The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-23

cts, with the supper and with the one
hundred and one features. There were
a large number of young people whose
deft fingers and level heads have in the
past been of great assistance who were
completely ignored except at the elev-
enth hour. A few in the committees,
however were aware of the mistake
that had been made and warned those
who were about to make call upon
the ignored ones that it would be an
affront to ask them to do anything.
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So Mrs. Harry Gillig wants a third
husband. 1t is only few months since
Harry Gillig, the singer, was thrust
aside by the once Amy Croker, heir
ess to millions of California dollars,
and now it is whispered that she is to
marry Jackson Gourand, a poor rag
time song writer! How the mighty
have fallen! AS Amy Croker, heiress
to the millions of Charles Crocker, she
married r. Porter Ashe, a young law
yer, the brother of Mrs. Harold M.
Sewall. There was at the time no
doubt about the match being for love.
That was not the unusual part of it.
The thing that created comment was
the manner of it's conduct. Instead CT
having a great wedding as became the
daughter of the deceased millionaire,
they planned an elopement and carried
it out to a finish. In the summer of
1882 she went to a picnic accompanied
by r. Porter Ashe, and when they re-
turned from the picnic she announced
her marriage. Then in time came the
divorce and the kidnapping of her child,
Amelia, for which her family had to
pay 100000.
A lurid story of Mrs. Gillig's advent
and stay in Honolulu is told in re-
cent California paper, which is about
as far from the truth as an imaginas
tive mind could make it. 1t is sail
that after she was granted the divorce
in San Francisco, Mrs. Ashe resumed
her maiden name. She sailed for Ho-
nolulu, where she met King Kalakaua,
then in his glory and leading a true
South Sea life, full of barbaric joys,
dancing girls, flowers, birds and sun
shine. Amy Croker Ashe, the young
pretty divorce, with her wealth and
lextravagance-for her mother was in
dulgent-caught the eye of the dark
hued, willy king. and he proceeded to
She was f1attered. Studiously she
learned the Hawaiian songs. Reckless
lly she danced their native dances. The
king raved over her beautiful hair
which was then a golden hue. He
wanted to marry her
| His queen, Kapiolani, leering at the
wealth behind the little, capricious
girlish American, consented to court
l6iUOrnn that Ka1o oil
Amy Croker Ashe queen. To allure
her he gave her the part of a little
lava bed of an Island with few stray
Cling palms. called Maui. He created
her Princess of Hawaii. She laughed
and clapped her hands. And then the
scene changes suddenly again. It was
| in New York. in 1889. that she was mar
ried to Henry M. Gillig. the possessor
of rarely beautiful baritone voice ana
q small bank account.
! The new couple journed about the
world, accompanied by Frank Unger,
well known to Honolulans, as her sec
rotary and social diplomatist While
here. Harry Gillig composed many Ha-
waiian songs and charmed everyone
by his beautiful voice. Now she and
Harry are separated and rumor has 1t
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of $4,000 and an allowance of So, 1000 for
servants, from his late wife. Amy's
Irritation with Jack" Gourand began
while Gillig was in Paris. He heard
of it, returned to New York, a stormy
scene ensued, several vanloads Of
trunks were loaded into the hold of
an ocean steamer and Harry went
back to Paris in a steward then
Jeanne the divorce.
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Lieutenant Charles E. Kilbourne, Jr.,
Fourteenth infantry, who is well
known in Honolulu society and recent
lily stationed at Manila. has been grant
ed a leave of absence for one month,
to take effect upon arrival In the Unit
ed States. Mrs. Kilbourne (nee Egg
berD, who has been in failing health
for some time, will accompany him
home. After the fall of Picking he be-
came provost marshal Of the American
lsection of the city. Owing to his good
Judgment and unhesitating prompts
tude in dealing with those cases that