The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-26
MAJ. WHITE MAD
Father Of Mrs. R. c. A. Peterson
Threatens Murder.
WOULD NOT DISCUSS WEDDING
Ready to Assault Ipquiring Report
ers-Wealth and Training of the
Bride Has Been a Belle.
AN ANGRY FATHER.
Worcester, Mass, Post.)


Maj. Lewis e. White, of the Walker
Ice Company, was beside himself with
rage this noon and threatened to blow
Iout the brains of a Post reporter if he
ldared to come near him ahd question
him about the report that his daugh-
ter, Miss Helen White, had clandestine-
ly married R. c. Austin Peterson. a
young broker in Honolulu.
This warlike ultimatum was hurled
at the reporter through the telephone.
The reporter had been to the office Of
the Walker Ice company half dozen
times during the morning to see the
Major, but he was out on business.
This noon the Post man called him up
| by telephone to arrange for an inter
view. The Major happened to be in, the
young lady at the office replied.
The Major came 10 the telephone
like a volcano in action
| Here is the way the interview by
wire went:
Reporters this Maj. White?
MajOr-It is What is wanted?
Reporter-This is the Evening Post,
| Maj. White. l was down to your Office
a number of times this morning to see
| you. | wish to ask you a few ques-
tiOns in relation to a dispatch from
San Francisco in one of the morning
papers that stated that your daughter
had secretly married young Hawaii
Ian.
Major-It's lucky for you that you
didn't meet me- You or any other man
that dares to question me about that
matter will do it at their peril. I'll
blow your head off. That is a sacred
family matter and you have no right
to touch upon it.
Reporter appreciate your position
in this matter, Maj White, but the
story has been published, and l didn't
wish to use it without seeing you. My
questions were courteous, but | cannot
say as much for yours. But speaking
of war, the Philippines is the place to
take the firing line.
Slam-bang went the Walker Ice COM |
pany's telephone without any addition |
al word from the fire-eating Major, |
and the reporter concluded that he was |
was doing Maj. White a favor in ask
ing him for a statement.
Mrs. Peterson is known in society in |
this city as a leader. She has travelled |
in Europe, according to the
San Francisco dispatch, and at one
time entertained two French counts
BRIDE IS AN HEIRESS
Worcester Telegram.)
Mrs. Prince" Peterson. nee Miss
Helen White, is one of the best known
young women in Worcester.
She is an heiress in her own right.
both her maternal grandparents having
eft her handsome sums in their wills.
Her mother was Miss Walker, daugh-
e. OF Benjamin Walker, who made a
arge fortune in the ice business.
He left large property besides the
ce business, and Mrs. White got half
md the Major has the mana cement OF
he business, which is a large one. He
ays there is no money in ice, but he
Knows how to live we'll, and does so.
50 the daughter was brought up in the
most affluent manner. Whatever she
Wished for, she had. Her education
vas in private schools in her young
,irlhOod, and later at Mrs. Throop's
chool, where the fashionable set sent {
heir daughters, and with private tut {
RS. She was abroad great deal. and ,
raveled extensively, but most of her r
ime in Europe was passed in Paris. |
here she studied music and cultivated I
very pretty voice. There she met a
reat many people, and one of the
ruits of her last visit TO the gay cap
al was the arrival in Worcester of
wo high-bOrn foreigners, who were '
ne guests of the Whites at their home e
\ large reception was given to in t
roduce them to society, and every one a
lent to meet the strangers. t
But the visitors We're not gracious. G
They had bad manners, also, and t
rared at the gilded and fashionable a
outh of Worcester, and openely C