The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-14
BUCKEYE
REUNION
Members Of Ohio
Club in Social
Session.
SOME INTERESTING
"REMINISCENCES
An Evening of Anecdote and
Music at the Home of Mrs.
and DR.. Whitney.

The pleasant parlors of Mrs. and DR..
Whitney were thrown open last evening |
in reception of the members and guests
of the Buckeye Club of Hawaii.
The front veranda was hung with |
Chinese lanterns and the rooms forally |
decorated in honor of the occasion while
in the cool dining-lanai, bedecked with |
ferns and palms, tempting array of
light refreshments was spread.
A good many of the Buckeyes, include
ing Vice President DR.. Garvin, were un-
avoidably absent, but about thirty guests
enjoyed the pleasures of the reunion.
Among those present were: President
and Mrs. ]. K. Brown, Mr.. and Mrs.
Rogers, Captain and Mrs. Waite, U.S.G.;
Mrs. E. D. Brown, Mrs. w. C. Weldon.
Misses J. E. johnson. Belle Johnson.
Amy Brown, Weldon and McCully; the
Rev W. H. Rice; Messrs. Charles Nc
Gonagle, John Francis. Raymond c.
Brown, j. K. Brown, Jr., Edward s.
Thornton. C. H. johnson, ]. c. Ridg-
way, Secretary and Treasurer w. e.
Skinner, Captain Schilling, Louis Gear
and the host and hostess Mrs and DR..
Whitney with their daughter.
Little business was done with the ex-
ception of providing for a bi-monthly
session in the future and the adoption
of a rule that gentlemen only be requir-
ed to pay initiation fees in future. The
following resolution, beautifully engross-
ed by Mr.. j. w. Short of the custom
house department, was adopted and or
dered sent to the President:
T Honolulu, T. H., May, 1901.
The Buckeye Club of Hawaii to the Ohio
Society of misunderstanding ana
Congratulations upon the Auspicious
r Event Which 1t Has the Honor to
Celebrate.
In its distinguished guest, the Presi
tdent, We recognize the highest type of
American manhood-Ohio's most illustri-
f.ous son and a ruler whom all true Amer
leans delight to honor.
To the members of the Cabinet the
Governor of Ohio and his staff, the Con-
| gressional delegation, the Ohio Society
of California and all who have journeyed
across the continent to participate in the
launching Of the Ohio, the loyal sons
and daughters of the Buckeye State So
/ journing In Hawaii offer Aloha, and urge
| them to stay not in their westward
course until their feet shall stand where
the East meets the West in this Para
disc of the Pacific" Buckeyes always
t.foIlow the flag"
Mr.. Raymond C. Brown, ably accom-
lpanied by Miss whitney, sang Because
| in effective fashion and was obliged to
T. haI Jod
that suited his clear tenor admirably.
r. The Rev. Mr.. Rice was then announc-
Fed for talk on old-time Ohio, and con-
I tributed some interesting "reminiscences
! of his younger days in entertaining fash
! ion. 81 was born" sad he, Sin Danes
fvil1e, Lake county, a little town that
4 once boosted two peculiarities. both en-
viable and unenviable, the one that OF
/ handling more mail matter than any
Eother town of it's size and the other that
1of issuing more divorces; whether there
was any connection between the two
ffacts I have. never been able to deter
fmine.s
E"At the age my father moved to
4 Cleveland, then in 40 and ~ q city OF
about 30. 900. / can we'll remember the
/ soldiers marching in the streets and the
! flies and drums calling for recruits fol-
the Mexican War. Next year the fam
lily moved to Columbus. There were
then no railroads leaving our city, and
my sister and myself went with the fam
lily furniture by canal boat, taking seven
| days for the same trip that is now maze
in six hours. Columbus then boasted a
population of 10000: the State Capitol was
1 only in the foundation stage and 1 can
| recollect about 300 prisoners being oaily
fmarched under guard to work on the
Capitol building. which was surrounded
by high fence.
THE first year of our residence in Co
! lumbus the old State House burnt to
the ground. l was then just enough of
a boy to play truant all night and see
the fire. and beautiful sight 1t was.
/ One pathetic and memorable incident
was the big State House bell tolIing it's
own requiem for full thirty minutes be-
! fore 1t crashed through the roof.
I'm 1859 we went TO Oberlfn, a town
that has been more celebrated for it's
size than any other in the world, as
the depot of the underground railroad
by which the fugitive slaves were de-
ported to safety. Oberlin in those days
had only 1000 inhabitants; now It has
| $500 residents and 1900 students. I my
self took six years course in the COL
lege. afterwards Staying there for sever
al years. S So s
| 'The founding of aOberlin Is interest
| ing In 1888 two young men, home mis-
sionaries, met In a little community of
some 500 souls called Illyria, situated in
| the wilderness, surrounded by dense for
ests of tall trees filled with Indians, bears
and deer. There they planned to found
school for teachers and preachers for
that county and after prayer decided to
I ask for donation of 5000 acres for that
purpose and then to return to New Eng.
land for colonists. The college they de-
eided to call oberlin. after well-known
French divine of those days.
These men were J. J. Shiphard and
P. P. Stewart. Mrs. Shiphard tells the
tale of Mr.. Shiphard starting on horse
back through the wilderness to find a
site for the college. Three miles he rode
through the forest and then halted in
sudden despair at the stupendous task
before him. Tn a fool' he exclaimed.
I have no money, no power, no acquain-
tances. 1t Is impossible and he turned
his horse homewards. Arriving there, he