The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-11
FROM REV. GEO. WALLACE.

l Lave uCt Iol SOttCu Sc'ti ASt
hat [ would write a letter for pub
ication in the GAZETTE, although
YOU have not heard from me since
left Honolulu upon August Both.
Until very recently my wanderngs
have been in places more or less
familiar to my Honolulu friends.
After leaving San Francisco early III |
/ spent four days In |
Portland. Here | was the guest OF
the Rev. Mr. Sellwood and his wife
whom many in Honolulu will re
member with much pleasure. MIR.
Sellwood you will be sorry to learn
is in very poor health and has been,
compelled to give up his work as
rector of st. Davids' East Portland.
1 spent many happy hours with him
in October in New York during the
sessions of the General Convention
of our Church to which he was
delegate from the diocese Of Oregon.
I spent day and night in Tacoma,
went trolling for salmon (but did
not get even bite), saw many evl-
dences of the astonishing growth OF
this wonderful young city and Wis
tied several of its institutions. In
the Washington College found the
two sons of Justice Bickerton well
and happy in their school home. At
the Northern Pacific offices l met
MIR. Bedolph formerly purser OF the
Australia. and in the evening had
the pleasure of dining with him and
his family. 1 called also upon
Bishop Paddock and the Rev. MIR.
Wells of st. Luke's church. Leav-
ing Tacoma on the Northern Pa
cific at seven in the morning, we
were at Ellenburg at three in the
afternoon, when at the station met
Mr.. McCandless formerly of Homo
lulu who had much to say in praise
of the energies of the new town and
its people. The journey eastward
was deprived of much of its usual
attendant pleasure by the prevalence
of forest fires which made everywhere
amurky atmosphere to the obscuring
of all scenery. In due time our
train carried us into st. Paul and in
ten hours afterwards I was met at
the Nashotah station in Wisconsin
by Mrs. Wallace and the children.
The happy autumn fields smiled in
unison with our joy Of heart in re-
union after nearly two years of sep
aration.
The first week of October found
me in New York, and [ was in the
city the greater part Of five weeks,
taking a Sunday service at Bing-
hamton, n. Y, for a sick clergyman,
and spending a week in Connecticut.
I enjoyed greatly the meeting with
many old friends during the Gen
eral Convention. There were clergy
and laity from all parts of the Union
and among them old companions OF
college and seminary days with
whom I found much happiness.
was most generously entertained by
a charming family formerly parish
toner's in Milwaukee, Wis, and
found their dwelling full of truest
household joys. At New London
Conn, 1 was for four days the
happy guest of Mr.. Alfred Mitchell
and his family. They all have {
most devoted aloha for Hawaii and
especially for their pleasant sojourr
three years ago at Waikiki. After ;
week at my Old parish at Waterloo
n. Y, day with our dear friends
the Rev. Mr.. Oggel and his wife a
Pullman, two days in Chicago. ant
other brief visits, [ returned to my
family at Nashotah and was will
them until after the Christina
holidays. At Minneapolis OF
January 1st I met Bishop Hare
of South Dakota, and as thu
result of that meeting,I have severed
with much pain my passionate at Ho
nolulu and am here as the pastor o
Calvary Cathedral, In sole charge
Sioux Falls is the ambitious metrop
oils of South Dakota. Its location
water power, immense stone quar-
ries, fertile surrounding country, it
, five railroads. the introduction o
; Eastern capital and other favorin'
conditions make it the boast of 1t
people. There are about $4,000 in
; habitants. 1t is pretty place-an'
it is cold. Almost at once on m.
arrival, on the 10Th inst. the mercur,
] fell to "a degrees below zero. This /
y said to be exceptional, but as yo'
y see everywhere fur overcoats AM
caps, and double windows on most o
of the houses, it is fair to presum
o. that such defences against the col
: are necessary. The climate is on tn
whole very much the same as at 81
, Paul and Minneapolis, although W
are a hundred miles to the soutt
Calvary Cathedral is a beautiful
building of stone. The stone use
is the Sioux Falls jasper, so-callec
of shade between pink and purple
The church has sittings for 40
people and is so built that at any tim
o it can be enlarged by the extensio
of the west end Its cost was $50
n 1000 and 1t is the gift of Mr.. Johl
IUacob Aston, of New York, to tn
! missionary diocese of South Dakots
The Guild house and Sunday schoc
rooms adjoining, also of stone, wer
erected by the congregation and ar
: most useful to our work. The pee
/. pie have welcomed me most kindly
/ 1 have been dined and received an
/ made to feel that warm hearts an
s willing hands are open and ready 70
1 all good works. The praise OF Blst