The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-05-08
FAREWELL LEUNG CHETSO
ENTHUSIASM OF THE CHINESE
REFORMERS.
A Great Send-Off for the Steamer XII
nau on Starting Today on the Old
Anti-Plague Schedule.

For many months no steamers de-
parture from Honolulu has been cele-
brdted as was the leaving of the Kinau
at noon today. 1t was the first schedule
trip since plague. Kinau wharf was
crowded from end to end with people
of all races, most of whom were bril-
liant with leis, and the steamer itself
was ablaze with color. The Kinau is
crowded to her full capacity, and the
man or woman who was not wearing
rings of flowers when she slowly moved
from the wharf was a marked eXcep-
tion.
The farewell to Leung Chi-tso by his
friends here, was one of the features
of the event. Leung Chi-tsO goes to
inculcate reform ideas among his CCun-
trymen on Hawaii, with a body guard
of four Honolulu men to see that no
attempt is made to earn the reward the
Empress Dowager has offered for his
life Leung Chi-tso entered the wharf
just after the first whistle blew, an
nouncing preparations to get under
way. With eight of his friends all
bearing les accompanied by n police,
man, he went up the gangplank and
took a place on deck, where a crowd
of friends and admirers on the wharf
could see him. Not until the last min
ute did those who were there to say
farewell leave the steamer, and when
they did they left the man who has
risked his life to reform his country
surrounded by the four guards and COW,
cred with leis as deeply as any passen-
ger on the boat, which is saying a
great. deal.
Leuhg Chi-tso gave no signs of feeling
any need for precautions. He waved
answers to the greetings from the dock
and carried on a conversation with the
four men, chosen from the Bow Wong
| Society, who are to remain with him
o \. I'll -
gent determined-lookin Cinnamon all
dressed altogether in American clothes,
and looking less like "highbinders"
| than like ordinary American citizens.
AS the steamer backed into the stream
a crowd of Chinese lifted their hats and
Leung responded with a like greeting.
The ChinAmen were as enthusiastic as
Americans at a party meeting. and
seemed TO admire their champion of
liberty as much, and to be as proud of
| him as Americans of a presidential
| candidate.
The immense crowd of passengers and
/ spectators made a great crush on the
! wharf, and for some time after the
gangWay was raised there was a snrau-
! BILE in which a half a dozen races were
Represented, and the only ones to suffer
were "A few Japs and Chinese, who
! plunged into the densest parts of the
crowd with enormous bundles and bas-
| kets on their backs. Once or twice
strugglers in the crowd objected TO
| finding these bundles knocking against
| their hats and heads, and then the bear
er of the bundle got a shove that would
have overturned him had there been
room for him to fall.
Captain Bergers band was on the
wharf and played with it's usual spirit.
On the vessel a native quartette and
/ Colonel Rodgers singers, who are going
TO IDI s..N.. H.. 1.
band was not playing. The steamer
made the start in very good time, be-
ginning to cast loose almost at IL
o'clock, the hour set for the departure
The strains of the ever beautiful "Alo-
ha oe" drowned a farewell song the
natives on board were giving, as the
| Kinau made her first move from the
dock, and as she backed to turn in the
stream, Captain Berger gave the "Star
Spangled Banner"