The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-11
HE WAS KNOWN IN HAWAII
ALSO KNOWN ELSEWHERE

Captain T. Waln-Morgan Draper
| C"Whiskers'), formerly an officer in the
Volunteer Engineers stationed in Ho-
nolulu in 1898 while the war with Spain
miles distant and lately a Lieutenant
Colonel in the California National
Guard, does not seem to have curried
favor with the Colorado press. A Den
, yer exchange has just heard that the
! militia officer, who received his first
appointment from Colorado, has beer
in camp with the martial sons of Cali
fornia at Santa Cruz, and has been say
ing all manner of funny things about
him.
While in Honolulu, Captain Draper
did not win the respect of the men I'M
der him, on account of his arbitrary
manner and his Foverzealous attempts
to teach the men the art of discipline
which even the Captain did not clearly
understand The result was a constant
feud between the officer and the rank
and file. He was known as ''Whiskers"
not only to the men but to the general
run of people in this city. The follow
gives the latest interesting biography
of Lieutenant Colonel Draper:
Lieutenant Colonel T. VAIN Morgan
Draper has grown whiskers again. Up
on the barren expanse of face there
has come out as luxuriant a growth as
ever grew upon the front of the most
devout minister of the Russian ortho
dox church. No Populist admirer of
TIE said Patterson has a more expan-
sive beard.
When Lieutenant Colonel T. VAIN
thu ee years ago with his company %
engineers he submitted himself to a
barba" His face came out from be-
hind the beard in peaks and ridges,
revelation.
In letters received in Denver from
Colonel Draper there has been DO ink
ling of his change of face. He has SAID
nothing absolutely nothing, about haV-
ing grown beard that hides the con-
tour OF his face. He has not spoken
a word of the temperance of that
which made him conspicuous figure
in the Colorado National Guard and
which was the subject of numerous
libes by young guardsmen.
The first intimation that Lieutenant
Colonel Draper had returned his face to
its hairy hiding place was a picture of
him published in the San Francisco FIX
aminer. The photograph represents
him as he was in the old days. 1t shows
that his hair runs no further forward
on mis- head than it did when he was
last in Denver; it shows the tracing of
dark streaks above each eye and then.
with a slight desert. shows an oasis
such as will appear familiar to those
In Denver who know this distinguish
ed son of Mars.
While the San Francisco newspaper
sets forth the head and sufficient ex-
posture of chest to show the Lieutenant
ColonePs medals, it says nothing about
him. AS the picture appears with 9th
ers of California men who are present |
at the encampment of the California !
National Guard it is presumed that the |
Lieutenant Colonel is at Santa Cruz as I
one of the seven Lieutenant Colonies |
there. 1t is said here that he is no lon
ger connected with the army.
When Lieutenant Colonel T. VAIN |
Morgan Draper returned from his long |
rest with his corps of engineers in Ho-
nolulu, Denver proved too tame and
staid and prudish for him. He went to
San Francisco, taking his face with
him and Denver people promptly all but |
forgot him. 1t is only the temperance
of the picture with its wild, tangled |
growth of whiskers again brings him
into the public eye of Denver
The following anent Captain Draper
in the Salt Lake Tribune in
March, 1899:
A MILITARY PEACOCK
Correspondence Tribune).
Honolulu, H. l., Feb 2S-Capt T.
Wall Morgan-Draper of I company