The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-29
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P. N. LlLIENTHAL
HEADS THE PARTY
Many Plans for Their Entertain
ment Made by Friends
Here.

n R. p. N. LILIENTHAL. manager
N of the Anglo Californian Bank, of
San Francisco. will arrive in the
steamer Alameda on Friday, for the
purpose of making a short stay here
and becoming acquainted with the in
dustries and general business of the
Islands. While the length of his stay
has not been determined as yet, it is
believed that he will not return to San
Francisco until the sailing of the So
noma February 18th, and in the event
OF business engagements even this may
be passed.
Mrs. Lilienthal. who was Miss Selig-
man. daughter of the founder of the
banking house OF Seligman & Co., of
New York. London, Paris and Vienna,
accompanied her husband. In the par
ty also is Mr.. Jesse w. Seligman, the
distinguished corporation lawyer of
San Francisco. attorney for Seligman
& Co. on the Pacific Coast, and the
legal representative of the Anglo-Caii-
fornian Bank of London and San Fran
are also several friends who have had
the trip in contemplation for some
time, and have taken the opportunity
to make it now in a party. The MEM
bers OF the party have many friends
here and there will be entertainment
plenty during the time of their stay.
The men In the party all have great
interests here, Mr.. Lilienthal having
been one of the first stockholders of the
First American Bank, and as we'll the
practical organizer of the First Ma
tionaI Bank, while being heavily inter-
ested in securities of the various cor
porations of the Islands. The others
also have been liberal buyers of sugar
shares in the past and now retain hold
ings which will lead them without
doubt to an Investigation of the plan
tations and the outlook for sugar here.
There will also be a reflex action, as
the impression made upon the minds
of these men will have great weight
in the fixing OF the status of certain
shares upon the return of these men
to San Francisco. The banking house
Of SeliSman & Co. is the fiscal agent
Of the United States Government in
Europe and the name OF Seligman in :
Eastern financial circles is as that of
Rothschiid in Europe.
In the matters of the First National
Bank 1t was discovered yesterday that
there have been several sales of the
stock during the week past, and that
these have been going into the hands !
OF the present board of officers Of the
bank. It was reported in the street I
Yesterday that the sales were made
about the basis of 107. and that Presi-
dent Cecil Brown and Director Drier
were doing the purchasing There was
a rurnor that the transfers of the stock
had been made. despite the fact that
there Is in the view taken by the at
torneys of the nonresident stockhold
ers an annual meeting still pending
in the letter of Col. G. W. Macfarlane
by his attorney, to the officers of the
the bank. the meeting of January 14th,
rs referred to as pretended meet
ing As the board in acting upon his.
request for another meeting, declared
that the decision was that the meeting
alluded to was not a legal one, the,
conclusion of the outsiders was that
nothing could be done 10 disturb the
status OF the prior date. and that
whatever vote was cast must be that !
represented by the proxies presented I
at that meeting.
1t was intimated at the time OF the q