The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-09-12
SPECIAL TO THE ADVERTISER.

SAN Francisco, Aug. 3d." will
remain in town but few days, and
then l leave for Washington again ("
so spoke Hon. L. A. Thurston, the
Hawaiian minister, the other day
when | saw him at the Occidental
Hotel in this city. When questioned,
he said that he made flying trip out
here to secure space at the approach
ing Midwinter Fair for an Hawaiian
exhibit, and also to get a site for the
volcano cyclorama. He expects to
have his business settled by tomorrow
and then he will travel towards the
East.
Heinformed me that he had written
to his government regarding the pro-
posed Hawaiian exhibit, and hoped
for an enthusiastic response. No
money is asked for, but simply re-
quest has been made for the loan of
the governments collection of native
curios. Private parties will be re-
quested TO lend anything they may
have which will tend to make the
exhibit an attractive one, and no
doubt all who have the welfare of the
islands at heart will come forward
and do their share towards making
the affair a big success.
If everything is favorable, Mr..
Thurston will organize a stock COM
pany to carry the thing through.
The able Hawaiian minister looks
well, and although he is a very busy
man he always has a warm hand
shake and a few moments to converse
with any one from his native land
George Beckley, the erstwhile pur-
ser of the Kinau, returns by this Aus
tralia with q very large managerial
bee in his bonnet. His mission to
Honolulu is no less than to
make arrangements to take the
ex-royal band to Chicago. He reached |
this determination after a talk with |
Mr.. Thurston, who is extremely anx-
ious to have the boys play at the cy-
clorama.
The proposition that Beckley will |
make to the boys is as follows: The |
Oceanic Steamship Company will fur !
nish steerage fares both ways free of
charge: when the band arrives in San |
Francisco the Cyclorama Company |
will pay their board bill and furnish |
tickets to Chicago; while in that city
their expenses will be paid, and when |
the Fair is "pau," as they say in
Honolulu they will be carried back
to San Francisco. In a strict theatri-
cal sense the word Expenses simply
means board and lodging. The boys
are to receive no salary, but are to de-
pend on outside engagements for their
profits. Beckley feels certain that he
can get the boys to accept this propo-
sition, which is not a bad one, con-
sidering the fact that they have been
walking on their uppers for some
time, while waiting for the ex-queen
to be restored.
While in this city, all one has to do
to imagine himself in Honolulu is to
drop in at the Occidental hotel about
I o'clock in the evening, and see the
number of wanderers from home. If
you have a good suit of clothes on
and are without 'lend-me- ten till
tomorrow air you invariably receive
warm welcome, and then volley of
inquiring questions about the islands
is fired at you.
/ met Henry Hebbard and Malcolm
Brown there the other evening along
with number of other old-timers-I
can't spell ''kamaainas." Henry was
road supervisor for long time and is
well known in Honolulu. He is look
ing well and never tires of talking
about the Paradise. / have an idea
that he would like to return. He has
my permission to do so, as Henry is
cone of our people," as my friend
Colonel Thomas Lucas is wont to re-
mark. Malcolm Brown is a compost
tor on some daily paper here, l be-
lieve, and is doing fairly well. He
also has a far-away look in his eyes.
The overland train that left for the
east last night carried away a large
contingent of the Wilder family for
Chicago. During their stay in this
city the members of the party have
had good time. Theatre-going, re-
ceiviDg and making calls, and short
TO the jay towns surround |
ing this city helped to make the time
pass pleasantly for them.
mo, am not going home until the
next trip of the Australia. / am not s
going to Chicago for the reason that l j
am not enjoying good health, and
during my stay in this foggy and
windy city, have been continually
under doctors care,u remarked Mr.. S
Roth this morning. He and his family !
ire enjoying themselves notwithstand- ,
ng. !
.'Hello, Frank, is it cold enough for
rou.n was the greeting 1 received I
rom "Jack1 Waibel yesterday. c
net him on the sunny side of Market I
street. He was muified up to the I
hin with heavy overcoat. "Jackn !
me that he expected to get a I
rood position shortly and then con- S