OF HISTORY VOLUME Hawaiian Historical Society

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1 THE HAWAIIAN OF HISTORY JOURNAL VOLUME Hawaiian Historical Society

2 EDITOR Michael E. Macmillan Hawaiian Historical Society Publishers ASSOCIATE EDITORS Dan Boylan Professor of History, University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu Helen G. Chapin Vice-President Emerita, Hawai'i Pacific University Lela Goodell Cataloger (retired), Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library Frances Jackson Associate Library Specialist (retired), University of Hawai'i E. Alison Kay Professor of Zoology, University of Hawai'i at Mdnoa Eleanor C. Nordyke Population Specialist (retired), East-West Population Institute Philip F. Rehbock Professor, History and General Science Departments, University of Hawai'i at Mdnoa Robert C. Schmitt State Statistician (retired), Hawai'i State Department of Business and Economic Development Amy K. Stillman Associate Professor of Music, University of Michigan BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Nancy J. Morris Head of Special Collections, Hamilton Library, University of Hawai'i at Mdnoa BIBLIOGRAPHER Chieko Tachihata Hawaiian Curator, Hamilton Library, University of Hawai'i at Mdnoa EDITORIAL INFORMATION 560 Kawaiaha'o St., Honolulu, Hawai'i Phone: MEMBERSHIP Annual Memberships: Life Memberships: Senior Citizen (over 65) Regular Contributing (family) Sponsor Associate Friend Corporate Business Educational Institution Partner Benefactor Patron Founder $30.00 per year $40.00 per year $50.00 per year $ per year $ per year $ per year $ per year $30.00 per year $1, $2, $5, $10, Members receive the Journal and the newsletter free of charge and are entitled to a discount on publications. A catalog of the Society's publications and of other books for sale will be sent free of charge on request. SUBSCRIPTIONS Checks for subscriptions and dues should be made payable to the Hawaiian Historical Society and mailed to the editorial address above. Single copies and back issues of The Hawaiian Journal of History are available from the Society. Please notify the Society of changes of address. Articles in the Journal are indexed in America History and Life ISSN: The Journal is composed and manufactured through the production services program of the University of Hawai'i Press. Printed on acid-free paper.

3 THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY Devoted to the history of Hawai'i, Polynesia, and the Pacific Area Volume ARTICLES The Battle for Wai'apuka School: One Round of an Epic Contest 1 PATRICIA ALVAREZ Unlucky Star Princess Ka'iulani 21 MARILYN STASSEN-MCLAUGHLIN The Hornet: Mark Twain's Interpretations of a Perilous Journey 5 5 DAVID ZMIJEWSKI U.S. Commercial Policy and Hawai'i, ALFRED L. CASTLE "Aloha Aina": New Perspectives on "Kaulana Na Pua" 83 AMY KU'ULEIALOHA STILLMAN Influenza Deaths in Hawai'i, ROBERT C. SCHMITT AND ELEANOR C. NORDYKE From Barracks to Family Homes: A Social History of.«labor Housing Reform on Hawai'i Sugar Plantations 119 BARNES RIZNIK Scorched Earth Policy for O'ahu 159 WILLIAM H. DORRANCE

4 THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY Mediator between Cultures: Tasuku Harada and Hawaiian-Japanese Intercultural Relations in the 1920s 171 MASAO OTA AND GEORGE OSHIRO NOTES & QUERIES Submission by Frank Karpiel 203 BOOK REVIEWS Presstime in Paradise: The Life and Times of the Honolulu Advertiser, GEORGE CHAPLIN Reviewed by Helen G. Chapin Nation Within: The Story of America's Annexation of the Nation of Hawaii 215 TOM COFFMAN Reviewed by Jonathan K. Osorio Malamalama: A History of the University of Hawai'i 220 ROBERT M. KAMINS AND ROBERT E. POTTER Reviewed by James F. Cartwright The Folding Cliffs 223 w. s. MERWIN Reviewed by Robert Becker No Ordinary Man: William Francis Quinn, His Role in Hawaii's History 227 MARY c. KAHULUMANA RICHARDS Reviewed by Dan Boylan An Unlikely Revolutionary: Matsuo Takabuki and the Making of Modern Hawai'i 227 MATSUO TAKABUKI Reviewed by Dan Boylan BIBLIOGRAPHY Hawaiiana in 1998: A Bibliography of Titles of Historical Interest 231 CHIEKO TACHIHATA, NANCY MORRIS, JOAN HORI, AND CHERYL TOYAMA

5 CONTENTS ON THE COVER Princess Victoria Kawekiu Ka'iulani Lunalilo Kalaninuiahilapalapa Cleghorn ( ) photographed circa From a glass negative in the Hawai'i State Archives Hawaiian Historical Society. Printed in the United States of America.

6 Abbreviations ABCFM AH BH BHL BHM BPBM BPRO CCM DB DPI EB F FO 8c Ex FOLB HA HAA HBC HG HHS HJH HMCS HSB ID IDLB IDLF IDM MH P PGA PCR PP RHAS SIG SIN SSB & A American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions State Archives of Hawai'i Board of Health, AH Board of Health Letters, AH Board of Health Minutes, AH Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum British Public Record Office Cabinet Council Minutes, AH Daily Bulletin Department of Public Instruction, AH Evening Bulletin The Friend Foreign Office and Executive File, AH Foreign Office Letter Book, AH Honolulu Advertiser Hawaiian Almanac and Annual; also called Thrum's Annual Hawai'i State Bureau of Conveyances Hawaiian Gazette Hawaiian Historical Society Hawaiian Journal of History Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Honolulu Star-Bulletin Interior Department, AH Interior Department Letter Book, AH Interior Department Land File, AH Interior Department Miscellaneous, AH Missionary Herald Polynesian Pacific Commercial Advertiser Privy Council Records, AH Paradise of the Pacific Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society Sandwich Islands Gazette Sandwich Islands News Sunday Star-Bulletin and Advertiser