acres under cultivation, the largest area ever in Hawai'i; they produce 33,442,000 pounds of rice, putting rice's export value next to sugar. Hilo native, JOHN ENA becomes president of Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company. Ground broken for Hackfeld & Company's block to include their Fort Street frontage from Queen to Halekauila and running mauka. Oahu Steam Railway connecting Honolulu and 'Ewa constructed. Two railroad franchises-- Hilo Railroad Company and Kohala Railroad Company-- granted for the island of Hawai'i. $19,060,000 worth of imports arrives in Hawai'i; Exports total $22,629,000. Outbreak of bubonic plague kills 61 people in December. The first automobiles operate on the streets of Honolulu; newly arrived cars belong to HENRY P BALDWIN and EDWARD D TENNY. Foundation laid for Stagenwald Building projected to be six stories ( tallest in Honolulu ) of " up to date fire proof " construction. Mauna Loa erupts threatening Hilo. ++ 1900 -- The Government starts a fire at Beretania and Nu'uanu to burn out plague spots, but winds blow the fire out of control despite four fire engines and many firemen at the ready. The fire burns at least 17 days, destroying 38 acres of homes in Chinatown, leaving more than 4,000 homeless. This was initiated on January 20th. Board of Health inaugurates an anti-rat crusade throughout the city and offers a $100 reward for every genuine plague case reported. ICHITARO KATSUKI - first Japanese physician educated in the United States-- sent to Hawai'i by the San Francisco Health Department to investigate the outbreak of bubonic plague. KATSUKI remains and works as a pioneer physicians among Japanese plantation workers on O'ahu. Hawai'i officially becomes a United States Territory. With SANFORD B. DOLE appointed Governor of the Hawai'i Territory. The Organic Act is signed by President McKINLEY. The 1900 census reports a total population of 154,001; Japanese comprise two-fifths; Hawai'ians and part Hawai'ians one-fourth; Chinese about one-sixth; Portuguese about one-eighth; fewer than half are citizens and fewer thanfive percent are of Anglo-Saxon blood. Registered voters in the Islands number 11,216. JAMES CAMPBELL dies at his Emma Street residence. First observance of Labor Day in Hawai'i O'ahu Polo Club founded. Wholesale businesses join movement for monthly instead of quarterly settlement of accounts. $10.684,000 worth of imports arrive in Hawai'i; Exports total $14,404,000. Following a deliberating hurricane that strikes their home island, a group of 498 Puerto Ricans comes to Hawai'i to work. American-Hawai'ian Steamship Company begins construction of 22 steel cargo vessels suitable for shipping bulk sugar to the mainland around South America. Pioneer Electric Railway established in Honolulu. Hilo Railroad Company begins operations on the Big Island. With the passage of the Organic Act, US laws applying to Hawai'i prohibit contract labor. KAM CHUNG-YU and LEONG PAK-HUNG, two of the earliest Koreans in Hawai'i arrive; they list their occupations as druggist and laborer respectively. LORRIN A. THURSTON becomes publisher of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser. First inter-island message by Marconi wireless sent from Kaimuki, Honolulu, to Moloka'i. Emmeluth & Company Ltd., advertises solar water heaters. First Okinawan immigrants arrive aboard the SS China. The first Chinese Newspaper in Hawai'i the New China Daily Press, begins publication. ROBERT W. WILCOX is elected first territorial deligate to congress under the Home Rule Party. US - A hurricane ravages Galveston,Texas and some 6,000 persns drown. The KodaK Camera Brownie introduced. ++ 1901 -- First meeting of the Territorial Legislature, fixes the rate of income taxes The golf course that was constructed in Honolulu, at Moanalua, is shortened from eighteen to nine holes. Hawai'i's first water polo games organized by DAN RENEAR of the Healani Boat Club. Hawai'i's Yacht Club formed. GOVERNOR DOLE formally opens Honoulu Rapid Transit. Puerto Rican population in the Islands stands at 5,200. Puuloa Church dedicated. JAMES P. DOLE organizes the Hawai'ian Pineapple Company, whose first crop is packed in 1903 to begin rapid growth in the canning industry. The Moana Hotel opens. Among its amenities is the first beachboy concession, offering instruction and surf equipment to guests. First black contract laborers arrive,most destined for Maui plantations. Offered good contracts with Plantation owners. Primo beer starts production. Five Korean Laborers imported to Hawai'i One is CHANG SUNG=PONG who later works for many years for Honolulu's circuit court and police department as an interpreter. HSPA recruits Porto Rican workers; 4,805 men and boys arrive in Hawai'i over the span of the year. By June, there are 1,772 men and 623 women working on 40 plantations on O'ahu, Maui, Hawai'i and Kaua'i. Nahiku plantation abandoned. Hawai'i exports $28.023,000 worth of goods. First radio communication among the islands establshed. Motorcycles first brought to Hawai'i. Belgian Hares found in Hawai'i. Electric Streetcars replace horse-drawn transport in Honolulu. First Electric automobiles from the Hawai'ian Automobile Company sent out for a trial spin. Board of Health petitions the Legislature to pass quarentine regulations covering tuberculosis. Earliest known recordings of Hawai'ian music are listed in a Columbia Records catalog: " Aloha 'Oe" (30200) and " Pua Kaoakalani." (30201) labeled " vocal solos in Hawai'ian. Bureau of Immigration records first official Korean immigrants as PETER RYU, arriving in Hawai'i via Japanese ship Hongkong Maru. U.S.-- As President WILLIAM McKINLEY begins his second term, he is fataly shot by anarchist LEON CZOLGOSZ and THEODORE ROOSEVELT is sworn in as his successor. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ continued in part 13. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/newspapers/hawaiian4nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/hifiles/ File size: 13.3 Kb