The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-21


day She had her choice of visiting
Whitelaw Reid at the London embassy
and being introduced by him at court
or going to the Philippines with the
Taft party.
The party will go to San Francisco
by rail and sail from there in July,
stopping enroute at Honolulu. A month
will be spent at Manila and on the
neighboring islands, and there will be
a trip to Japan, about which the diplo-
mats of the world are very much
worried They said that for the Presi-
dents daughter to go to the Mikado's
country at this time would do more
harm to Russian prestige than the fall
of Port Arthur.
1t is said Miss Roosevelt does not
care half as much about Russia's
prestige as she does about Representa-
tive Longworth. Mr. Longworth is 30
years old and handsome. From July
until October when the party will re-
turn they will be thrown together con-
! stantly.
| Indeed, they have not needed the
surroundings of shipboard to find
good deal of time to spend in each
others company. Miss Roosevelt was
with Mr. Longworth at the Bennings
race track last April. and he has been.
her escort on numberless other occa-
sions
, A recent episode in which she figured
with the dashing representative from
Ohio was an automobile ride through
Washington at such a terrific pace that
a policeman stopped them The chauf-
feur excused himself by saying that
he thought he could go as fast as he
liked when the daughter of the Presi-
dent was along.
Mr.. Longworth is rich and comes Of
an old Cincinnati family. His aunt
is the widow of General Anderson. of
Fort Sumter fame. With his mother
he occupies a handsome house in Con-
necticut avenue, where he frequently
entertains the younger set.
Mr. Longworth was graduated from
Harvard . in 1891. from the Cincinnati
Law School in 1894, and was elected to
Congress a little more than year ago.
He is a republican. He is a member
of the Chevy Chase and Metropolitan
clubs.
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Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Rawlins gave a
weekend party on the other side of the
Pail last Saturday and Sunday, spend |
ing the time at Captain Parker's place |
at Wailau Koolau. A luau was one of |
the pleasures last Sunday. The guests |
we're Captain and Mrs. Humphrey and |
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Church.
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Mrs. Will Rawlins leaves on the |
China the end of this month to visit |
her old home in Bridgeport, Conn. |
Mrs. C. A. Brown will leave at the |
same time and will go to Hartford, |
Coan.
Mr. E. NJ. Watson departed on the |
Mongolia for California to we'd Miss |
Bradley, sister of Mrs. Slattery, wife |
of Lieut.. Slattery, u. S. A, at Visaiia. |
Cal Alter a brief honeymoon in Cali
fornia Mr.. and Mrs. Watson Will re-
turn to Honolulu and viii make their |
home at the Hawaiian Hotel.
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Miss Drusilla Marx has decided to /
prolong her visit in Honolulu. She |
will remain here another year before
returning to italy where she will re- |
sumo her singing in grand opera. Miss
Marx will take a limited number of |
pupils in voice culture while here.
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CAPTAIN 3. F. Chapman of 1920 Col
lege street, with his grandson and |
niece. Miss Ida Poston, departed by
the Alameda for a tour of four months
They will visit friends in New York !
and the East, returning to California
to remain some time in Los Angeles.
thence to the boom mining district of
Tonopah, Nevada, where the Captain
has extensive landed interests. FL
nally the party will go to Tahiti per the
Mariposa on July 1st and return to
Honolulu next September.
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Mrs. Emma Shafter Howard has paid
Honolulu a short visit and has left for
San Francisco by the Alameda. She is
among the most prominent women in
the United States. She has been for
years one of the notable women, who.
the attempt to identify the
sexes and retaining the ideals of do
mestic life. have nevertheless, labored
to secure their appropriate place in the
broad field of modern civilization. Her
father was Oscar L. Shafter, a great
lawyer and a great man, who, in the I
State of Vermont and without per-
sonal effort of his own. became the
most formidable rival of United States
Senator Collamer. He was afterwards
foremost in the work of adapting
American institutions to the early con-
ditions in California and became one
of the justices of the Supreme Court
of that State. From both sides of her
house, Mrs. Howard has inherited
moral and mental qualities. exercised
in constant and fruitful labors, that
render it simply proper that her stay
in Honolulu should not remain un-
noticed.
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Lieutenant and Mrs. Victor Blue I
will spend the summer at Honolulu.
Blue is attached to the
Bennington, which will be stationed
in Hawaiian waters for several
months.-Chronicle.
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Levin T. Jones an engineer officer /
in the United States revenue cutter