The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-26
EGRY IN A
Ne v ROLE
Washed Dishes and
.Bedded Down
Dogs.

Paul Egry, the Hungarian v1rtuoso who
was the kappelmeister of the orchestra
of the Stanton Opera Company accom-
panying that organization to New Zea-
the Sierra. 1t was not the dapper. point
ed -mousta ched little Hungarian which
Honolulu knew last year and while the
Stanton Opera Company was here, that
skipped down the gangplank the moment
the Sierra locked. but woe-begone-
looking individual with grimy hands and
grease ON his clothes. Egry had not shay
ed for few days and he looked as II
he had been keel-trauled. The truth is
that Egry did rough it for twelve days
since leaving Auckland, the reason being
that he slowed away on the ship and
when caught was put at work In the gal
ley.
Egry tells a hard-luck story which
would soften the heart of almost any
man, except the officers Of the Sierra, and
the virtuoso has vowed eternal ven
geance against them. He ascribes to
them the authorship OF all his woes dur
ing the last dozen days and nights. sim
ply because he was 'homesick" and re-
turned home on the Sierra without the
formality of having bought a ticket at
the company's Office In Auckland
The little Hung rian yiolinist seemed to
fear meeting any of the Sierra's officers,
especially the chief steward. who. 1t
seems, is the galley tyrant. The reason
he did not wish to meet him was that he
intends to relocate in this city and again
to fool CT fSar he
ezra departs for San francisco. and had
heard that the steward meant to keep
him on the staff.
The Stanton Opera Company, which
Egry accompanied to New Zealand is
trying hard to separate the Colonials
from their money, but they lack the
means to jure the people. Egry says
the first two weeks in Auckland realized
the company nothing but losses, and
then came week OF brightness. This
was when the Duke and Duchess OF
Cornwall and York visited Auckland.
Then the theater was filled and the com
pany coined money, but, as Egry says,
that didn't fill the vacuum in the sack
caused by the first two weeks expert
ence. The company, when Egry took his
sudden departure for Honolulu which he
calls home" was about to leave for the
southern cities of New Zealand-Christ
| Church, Dunedin and Napier-but he
didn't have time to find whether they
| really did go there.
The company lost several thousand
| dollars the first two weeks of their en-
gagement," said Egry hurriedly to an
| Advertiser reporter last night, but they
made some the third l don't know what
| they will do In the other places. l think
| they will have to come back home before
they lose all they have.
| why did 1 leave the company? Oh. 1
| got homesick. ! wanted to see Honolulu
| or San Francisco again, and So l just
| left / had to hurry so to catch the
| steamer that I didn't have time to get
my violin or my trunks, or anything, and
here 1 am. I shall remain In Honolulu
and reopen my studio and again give
| TO Honolulu some more music.
| 'Oh, but the trip up here. You don't
know what / have had to go through
since leaving Auckland 1t was afro
cious how they used me. Mel Just think
| of it, 1, who went to Auckland on that
same steamer. the Sierra, a few weeks
ago as a first-elaSs passenger, to have to
come back as a scullon in the galley!
Oh. my feelings Were trodden underfoot,
| and L was nothing on board-no, simply
nothing, Saccre, 1t was detestable!
just to think OF it! On the way down
when | was a first-class passenger | did
the honors on the Queens birthday May
"a. to all my friends, and I thought I had
many of them then. / opened up many
bottles of champagne, and the chief stew
ard came before me on that occasion and
bowed before me and took my orders and
was so obsequious. The walters jumped
TO do my bidding. oh, 1t was grand.
Il came aboard the Sierra and waited
until they could not put me off the yes
sell and then / announced myself They
We're furious that | should have come on
beard without a ticket or the money to
pay my passage, and, oh, it was exec
rable! They turned me over to the chief
steward, and he actually made me work
in the galley-the galley, OH may / new
er see one againi
Lock at my hands, blisters all over
them, cuts and burns. My hands. my fin
gers, which have toyed with the strings
of the violin to delight fashionable au-
! diences. Yes, 1 was made to work and
suffer in the galley for twelve long days.
never saw the first-class passengers. /
don't know who they are
THE chief steward-him whom 1 would
not spit upon-one day pointed to me a
dog lying on the lower deck, and he or
ders me to place a clean gunnysack be-
meath it-ordered me to do this! 1t was
beyond speechi
Then twice a day 1 was made to de-
seend into the hold and fetch back upon
my shoulder bag of flour. Oh, the re-
membrance of my life on shipboard is
awful. Work, work, work, that Is what
had to do And how they want to
take me on to San Francisco and theace
back to Auckland again. But they can't
do it. 1 have my first papers here as an
American citizen. J. renowned my ale
glance to my own country years ago in
Colorado" and Egry showed his first pa
pers to the reporter to verify his state
ment. Il am an American citizen, and
shall remain here. l shall not go on to
San Francisco. With that steward? Oh
mol And Captain Houdlette-I thought he
would be more my friend, as I had rrav-
eled as first-class passenger with him,
but he utterly Stunned me.
When / came down the gangplank a
waiter injured my feelings by shouting,
'Egry, come back here; the chief steward
wants your
But have friends in Honolulu I shall
open my studio; my name Is still on the
door of my old rooms and l know / shall