The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1893-03-13
10 WASHINGTON.
now THE ANNFy.T,oy
COMMISSIONERS WERE
TREATED.
rom McKay offered Decorafed
Train of Cars-A Reporter
Sent 700 Miles for an
Interview.


mature since his arrival in Wash
ington, and has gathered the follow
ing information concerning their
trip:
The voyage of the Clau1ine was
eventful and not without dangers.
Mr.. MarSden is said to have made the
greatest inroads upon the supplies 50
bountifnlly provided by the Wilder
steamship Company. Mr.. Wilder's
anxiety was so great that he devoted
all his spare moments to navigating
the ship. Mr.. Thurston spent his
time and exhausted his typewriter
p proclamations to the Amer
e. This gentleman suffered
from his cough, but was
t--==-l-y 1One of the party who did not
have to call upon DIR. Day for profess
sionGl 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 TO provide for the comfort
of their passengers and the speedy ar
rival at San Francisco. The time of this
latter event was matter of very con-
siderable consideration. Toward the
evening of Thursday, the laymen
added up the days run and staked
their reputations-for that was all
they bad with them, and they hesi-
tated about drawing upon the credit
of the Provisional Government-upOn
midnight as the time for sighting the
Farrallones. Captain Cameron had
spent n great deal of time with his
abstruse logorithmic calculations, and
he fixed O'clock; but when at 80
O'clock Mr.. Thurston went on deck
and saw the twinkling 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 a
successful conclusion to their mission
was absolutely sure. They ran under
the shelter of the Farrallones within
a couple of hours, and Pilot Swanson
the youngest of them all-swung
himself aboard. He had been to
Honolulu, and when he found out
who and what the party was, his
cordial welcome was the first of the
hundreds OF thousands that have since
been extended 20 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 hint from
the messenger of the Merchants EX-
change, the mighty presses of the San
Francisco dailies were stayed, and an
army of typesetters gathered at the
door ready for the hurrying horses
that brought your valuable extras to
them. Pilot Swanson, who conducted
Mr.. Thurston on this round of visits,
when they reached the Occidental, as
an evidence of his enthusiastic inter-
est, insisted upon paying for the car
riage. Various dispatches, most of
them without postage, which had
been put into the hands of the Com
miSsiOners, were ut the same time
delivered at the Post Office. At
O'Clock Mr.. Thurston and Mr.. Carter
tumbled into bed at the hotel for a
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 to Washington.
That day and the next were divided
among the reporters. They came In
swarms and multitudes with pencils,
pens, photographers and stenogra-
phers: but the Commissioners are
unanimous in their opinion that the
representatives of the San Francisco
press are as genial and kindly, and
reported them as fairly and correctly
rs they could have asked or wished.
The cordial reception by the
press was but the echo of the
enthusiasm of the people; and | am
assured, not only by the Commission
ers, but by all persons with whom |
have conversed, that there has been
no single event of public Importance
for many years which has called forth
so unanimous and spontaneous an eN-
preston of public pleasure and inter
est as the offer of Hawaii to be taken
into the Union.
Then the Commissioners bade fare
we'll to San Francisco and the repre-
sentatives of the press on Sunday af-
ternoon, speeding away on the flyer
for Washington. For two days they
did nothing but eat and sleep, and 10,
on the third day they were met by the
first representative of the Eastern
press who had been sent seven hun
dred miles westward to extend the
welcome of the Chicago Tribune,
They reached Chicago three hours
late, but the officials of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad had generously held
the keystone Express until their ar.
rival. As soon as this was learned
the Commissioners hurried into the
waiting buSses, which started across
the city for the other station.
The party and half dozen friend:
who had gathered to meet them com
pletely filled one busS, but the news
paper men were not dismayed. Three
of them sprang gaily in, seated them
selves upon the laps of the representa-
tives who appeared the sturdiest, anC
all proceeded industriOusiy to write
their impressions and such bits o
the conversation as they cOulC
gather-not all, however; one reporte
had 4 seat, and another, fired with en-
thusiasm and zeal for the cause of hi
own paper, had seated himself in tn
lap of the other, who of course wa
unable to jOt down any impressions
and whose paper was consequent.
obliged to borrow or steal from other
the details of the flight across Chi
cago. 1t was q bitterly EcOld day
fOggy and wet, and you could imagin
the pleasure with which the Commits
sfoners received the bountiful leis an
flowers provided by knowing friend
who had visited the islands.
The next daV, Friday, WaShingtO