The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-13
SINGER ROBBED
OF INSTRUMENTS
w. K. Macomber Loses Banjo,
Guitar and Some Other
Vsluables.
Especial to the Advertiser.


SAN FRANCISCO. March 5.-The
sweet singers OF huIas and meles who
have carried the melodies OF Hawaii
from Buffalo to Frisco feel aggrieved
| at their treatment by resident of this
city. The Hawaiian Glee Club, COM
posed of nine players and singers. is
now in Los Angeles, and win shortly
sail for Honolulu.
While here thief stole articles
worth Sis from w. X. Macomher. one
of the club. The police have in Gus
tOdy n man VINO is suspected of the
theft The Chronicle says concerning
the sad happening:
The Hawaiian Glee Club is out of
tune. \ Earring discord has marred
the harmony of its final hours in San
Francisco. 1t has been robbed OF some
of its sweetest melody. and some
OF its finest instruments. No fond
aloha" viii sound this morning at 4
o'clock as the dusky ballad singers and
strummers of stringed things depart
on the early train for Los Angeles
The wrongs they have suffered in this
great city will stick to their memories
like the native poi to the fingers
of the dangerous Hawaiian maiden at
a feast in Honolulu.
Is a case OF misplaced
dence and unlocked doors. They went
TO the Orpheum last night for their
closing performance. and when they
returned to their apartments some ad-
mirerS had possessed themselves of
valuable souvenirs and departed into
the darkness of the stormy night. And
such is the lesson these islanders have
learned in America, where locks are
put on doors to keep unwelcome visi-
tors from intruding and not left off
as is the custom in the unSuSpicious
paradise of the Pacific.
If any citizen should find in his pos
session this morning a fine Dewick
banjo, value $40, and a Martin man
dolin, value s25. and an Alvista camera,
value $50. and a black military over
coat. value SIS, then that citizen should
guess that he must have been walking
in his sleep and entered the Hawaiian's
room by mistake and taken those
things away. And the police are out
looking for the man who was in a
trance.
All the mementoes of the visit of the
Hawaiian Glee Club were taken from
one player, w X. Macomber, perhaps
because ne was the most hospitable
individual in the entire troupe, and re-
peatedly entertained friends in his little
eight by ten inside room at 121 Powell
street. This Hawaiian player and two
other members of the club We're in the
crowded room along with four local
Hawaiian acquaintanceS up to $40
O'Clock last night. Then one of the
trio of singers departed for the thea
ter.
At $50 the host himself went over to
the Orpheum. and fifteen minutes later
the last of the trio of professional play
ers left the room for the show-house-
When he departed the four visitors
were seated on the bed and the trunk,
having a sociable time. But when Ma
comber returned to his room at 1890
O'Clock the quartet of visiting Hawaii
ans was gone, and so We're the most
of his valued effects.
This beats my New York record,
sighed the sad Hawaiian singer. In
New York some one touched me for
$40 in cash, and the things L have
been robbed of tonight were worth
$l1S."
The Hawaiian Glee Club was an at
traction at the Buffalo Exposition. For
the seven months since the fair these
sweet singers have been touring the
country and making a good thing out
of the circuit. This was to be their last
show town. except Los Angeles After
that the whole troupe expects to return
to Hawaii where unlocked rooms are
safe and no honest man would steal his
hosts banjo.
FREDERICK O'BRIEN.
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