The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-11-16
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Sandwich Islanders. I've Travelled a
good bit in my time. and have eaten
poi in Honolulu. and III bet they're
Hawaiians."
As quick as a fash the reporter
thought OF the Civic Day parade. the
noats which the Commercial Museums
We're 20 have in line representing Cuba.
the Philippines and Hawaii. and he
recollected also that Professor Wilson
wanted original natives OF all these
places He had a conversation that
very day with the Professor. in which
the latter expressed a fear that he
might have trouble in securing Fill
pinOs and Hawaiians. As quick as the
thought the reporter flew 10 the table
where the four dark SIX nned men sat
gurgling out something which sounded
like mixture OF Choctaw and Mongal-
ian. He asked them IL any OF them
cousd speak English.
MIR. -AS-IRON' SPEAKS
Wel-la-Ka-hao. otherwise known as
Hard-as-Iron. was the first 10 speak
He replied in tolerably fair English.
Yes, me speak American. Me no
know him berry well. Me go TO Amer
lean school in Honolulu"
Then you are Hawaiians?"
''Oh. yes, All good Americans now.
We all Hawaiians. All same as you.
though"
And mere he displayed little Amer
lean flag, which he had neatly wrapped
mp with the Hawaiian flag inside his
breast.
IL took the reporter just minute
and a half To make up his mind. He
decided right there and then that these
men would appear in the Civic Day pa
rade on the Hawaiian float. IL he had
anything to- do with IL. and he went to
work at once To- asa the -keen-eyed
men facing him what they were doing.
where they lived and where they could
be seen.
He then learned that they had. been
in the city just fifteen minute$ Wei
la-ka-hao, who was also known as
Archie, said in pigeon English that all
four had shipped aboard OF a sugar
boat at Honolulu just four months ago.
and, after a voyage around Cape Horn.
had landed in New York. Here they
remained few days. and took the owf
train on Thursday night, reaching here
Friday morning. They walked s;taght
down Market street and stopped al the
restaurant, where the reporter was also
seated. II was therefore their hist
stop and the reporter was the efst
Philadelphian they had opened theip.
lips To.
In detail, as well as ne could the re-
porter then set out To tell Mr.. Hard-as-
Iron about the big Civic Day parade.
the float representing Hawaii. and also
about the Commercial Museums and
DIR. Wilson. Mr.. Hard-as-IrOn then. in
his true tongue, related sentence by
s.vnss. III 81.
Burning Fire. Always Laughing and
Slack Wire. About DIR. Wilson there
was some trouble. The Hawaiians. in
some way or another. got an idea that
he was President Mckinley and that
they were to be presented as repre-
sentatives Of President Dole. They also
thought the Commercial Museums was
some kind OF = theater where they
were TO DO a -hula-hula" dance and
Mr.. Slack Wire got up and showed
how well he could do anything in that
line
After a few trivial misunderstand-
ings like this during which the report
or learned lesson or two in native
Hawaiian, the four strangers were es-
corted to a lodging house and IN ap-
pointm=nt made for that night at The
North American Office.
PROFESSOR WILSON'S JOY"
That same afternoon the reporter
waited on Professor Wilson At the
Commercial Museums on Fourth
street, and when he told the Professor
what he had found, the head OF the
institution almost jumped out of mis-
boots for JOY.
The very thing" he shouted
How in the world, and where, did you
get them?'
And the reporter then went over the
story in detail
The upshOt OF Il all was that PrOfes-
soT Wilson agreed 10 be on hand at 2
o'clock when the Hawaiians appeared,
and AT that hour al hands-the na-
jives. Or. Wilson and the reporter
were clospred in Col IcAiichaels pri-
yate Office. There the Doctor made a
complete examination of the men,
ethnologiCaliy and otherwise. and.
after an hours work declared them to
be the real thing
The men had never been away from