The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-12
MRS, DALEY
AND MAID
A Romance With a
Honolulu
Side.
RESCUE FROM
RIO WRECKAGE
Story Told by a Woman Who
May or May not Believe
it Herself.

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Honolulu maid whom Mrs. Sarah A.
Daley, an heiress, alleges to have saw
ed from the wreck of the Rio Janeiro.
1t is not certain that Mrs Daley her
ents, Judge and Mrs. Roberts, were
here for a few weeks prior to the de-
parture of the Rio on her last voyage,
and they sent maid from this pert to
Mrs. Daley who was then in San Fran
cisco stopping at the California Hotel.
AS for Mrs. Daley there is many
story told of her and her strange ro-
mances. Mrs. Daley seems to have
had a habit of staying at the swell
hotels, ensnaring the hearts of rich
men and then leaving the hosiery and
going elsewhere. Another habit. seems
| to have been in giving exaggerated ac-
counts of her travels and wealth.
| She has toiu a graphic story of how
she was out in a launch visiting the
scene of the wreck and picked up one
of the survivors who was clinging to
piece of driftwood, the survivor after
ward being discovered to be Mrs.
Dailey's maid from Honolulu.
| A search of the hotel registers here
fails to reveal Mrs. Dailey's name, and
| it may be that she visited Honolulu un-
der another name, as many others have
done.
| Here is the story of the fascinatin
Mrs. Daley as told in the San Francisco
Post of a recent date:
Clubmen are talking of her-of her at
tractive face and figure, of her many
accomplishments, of her rich dresses, her
diamonds and of the strange mystery
which seemed to envelop her during
her stay in this city.
Nor are these gentlemen in their dis
| cussions of their fair feminine subject
forgetting the attentions paid TO her by.
| the well-known son of a wealthy local
merchant-whom she, this gay widow,
has lately discarded.
| Mrs. Sarah A. Daley, who but few
days ago occupied elegant apartments at
the California Hotel, has quietly left the
city, and while those who had met her
| here have been trying to solve the ap-
parent mystery of her identity she is
figuring in an affair in Denver that BODIES
no comfort for the future of prominent
mining man of Colorado.
! Who the deuce is this charming crea-
! ture"' persistentiy asked the clubmen,
but their question was for long time
unanswered.
Mrs, Sarah Daley is indeed a charming
woman, a blonde, and one who dresses
with exquisite taste.
Her first appearance in this city was
last October, when her stately self and
wagon load of trunks made their en-
trance at the California Hotel. A few
days later found Mrs. Daley spending
much time in the company of the we'll
known merchants son and a great deal
of her time at his ark, which is moored
off the quiet shores of Belvedere.
They breakfasted together and usually
were companions at luncheon and sup
per.
! OF course society talked Then came
! the rumor of an engagement. Mrs Daley
made no attempt to deny the stories, but
! appeared to rather like the notoriety the
affair gave her and she even went so far
as to exhibit jewelry and other valuable
presents given her by her supposed flu
| ture husband
For five months have the friends of
this couple constantly wondered when
the formal announcement of the engage
ment would be made and as eagerly
have they wondered whence this strange
but interesting woman came
Suddenly a change was noted in the
daily relations between Mrs. Daley and
her rich and attentive admirer. He grew
less regular in his morning calls at the
California Hotel, and it was remarked
that she seemed Indifferent to the fact
Bellboys and hackmen felt the change
in pecuniary sense for messages and
drives gradually departed from the daily
life of the much-talked-of pair, and final
ly Mrs. Daileys visits to Belvedere, her
trips around the bay on her former at
tendant's yacht ceased altogether.
Mrs Daley grew more retiring and
cards sent to her apartments came back
rr-,tI h. gG.l.
out"
On about March the mysterious
guest of the California Hotel hurriedly
summoned a porter and ordered her bag
gage packed and sent to the ferry.
II am going away" was her state
ment, as she settled her bill at the hotel
office, and off she went.
Saturday evening a gentleman startled
a coterie of clubmen by suddenly drift
ing in among them and exclaiming, as
he assumed a self-satisfied air:
Well, the mystery is solved
What mystery?" queried his associates
in chorus
why, the identity of Mrs. Daley, of
course. Here, listen to this" and. with
the GOODNESS becoming a Sheriff in the
performance Of his duties as an execu-
tive, he drew from his pocket an enyeI-
ope bearing Salt Lake postmark, from
Wh1ch he took a clipping of the Salt
Lake Herald of March 8; and proceeded
to read the letter.
Ere many moons, perhaps a few
Gays, quoted he from the clipping, "Col.
w Fl. Coombs, one of the millionaire
mining men of Colorado, and Mrs. Sarah
"A. Daley, herself an heiress to over
million, and now at the Knutsford are
to be married.
Wei! well! Welt" chimed the at.en-
tive listeners as the reader paused for
a moment.
Hold on" interrupted the latter;
there's more and lots of it, and he re-
sun ed
Mrs. Daley Is on her way from San
Francisco to Denver. She was met here
yesterday by Colonel Coomhs The two
had considered being married in Salt
Lake. but the CEREMONY will probably ne
performed in Denver. The exact date has
not been set.
The wedding will bring to culmina-