The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-01
SQUIRES ICE FACTORY WAS
WORKING OVER TIME.
Secretary of American Legation at
Peking Was Fellow Passenger of
Wife of Man Who Roasted" Him.

! from the Orient, it is very likely that
in certain quarters on the vessel the
| increase in temperature was not felt.
| Indeed there was probably more frig-
! idity aboard the Coptic among certain
| of the passengers, than even the refri-
gerator of the vessel would show.
II. G. Squires the secretary of the
American legation at Peking. and his
wife and the three little Squres, were
the human congealing factory and an
attractive, unaSSuming woman passen-
ger was the object of their frost. From
| all accounts however, the Squires
| frigidity did not cut much ice with
the object of their coldness. The wo-
man against whom the coldness was di-
reCted, was none other than Mrs.
stephen Bonsal, the wife of the China
correspondent of the New York Herald.
| The cause for the resentment which
the Squires felt toward the lady, was
due entirely to statements made by her
husband and not to any conduct upon
the part of the lady, herself.
Instead of it being a case of PAY,
| Pay, Pay" in China after the relief of
the legations last year it was a pro-
position of Loot, Loot, Loot" and
Bonsal did not hesitate to send extern
| sive dispatches to his paper concern
ing the wholesale thievery and robbing
of the Chinese after the capture of
! Peking. During the course of BonsaPs
! statements, he had occasion to refer to
the connection which the Honorable
Mr.. Squires was supposed orEalleged
| to have taken in the wholesale looting.
Bonsal is one of the very top notcherS
among the correspondents of the world
and any utterance which he would
make would, of course, have the great
est weight. Knowing the standing of
( Bonsal and the effect which any utter
i ance of his would have in official cir
cles, Squires naturally squirmed in the
face of any alleged exposure of his con-
nection with the looting, which the cor
respondents to man, declared was
going on. There was nothing Squires
and the rest of the crowd could do how
ever but to grin and bear it, and hope
for their vindicating after they return
ed to America.
When Squires was able to relinquish
the work at Peking and start for home,
it was no doubt, with a decided feeling
Of relief. In fact, the thought that he
! would escape from the tOrmenting
| presence of Bonsal was in all probabili-
ty especially gratifying to Squires
Shortly after Squires had arranged for
! passage on the COptic, it was reported
that Bonsals work as special cores
pdondent at Peking, was at an end and
he too, was to return to America
Whether Squires learned that the
correspondent was 10 take passage on
the same boat is not known. In any
event, Bonsal had planned to go on the
Coptic but at the last moment he re-
ceived instructions to proceed to Ma
nila. Passage had also been engaged
! for Mrs. Bonsal on the Coptic and as
she did not care to go to the Philip
| pines, she decided to return home on
| the steamship.
Squires did not in all probability
| n nc GaI
| til some days after the vessel had left
| Shanghai on the homeward voyage.
| The instant that her identity became
known, the frigidity from the Squires
! quarter, so the officers assert set in.
Fortunately, the Squires and Mrs. Bon
sal were not seated at the same table
| but if they had been it is awful to con-
| template what might have happened.
| 1t is probably fortunate thing for the
steward that nothing of the kind oc-
CURED for the food would have been
| frozen stiff the instant it was brought
in the immediate vicinity. Squires
| evidently thought that as Bonsal had
| roasted" him, he would retaliate by
freezing" the correspondents wife.
1t was bad enough though so some of
| the other passengers asserted. There
was no necessity to use electric fans
| The air was actually chilly whenever
the secretary and Mrs Bonsal were
around. In fact, Captain Rinder
! thought the vessel was in the proXimi-
! ty of an iceberg and before he learned
the cause. was thinking seriously of
changing the course and running to the
! southwark for couple of days. One
morning a lady passenger went in
bathing in the swimming tank Squires
was near and he evidently mistook the
swimmer for the wife of the cores
pondent for the ice works were set in
motion. Within two minutes so pas
sengers declare, the swimmer, chilled
to the bone and with teeth chattering,
was dragged from the ice cold water.
However there was no outburst of
indignation, righteous or otherwise, up
on the part of Squires during the trip.
So far as is known, he was magnan-
nous enough to suffer the wife of the
correspondent to live in the chill of his
freezing reserve.
When the Coptic left here yesterday
Captain Kinder announced that he in
tended getting into San Francisco two
days ahead of time. He gave no rea-
son for wishing to beat the record
forty-eight hours, but those closest to
the commander declare that he was
afraid he would bring a ship load of
pneumonia stricken passengers and
crew into San Francisco if he ran on
schedule time.
During the layoVer of the Coptic
here, Squires was interviewed. He said
that he knew nothing much of the stu
alton in China and then it was sug-
gested that he had quantity of ''re-
| lies" and "curios." For some reason
Squires got hot" instead of cold and
seemed to resent such question.
Young man l know nothing what
| ever about loot, l have a few relics
with me, as car loads it is reported)
! which l purchased in China and l in
! tend to present them to the Metropuli-
tan Museum OF New York. But loot?
! Why young man | don't understand
why you ask me such a question"