The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-01-27
San Francisco Correspondence
CFRoA OUR SPECIAL conaEsrosDEsr.l


SAN FRANCISCO, January II, 1888.
All the papers, Eastern as well as Cali
~fOrnian, are full Of articles on Hawaiian
matters-the a~brogation Of the treaty and
the coming coronation. and the sad death of
Judge Elisha Allen, Dean Of the Diplomatic
Corps and Minister from Hawaii, occurred
strangely enough just at the moment Of this
universal interest in the Government he
represented. He was the diplomat in the
longest consecutive service, and TO this fact
was due his recognition as Dean Of the
corps. Much interest was felt in the cour-
tesIes shown by the Diplomatic Corps and
the United States Government toward the
dead Minister, as he held the double posi-
ton of a citizen Of the United States and a
representative of the Kingdom Of Hawaii
On the 9Th the senate took a vote on the
reference Of the Hawaiian Treaty resOlu-
ton, which is considered as tending to{avor
the a~brogation of the treaty. The contest
was between the Finance Committee, which
is known to be opposed to the treaty, and
the Foreign Affairs Committee, which is
supposed to favor it. The Finance Commit
tee was successful by a vote of 81 to 20.
One New York paper remarks that it
would be no less inconvenient than silly for
the House to advise the a~brogation Of a
treaty which the President believes should
not be abrogated. As the Sandwich Islands
treaty relates to revenue, the House, it is
claimed, may solicit President Arthur's
views; but the President may even then, if
he sees fit, withhold his views. The posi-
ton of the Kingdom of Hawaii with regard
to the line of British between
the Isthmus of Central America and China
is feelingly considered and the schemes of
the British Cabinet often alluded to. That
Cabinet especially its newly-appointed
member, Sir Charles Dilke,-is supposed to
be exercising some ingenuity to impede or
put an end to ex-President Grants negotia-
tons for a reciprocity treaty with Mexico
alse a country capable of producing a sugar
supply. If Grant succeeds in negotiating a
commercial treaty with Mexico, the fine
timber of Sonora and the other Mexican
States will perhaps bring the needed relief
to the devastated forests of the United
States, about whose rapid disappearance
President Arthur spoke q timely word, thus
far unfortunately UNDECIDED by the Tariff
>omI OMISSION.
The h7rogramme for the festivities at the
ion was copied far and wide, and the
senc@ Of British, French and Italian war
at hfhe port, our own Lackawanna and
Alaska and Wachusett, ordered to reach
=, about the Goth instant, has been
Ioted with interest. Meantime, business
onsideratioIaIn of the treaty has been put off
MondaE TX.
Iold her own !efls the prime subject OF gossip
nd curiositv Her new chaperon is a Miss
.angtry, not CHARACTERIZATION but a distant
~elative, Mr.. Langtry being saluf7OG-pave no
wing sister. Chicago was the scene of
lany sensational incidents and the air was
with promises of sensations which
id not occur. First and most important
he has captured the critics in Chicago.
hey say that her Methods are correct and /
er acting intelligent and refined. AS has )
cen the case in each city she has visited, /
Dciety's most desirable doors have been ]
losed to her. a somewhat unmanly para &
raph that flew about the papers telling how {
letter had been intercepted on its way
Langtry's room to the post and was q
to bear Freddie Gebhardt's adj f
ress, brought the young gentleman at once l
Chicago, ostensibly to hunt down the er- |
Ing reporter who had perpetrated the out i
There was no encounter, but expecta- q
on stood at gaze again when rumor f
the name of Mr.. F. A. Maura as t
Ir. Gebhardts rival in favor of the Lily. t
he same train hat brought Gebhardt in ]
is costume of brown with terra-cotta L
Olored gloves, landed also Maura-in what v
history does not record, but with S
ne nimbus of romance brilliantly about /
inn. He was an artist of reputation, he was S
opposed to belong in some left-handed
Ishion to the reigning house in Italy,; Mrs. d
'angtry had correspondent with him ever t
nee she left New York. Here again, how {
rebhardt showed no Othello-like designs e
pom his reputed rival and the four, Mrs. b
nd Miss Langtry, Mr.. Gebhardt and Mr.. t
laura, take amicable drives in an open b
lrriage TO the delight of all beholders. Il
-ebhardt has published or has had pub h
a letter in which he states his unde- C
liable right to send Mrs. Langtry flowers, C
Ike her driving or give her suppers with v
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lent and criticism, and since the appear t
nee of this letter, his doings and his Q
ardrobe have been almost wholly I'M L
lroniclei.
as left us-sailed for Liverpool the 9rd. 1t t
not an endless farewell, when he ex- 1
ressed a hope of returning before a great o
lille to the United States, where he found Il
ecessity of seeing how art gets along. He :
1T US with the joyful assurance that, in his
pinion, art is progressing among us, and d
e may hope. He thought the true Amerl- =
NJ type was becoming dim and indistlnet, E
ut believed that in fifty years We might :.
gOlve another type that will do just as well. I
poor poet fell in with a highly dis Il
yreeabie type just before lie sailed-the .
scoy in a confidence game, namely, to :,
hose confederates he managed to lose I
early $1,000. He paid at the lottery counter :
checks, and as soon as he became con- :,
inced that he was being swindled he sped :.
Witty tn has bank and ordered the cashier =
stop pHYmen on the checks. He then 7
,niided his misadventure to the police au- :
I%urities, who duly gathered in the checks. :;
he decOy contrived TO make Wilde take =
art i'm the lottery by cleverly initiating an :
acquaintance of whose existence
had become aware, and whose possible
usiness relations with Wilde he had &C
uired by weeks of patient investigation. $
About a month ago a case OF leprosy was q
i'm the Almshouse at Salem, Mass. i
he patients name was Charles Derby, .
gently from San Francisco, as he said :
nd he had been for some years chief :
Otanist to Queen Emma, at Honolulu. (
The California State Legislature is in ses- {
ion, and the new Governor General, Stone n
nan, has delivered his inaugural address. :
he new city charter for San Francisco, by i.
Board of Freeholders elected in Novem- .
er, is being published prior to the voting s
pom it in March. Upon the developments n
the State Legislature is a prophecy of the =
Oming activity of a so-called Committee on :