The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-02-18
GREAT OOINCS WHEN THE
PARKER PARTY RETURNS
The Emma Street Home of the
CampbeIIs Is to Have a
Gorgeous Opening.

In the south seas They will then 20
TO the Orient and thence to Europe ana
back To New York. They anticipate
making the entire trip in about light
months, Both are handsome and .ch
and having heard much OF the fair No-
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
err 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
was told them by judge of the city.
and was vouched for by half Il dozen
Americans, who claimed to know Del -
sorally.
Server says; THE volcano which
was doing the damage is some thirty
miles from the city. 1t began active
operations, and the stream of lava
which flowed from ii 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 a
small distance each day. 1t presented
solid wall of red-hOt stone six or
eight feet high, and hemains to corrob-
crate the story.
AS che lava approached tha ely 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 Hlo and stop
its flow. This message was Just in
time. The lava had reached to within
half 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
dered the pig killed and dipping up
It's blood with her fingers, she sprink-
led its drops on the lava, repeating
the while some strange native lingo.
The death of the dove followed, and its
blood was likewise sprinkled on the
flowing stone. Last came the rum,
and this was poured on as sacrifice to
the mystic power.
THE story ends here, for the lava
never flowed another foot. The city %
iIilo was saved and Princess Emma
likewise all of the royal blood, can to
this day WELD all-powerful sway with
the natives of Hawaii"
HEAR WILLIAM TELL IT,
Who is Jolly and busy William Ma
son?' According to the Los Angeles
Herald he is one of the leaders of the
"anti-Dole faction" of Hawaii and is
rushing on to tell Roosevelt what to
do in Hawaiian matters The Herald
says: William Mason, jolly and as full
OF business as he is of enthusiasm for
Hawaii, one of the leaders of the anti
Dole faction of the island, made a
short stop at the Van Mugs hotel yes
terday, leaving last evening for Wash
lnSton, whittier he is hurrying to talk
to President Roosevelt to come TO a de-
clslon as to the future government of
the island territory. Mr.. Mason adj
mltted this much, but he would not say
in whose interest he made the hurried
trip from Honolulu to the capital.
You may say for me that we are
going to have a change of government
in the Islands," said Mr.. Mason, but
don't ask me to say anything further
on that subject, 1t would not be dip
lomatic to make any announcement I'M
til we have learned what the President
proposes to do. Honolulu is prosper-
Gus. We need a better government.
Ihen we VIII be in a position to go on
and grow"
COFFIN YEARNS FOR HOME.
For over a year b. c. Coffin, an old
man. has been trying to get home to
his wife and eight children on Pitcairn
island, and is no nearer than when he |
began the attempt, though he has trav-
eled half way round the world. Coffin
Is sailmaker on the big British ship
which arrived a few DAYS
ago from Liverpool Nearly twenty
years ago he was wrecked on Pitcairn
IN the Star of Peace, and remained |
with the descendants of the Bounty. |
while his shipmates, one of whom was |
J. Atkinson, now gatekeeper of Steuart-
street wharf, We're taken off by passing
vessels. Three years ago Coffin came
mere for a trip in a missionary brig.
put upon wishing to return could not
ma vessel bound for his home. He
expected % land from the Silberhorn
on her outward passage a year ago.
Dat the ships course was not favor
dDle ana he was carried to r.urOpe
ana Is back again here, looking for a
'hance to get home.
YOUNG PARKER STUDYING.
Ernest Parker, the eldest son of Sam
Parker, will not return to Honolulu
with his father, but will stay here for
A while. Ernest has penchant, for
ART ana wants TO be a painter. Hell
las been living at the Occidental hotel,
while his father has been East. and
has been studying art under. private
eachers. Now he is to enter the Hon
,ins Art institute, where he VIII study
n the ordinary classes. He expects TO
go to Paris in year or two, and at
he feet of the masters there IN laa,n