The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-17
WILCOX IN
WASH|NGTO
Department Rec
ord's Story Of
His Life.
lCHARMS OF
| THE PRINCES
All the Young PrinceIings and
Princesses Given Their Due
Prominence.


The Department Record, a weekly
paper published in Washington, D. c.,
contains in a late issue the following
'write-up" of Delegate Wilcox and
family. The article is deliberately IL
Illustrated with reproductions of pen
and ink drawings purporting to be por-
traits of the people whose names APP
pear beneath them. Robert Wiloox's
likeness is evidently taken from his
photograph, but the presentment of
the Princess, apparently about
twenty years of age. nightly readily
be mistaken for some one else. Be
sides the portraits mentioned in the
text three pictures are presented under
the titles of Princess Eva Kuwailani
mamao daughter by Mrs. Wilcox's first
husband Alexander J. Cartwright,
who is residing in Honolulu, Hawaiian
Islands, with her aunt, Princess Eliza
beth Observation-Disclosures Princess
Daisy Napulahaokalani, daughter by
Mrs Wilcox's first husband, Alexander
J. Cartwright, who is residing in San
Francisco, age twenty two, Mr.. Chas.
K Wilcox, brother to Delegate r. w.
Wilcox and Secretary to the Board of
Health Honolulu, Hawaii
The same number of the Record pub
fishes a brief article on Governor Dole,
together with an excellent portrait.
Gem of the Sea, what charms thy
shores unfoId
To the rapt traveller wandering in
that cline,
yiof in, :
of gold
Musical ever with the wild waves
chime;
BY day l muse, by night dream of
Most beauteous island of the tropic
sea-
| So years ago wrote a youth enamore(
| by glowing descriptions of paradisiat
| islands on whose coral reefs broke IL
never ending undulations the Ions
bright swells of the blue Pacific; where
summer always smiled, and balm,
! breeZes played through foliage of co
| Goa, and palm, and breadfruit, which
furnished without the necessity for tot
| food, and clothing, and shelter to thu
| happy islanders who baSked luxurious
| ly in the sunshine or sported, bori
Maids and Tritons, in the surf, ant
slew the shark in his own domain.
!
| forever and with the advent of Chris
| tianity and civilization, missionaries
and fortune hunters, and rum, anc
| other ills and evils, the troubles of tn,
natives began, and they found tina
with the white man came the curse o
toll imposed on Father Adam centuries
| agone
Years ago one of the brightest ant
! brainiest, and most brilliant of Jerse,
| newspaper men gave the writer a Wv
| id description of Sabbath scene il
/ the andwich Islands Gas they Wer,
then generally KNOWN IN which tn,
principal participants We're a 240-pounG
| missionaryeSs, en- route to church
seated in go-cart drawn by two lean
! lank, perSpiring kanakas, who, as the!
| "groaned and sweated under theil
heavy burden" had their tagging ener
gies stimulated by vigorous prods will
| the parasol of the pious driver; anC
| this was. he said a fair sample OF
the treatment melted out 70 the native:
| by their new rulers.
| And finally the missionaries and the
| sugar kings, aided by a United States
minister and United States marines
! took possession of the Islands. over.
! throwing the native authorities an(
although one American administration
| refused to sanction the act, another
| was more complaisant and the Ha-
| waiian Islands were in 1898 admitted
! into the national fold as territory
and entitled to representation by 6
delegate in the Congress of the United
States. The arrival of that delegate
HON. ROBERT w. WILCOX,
created quite a stir in political circles
| and his admission to Congress was
! strenuously opposed by the same par.
| ties who had overthrown the old ISL
and government. and who, despite theil
uttermost efforts had been defeated il
| the Congressional election by the pop.
ular party led by Mr. Wilcox, who as
native born and a maternal descendant
of the old Hawaiian royalty, had en-.
| deavored in the stormy days of the
revolution, to overthrow the foreign
element, and had thereby endearet
! himself to the mass Of the people
| whom he represents. But his opponent.
did not succeed in barring against hin
the doors of Congress, and he scored
another triumph.
/ AS previously stated in the Depart
ment News, Mr.. Wilcox was born Feb
ruary Is, 1855. at Kahuluf. Maui Isl
and. His father, w S. Wilcox. still
hale and vigorous at the age of eighty
! five-a native of Newport. r. T.. des
which settled in 1880 in New England
was sea captain, and his mother, Ka
! lua Makoleokalani was a direct de
ascendant of Lonomakaihonua, tn,
| brother of King Koalahea, of Maui
| two centuries ago.
Mr.. Wilcox received an education a
home, and in MS became for fiv,
years a teacher under the Board o
Education. He was then elected to TIL,
Legislature, and afterwards became
student at the Royal Military Acade
my at Turin, Italy, from which h,
graduated in 1885 with the rank o
sub-lieutenant of artillery, and Will,
completing his course at the Roya
Application school for engineers ant
| artillery officers, in 1887 was recalled
oy his home government The mites
tine troubles of his country. however
resulted in his voluntary exile for {
time at San Francisco. but in 1889 h,
returned to Hawaii as pronounced
revolutionist, but owing to the faiIur,
OF the King to give him the suppor
promised. the scheme miscarried anf
the young patriot was tried for trea
/ son and acquitted
/ In 1890 he was elected to the I,egisla
ture as reformer, and again IN 1Se.
as member of the Liberal party, be
| ing ido1ized by his countrymen T,
1895 he, for the second tins I'll -