The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-12-13
waiting room. and consequently had TO
be fired out.
QUEEN DECLINES TO TALK.

waiting room, ana naU 10
be fired out.
QUEEN DECLINES TO TALK.
The Queen respectfully declined to
talk for publication, and through Col
oneI Dickel passed the word hat she
could think of nothing that would be
of interest TO the press.
THE Queen is out of politics." ex-
planned Mr.. Amaku. 1T is not proba-
BILE that she will re-enter public life,
consequently she does not desire 10 dis
cusS political affairs. The Queen now
lives quietly upon her private
in Honolulu, where she takes a great
interest in the education of young
people, and is paying the OF
many of them in schoo OF course,
she can not take them all with her
when she travels, and we were fortu-
nately selected for this occasion. The
Queen thought of leaving US at the
University al Berkeley. Cal, but
changed her mind, and is now taking
US to New York. We are going
remain there for a short time, and
then so to Washington for "A short
visit, and then we viii return home"
GIVEN UP CROWN LANDS.
Asked about the report that the
Queen is seeking the restoration OF
the crown lands to her, Mr.. Amaku
aid: The newspapers do say such
queer luluSS. Inc IOceH mas lOuB ago
given up the idea of ever getting back
the crown ands. Why, the income
from them was $50, 600, 900 a year. and
it has been eight years since she re-
ceived a cent of it. She has never yet
been given q pension. No. I think tina
her visit to Washington Is purely for
pleasure"
The Queen has the appearance of a
well preserved woman of fifty, is of
medium height. rather portly, with jet
black, straight hair, tinged with
strands of gray. Her features are
rather darker than those of the native
Hawaiians generally, and yesterday
she had a smiling, but reserved man
ner.
She was first named Lydia Kama
keha Liliuokalani at the time of her
birth in Honolulu, December >, 1888,
and was a sister of the late King Ka-
lakaua. who was a popular ruler. and
who was known as a jolly good fellow
wherever he went, at home or abroad.
She married John o.. DOminis. a native
of Boston, Mass, who had drifted into
the Hawaiian Islands, and became
governor of Oahu. He died in 1891. He
had acted as vice regent during the
Kings absence on his foreign tours,
but the King dying in San Francisco
about the time of his death, his widow
was proclaimed queen January %. 1891.
WHERE FORESIGHT WAS SHY.
Her attempts to abolish the constitu-
ton of 1887, and restore an absolute
monarchy was the thrust that rebound
ed, and the people arose and dethroned
her January so, 1898. a provisional gov
was set up with Sanford Dole
as President, he being the Hawaiian
born son of American missionaries to
the a President Cleveland de-
clared in favor of her restoration, but
the crown was never restored to the
Queen, and Dole never let go of the
Presidents chair till the Hawaiian re-
public was annexed to the United
States in 1898. and then he became the
first governor of the Territory of Ha-
wall. During the early years of her
life as q private citizen of the new
republic, the deposed Queen spent
much time in the United States trying
to secure intervention in her behalf,
out this she has now given up. She
returned to the Islands as a permanent
resident in 1898. Her governmental as
~SiStantS, who were promptly jailed af-
ter the ov%erturning, were mostly soon
released and given full citizenship in
the new republic after promising al
legiance to it.
The wherefore of her having warm
friends in Omaha is explained by Col
Onel Dickey thusly: Seventeen years
ago 1 made a trip to the Hawaiian ISL
amos, and it so happened that on the
steamer on which I made a trip about
lt4G lSldIQSf AiIS IAdidhdud was Oi
board making an official visit among
h settlements. Accompanying him
was Governor Dominis and his wife.
now the ex-Queen.. The royal party
would stop at every settlement, go on
shore and feast with the people, and
then return to the ship to get into
condition to stand another good feast
at the next stopping place. SO it came
about that I became very well ac-
quainted with them all, and they treat
ed me in a most cordial
Colonel Dickey also has a brother
located on the Islands.
Mr.. Umsted also had the pleasure of
meeting the Queen on a trip TO the
Islands.
After three hours or more of pleas
ant reunion, during which reminiscent
ces were discussed along with a good
dinner, the Queen and her party were
escorted back to the union passenger
station, where the Illinois Central was
boarded for the departure east.