The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-09-24
He GAVE AWAY MRS,
LONDON'S DAIRY
JACK LONDON REsENTs A PUBL
CATION AND OLD TIME FRIENDS
ARE PARTED.

The Examiner says:
There is a quarrel in literary Bo-
hemia. In fact, the local literati are
all agog, especially the elite Bohemian
set, over a bitter quarrel involving
George Sterling, Jack London and Ed
win Emerson Jr., who likes to be- and
is called Colonel Emerson by his init
mates and is known to fame as war
correspondent rough rider and friend
of the President
Bosom friendship among these three
men has been wiped out now, an
ocean of angry feelings seperate
Rough Rider Emerson from the author
of the Call of the Wild" and the poet
who first jumped into literary fame by
/ THE Testimony of the Suns" and has
| recently enhanced his poetic strength
and fame by writing "A Wine Of
Wizardry."
In serried columns the friends Of
these three men have lined up and
those of London and Sterling are quot
ing from John Browns Spare Hours
and picturing Colonel Emerson as a
dilittante
Some weeks ago Mrs London sent
to Poet Sterling her diary of the voy-
age Of the Shark, the vessel in which
she and her famous husband and a
party started from this port a couple
of months ago on a trip around the
world. 1t contains many personal al
lusions about herself, her husband, her
brother-in-law, Captain r. L. Eames,
how and why the latter quit the
Sharks party at Honolulu, the whims,
the quarrels and whatnot of an ocean
voyage in a small craft. 1t was a
gossipy, woman's story. Sterling read
it and reread it. 1t was breezy, re-
freshing better than a summer novel
! perused under a shady tree.
He read it again. 1t was too good
to keep selfishly to himself. So, sum-
moping party of intimates, including
Rough Rider Emerson. he read the
diary to one and all. They all had a
hearty laugh. It was immense. Tney
talked over it all the evening long and
in friendly spirits dwelt on London,
his idiosyncracies, his Shark and the
candor of his wife's diary, a modern
up-to-date Pepy's diary as they
thought.
Colonel Emerson lost no time in pub
fishing a story about the contents of
the diary and took the liberty in his
article of using Mrs. Londons first
name of Charmion. When Poet Ster-
ling was apprised of what Emerson had
done he became very angry and called
Emerson to account. Most of the 9TH
ers who were present when Sterling
read extracts from the diary took the
same view of the situation as did the
poet.
Il demand an apology for the be-
trayal of a gentlemanly confidence"
wrote Sterling to Emerson.
If any apology is due it should be
asked for by Jack London, was Emer-
sons response.
The latter also tried to justify his
position by stating that as the diary
was read before a party of people ana
there was no suggestion of the read
ing of the diary being a confidential
and secret matter, he had not violated
any confidence had not outraged the
hospitality of Sterling and that nobody
had right to question him in the
matter unless it be London and. he
only on general grounds and not from
standpoint of anybody's honor being
involved
London and his wife were appraised
at Honolulu about what Sterling and
his friends consider Emerson's great
ethical wrong. London apparently took
the same view of the matter, for he
lost no time in sending Emerson word:
When we meet again It will be as
enemies"
Sterling has also taken the trouble
to write to many of his friends who
know Emerson, setting forth the
wrong he thinks the latter did and
asking them to join him in considering
Emerson hereafter as an utter stranger
In Bohemian restaurant downtown
both before and since the fire, there
were and are group sketches and pic
lures of these three men and a num-
Der of their intimates. They represent
jolly crowd, sans any suggestion
that aught would come to part them
but death. Now the friends of Sterling
and London are wondering if it would
not be fitting climax to call all these
pictures and sketches in and destroy
them over the ashes of a burnt friend
ship