Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-13
A CHECkERED CAREER
WORLDWIDE EXPERIENCES OF
CAESAR CELsO MORENO.
Knew Potentates, Married Sultan's
Daughter and Was Kalakaua's
Prime Minister.

Few men have had a more adventurous
| or checkered career than Caesar Celso Mo-
| reno. who died yesterday at Providence
Hospital from the effects of a stroke of
paralysis which overcame him Friday On c
street near 4th street. He was born in
Italy seventy-one years ago and received
fine education, displaying remarkable
proficiency as a linguist. He was enabled
in the course of his life to master four
teen different tongues He served for a
| time in the Italian navy and eventually
became captain of a merchantmen and
sailed in many seas. Settling in Sumatra,
he married a daughter of the sultan. and
shortly after melted the natives to an up
rising against Holland, the island being a
Dutch dependency. Moreno was compelled
to flee. leaving his wife behind, and took
refuge in France. He never heard of his
royal spouse again.
While in France he was decorated with
the Legion of Honor for saving several
Frenchmen in a wreck off Sumatra, and
finally the French government sent him On
special mission to Tonquin.
In the Orient.
Thence he drifted to China, where he er-
ganized the first steamship company TN
der the Chinese flag. Shortly after the
civil war he landed at San Francisco and
was successful in securing the enactm ent
"a SAAS &sAOi Cuo laws lOI TIE pTOltCttOL VI
coast fisheries. In 1872 he organized a
transpacifc cable company, in which Le-
land Stanford was interested, and finally a
charter was obtained from Congress for
constructing cor str cable estimated to cost s10,-
OO0,OOO He again went to the orient and
subsequently came to the Sandwich Islands,
where he gained the confidence of King
kalakaua. The latter, angered at the re-
s II sal OF the cabinet to approve loan of
$1OO0,0O0 by the Hawaiian government for
the building of the proposed cable, dis
missed the members and selected four Lew
counsellors MOI emo being designated as
prime minister.
He carried things with a high hand
and after five days of power was forced
to give up the position. He was still a
fayorite with the king. however and the
ter to the United States and every court in
Europe, but these powers We're also soon
revoked. He took three young Hawaiians
to Europe to be educated, and about 1882
returned to America, living in Washington
since that time.
His Life in Washington.
He was a familiar figure about the Cap
itol and other public places, and made
steady but unavailing efforts to secure a
revival of his transpacific cable charter.
He was constantly engaged in controver-
sizes, and when the padrone system was
causing public anxiety in this country he
made charges against Baron Fava, the
!edildn ambassador, winch led to his Serv-
ing term of three months in Jail for libel
His last quarrel was with Delegate Wilcox
of Hawaii, with whom he had been on in
innate terms formerly, and it is said the
letters upon which charges against Wilcox
were based befo.;e the committee on cleo
tons recently were furnished to Judge
Gear by Moreno.
Among the Italian fruit vendors and that
class in Washington Moreno was regarded
as a guide, philosopher and friend. His
funeral will take place from Lees under
taking establishment when arrangements
now being made are completed