Posted on: Monday, August 16, 2004

EDITORIAL
New editorial feature

On the Editorial pages in the newspaper today appears a line drawing that shows the Honolulu waterfront, as seen from the harbor circa 1856.

The drawing is based on an engraving that graced the front page masthead of The Advertiser (then, the Pacific Commercial Advertiser) for the first 50 years of its existence. The illustration was developed by Advertiser graphics artist Greg Taylor from a sketch made by Henry M. Whitney, founder of the paper that became The Honolulu Advertiser of today.

The newspaper that you're reading was printed on new, state-of-the-art presses with capabilities that Whitney could only have dreamed of given the limitations of 19th-century technology. They provide vivid color, which you'll see throughout the newspaper, and a clarity that allows us to properly reproduce this valued black-and-white historical drawing.

It represents a direct link to the origins of this newspaper and of Honolulu as a great Pacific city. It also represents our promise that Hawai'i's story will continue to unfold in The Advertiser's pages.