The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-14
THEY QUIETLY MARRIED death CLAIMS A FRIEND
MISS EMMA c. SPRECKELS WE'D
DED TO THOMAS WATSON.
Her Choice Made Without Her Parents
Consent-The Bridegroom Is an Ed
erly Widower-A Fortune Returned.

Miss Emma C. Spreclels, the only
daughter of Claus Spreckels, was we'd
ded at San Jose on the 30th of Decem-
Der to Thomas Watson, well known
grain broker of San Francisco. The
wedding was private, even to the point
of secrecy, and the family of the brid,
was kept in ignorance of the event um-
til the 2nd inst. when the newly mar
ried couple returned to San Francisco
and took up apartments at down
town hotel
The marriage has created quite y |
stir in the circles in which Mrs. Wat
son moves. The young lady took her
vitally important step in life without
consultation with her parents and
without their consent
She had met Thomas Watson at her
fathers home, but so far as even her
intimate friends knew she felt for him
no other sentiment than friendship.
She is her fathers favorite child and
is already endowed by him with for
tune of nearly $2,000,000.
Thomas Watson was for years an in
innate friend of Mr.. and Mrs. Claus
| Spreckels and of their sons, John and
Adolph. 1t was his custom frequently
to dine with the parents of the family
at their comfortable home on Howard
street, which they are soon to aban-
don for the stone mansion on Van Ness
avenue. With Claus Spreckels he
played the card games that while
away the evening hours for the sugar
king at the old homestead. and was
admitted to such relations of close
friendship that both Mr.. Spreckels
and Mrs. Sprecl;els were accustomed
to call him by his fIst name.
Nov that he is their son-in-law they
call him neither by his first name nor
by any other rame, and John and
Adolph SpreckeIs pass him by on the
street without nod of recognition.
The information of the marriage of
their only daughter came to Mr.. and
Mrs, Claus Spreckels on the day that
the wedding took place. They were
notified by Mr., and Mrs. Watson from
San Jose, and therefore were not sur
prised at the publications in the news
papers the following morning. Tn
doubtedly before the ceremony oc-
Cured the parents of the bride knew
of the intention of their daughter to
marry the man of her choice, but pos
sibly they were not told of the place
and day of the wedding.
Mrs. Watson shows her magnificent
independence of material help from
her parents by returning to her father
a half dollars given to her from time
to time during the years of her ma
turity. A suggestion came to her that
she was ungrateful to her father, the
expression of her ingratitude being in
her marriage against his will. I'm
mediately she determined to return to
her father the greater part of the
property he had given her She COLI
|
Watson says, he told her that she vas
her own mistress and might do as she
pleased with her own property.
She sent word to her father of heI
purpose. Evidently Claus Spreckrls
was willing to receive back the proper
ty he had given to his daughter, for on
Tuesday morning Walter ID. X. Gibson
treasurer of John ID. Spreckels x
Brothers, took the papers of transfer
to the rooms of the Watsons at the
California Hotel, and received them
again from her after she had signed
and acknowledged them.
BY those signatures Mrs. Thomas
Watson divested herself of property
worth about $1,500,000, and seemed to
be glad to surrender these possessions.
Notwithstanding this transfer to ner
father of the evidences of title to these
properties of vast value, Mrs. Watson
need not be dependent entirely upon
the revenue of her husband from hls
brokerage business. Sh still owns the
fine modern block on Market stree;
known as the Emma Spreckels bulh-
ing, and the lot on which the building
stands, and also some other property
The possessions of Mrs. Watson re-
naming after the present to her father
are valued at 100000 and more, and
the annual revenue is about S30,OU0.
She also owns some property in Homo
lulu.
FIRST 1897 IMPORTATION.
Consists of one hundred and forty