The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-20
LOVES A OUSKY PRINCESS
Mayor Strong's SON. it Is Rumored
Will Med Il aiuianI.

Honolulu, Aug. 4, via NicloT!d, D. -
Aug. 12-Captain Putnam Bradley Strong
United States Volunteer, son of former
Mayor Strong Of New York, sailed on the
Peru on Thursday morn'Ag, for Manila.
and when the band PLAYED The Girl l
Left Behind Me-" Captain Strong might
have followed the words of the old song
that has brought so many tears to the
eyes of soldiers sweethearts the world
over.
For, if all the stories that are told be
true, Captain Strong has left girl De-
hind him here in Honolulu, and that girl
is none other than her royal Highness
Princess Kaulani, who would have been
Queen Of Hawaii after Liliuokalani had
not this island monarchy gone glimmer-
ing with the revolution of 1893.
There never was war waged in any
country or under any flag in which there
was not blending of romance. When
Captain Strong came here on the troop
ship Peru. attached to the staff or Major
General Otis, he had for mis- particular
chums and companions c. Du Pont Cou-
dert of New York and Major Scrivner OF
Washington, D. c.. All are OF good faml-
lies in the States" All have money; or
their people have. They were at once
taken up by the society at Honolulu and
made much OF. They were presented to
the Princess at her home, out on the
Waikiki road. Captain Strong, so the
gossips Of Honolulu say, fell in love with
the Princess. and from the day ne first
met her until the ship sailed was almost
a daily visitor at Aina3lau, her home.
They were together on horseback in the
cool of the morning and drove together
when the rays of the moonlight had sof-
tened the suns glitter. They SKINNED
over the booming surf in the same canoe
and side by side swan out TO the coral
reefs beyond the breakers, where few
swimmers are strong enough to go, or,
having strength, lack the courage TO
make friends with the sharks who are
by no means strangers to these waters.
And the tongues Of the gossips say that
the Princess did not look unkindly upon
the broad-shouldered fellow who wears
the blue of Uncle Sam. And one day
when Captain Strong plunged into the
surf and, swimming out through the
foam-capped breakers, placed on his back
a private soldier who mad ventured out
him back TO the shore, the Princess,
who had witnessed the brave act, was the
first to praise him for his work of life
saving.
Now the same gossips who have watch
ed the Princess and the young soldier
side by side at native feast and func-
tons are sure that their feelings have
progressed beyond the limits of friend
ship, and are saying that some day when
the war is over and the troopships touch
at Honolulu, carrying back to the land
whence they came the men who nave
crossed the Pacific to reap the fruits
of the victory gained by Dewey's guns,
Captain Strong will tarry here and that
he may take back with him a Princess
for bride.
Those who create the small talk in
society here are certain Of this. They
say that the father of the Princess has
been making many inquiries as 10 the
social and financial standing of Captain
Strong in his own country, and they are
long rides and drives, afoat and ashore.
the swims. and laulis, is a sign that the
Princess and Captain are more than pass
ing friends to each other.
If this should prove true the Captain
will take back to America with him
as his wife a woman who, as a friend of
Mrs. Cleveland when her husband was
President of the United States. exercised
an influence in politics that was felt in
the political history of America and of
the islands. In both countries there are
politicians who contend that 1t was be-
cause of Mrs. Clevelands great friend
ship for Princess Kaiulani that the flag
OF the United States was hauled down
-aIoTao s9uo a1ary