The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-29
SH|BUSAWA To
SUCCEED ITO
Baron and Party Expected to
Arrive at Honolulu Next
Week.

| husawa and the party was to nave ar
rived here today on the Manchuria
but it is understood the party will take
massage on the Chiyo Maru, due here
| en- December 7. The Post says:
In the person of Baron Eiichi Shi-
busawa. the leading fnancier of Japan,
Denver today is entertaining the man
who is slated by the Mikado to sue
coed to the high position held by
Prince Ito until the hand OF a Korean
assassin laid him low.
Since the murder of Prince Ito, o
few weeks ago, Baron Shibusawa, who
is in Denver as the head of the Japa-
nese imperial commission, is the most
influential man in Japan, excepting
only the emperor. He variously has
been called the Morgan, Rockefeller,
Hartman and Astor of Nippon, and in
his character, the scope and breadth
of career, he is a combination of all
the American "captains of industry. -
That Shibusawa is acknowledged
throughout the world TO be the logical
successor to Prince Ito, the late presi-
dent of the privy counsel of Japan,
was demonstrated this morning, when
a member of the party of Japanese
commissioners requested that the same
protection which was given President
Taft while he was in this city be given
the baron during his stay in Denver.
In explanation of the request, the
commissioner declared that since the
murder of the Prince Ito the Japanese
party had been constantly Swallowed by
mysterious Koreans who evidently were
trying to get close to the baron. Early
this morning, the official said, a party
of three suspicious Koreans were seen
lettering around the doors of the Brown
Hotel, where the visitors are stopping.
Detective Peter j. Carr, who was
closest of the Denver police to the per-
son of President Taft during his visit
here, was detailed to guard the baron
throughout the day, to remain at his
side and not lose sight of him until
his return to the hotel after the visit
about the city, which had been planned
for the distinguished visitors. A squad
Of policemen also was selected to keep
close in touch with Carr, ready to come
to the baron s side at the slightest in
dication of danger. A number of Ko-
reans known to be in the city were
Immediately hunted by other police Of
ficers and put under surveillance.
That Baron Shibusawa felt unsafe,
even with this protection, seemed pos
sible when he asked to be taken to
his hotel early in the afternoon, even
though the inspection of the city was
not vet completed. It was given out
that the baron feared catching cold.
The japanese visitors, ffty-eight of
them, accompanied by six Americans
representing the associated chambers of
commerce of the Pacific Coast, arrived
at 7:30 last night on an deliberately
arranged private train.
They were met by Governor Shafroth
and Mayor Speer, who extended the
| welcome of the city and state. The
party will leave early tomorrow morn
| ing for Salt Lake, where they will
make a short stop before going on to
southern California.
Six of the fifty-eight japanese with
the party are women and they dress
in their native costumes. Two
of them are members of Japan s royal
| tv, Baroness Shibusawa and Baroness
Kanda. The others are Nine. Horiko-
shi, Nine Kohl, Nine. Midzuno and
Miss Takanachi. Thirty-nine of the
party are commissioners and thirteen
are private secretaries.
In the party are japanese capital
| lists, the extent of whose operations
| rivals those of Morgan; editors, au-
| thors. members of the house of peers,
the house of japanese representatives
| bankers, ship builders, railway build
| ers, silk manufacturers, lawyers, doe
| tors and noted educators. 1t is a
most representative collection of Jap
anese thought and business leaders of
| today and the impressions they take
back to Japan will be those taught
to the school children of Nippon for
| years to come.
That there is no such thing as daunt-
ing a Japanese honorary commercial
| commissioner with the rigors of eli
mate, business or pleasure. was proved
| conclusively this morning to the re-
| ception committee from the chamber
of commerce which had arranged to
show the Mikado's trade ENJOYS
around town today.
Probably more interesting today
than any other japanese is Baron Eli
| chi Shihusawa, who has. charge of tht
| visiting japanese. Ranking as the
keenest fnancier of Japan, more thar
seventy years old, man of large per
| sonal wealth and a director of seventy
companies. as well as being the presi
dent of the largest and strongest bank
in Japan, he is one of the most re
| markable men in the empire He ha
| been called the J. Pierpont Morgan o.
| Japan, but in reality he is the Morgan
| Hill, Rockefeller, Gould and Hartman
combined. With the exception of tn,
emperor he is undoubtedly the mos
| powerful and influential man in tn
| Japanese empire.
Sitting in his apartments at Nev
York hotel the night of his arriva
there, the baron, through an interpre
ter, discussed the japanese ideas o
success, the duty of the rich to thef
fellow men and the war scare in whic
his country and America were repre-
sented as being at swords points. H
declared that the scare was the re
suit of '>iingoism on the part of Ger
tain people in this country. and tina
never for a moment was il regarde
seriously by Japan.
u feel no hesitation in saving tina
there was not the slightest feelin
| AGAINST Tho Jrr;+aI S.o+,, a..