Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-16
CHAPTER VIII.

| to I1OnOlulu udIDOI Just dS GuS SiHOke of the Doric was fading away on the l western horizon.
 Cheers and acclamations, a banquet
 rendered to the entire force in the l beautiful grounds about the palace, l and welcome such as even San 1 Francisco had not given awaited | them. Three days were spent in coal l ing for the long voyage to Manila. | and during that time officers and men
 were enabled to spend hours in sea- l bathing and sightseeing.
 Vinton, eager to push ahead, fumed with impatience over the slow and
 primitive methods by which his ships
 were coaled, but the junior officers | over their enforced detention. Din
 ners, dances, and surf rides were the order of every evening. Riding parties to the Pai and picnics at Pearl Har-
 bor and the plantations along the
 railway filled up every hour of the long, soft, sensuous days.
 The soldiers explored every nook and corner of the town and, for 8
 wonder, got back to ship without serious dininution in their number,
 and with high opinion of the police,
 who seemed bent on protecting the blue-coats from the states and mak- ing the best of their exuberance of spirits.
 Only one row of any consequence
 occurred within the forty-eight hours l of their arrival. Three of the Colo-
 rado volunteers playing billiards in Q prominent resort were deliberately
 annoyed and insu1ted by some mer- chant sailors who had been drinking heavily at the expense of a short, thick-set burly fellow in a loud check suit and flaming necktie, a stranger to the police, who knew of him only that he had landed from the Doric and was waiting the coming of the Miowera from Vancouver for Aus tralia, and she was due on the mor- row.
 He had taken quarters at a second rate sailors lodging house and at first kept much to himself, but, once starting to drinking with his mari time neighbors, he became noisy and truculent, and sallied forth with four of his new-found friends, all half drunk and wholly bent on mischief. The sight of three quiet-mannered young fellows playing pool in the saloon was just the thing to excite al the blackguard instinct latent in their half sodden skins, and from sneering remark they had rapidly passed to deliberate insult.
 In less than minute thereafter the young volunteers, flushed and pant ing, were surveying the police and by islanders engaged in dragging out from under the tables and propping up some wrecks of humanity, while the head devil of the whole business, the bnrly civilian III the loud checked suit, pitched headlong out of . rear window, was stanching the blood from his broken nose at the hydrant of a neighboring stable.
 The volunteers were escorted to the landing with all honors, and their to the police station. The@affair was over so quickly that few had seen anything of it, and only one man had pitched in to the support of the sol diers--a civilian who came over on the Vanguard by the authority of Gen. Vinton, the ex-brakeman of the Southern Pacific. While the Colorado men had little to say beyond the statement that they had been wan tonly insulted if not actually assailed by a gang of strangers, the railway man was ,ablaze with excitement and wrath over the escape of the leader If fhea yopa11iS ShnI marty
 live seen that cur dog face of his somewhere before" said he, ''and the quicker you find and nab him the better. That mans wanted in more than one place or I'm q duffer."
 And so the police spent hours that night in search of the stranger, but to To purpose. He kept in hiding somewhere, and their efforts were vain. Search of his luggage at the lodging house revealed the fact that he had lot of new shirts, under wear, etc. but not a paper or mark that revealed his identity. The pro- prietor said the man had given the name of Spence, but he heard two of the sailors call him Sackett.
 The following evening the general and his staff dined at the beautiful home Of one of the old and wealthy residents, and towards nine o'clock Mir. Stuyvesant asked his generals permission to withdraw, as he had two calls to make before returning aboard ship. They were to sail at dawn.
 Bidding good night and good-by to his charming hostess and declining the hospitable offer of post-pran- ulal peg from her genial lord, the young officer stepped blithely away down the moonlit avenue.
 It was a beautiful summer night. The skies were cloudless, the air soft and still. Somewhere, either at the park or in the grounds of the Royal Hawaiian, the famous band of Homo lulu was giving concert, and strains of glorious music, rich and full, came floating on the gentle breeze. Here and there the electric lights were cleaning in the dense tropical foliage and sounds of merry chat and mu- sical laughter fell softly on the ear.
 The broad thoroughfare of Bere- tania street was well-nigh deserted, though once in awhile the lights of cab on noiseless wheel flashed by, and at rare intervals Stuyvesant met or