The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-22
MEMORIES
OF BL0UNT
Stirring Days of
His Advent
Here.
A LOOK BACK
AT HISTORY
aow Paramount Commissioner
Did His Work Hauling
Down the Flag.

~ THIS WRITING it is possible
that Colonel BlOunt is dead. At
u any rate his career mas been clos
= md "reminiscences of his sojourn il
-..e Islands are not inopportune.
rr some time after the 4th of March.
sc r1mors reached here that Presi-
mi Cleveland. having withdrawn the
-slv Of annexation which Messrs.
rss.I4 Carter. Marsden, Wilder and
funston vent to Washington to ne
y-ats. would send commission here
q BOX into the events leading up to
nj following the revolution that de-
.s7jBed the Queen. 1t was said that
Ainiral Brown, Colonel Blount and
IT. unnamed statesman would COM
wss that body. Finally, however, the
lnors simmered down to Blount and
M fine morning he appeared on a.
nJenue cutter commanded by Captain
Hooper He brought with him his
rfs and his private secretary, Ellis II.
Nils. afterwards United States Consul
General.
A great crowd gathered at the boat
aniing. Native women, dressed in
Thite and carrying leis and the hybrid
az Of Hawaii. throngeds to the edge
the dock ready to welcome the stran-
Fl whom they thought would restore
ihs Queen. Wealthy residents, sup
pfters of the Provisional Government,
t-Fe there to extend private hospital
u Esoank, the beautiful residence
Mrs. S. G. Wilder, on Judd street,
lad been secured for Colonel Blount's
As rent free. The crowds waited long
= me landing, but the Paramount
@nmissioner did not appear. He had
@Een look at the throng through
eptaln Hoopers binoculars and wish
Z 70 avoid it. Finally a barge left the
as Oh the cutter and swiftly made its
Wy towards the landing, the Hawaii
Z women frantically waving their
-'s> But Colonel Blount was not
s.'aTd. The boat only bore Ellis Mills,
~ Win brisk air of importance,
~ulIsd the dock, Official packet in
-4-4 and took a hack for the Govern
-zn' building. An hour or two later
17n the crowd was thinned out the
missioner was landed. A private
+i'age vas in waiting but he declin-
II and took hack for the Hawaiian
a''7- where ne was assigned to the
'oE cottage.
nat evening there was a mighty con-
use OIL Hawaiians on the hotel
mus berger's band had been Grip
~ the time Of the revolution, by
''AufaWal Of most of it's native
-. VINO had formed a band of
'"h under the leadership of an
- Indian named Libornio. The Ha-
,, -.sn Hotel being a Royalist head
-, the Libornio band was en-
~, play on the grounds. On the
.,s 0tounts arrival il occupied the
a. sand Owing to an unhappy
~. opened the program by playing
ming Through Georgia." the most
s,f,, siui air, perhaps, that the ex-l
s5i5 dc Georgian Commissioner
80, nave heard. But he bore up
s,.- me next day, however.
In. .sefs band played the same
MN ne wrote about it-a line
ses = MS official report. Having
s,s-,-9' gan fields devastated by
81 a. army and having been chas
Nv -. 'he State by Sherrnan's men.
T. f,,- ice' musical or otherwise, to
,s,5 s-, u. march was gan and worm
I5,s, @ouid the Paramount Commits
Ogs ms official call on President !
:satisls Osen reassUring. The ere
I tse,ai- handed over were couched |
saeb - phrase and he said nothing
SOLD ~. people to suppose that he
'beb w,. Oh end to the protectorate
a less, stevens had ordained. |
atis,s, I q. said nothing to the public.
aisisns 'ehs' however, had seen
%sa mo-, III meeting him Blount had
q nDch man cool; had declined to |
at iDtins about the situation; had, in
Scister Mated that the United states
sat he was bit superfuous. and
'fk 6f eAation policy was the
s'a had l', s the Japanese cruiser Ma
~ In O. lived in port and rumors
ATaeriase OF the hauling down of
aud n NAN flag, her captain meant
ssre u 10 protect Japanese inter
Wy poo senerally current. The late
Nth C y, went on board and came
e tbs aiafming stories. These he
n tn, Chronicles correspondent
Ss'sas nm gave them to Minister
4e latter advised that they