The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-07-24
ELOPES WITH WELL KNOWN
ARMY OFFICER.
Couples Incognito Exposed in San
Francisco-To Seek Quiet Retreat
Somewhere in Japan.

Lady Francis May Yohe Hope and
Major Putnam Bradlee Strong booked
as j. G. Smith and wife, left on the
Nippon Maru this morning i'm jaunty
, fashion. Lady Hope, attired in natty
sailing costume of cream serge lined
with brilliant red silk, carried herself
with the utmost Indifference to the evil
dent knowledge of her fellow passen-
gers that she was. at all events re-
garded as rash, and took snap shots of
the Jeunesse doree of Honolulu who as
sembled on the wharf to look at the
once famous beauty.
| The major was not as successful as
his fair companion in concealing his
dislike of the publicity forced upon
them and his air of nonchalance was
plainly assumed as he took half a doz-
EN- snap shots in rapid succession with
out the ceremony of winding up the
film
The swimming boys reaped a harvest
from the couple both of them tossing
quarters and half dollars with the ut
most liberality. Lady Francis wore
| plumaria leis around her neck and a
! carnat1on wreath on her hat presented
to her by some Honolulu acquaintances
| who had been won over by her charms
and the freely proffered champagne of
! the major.
A returning college man of this city
| spent three days travelling across the
| continent in the same train with the
eloping couple and states that it was
| their evident ambition to drown dull
! care and possible remorse in the flow.
ing bowl, the fair May especially SEEM
| ing to enjoy champagne with equal
! avidity at breakfast, luncheon. dinner
and supper.
Several other members of the Hope
| Strong party did not attract quite so
| much attention perhaps, as the princi-
| pals, but were nevertheless real inter-
esting individuals They were her
| ladyship's negro maid, his majorship's
! colored valet and the bull "purp" of
! the outfit When the Nippon docked
yesterday afternoon one of the most
prominent individuals aboard was the
negro valet. Nobody supposed him to
occupy the menial position of an elop-
| ing majors gentleman. The cOlored
man was thought from his sporty air
| to be rather the manager of a prize
| fighter or the owner of a patent three
card monte game. A small brindle bull
| pup which he led by chain, lent color
| to the sporty proclivities of the man
of color. The maid felt her Importance
| too and the pair We're among the first
| off the ship.
This morning they were on the steam
er waiting for the return of Lady Hope
a.
very jaunty air about either of the SER
wants however. The publicity which!
had been given the elopin" couple had
evidently ruffled the tempers of the pair
and the servants had felt the weight
of helpless rage. While the Lady Hope
and "Majah" Strong We're busy taking
snap shots the colored pair were en-
gagged in carrying fruits and flowers in
to the suite of apartments which the
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sci.
DIR. Kinyoun the eX-quarantine officer
of San Francisco was not apparently
on such good terms with the pair as
he had been coming down from San
Francisco. Probably he has been spe-
cially employed by the ships people
to fumigate the morals of the lovely
and frail May. so that the authorities
at Kobe will permit her and the erst-
while soldier to land on Japanese soil. |
Lady Francis Hope, once, and per-
haps better known, as a footlight faVo-
rite; before whose charms many a
gilded youth has offered his devotions
and wasted his patrimony, has added toi
the long list of her escapades by leav-
ing her titled husband and clipping with
the good looking and valiant Major
Putnam Bradlee Strong. son of the late
muti-millionaire w. l.. Strong once
mayor of New York.
1t is many years since the beautiful
May Hope was a ranker in the chorus
of Henderson's eXtravaganzas, but with
her beauty on the Wane she left the /
usually supposed summit of the cory !
phee's ambition, a title, after having /
helped to spend the three millions of
Lord Francis, and is now en- route with
the man of her choice to seek some |
solitary Eden in the neighborhood of
Kobe. Living is cheap in the Orient, |
w &
of the comparatively small sum of $780, |
900 with which Major Strong is blessed
and which will be mere pin money to
his fair consort.
The couple were received with un-
pleasant notoriety in San Francisco be-
ing requested to leave prominent hotel
at short notice. Major Strong, in fear
of being counrtmartialled for conduct
unbecoming an officer and a gentleman
sent in his resignation to the army,
which was promptly accepted by the
authorities.
The desire for intrigue does not alone
run in the veins of the eX-actress. The
gallant major has enjoyed the reputa-
tion of being favorite with the fair
sex upon many occasions. At one time
there was a persistent rumor of his en-
gagement to the Princess Kaiulani
ITO escape the unpleasant notoriety
to which Major Strong and myself have
the amorOus couple decided, upon re-
ceiving the news of the acceptance Of
the Majors resignation, to unostenta-
tiously slip out of the city that had so
ungallantly exposed them and incognito
proceed to the land Of the chrysanthe-
mum.
The valet conspicuously ordered tick
cts to the Yosemite which were quietly
countermanded and replaced by book
ing on the Nippon Maru for Kobe, not
however until Lady Francis, mindful of
past triumphs, had unsuccessfully ap-
piled for theatrical engagement on the
Ornheum circuit.
Verv quietly, accompanied by the
majors colored valet. Lady Francis
colored maid, one bull dog, and
three other CANNES one of whom is
with a gold and turquoise
collar twelve trunks and various other
calculated not to attract
public notice, the party arrived in
Honolulu yesterday to find to their in
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