The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-09-22

The following is printed verbatim
from the Japan Daily Herald's Mail
Summary of August %, 1899, under the
following headings:
TWO MEN, A LADY AND A YACHT.
The Instructive Story of Clever Trio.
MR. WEAVER'S ADVENTUROUS
CAREER.
Given a good address, social adapt
ability, plenty of assurance and a fer
tile imagination, it is not difficult for
perfect stranger to live in Yokohama
for few months at stretch on the
interest of what a home paper recently
described as a lead pencil, and we
might add few strips of paStebOard.
If we were addicted to the use of slang,
we should feel inclined to say that in
some respects our little community is
dead easy; in other words, that it
displays a guileleSS faith in human ma
mported-highly creditable to
it's heart if not to it's head. This opin-
ion, we feel certain, must be shared
by Mr.. w. ]. Weaver, owner of the
handsome American schOOner-yacht
Norma, which recently visited these
smiling shores, and for a season, all
too brief, as some now think, pleas
antly disturbed the mOnOtOny of living
in the ranks of our local upper ten. Mr..
Weavers popularity was shared in no
small degree by his friend, Mr.. Perce-
val. a well-groomed Englishman, of re-
puted wealth, and by Mrs. Percevn, a
French lady of remarkable fascination.
Mr. Weaver, Mr.. and Mrs. Perceval ar
rived here on June 10th by the S. S.
Kobe Maru from Shanghai via ports,
and on the 26th of the same month the
graceful yacht Norma followed from
Hongkong, duly consigned to her own
er, Mr.. Weaver. The latter, in addi-
ton to his many other claims to So
cial distinction, gave himself out to be
the Commodore of the New York Yacht
Club. and it is therefore not surprising
that the rank and fashion of our port
opened wide their arms, metaphorical-
ly speaking, and bade him welcome to
their midst.
Mr. Weaver's social radiance de-
fected many of it's rays upon Mr.. and
Mrs. Perceval, who, moreover, were by
no means content to play second fiddle.
to the Commodore. Mr.. Perceval
knew thing or two; so did his wife.
Mr.. Perceval was a good fellow in
his own right. he could sample cock
tail with the most seasoned American;
he could bear himself without f1inching
at the poker table-a virtue shared by
Mr.. Weaver-thOugh some are so en-
viOuS as to say that this calm fortl-
tude was as much due to uniform good
fortune as to inherent StOiciSm. AS for
Mrs. Perceval, she was lovely wOm-
an, and none knew better than she how
to preside, audaciously decollete, with
true Gallo vivacity and esprit at those
delightful entertainments which were
OCCASIONALLY given to a favored few at
the Grand Hotel. Moreover, those who
have enjoyed the privilege of thus
basking in Mrs. Percevars prolific
smiles on these occasions can hardly
find the heart to regret the chips
placed to their debit during the quiet
poker parties which, as often as not,
were subsequently INDUCED in between
Mr.. Weaver, Mr.. Perceval and their
intimate friends. Poker, We should
say, was the principal diyersion-We
will not say business-of Messrs. Wea-
yer and Perceval, and of their skill in
this popular game We may very well
leave others to speak who have had
practical experience thereof.
In due course, and not so very long
after his arrival, Mr.. Weaver was put
up at the club by two well-known
American residents. Here his expan-
SiVe urbanlty and the facility with
which he signed his chits on the
slightest provocation, soon made him
a welcome visitor. On his part, also, |
the genial Mr.. Weaver threw open his
yacht to his Yokohama friends, and
treated them on several occasions TO !
tasteful entertainments on board upon |
a scale of great lavishneSs. Still a |
poker atmosphere, if We may say So |
pervaded everything in Messrs. Weav-
er and Percevals vicinity, nor were |
they particular as to the limit; with |
or without, they were equally complai-
SAINT. This sort of thing continued un-
until the 9Th instant,
when, to the CONSERVATION Of Mr.. Wea-
yer's guarantors, it was seen that the
dainty little Norma no longer rode at
anchor in the harbor, but had sailed |
On a cruise for an unknown destina-
ion. at an extremely early hour, with
Mr.. Weaver and a lady, who, however,
mas little to do with the story. Mr.. and
Mrs. Perceval remained behind.
This eccentric departure had the
effect of heightening public interest in !
Mr.. Weaver and his antecedents, espe-