Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-08-27
NOT HOBSON'S BY CHOICE
Naval Hero Is Now BOmbarded By
Various CrankS.
One Girl Gets a Kiss - Letters Of Love and
Devotion - Requests for
Autographs.

chain OF letters, as was Mlss
Schenck, of Babylon, l.. l. To
be sure the Lieutenant is not get
ting remittances of ten cent pieces
in his letters, but he is getting
photographs, locks of hair and a
thousand and one other things, in
addition to requisite for all man
ner of mementos and volumes of
sweetly written sentences, all from
feminine admirers.
The Lieutenant has had many
honors and attention thrust on
him since his return from Sauti-
ago and has written his signature
thousand times, but it was not
until his visit to the Long Beach
Hotel that he was asked to give a
touch of his lips as keepsake.
Miss Arnold, of st. Louis, has the
distinction of obtaining the oscu.
latory memento. Miss Arnold
asked for kiss and got it, while
the Lieutenant's mother simply
looked at the operation in mute
astonishment. His sister, Miss
Annie Hobson, was also a wit
ness, and only smiled.
As Miss Arnold moved away
she was surrounded by a dozen
pretty girls, guests in the Long
Beach Hotel, who begged that she
distribute the kiss among them,
as one said
"We don't dare ask the Lieu
tenant, but we want to share the
kiss with YOU"
Miss Arnold thereupon pro.
ceeded to kiss her companions in
turn, and the Lieutenant's gift
became to this extent the proper.
ty of at least a dozen.
AS for the Lieutenant's daily
mail, it follows him about like
spectre. 1t matters not whether
the young man is spending quiet
evening at the home of his cousin,
Miss Katie Fearn Patton, in Nor
ristown, N. j.; at the Waldorf
Astoria or at the Army and Navy
Club, there are always scores of
letters thrust into his hand, which
a private secretary would have
difficulty in asserting, opening
and digesting.
"It's the most remarkable thing
what correspondence Rich gets"
a feminine relative of Lieutenant
Hobson said to me yesterday.
why, he gets letters from all
parts of the country, and the ma.
jority of them are from girls
girls who want his autograph,
girls who want to open CORE
spondence with him, and girls
who write Of everything; we'll,
yes, including love.
'As for photographs, l guess
Rich must have at least hun.
dred. Women's? Why, certainly;
they come in every mail. They
picture feminine admirers all the
way from sIIt=en to forty years
old. They may or may not be
likenesses Of those who send them,
but they come to Rich Leverthe.
less. What does he do with them ?
Oh, l don't know. If he carries
them back on shipbosrd with him
there will be no room for l3 inch
guns or rapid frers. Why, the
photographs come in stacks.
AS for the letters, it takes the
time of two persons to assert
them; l mean to separate the wo-
mems letters from those that re-
late to 'Rich's' business affairs.
OF course, these letters are all of
congratulatory character, but
soft" and here my informant
laughed.
There is every requests in the
letters he gets that you can think
of. Some want Rich's signature,
while others ask him for uniform
buttons. Then, again, he is asked
to send his photograph to the cor
respondent. One of the funniest
things is that letters are sent to
me, with the request to forward
them to Lieutenant Hobson. The
writer's notice in the newspaper
that Rich is staying at our home.
That is all sufficient. That day or
the next the mail begins to arrive
and the envelopes are marked
Please forward Then, too, there
seems to be an uncertainty about
'Rich's' official rank. He is ad-