The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-02-21
Reception to Visitors from Cali
fornia.
A VERY PLEASANT AFTERNOON.
General Warf1eld and His Army
Friends Greeted-A Society Event.
A Large Number Present-The
Music by the Hawaiian Club.

With flowers and music, with
pleasant conversation and all that
combines to make an afternoon
delighttul-such were the factors
that went to make up the public
reception of American Minister
and Mrs. Willis to General War
field, Surgeon Curtis E. Mum,
Lieutenant Warren P. Newcombe,
Lieutenant Charles Gould Treat
and Lieutenant Ormond P. Lissak
at their home on King street yes
terday. Everything that could be
desired at the hands of the weather
prophet and everything necessary
for social success was present.
The house was beautifully dec
grated for the occasion. In the
drawing room and the next adjoin-
ing were bouquets of roses, chrys-
anthemums and carnations artis-
tically arranged and set in places
calculated to show at best advan-
tage.
Visitors were met at the door by
several of the gentlemen asked to
receive. Standing Immediately in
side the drawing room were Min
lister Willis, General Warfeld and
the officers of the U. S. army, for
whom the reception was given.
Seated facing the door and in front
of a mass of red carnations was
Mrs. Willis. Next to her stood
Mrs. Treat, Mrs. Newcomb and
Mrs. Mum, who received with
Mrs. Willis.
The Hawaiian Club, stationed
on the front veranda, played and
sang Hawaiian airs to the enjoy
ment Of all, and more especially
the visitors from the States.
All through the afternoon re-
freshments were served in the
rooms and on the back veranda as
we'll as in the lanai, in perfect
bower of ferns, Mrs. Porter Boyd
dispensed liquid refreshments to
the many present.
Among those at the reception
were Chief Justice and Mrs. Judd,
Mrs. S. M. Damon, Mr.. and Mrs.
P. G. Jones, DIR. McGrew and Mrs.
McGrew, Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Dur
and, Mr.. and Mrs. J. o. Carter,
Rev. Alexander Macintosh and
Mrs. Macintosh, Mrs. Graham,
Rev. d. P. Birnie and Mrs. Birnie,
Miss Kate Field, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
G. Wilder, Mr.. and Mrs. G. P.
Wilder, Mr.. and Mrs. H. Focke,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Hoting, Prof. Hos
mer and Mrs. Hosmer, DR.. How
ard and Mrs. Howard, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. w. Day, Mr.. and Mrs. II.
Won, Holt, Mr.. and Mrs. Ballou,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Lose, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hendry, Rev. G. NJ. Hyde
and Mrs. Hyde, Rev. T. D. Garvin
and Mrs. Garvin, Prof. Richards
and Mrs. Richards, DR.. Myers and
Mrs. Myers, Mrs. A. Fuller, Mrs. |
Ellis Mills, Mrs. J. A. Hopper,
Mrs. VIM. Graham, Mrs. w. L. |
Hopper, Miss r. S. Judd, Mrs. A. |
Trumball, Mrs. Gum, Mrs. Hen
nighan, Mrs. E. E. Richards, Cor
della Green, NJ. D., Mrs. r. w. |
Mrs. T. J. King, Mrs. E. |
G. Bond, Miss McGrew, Miss Clara
Fuller, Miss Richards, the Misses
Cornwell, the Misses Vida, Miss
Fleming, Miss Roche, the Misses
Carter, the Misses Along, Miss Bir-
ME, Miss Maude NJ. Millard, the
Misses Young, Miss Brewer, Miss
Juliet King, Miss Campbell, Judge
Frear, Col. R. II. Mclean, Messrs.
Thos. n. Birnie, A. Young, S. Ku-
sabe, Stoltz and Armstrong Smith. |
The gentlemen who assisted in |
receiving were Consul-General |
Mills, Vice Consul-General Boyd, |
DR.. Cooper, Major Potter, Messrs.
W. G. Parke, W. F. Dillingham;,
W. L. Stanley, B. Marx, A. St. NJ. I
Macintosh, G. K. Hyde, w. Fl.
Coney and G. H. w. Norton.