The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-11-14
The Great Revival"

Although the newspapers DO not sTeak alto
gether fayOrably Of the Water street wicked man
sensation, their news columns continue their
highly c0lOred reports Of the savings and dOing-
At John Aliens and Tom Hadden's danoe-houses.
S1me Of these reports are rather curious, and all
Of them evidently more or lee exaggerated. Al
though IL Was announced over "a week ago that
Allen lad actually taken the final step in regen-
Grafton, he fails u exhibit the genuine symptoms
Of a Iegeueratei man. One day this week, say
the reports vi hIs ~eulOgists IN tie newspaper, he
was sailing around among tire crowd at the pray
CT meeting in a state Of gross InebriatiOn. lie l.
represented % have remarked 70 one Of the brethren
that drinking II one Of his vices that he u not
yet prepared 10 give up, and one Of the reports,
IN making tins fact known. puts IL as "A question
Of expediency whether it were not better that he
should be able now and then 10 tip the glass with
come one or another Of hIs old acquaintance, If
thereby he could the more readily gain their con
fdence and % rope them into the fold. John.
too, i getting rcstiye under the lock the mana
gers are keeping on his lips. He wants TO ex-
hort, but they won't let him. The why and the
wherefor Of this Il not stated. Possibly because
the habit still holds TO him with as strong a grip
as that Of drinking.
TOMMY UADDEN's ExPERfESCEs.-TOmmy Had
den, alias Shanghai MADDEN, has, after much
wrestling with the spirit, been brought over at
last and prayer meetings are being held at his
house, which has been hired by the reyiyalists for
the tTihing sum &c SIS a month. Tom take- no
lAAh AA eAe lAN-AfsaAAA-Ns bhaA ~ uliur'AA ~ ne
prayed for, and expresses a desire 70 be convert
cd, If that thing can Toe accomplished. In the
beginning 81 the revival Tom wac, IL will be rec
objected, represented as being even n wickeder
man than tie wickedcst." IL now turns out
that that was all "a mistake. and that OEc must
look further than Haddcn for that very mythical
TersJnage. Tom has many noble and redeeming
qualities. says one Of the official reports, and
Me--T-. GTiunell 4 Minturn and other extensive
-~hiI-Owner- have the most thorough confidence in
him. $50 fer ~ their dealings with him in fur
nt-hIng them with .cIuicu are concerned. Now.
IN view Of the fact that the very worst feature in
Iladden's character WIS his habit Of shanghai
ing sailor. II viii strikc most people that the
confidence 81 thee extensive ship-Owners was, To
u-e the mildest terms, very injudiciOu-ly bestOw-
Cd Toms mode q conducting hs business Las
been Tor the Ta-t ten years 81 well known o. the
tho City Hall. and IL thee extensive ship-owners
were ignorant ~ u. they must b. -et down a.
very singular exceptions % the general rule.
But Tom j. hooked ~ last. -hanghaiel him
self. a. one 81 hi- companions expressed it-and
if be will only remain caught, be may be worn
az a second feather ~ the revival zap.
AS0IHEE " WICEEDEsT MsN.'-And there j. n
third wickeie-t man-JOhnry >locum - who
kecT- next dC1F - John Allen. whose feelings
have been touched, and who J. now on the anx-
iDU- seat Siocum WIS prayed Br. at his own Tc-
quest, 90 tie Five Point Mission chapel. lie
vas present az the meeting, says the report,
% dressed with No cat On, bat otherwise IN a
worn white vest and pants and = glazed cap, and
looking very happy. He carried bic cap IN his
hand. and contributed quite literally o the cJl-
lection SiCcum. like his COMPANIONS, MADDEN
and Allen, i worth SlOO. 600 OF more.