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Newspaper
Evening Bulletin
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1897
Page
4
Daniel Logan argues against stage encores in Honolulu citing harm to performers including children. The piece defends restraint, condemns repeated bowing and demanding repeats as cruel, and calls for lawful limits to protect artists and audiences.
In Honolulu a group seeks a name for a new pleasure lake with a prize building lot for the winner. Mr. Desky of Bruce Waring & Co is thanked for organizing the popular vote and overseeing the prize. The note urges careful naming by those with power to fix names, citing a mispronounced street name as an example.
T. M. Oyeno, a leading Japanese silk supplier with a New York base, arrives via the Coptic after seventeen years in the business. He notes Japan accounts for about 60 percent of US raw silk, while China Italy and France supply the rest. Oyeno, traveling to Japan to secure this season's raw silk, describes market conditions, quality comparisons, and a brighter outlook as imports rise again.
We have opened large invoices of American and English cutlery covering all needed in a well regulated household or plantation. Highlights include Wade and Butcher English razors Westenholm razors and packet cutlery Green River American butcher knives Seymour scissors Bankers Shears sailors and barbers shears and hair clippers Also Hawaiian Special Aluminum Cane Knives noted for strength durability and lightness A wide assortment of novelties recently imported is available for viewing anytime.
Hawaii has no emphatic warning against laxness in keeping up the bare against infection, from the news given in this paper yesterday of the death, by smallpox, of the Hawaiian Vice Consul at Kobe. Persons and baggage and merchandise from Kobe outer Honolulu every other week on an average.
A brief note describes a funeral held in Honolulu following burial reform practices, noting the grave concern over the high cost and the fear of death it awakens.
A 1890s commentary cites a January 14 speech by Senator McCandress criticizing how Hawaiians are treated, arguing their generosity and hospitality leave them poor, while noting the absurdity of charity expectations and asserting cultural respect amid controversy. The piece quotes the debate and labels the stance as reflective of broader attitudes toward Hawaiians.
Alexander Fresman, an inmate at Salford’s Saay Harbor, recently marked his 6th birthday there. Born December 22, 1786 on Murray Street in Brooklyn, New York, he came from the Colored People’s Home in New York to the harbor in 1856. Fresman, a former cook who followed the sea for over fifty years, recalls George Washington and events from the War of 1812. Doctors say he may live several more years despite extreme age, without remarkable pain or illness beyond weakness.
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