The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-03-14
HOW THE ANNEXATION
COMMISSIONERS WE'RE
TREATED.
Ton, ucEay- offered a Decorated
Train of CarS-A Reporter
Sent 700 Miles for an
Interview.

LOAA SECNAeA WINS kNAANANAAN AAehN 80
last overtakeu the Commissioners,
and has awaited himself of their good
nature since his arrival in Wash
ington, and has gathered the follow
ing information concerning their
trip;
The voyage OF the Claudiue was
eventful and not without dangers.
Mr.. MarSden is said to have made the
/ greatest inroSds upon the supplies 50
bOuntifully provided by the Wilder
Steamship Company. Mr.. Wilder's
anxiety was so great that he devoted
all his spare moments 70 navigating
the snip. Mr.. phurStOu spent his
time and exhausted his typewriter
preparing proclamations 70 the Amer
lean people. This gentleman suffered
somewhat from his cough, but was
the only one of the party who did not
have to call upon DR.. Day for profea-
sional advice and assistance. The
latter professional gentleman was the
best sailor of the party. Mr.. Carter
and Mr.. Castle did all the talking and
most of the sleeping. Capt. Cameron
and the ships company did all in
their power 10 provide for the comfort
of their passengers and the speedy ar
rival at San Francisco. The time of this
latter event was q matter of very con-
siderable consideration. Toward the
evening OF Thursday, the laymen
added up the days run and staked
their reputationS-fO that was all
they bad with them, and they hest
tated about drawing upon the credit
Of the Provisional Governmeut-upon
midnight as the time for sighting the
Farralloues. Captain Cameron had
spent q great deal of time with his
abstruse logorithmic calculations, and
he fixed O'Clock; but when at 81
o'clock Mr. Thurston went on deck
and saw the twinkIing light over the
Starboard bow. and the Commissioners
realized that even nature had yielded
TO the longing of Hawaii for closer
relations with her sister, and had
shortened the distance between them
by almost sixty miles, they felt that
successful conclusion to their mission
was absolutely sure. They ran under
the shelter of the FarraIlones within
q couple of hours, and Pilot Swanson
the youngest of them aIl-sEung
himself aboard. He had been to
who and what the party was, his
cordial welcome was the first Of the
hundreds of thousands that have since
been extended TO Hawaii.
At = O'Clock the anchor was dropped
ON the quarantine ground, and shortly
after, through the courtesy Of the
officers of that department, and
particularly DR.. Lawlor, two of
the Commissioners were speeded
to the shore. At q hint from
the messenger of the Merchants Ex-
change, the mighty presses of the San |
Francisco dailies were stayed, aud an |
army Of type settlers gathered at the |
door ready for the hurrying horses |
that brought your valuable extras 10 /
them. Pilot Swanson, who conducted I
Mr.. Thurston on this round of visits, 1
when they reached the Occidental, as |
an evidence of his enthusiastic inter !
est, insisted upon paying for the car /
Fiage. Various dispatches, most OF I
them without postage, which had 4
been put into the hands of the Com /
were ut the same time |
delivered at the Post Office. At 5 I
O'Clock Mr.. ThuFstOn and Mr. Carter 4
tumbled into bed at the hotel for a 1
hurried hour of sleep. Mr. Carter says /
he was aroused by Tom Mckay, who /
wanted to decorate special train
with flowers and speed the Commits
sion on its way 10 Washington.
That day and the next were divided 1
among the reporters. They came in
swarms and multitudes with pencils,
pens, photographers ana stenOgra-
pliers; but the Commissioners are
in their opinion that the
representatives of the san Francisco
press are as genial and kindly, and !
them as fairly and correctly
Is they could have asked or wished.
The cordial reception by the
press was but the echo of the
Of the people; and am
assured, not only by The Commission
sTs, but by all persons with whom |
have conversed, that there has been
10 single event Of public importance
or many years which has called forth
70 unanimous and spontaneous an ex-
preston Of public pleasure and inter-
st as the offer OF Hawaii to be taken
nto the Union
Then tue commissioners babe fare
veil to San Francisco and the repre-
entatives Of the press on Sunday af-
ernOOD, speeding away on the flyer
or Washington. For two days they
lid nothing but eat and sleep, and 10,
N the third day they were met by the
irst representative Of the Eastern
iress who had been sent seven hun
ired miles westward 10 extend the
Of the Chicago Tribune.
they reached Chicago three hours {
ate, but the officials Of the Pennsyl
-ania Railroad had generously held
he Keystone Express until their ar
wal As soon as this was learned (
be Commissioners hurried into the
Waiting buses, which started across
he city for the other station
The party and half dozen friends
rho had gathered to meet them com /
letely filed one buss, bat the news
aper men were not dismsyed. Three
{ them sprang gaily in, seated them
elves upon the laps Of the representa-
ives who appeared the sturdiest, and ,
II proceeded industriOGsIy 10 write
heir impressions and such bits Of +,
be conversation a. they could
all, however; one reporter
ad seat, and another, fired with en- 2
n 4 I