The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-04
REV. ]. P. LYTT0N
Had a High Old Time in
San Francisco.
Went Broke on Wine. Women and
Cards-Gone North.

Rev. J. P. Lytton, who claims to be
rector of the West Plains Episcopal
Church of West Plains, Mo-, is thor
oughly up TO date, says the San Fran
cisco Post of December Sd.
He reached the city on the Australia
from Honolulu Saturday, and told the
people at the Occidental Hotel, where
he was a guest, that he had been visit
ing Bishop Willis of the Hawaiian do
cese.
But the conduct of this gentleman,
who spent his entire time during his
stay here in a manner that has made
the modern type of sport turn green
with envy, was in marked contrast TO
the very high credentials which he
said he carried and which proclaimed
him a minister in good standing in the
Episcopal Church.
Very little is known of the "rever-
end gentleman prior to his arrival in
this city, except that which is CLEANED
from his fellow cabin passengers,
which characterized Mr.. Lytton as one
sport the cloth He could tell more
good stories, drink deeper and more
frequent draughts than any passen-
ger on the ship, and as carG-player
he was without peer.
But his doings while here afford SUI
ficient material for story of the most
exciting and dramatic character, with
out any reference to the treat which
the passengers of the Australia eX-
perienced at the doings of this rapid
evangelist"
He promptly made himself and his
connections known when he reached the
Occidental and although his frequent
and open patronage of the bar excited
some skepticism, he was greeted with
the courtesies universally rendered TO
the cloth.
He openly displayed about $500 in
gold and announced that his engage
ments demanded his departure on the
steamer sailing for Portland on Mon
day. When Monday came, however.
he had gone such a lively pace that
the hotel authorities had wholly lost
track of him and the steamer sailed
minus the person of the Rev" j. L.
Lytton.
On Saturday afternoon about
O'Clock the alleged divine asked at the
hotel desk that he be made acquainted
with the most experienced hackmGn
in the employ of the management, and
when he was introduced to a worthy
up to all requirements he made a con-
tract of indefinite length, giving the
much-pleased driver handsome re-
tainer's fee at the outset.
For just three days Mr.. Lytton kept
the cabman and the relays which the
latter provided at a gait, which they
rarely travelled. The pseudo clergyman
was evidently bent upon the ''evangeli-
cation" of the inmates of the most no
torious dives in the city. He busily
Travelled from one to the other, re-
CARELESS of convenience, at all hours,
but the methods which he adopted
though of the most generous type, were
so modern that they proved effective
and J. p. Lytton found himself last
night at the end of his purse, without
a nickel left.
So far as could be learned, the aim of
his evangelical" work was to appeal
to his subjects through the medium of
champagne, in which he INDUCED in a
most appalling way, and in doing this
he spent the whole of his $500. Yes
terday he appeared at the hotel and
confided his impoverished condition.
He was urged to try and recover some
of his misspent money, but when he
appealed TO his would-be converts they
laughed him to scorn.
From friends in Portland he secured
enough money by telegraph late yes
terday afternoon to carry him to that
city on a ministerial railway rate,
which he secured on his credentials.
He left the hotel with Bible, prayer
book and a quart flask of whisky, and
when last seen on the train he Lad
started in at a poker game with some
new-formed friends to recoup his fall
L..