The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-02-18
AT THE CAPITAL
Society Divides Attention Between
Two People.
ARTIST FURNISS AND Ex-QUEEk
Rumors That There Will
Be No Pacific Cable.
Cleveland interviewed Durrant
Rests Easy-Canadians VIII
Retaliate.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-Harry
Furniss, of Punch and the ex-Queen
of Hawaii have divided public atten-
ton this week, although, it must be
confessed, the presence of Queen Lii
has quite thrown the English artist
into shadow. Mr.. Furniss, who has
been in constant evidence in the gal
leries and Hobbies of Congress and on
the streets, has spent his mornings
at the Capitol, where he has devoted
his time to making sketches of the
best-known statesmen on both ends
of the Capitol, which will ultimately
adorn the pages of Punch" In the
afternoons he has lectured-or given
illustrated talks, rather, for his enter
tainments are not lectures in the &C
cepted sense-at the Columbia Thea
tire to appreciative if not large audi
ences. His evenings have not been
long enough to accept half even of the
many invitations he has received for
social affairs. for it has been discov-
cred that Mr. Furniss is a genial. and
responsive companion, and he has ma
turally been in great demand.
1t is needless to say that Her Dusky
Highness Queen Liliuokalani has not
met with as cordial a reception at the
hands of the people of the capital as
was given her on her visit here eight
years ago, when she was travelling
with the wife of a reigning monarch,
for local sympathy is entirely with
the present Hawaiian Government, but
there has been the greatest amount of
curiosity concerning her, and since the
day of her arrival the hotel at which
she is stopping has been constantly
beseiged with people anxious to catch
a glipmse of the dethroned Highness.
a gentleman resident in Washing
ton who has lived some time in Ha-
wall and knows the character of the
ex-Queen thoroughly discredits the
statement that pleasure and recrea-
ton alone are responsible for her pres
ence in the United States, and says
that only with life will she give up
intriguing for her restoration, and
that she will leave no stone unturned
to prevent annexation to the United
States, to which, being English in her
sympathies, she is bitterly opposed. |
The evidence seems to bear out his |
opinion.
AS soon as possible after a full par
don had been extended to her for her |
in the insurrection of jan
uary, 1895, Liliuokalani left Honolulu |
with the ostensible purpose of taking |
a pleasure trip and visiting her friends |
and relatives in this country, but with |
the Interior motive, it seems probable, |
of seeing her great and good friend"
and enlisting his sympathies. Among |
the ex-Queen's visitors was Treasurer |
who, besides guarding the |
coin of the realm, devotes himself to |
Masonry and autograph collecting. |
His call was said to be inspired by the |
desire to pay his respects to the widow |
of a brother Mason who had reached |
the thirty-third degree, but he was |
thrifty enough to kill two birds with |
one stone, and induced the eXiled |
Queen TO inscribe her royal signature |
in his book which contains hundreds !
of autographs of prominent people.