The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-17
The Emma Street Home of the
CampbeIIs Is to Have a
. Gorgeous Opening.
Furniture From Frisco and Objects of Art
From Italy Will Turn the Old House
Into Palace

tombstone Bishop, at the Angelus
Hotel, in Los Angeles. In that city
she was the recipient OF considerable
social attention, including box parties
at the different theaters, luncheons.
dinner parties and receptions. Miss
Landegon spent last year in Europe
with Nine. tombstone Bishop. She is a
pupil of Cortesi of Florence. Italy, and
of Mime. La Grange, of Paris. She
has magnificent figure. and dresses
in exquisite taste.
WHO KNOWS MRS. MOORE?
herself at Stockton on January 80.
touches Honolulu. Mrs. Hammond
Moore is said to be her name. The
first known of Mrs. Moore's movements
is when she arrived at the Hotel Savoy
in this city on January %. She said
that she had just come from Honolu-'
lu, but she registered from New York.
On January 90 she sold a trunk con-
tanning much rich wearing apparel to
a second hand dealer. She then went
to Stockton and there took poison and
died. The papers have made a great
sensation of the matter as the woman
was identified as various people who
afterwards turned up in the flesh. She
was a woman about fifty years old.
and had evidently once been in supe-
rior circumstances. a jeweler here
says that she sold much of her jewelry
last September, when she was possess
sed of a number of valuable diamonds
1t is not believed that Mrs. Moore came
from Honolulu, although it IS barely
possible.
TWO NEW YORK SMELLS.
On the Sierra will arrive in Honolulu
two weli-known New Workers., who are
on a tour of the world, seeing the
sights. They are B. b Tilden, a neph-
ew OF former Governor Tilden of
New York, and G. II. .>Ieldert, formerly
leading man of the Richard Mansfield
Theatrical Company. They will remain
in Honolulu only a short time, and
will go from there to Australia. New
Zealand. and other places of interest
in the south seas. They will then go
back to New York. They anticipate
making the entire trip in about light
months. Both are handsome and -ich
and having heard much of the fair Wo-
men of Hawaii, will doubtless accept
any hospitality offered them.
THE PRINCESS EMMA STORY.
Chief Examiner Server of the Civil
Service Commission, tells in the WASH |
ington Star of the alleged belief ny
the natives that the former royal fam !
lily of Hawaii had supernatural power.
He says that when he and Commission
er Rodenberg visited HilO, they were
told the story of Princess Emma rescu- |
ing that city from destruction by a
volcano. Server says that the story
Nv Sr,lo Of ~, !
and was vouched for by half Il dozen
Americans, who claimed to know pei
soEally.
Server says: 1.-The volcano which
as doing the damage is some thirty
miles from the city. 1t began active
operations. and the stream of lava
which flowed from it started straight !
for the city of Hilo, covering an area
about half a mile wide. The flow of
lava was slow, as it gained only
small distance each day. 1t presented
a solid wall of red-hot stone six or
eight feet high. and hemains to corrob-
crate the story.
las the lava approached the Gig the
natives became much alarmed ard
were on the verge of a panic when a
message came from Princess Emma.
She said that when there was any dan
ger of the destruction of the city by
the lava. if she was informed of the
same she would come to Hilo and stop
its flow. This message was just in
time. The lava had reached to within
half a mile of the city, and the princess
was sent for in great haste. She came
at once. bringing live white dove, a
sucking pig, and a bottle of native
rum The populace of the city all fol-
lowed here as she proceeded to the
edge of the lava. When there she or
iered the pig killed, and. dipping up
is blood with her fingers. she sprink-
led it's drops on the lava. repeating
the while some strange native lingo.
rhe death of the dove followed. and its
blood was likewise sprinkled the
lowing stone. Last came the rum,
md this was poured on as a sacrifice to
he mystic power.
The story ends here. for the lava
lever flowed another foot. The city ~
lilo was saved and Princess Emma
likewise all of the royal blood. San to
his day WELD all-powerful sway with
he natives OF Hawaii.
HEAR WILLIAM TELL 1T
Who is Jolly and busy William Ma
on?'' According to the Los Angeles
FeraId he is one of the leaders of the :
anti-Dole faction" of Hawaii, and is '
ushing on To tell Roosevelt what 10
o in Hawaiian matters. The Herald I
avs: William Mason, jolly and as full I
{ business as he is OF enthusiasm for {