The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-08-23

these Islands are not inopportune.
For some time after the 4th of March, ,
1898 rumors reached here that Prcs |
dent Cleveland, having withdrawn the .
treaty of annexation which Messrs. !
Castle, Carter. Marsden, Wilder and |
Thurston went to Washington to ne |
gotiate, would send a commission here !
to look. into the events leading up to
and following the revolution that de-
throned the Queen. 1t was said that
Admiral Brown, Colonel Blount and
one unnamed statesman would COM
pose that body. Finally, however, the
rumors simmered down to Blount and
one fine morning he appeared on a
revenue cutter commanded by Captain
| Hooper. lie brought with him his
wife and his private secretary, Ellis ii.
Mills, afterwards United States Consul
General.
\ great crowd gathered at the boat
landing. Native women, dressed in
white and carrying lels ana the hybrid
flag of Hawaii thronged to the edge
Of the dock ready to welcome the stran-
ger whom they thought would restore
the Queen. Wealthy residents, sup
were there to extend private hospital
ity Esbauk, the beautiful residence
of Mrs. s c. Wilder on Judd street,
Ihad been secured for Colonel Blounts
use, rent free. The crowds waited long
at the landing. but the Paramount
Commissioner did not appear He had
taken look at the throng through
captain Hooper's binoculars and wish
ed to avoid it. Finally a barge left the
side of the cutter and swiftly made its
way towards the landing, the Hawaii
an women frantically waving their
flags. But Colonel Blount was not
aboard. The boat only bore Ellis Mills,
who with a brisk air of Importance,
mounted the dock, official packet in
hand, and took "a hack for the Govern
ment building. An hour or two later
when the crowd was thinned out the
, Commissioner was landed. 4 private
lcarriage was in waiting but he declin-
ed it and took IA hack for the Hawaiian
= Hotel, where he was assigned to the
y Snow cottage.
That evening there was mighty con
= course of Hawaians on the hote
- grounds BerEer's band had been Grip
Il the withdrawal OF most of its nativ,
-, members who had formed a band q
v their own under the leadership of Al
4 East Indian named Libornio. The Ha
a waiian Hotel being a Royallst head
J. quarters, the Libornio band was EN-
: ,ployed to play on the grounds on thu
night of Blounts arrival it occupied tn,
u band stand. owing to an unhappy
" nukc II opened the program by playinl
Marching Through Georgia. the mos
: dstasteful air. perhaps, that the eX
Confederate Georgian Commissioner
l. could have heard. But he bore NJ
Is maufully. The next day, however
= when Berger's band played the same
II tune for him he wrote about it-a lin'
or two-in his official report. Having
seen Georgian fields devastated b!
~ Sherman's army and having been chas
: ed about the state by Sherman's men
,- any reference, musical or otherwise. t.
,r the famous march was gall and worm
wood to him.
IT What would the Paramount Commits
Is sloner do" His official call ON Presiden
" Dole had been reassuring. the ere
"a dentials he handed over We're couche'
in friendly phrase and he said nothin.
&c which led people to suppose that n
/ would put an end to the protectorat
J. which Minister Stevens had ordained
p At least he said nothing to the public
Minister Stevens. however, had see
bad signs In meeting him Blount ha
been more than cool; had declined t
j. say much about the situation; had. t
u fact, iutimated that the United state
~ Minister was "A bit supertluous, an
4 that the annexation policy was IN
le work of Adventures.
Meanwhile the Japanese cruiser Ma
M niwa had arrived in port ana rumor
ne that, in case of the hauling down
IN the American flag, her captain NEAR
r. to land men to protect Japanese inter
hs ests We're generally current. The la
'' Henry Poor went on board and can
off with alarming stories. These
an gave the Chronicles corresponds
,,e who. in turn. gave them to Minist
~, stevens. The latter advised that tn,
he he carried to Commissioner BlOur
ne which was done. But Colonel Blou
OF apparently attached no Importance
them. though he provided against q
To- probability Of the japanese landing
mt dropping a word or two in print abo
re- the ability and willingness of his Go
~ eminent to keep order here without
,,S cal or foreign help.
rg one morning the Advertiser startl
. the town with the brief announceme
nj that, by direction of Commission
.ea Blount the American flag would
lea hauled down from the Governme
Of building Judiciary at II a. m, a
as the Stevens protectorate ended. II W
ne worth the crisis TO see the outburst
va. American feeling that followed. Fro
ter, over hundred private fiagstaffs
aef Stars and Stripes were unfurled 10
and morning breeze and almost eve
irs' American one met had the patrio
I'D button of the Annexation Club in
lapel. The Hawaiian regiment a
Are: battery Of artillery at once went unC
Ais, arms. There was a half-defined Il
II. that the Royalsts would rise and