The Hawaiian gazette., 1890-12-16
KING KALAKAUA.
Arrival in San Francisco and Re-
ception at the Palace
Hotel. independence
Day dinner.

The L. S. Flagship Charleston after 8
pleasant passage from Honolulu arrived
off the Farallons on Wednesday after
noon, December 3rd, but owing to &
4 heavy gale did not cross the bar until
next morning.
The bay was full OF governmentpowder
smoke in honor OF the visit of David
Kalakaua. King of the Hawaiian Islands.
1t was II O'Clock when the Charleston
passed through The Golden Gate and met
the Swatara, detailed for escort duty up
the bay The latter vessel inaugurated
the firing with royal salute of twenty
one guns, running the Hawaiian flag to
the mainmast head as the first gun was
fired. Alcatraz and the other forts took
up the thunderous welcome as the Swa-
tara turned and led the way up the chan
mel and around the seawall TO anchorage
off the foot of Washington street, pre-
| ceding the Charleston, also flying the
| Hawaiian colors, by about quarter of a
mile
| The Swatara's work was very pretty
at the finish She dropped anchor and
| tailed in with the food tide ten minutes
before the Charleston came up abreast,
which moment was the signal for man
ming yards. The crew went aloft on fore
and main in fine style, and in less than
two minutes every yard from fore end
main to the royals was decorated with
rows of blue jackets with linked arms,
| upright and motionless as statues. Then
there was salute OF thirteen guns to
| Rear-Admiral Brown, to which the
Charleston's six-inch rifles responded
with seven blank cartridges.
The Bear and Patterson also had
! greeting to offer, and the salutes became
| so tangled up that all but the experts on
naval and international etiquette lost
| track of what the individual vessels were
trying to 90.
His Majestyreceived his greeting from
the Charleston's bridge, and was not too
tired by his rough night off the bar to
thoroughly appreciate it.
Invitations for the Reception.
The following invitation had been sent
to those who were supposed to be DESTROYS
of meeting His Majesty on arrival and
extending the courtesies OF the city to
him. The invitation was as follows:
His Hawaiian Majesty's Consul-General
desires the pleasure of your
company to assist in
receiving
HIS MAJESTY, king KALAKAUA,
Who is expected on the United States
steamer Charleston, about Thurs
-, ?
You will please meet at the Palace Hotel
parlors on being notified of
the hour.
The following gentlemen were invited
to receive King Kalakaua on arrival:
George W. Merrill, ex-United States
Minister to Hawaiian Islands; General
W H. Dimond, Superintendent United
States Branch Mint; Ex-Governor George
G. Perkins; Isaac Upham; George II.
Sanderson, Mayor-elect; Barry Baldwin,
I. G. Phelps, E. P. Danforth, Paris
Kilboarne, Col. ]. P. Jackson, Chief
Justice Beatty, General S. w, Backus,
NJ. S. Grinbaum, Joseph LYMAN, r. p
Rithet, Mayor E. B. Pond and city Off
cials, Governor Waterman, w H. Sears,
Adolph Spreckels, William Alvord, ex-
Governor f. +. Low, James K. Wilson,
Max Green, Charles Mayne, w. II. |
Bailey, S. 7. Alexander, E L. 6 Steele, |
w. F. Whittier, ex-senator A. P Will
liams, ]. B. Stetson, w. w. Montague,
NJ. P. Jones, L. Steinhart, P. n. Lilien- |
thai, General John T. Cutting, E R. |
Lilienthal, Alexander @. Halves, David |
j.. Staples, Hon. Chas. Il. Bishop, NV. |
Spaulding, Thomas B. Shannon, J. n.
Morton, Senator j. P Jones, Hon. c. n.
FELTON,, Robert Oxnard.
The Process of Landing.
Hawaiian Consul Mckinley and Lieu
tenant Lowering OF General Gibbons |
staff boarded the cruiser at noon in COM |
pany with Collector Phelps and Deputy
Port Surveyor Gaskill. The latter gem
tleman personally chalked the royal
baggage with the Custom House o K
Ky mark, and with his companion
rendered the freedom of the Union to its |
owner.
Consul Mckinley and Lieutenant Low
ering consulted with the King and Adj
miral Brown as to the hour of the recep-
ton, which was finally settled for 8 80
M.
At that hour General Gibbons and his
full staff, the Preside band and two
troops OF the Fourth Cavalry were drawn
up on the seawall in front of the Clay
street float with dozen carriages for the
King and the army officers. An i'm
mense crowd lined the adjacent docks,
but unfortunately for the sight seers the
starboad gangway was off
shore and the Decentralization was hid
den from view. At AS puff of smoke
and bang from one of the cruisers
guns betokened that the King was leay-
ing the ship, and second later the Ha-
waiian flag futtered down and the Adj
miral's ensign replaced it on the Charles
ton, while from the Swatara the stars
and stripes and the home pennant,
slender 800 foot long streamer, hoated
but on the breeze.
The Military Reception.
The latter's guns joined with the Char
eston's in the good by salute to royalty,
and the batteries were aorked so rapid
y that it was several minutes before the
Admiral's twelve-oared barge. manned
DIV a dozen COOd-loOkiDO fairs and hvin,, |