The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-07-24
TOOTs CUNHA
must WORK

buUUs UUIIN
The engagement Of "Toots" Cunha,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. f.. s. Cunha of this
city, to Miss Marian Sterling Of Berke-
ley has been announced at the Coast
city. And thereby hangs a tale. The
Examiner, in announcing the engage
ment, states that the young lady is a
niece of Frank c. Havens of the Realty
Syndicate Company. Mr.. Havens, it is
reported, has no objection to the mar
riage, but, says the Examiner, he in
sists that the young man must be capa-
bic of earning at least $3.50 per month
before the marriage can take place.
Cunha, not daunted by the objections
of his sweetheart s uncle, continues the
Examiner, has secured employment in
the office of the Realty syndicate,
where he began his duties last Friday,
He has gone to work resolutely to earn
the standing necessary in the eyes of
the man who is now his employer so
that the way to the altar with Miss
Sterling may be laid open.
Miss Sterling is now living with her
sister, Mrs. Madeleine Diamond in Di-
mond. She is sister of the poet,
George Sterling, author of "Testimony
of the Suns.' Some time ago she was
wooed and won by stephen French, but
this match was sternly opposed by
Havens and the engagement was
broken.
Cunha won signal honors in athletics
at the University of California. His
family is among the wealthiest in
Honolulu. He has a brother now at
Harvard. Miss Sterling declines to
discuss the story of her engagement to
Cunha or her probable action to over
come the objections of her uncle.
ANOTHER STORY OF IT.
BERKELEY, July Is. - Marian
Sterling, sister of a poet and niece of
Frank c. Havens, famous Oakland
fnancier, is to wed c. c. Cunha, uni
versity sophomore, athlete and member
of noted Hawaiian family. The news
of the engagement has provided So
ciety with material for tea table gos-
sip sufficient in romantic features to
satisfy the most exacting lover of the
sentimental and the unique.
Looming large in the background of
this interesting plan for an alliance
between the Cunhas of Honolulu and
the Sterlings of Oakland is the figure
of Havens, capitalist and stern uncle
of Miss Sterling. Once in the past
Havens is said to have interposed when
Miss Sterling was about to consummate
a romance by engaging to wed stephen
French, an actor in Mrs. Patrick Camp
bell IS company, which played in San
Francisco year or two ago. Havens'
objection was sufficient to end that ro-
nance.
''Now the Realty Syndicate million
aire, hard-headed man of affairs, is
declared to have given Cunha a chance
to prove his right to Miss Sterling s
hand by serving an apprenticeship in
the offices OF the Realty Syndicate.
Cunha is a mere youth, though a giant
in stature, and but recently ended his
freshman year at the State University.
He has begun work in one of Havens ,
| subsidiary concerns, toiling nightly
| through the summer days, though his
family is wealthy and prominent in
Honolulu society. His purpose, appar-
emily, is to demonstrate his worth as
man and worker, and incidentally
break down whatever bar there may be
between the hand of Miss Sterling and
his own
George Sterling, the poet, whose
Testimony of the Suns gave him a
measure of fame, is not reported to
figure in this wedding engagement of
his sister, either as favoring or oppos-
ing the match. He is a dreamer, as are
| all poets, and the society gossips fancy
| that his love of the romantic may lead
| him to see desirable features in a
| marriage which would unite the proud
Sterlings to the Cunhas of Hawaii under
circumstances which, are bit unusual.
"Miss Sterling is said to have first
met young Cunha a month ago, when
| Sonny Cunha, brother of the univer-
sity sophomore, brought the Royal Ha-
| waiian Band to San Francisco. The
hand played Mt Piedmont Park, which
Havens' corporation controls, and there,
with moonlight and music as setting
! the love affair between C.. G.. Cunha and
Miss Sterling came into being. Both
were lovers of music, the Hawaiian
! band was the sensation of the month,
the Cunhas were in evidence through
the band S performance, and Miss Ster-
| ling found reason to fall in love both
with the band music and the Honolulu
lad to whom the melodies were as his
native tongue
The "Brother in Harvard is one
more touch of romance, of course. And
Joe Cohen will understand how
- Sonny brought the band to San
Francisco. -