The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-19
SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
COMING OF THE DUsKY PRINCE
FROM HAWAII.

An Account of the Island of Which
His Grandfather Was King-An
IntcrCsting Description of the
Princes Ancestral HOme-It Is Ex-
pected That the Prince and Prfn-
cess kaIanianOIe Will Create a
Sensation at the National Capital.
Washington, July 17.-No conquer
! ing hero" of the congressional world is
more eagerly awaited in Washington,
or will be more warmly welcomed, than
the dusky Prince from Hawaii, whose
real name is Prince Jonah Kalanianole,
No wonder that those who have occa-
sion to use that appalling title fire.
quently have shortened it to Prince
Cupid" 1t Is safe to say that he will
be better known in Washington next
winter by his nickname than by the
ponderous cognomen which was the
joint effort of his royal relatives and
! the Yankee missionary who christened
him. His English tutor called him
Cupid because he was such a chubby,
| handsome little lad; and because as a
child, after the native fashion. he pre-
ambulated his little world with no more
clothes upon his back than the mis-
chievous god of the bow and arrows Is
supposed to wear. At any rate the
name was so eminently appropriate
that it has stuck. and will continue to
stick till time ends for it's wearer.
Prince Cupid's grandfather was d
| king of the oldest island in the Ha-
WaIian group-that is, from the geolO-
gists angle of vision-Kaual, the Gar
den Island" 1t boasts of real river,
which, however, runs upside down
during most of the year; which means
that its bed is dry as dust, but by bor-
! ing down a few inches you find the
stream, which seems to have simply
turned over to take a nap. Prince
Jonah and his brother David are
nephews of Queen Kappiolani, the
wife of Ka1akaua, the last King of the
Sandwich Islands and immediate pre-
decessor of ex-Oueen Liluokalano. AS
Kappiolani had no children of her own,
she adopted these two nephews, with
the full consent of her husband. the
King; and after the latter's death IN
San Francisco, several years ago, she
retired with her adopted sons to her
beautiful bungalow, two miles from
Honolulu. at Waikiki, the Long Branch
or Atlantic City of the Hawaiian me-
| tropolis, directly under the shadow OF
| Diamond Head" This lofty prom
| ontory, by the way, which guards the
entrance to Honolulu harbor, is not
properly named. The remarkable land
mark, is an extinct volcano, whose fires
died out more than a thousand years
ago; and it's singular form shows that
ii must have finally committed suicide,
so to say, by blowing it's own head off
into the ocean, after first showering
the surrounding country knee-deep In
ashes, cinders and molten stone. Time
and the weather long ago reduced that
volcanic debris to the best possible sort
of fertilizer, and formed a soi1 in which
palms, bananas, and all tropical growth
flourish to perfection. The headless
monster so inappropriately named,
crouches beside the sea like a gigantic
but sadly mutilated sphynx, it's out
stretched paws washed by the opales-
cent waves. Its gaunt flanks are worn
into deep gulles by the fiery lava
streams of long ago; yef1ow-flowered
lantana bushes cling to it's SCARED
sides; on it's landward slope a lot of
Japanese bee farmers tend their nu-
merous hives and in it's crater-the
neck from which the head was severed
"a herd of high-bred Jersey cows find
rich pasturage. Right here, huddled
close up under the promontory, lies
Kappiolani Park and bungalow, the
boyhood home of our new delegate In
Congress. This park is the fashionable
driveway of Honolulu, because of it's
wonderfully fine road, winding be-
tween palms and lagoons all covered
with lotos flowers and pink and pur-
pie lilies. and shaded by palms and
gigantic irOn-Wood trees. These slug
gish lakes and streams are all artifl-
cial supplied by waste water from the
neighboring rice paddles which comes
originally from exhaustless artesian
wells; and after serving it's purpose in
he npIr e-1t
There are dozens of tiny islands in
the miniature lakes, all connected by
picturesque bridges, arched and rustic
and overgrown with q Jungle like
growth of bamboos, papyrus, tropical
vines, and gay-leaved caladiumas, in
whose green thickets sea-hawks. king
fishers, bue herons, sonw- white cranes
and pink breasted flamingoes build
their nests.
On the edge of this extensive bit of
fairy-land-the end nearest the city
stands the bungalow. which at her
death, the Dowager bequeathed TO her
adopted sons, Princes Jonah and Da-
vid, but is now the exclusive property
of the former. Its lawns are shaded by
the most beautiful trees of the tropic
zone, and sleepy trade-winds blow un-
hindered through its large and lofty
rooms. Its cool and shady entrance hail
is also the drawing room, and is
charmingly furnished. The polished
floor is strewn with rugs; low chairs
and couches are scattered all about
excellent pictures hang upon the walls.
There is a splendid grand piano. and
a large music-cabinet. well-filled with
mandolins. guitars, flutes, and the ma
tive Instruments. ukalus and taro-
tatches Just behind the piano. In
dim cornor, CLEANS the polished mar
bic of fine copy of the Venus de Mila
At the windows are priceless specimens
Of the Hawaiian tapa, the native