The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-05-21
GRACIOUS QUEEN
Memorial to Be Sent Queen
Victoria.
COMMITTEE MET LAST NIGHT
Plans for Proposed Hos.
pita1 Are Satisfactory.
Judge Widemann's Generous Of
fer-Masterpiece of Viggo
Jacobsen.

a second meeting of British resi-
ed celebration of Queen Victoria's Dia-
mond Jubilee was held last night in
the Arlington Hotel. Mr.. T. Rain Walk
er having called the meeting to order,
| and the secretary having read the
minutes of the previous meeting
Mr.. T. Give Davies, chairman OF the
Executive Committee, gave a sketch Of
the proposed program. This report Of
progress was accepted and the com
mittee was authorized to go ahead and
spend to the extent of $500 in the
meantime.
Sir Robert Herran, chairman of the
Committee on Address, reported that
the address to Queen Victoria would
be ready for signature tomorrow (Frir
day. and he asked the meeting to nom
mate six persons to sign the same
The following were accordingly ap-
pointed TO do the needful, viz: Sir
Robert Heron, VIM. G. Irwin, F. NJ
SwanZy, T. May, d. Logan, w. f. Will
son and T. Rain Walker, chairman
An appropriation to defray cost OF
address was duly passed by the meet
ing The text of the address is as fol-
lows:
ITO Her Most Gracious Majesty, Vic
tOria, Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland, Empress of India, Defend
er of the Faith, Etc, Etc.-Greet-
ing:
May 1t Please Your Majesty:
LAS a committee, appointed by a
large number of Your Majesty's loyal
subjects, resident in the Hawaiian ISL
ands, we desire respectfully to ap-
proach Your Majesty on the occasion
of the completion of the Goth anniver-
sary of your happy reign, to offer to
you our heartfelt congratulations, and
to give you assurances of our unchang-
ing devotion to your person and your
throne.
1T must be to Your Majesty, as it is
to all Your Majesty's loyal subjects. a
source of pride and pleasure to reflect
on the many blessings which a kind
Providence has vouchsafed to the Brit
ish Empire, and the rapid advances
which your people have made in So
cial and material progress during Your
Majesty's glorious reign. But nothing
has contributed so much to endear you
to the hearts of all your subjects as
the illustrious example which you
have in your own person set them of
every domestic virtue. and the zeal
which Your Majesty has always mani
tested for the interests of religion and
morality.
1T is the devOut prayer of Your Maj
esty's most loyal subjects in this dis
tant country that Your Majesty's life
may be long preserved to guide the
destinies of your great empire with
that wisdom and justice by which
Your Majesty's rule has ever been dis
tinguished in the past.
we have the honor TO be, Your
GIajesty's faithful subjects,
Dated at Honolulu. June. 1897"
The address as drafted by the com
mittee, was placed in the hands of Mr..
Viggo- Jacobson, the well-knOwn pen
artist. for the purpose of being suitably
engrossed. Mr.. Jacobson has now com
pleted the work. and it viii be exhib-
tied in McInerny's corner window from
Saturday morning until the arrival OF
the steamer AOrangi. by which vessel
the address viii be forwarded to Eng
land. so as to arrive before Jubilee
Day.
The design adopted by Mr.. Jacob
son is purely heraIdic in character.
On the first page, in a large shield, up
held by the lion and unicorn and sur
rounded by a background of roses,
thisJles and shamrocks, are emblaz-
Oned Queen VictoTia's name and titles.
Then follows the address itself On
the left border are the arms of Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland, and on the
right border is a conventional design
of the national flowers of the three
kingdom. The royal motto, "Dieu ct