The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-09-07
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3d. will
remain in town but few days, and
then I leave for Washington again E"
so spoke Hon. l.. A. Thurston, the
Hawaiian minister, the other day
when 1 saw him at the Occidental
Hotel in this city. When questioned,
he said that he made a flying trip out
here to secure space at the approach
ing Midwinter Fair for an Hawaiian
exhibit, and also to get site for the
volcano cyclorama. He expects to
have his business settled by tomorrow
and then he will travel towards the
East.
He informed 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 big success.
If everything is favorable, Mr..
Thurston will organize 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
l. l. g.. %
with any one from his native land.
George Beckley, the erstwhile pur-
ser of the Kinau, returns by this Aus
tralia with 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 theatre
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
Z O'Clock in the evening, and see the
number of wanderers from home. If
you have q good suit of clothes on
and are without a "lend-me-ten-till-
tomorrow" air you invariably receive
a warm welcome, and then a volley of
inquiring questions about the islands
- fired at you.
| L met Henry Hebbard and Malcolm
Brown there the other evening along
with a number of other old-timers-I
can't spell ''kamaainas." Henry was
road supervisor for long time and is
we'll known in Honolulu. He is look
| ing we'll and never tires of taking
| about the Paradise. L have an idea
| that he would like to return. He has
my permission to do so, as Henry is
zone 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 n far-away look in his eyes.
The overland train that left for the
| east last night carried away 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-
ceiving and making calls, and short
excursions 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. 1 am not
| going to Chicago for the reason that
am not enjoying good health, and
| during my stay in this foggy and
windy city, l have been continually
under doctors care,n remarked Mr..
Roth this morning. He and his family
are enjoying themselves notwithstand-
ing.
"Hello, Frank, is it cold enough for
| you," was the greeting L received
! from "Jack" Waibel yesterday. 1
| met him on the sunny side of Market
street. He was mutfied up to the
chin with heavy overcoat. "Jack"
informed me that he expected to get a
| good position shortly and then con-
| graduated him on the good news. He
| and his wife are costly domiciled in a
| flat on Sixteenth street in this city.
William cassie, the duke of Kealia,
will return to his native heath by this
! Australia. He has been on an eX-
| tended tour in the states and evidently
| took in the big fair at the so-called
white city. In response to the query,
''Well, William, did you blow your
self?" he replied, "you bet blew
myself, but had a good time and
i never felt better. I will have to
chase sugar around the Kealia mill
for some time to come to get even,