The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-03

ace. An autograph letter was presented
from King kalakaua and the guests
were RECALLED by some of his finest white
wine. Through Alassio, an influential Of
fetal, who had been a schoolmate with
Moreno, a meeting was arranged with
Garibaldi. Moreno. with his hostility to
missionaries in Hawaii, found a kindred
theme that nurtured warm friendship.
Gar1baldi was then paralyZed and aged,
but be gave the young Hawaians some
good advice. and the party moved on
ID Rome.
There an audience was had with King
Humbert and Moreno became one of the
most sought men in the Eternal City.
Being widely travelled, well educated, a
man of great equipoise and incieiveness.
! dignitaries found unusual pleasure in his
acquaintance. Zanardilh, Prime Minis
ter, had been a schoolmate with Moreno.
Brin. Minister of Marine, now dead, and
Crispi. subsequently Premier were all in
Rome at the time, and Moreno enjoyed
their friendship. After considerable ne
gotiations, Boyd was placed in the Ma
val Academy at Leghorn, Booth in the
Military Academy at Naples, where he
died without ever returning to Hawaii
and Wilcox in the artillery school at
Turin. That was in 1881.
DEFEATED FOR OFFICE IN GENOA.
plished his duty toward the young Ha-
waiians, although, it is said, he had sue
ceeded by some rather sharp practices
Nevertheless he had gained favor with
| the leading men of Italy, and was in
| fair way to attain great prominence
| there himself. He settled down in Gen
GA. but his old instinct of participating
| in politics soon got him into trouble. In
| stead of aligning himself with the dom
| inant faction he joined the extremist
left, and as Delegate Wilcox describes
lit. started stepping against his luck. )"
| In 1882 he ran as a candidate for Par
| lament in Genoa, and was SO badly
beaten that he FASTENED Immediately to
America and never returned to his ma
tive land
The years intervening till his death
Moreno spent chiefly in Washington.
| The charter for his trans-Pacific cable
company expired before he couId under
| take the project, and he sought long to
| get Congress to revive the charter. He
was or had been concerned in many con-
troversies, one Of which was over the
management OF the italian exhibits at
the Philadelphia exposition. This quar-
rel which involved Secchi de CasaH of
New York, was waged for many years,
long hevond the time when the public
ceased to have any interest in it one
way or the other. He was very vfror-
Gus for many years in trying TO hreaR
UP the padrone system, and IN his cru
SADIE against that evil, made charges
against Baron Fava, the italian Amhas-
sador, which he was unable to substan-
tate IN the courts, and which LED to his
incarceration for three months for libel
some four Years ago He was also en-
gagged I'm . long controversy with Dr.
Verdi OF this city, which was given more
or less publicity.
! Although Moreno had known many of
the foremost men in Congress at one
time and enjoyed their confidence, he be-
gan to gradually decline IN their favor.
As late as 1890 when Robert Wilcox was
elected TO the Hawaiian Legislature,
Moreno was pursuing n claim against
/ King Kalakaua for S 1000 for taking the
young Hawaiians to Europe. WILCOX
/ had passed through the Hawaiian Leg
! isiature z hill paying Moreno $4,000 for
/ those services and $500 additional for his
! five days services as Prime Minister,
CHAMPION OF LILIUoKALANI.
Moreno passed some time in Hawaii
: md chanpioned the cause of Queen Ii
, luokalani. In recent years, when he be-
came more and more reduced In circur1-
stances. he wa often at extremities for
4 support. His cable bill was kept before
! Congress, and some men who knew him
! in more prosperous days occasionally
contributed to his necessities.