Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-03
HONOLULU HoRRIFIED.


sation of some kind, but it has one now
that puts all previous affairs of the sort
on the list of the commonplace. What
led up to the lively episode which is
town talk ia the Kanaka capital was
an innocent subscription dance at the
Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Such dances
are often held there, and as rule they
are decorous functions and break up
early. This one, so far as the majority
of the guests are concerned, was no ex-
ception to the rule.
The trouble came about because SON Q
high-rolling strangers from San Fran
cisco, a steamship captain, q British
naval officer, and two or three young
women who hang on the fringe of
Honolulu society, gave the little hop
peculiar embellishments of their own.
Among these extra frills, as they might
be called, were a score or more of
insiduous cocktails and a few bottles of
champagne. In other words, the
strangers, becoming dissatisfied with
the mild punch supplied the dancers,
obtained and absorbed the ingredients
ofa fiery jag.
Then the fun began. Most of the su-
perfuous drinking had been done out
in the lanai, or great sheltered piazza
of the hotel, where the tipplers would
pass their time behind potted plants
and screens, unobserved by the dancers.
None of the champagne drinkers moved
about much until they had quaffed deep
and long and had grown uncertain
about the points of the compass. Then
they all started at once for the dining
room to get taste OF solids. The av-
erage looker-on in Honolulu will never,
while memory holds seat in his dis
tracted globe, forget the spectacle those
strangers made. The steamship cap
tain led the staggering column along
the lengthy corridor that traverses the
maia part of the hotel from the lanai to
the dining room, and hanging to his
arm were twoIwell-known San Francis
cans of the female sex. Every now and
then the latter stopped to kick at the
chandelier or at the hat of some by
stander, and in this fashion the dining
room was finally reached.
There the revelry was something so
scandalous that it has been barely
limited at in the cautious Honolulu
press, though the town gossips have
canvassed all its details. A little was
eaten, a great deal more was imbibed,
and then the ladies We'd with each 9th
er in high kicking, while the male
members of the party held their hats
up on walking sticks to tempt ambi-
tious feet to loftier efforts. Tiring
finally of their sport the party divided
into couples.
a little later San Francisco gentle
man left the lady in his charge asleep
on bench and went to look for his
wife. He searched the hotel as closely
as his condition would permit, and
finally saw the missing helpmeet in
company of British naval officer. No
row occurred, however, the husband
preferring to see the lady alone. He
went to his room and waited. When
she finally made her appearance the
row that took place awoke every sleep
er on the floor. A truce seems to have
been patched up since, as the couple
are seen daily in each others company,
looking amiable.
Itspeaks volumes for the conserva-
tism of the Honolulu press that two
days were allowed to go by before any
thing was said. Then the Star printed
this mild paragraph:
The series of scandals resulting from the
late dance at the Hawaiian Hotel are without
parallel in the recent social history of Homo.
lulu. 1t reminds one very strongly that the
social influences and practices of the mon
archy still prevail in certain circles
This stirred up the Macfarlanes, who lease
the hotel and manage it. They were fearful
that the reputation given the house by the
nights proceedings would lead the govern
ment, which owns tho premises, to cancel the
lease. Their first move was to shift the blame
upon Steward Fireman., and this they at
tempted to do through the columns OF the
morning Honolulu paper. 1t happened, how
ever. that Fireman. was asleep at the time
of the trouble. 1t is alleged that boy of
twelve years had been put on the night shift
by appointment of the Macfarlanes them
selves. As soon as Fireman. found that he
was being made scapegoat he resigned, and
threatens, unless ample retraction is made, to
sue his traducers for heavy damages Thus
the affair may get an airing in court.-San
Francisco Chronicle.