The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-21

Count Top Heihachiro whose famil
name Gems first in the fashion of al
the japanese, has rid himself of tn
gold lace and silk hat formalitie
which haC to be placed at the tol
of the frs days program in the cap
ital, and .fter a little talk with tn,
President at the White House this
afternoon will probably start out OF
an automobile tour around the city
All that tie little fighter has had t.
say that eaked out for publication
since he Las been here is that Wash
ington's streets are very, very broad
and clean Captain Potts, the naval
officer WHO has been assigned to the
tour of the country with the head OF
the Japanese navy, assured little
group OF would-be interviewers this
morning hat the admiral hasn't had
time TO say anything else.
"ETery now and them" said Captain
Potts Admiral Togo looks out of his
Cornbr window of the suite in the Will
lard and gazes eastward along Penn
sylvania avenue, with the Capitol
looming up at the end, and says some
thing in Japanese to indicate his ad-
miration of the view"
All attempts to get weighty inter-
views from the admiral have therefore
failed so far. Perhaps, assures Capt.
Potts, after the White House talk is
over, the newspaper representatives
will be given a chance.
Admiral on the Minute.
The Japanese reputation for marvel
Gus promptness was well borne out
this morning when an elevator in the
State Department clicked open it's
door and from the car stepped the ad-
pliral and his little party. The hands
ii the clock at the corridor were on
the very dot of 10, the scheduled hour
for Admiral Togos arrival. The ad-
Bniral's coming had been looked for
Ward to by nearly all the clerks in
the department, and the little party
be received in the diplomatic room,
while the clerks looked on with silent
wonder.
He is little man, this great sea
ighter-in fact, he is the smallest
man of the party He walked down
the corridor with Baron Yasuya
Uchida, ambassador from Japan; Com
mander Tokaturo Hiraga, naval at
tache of the embassy, and the ad-
mirals own aid, Commander Tani-
guchi. Third Assistant Secretary of
State Hale accompanied the party, as
did also Captain Potts U. S. ~, who
had gone to the New Willard to meet
the visitors.
1t was the first glimpse of the full
dress uniform of the Japanese navy
which the visitors have shown since
arriving and paying calls in the
it is uniform very much like the
American or English, with it's thick
double-breasted frock coat, heavy and
hot indeed in the present weather,
with plenty of gold lace and copious
epaulets.
Meets Secretary Knox.
A secret service man from New
York, impressed with his duty, kept
the clerks from getting too near a
view of the man who chased Rojest-
vensky's fleet all over the Sea of ia
pan, and then stood with his arms
akimbo before the closed door of the
diplomatic room while the short for
malities went on inside, Beyond the
door Assistant Secretary Hale was in
PRODUCING the admiral to Secretary
Knox, and the admiral introducing his
iOwn aid, and the affair was over in
Five minutes by the clock.
There was a stir inside, and Eddie
Savoy, who has been a messenger for
Secretaries of State from time al
most immemoriai, and who never neg
lects to have on a frock coat when dis
visitors arrive, opened the
door and the admiral and his escort
went around to the navy side of the {
building. The admiral walked by the {
little ship models in the corridor with
out ever seeing them, evidently. There
was a bigger crowd of clerks in the
navy side, and all of them crowded to {
get a look.
"Who is that admiral?" asked a fe- !
male clerk.
Admiral Togo" was the disguised !
'eply of a man standing with her.
Isn't he a neat little man" 5
Laughs at Photographers.
The formalities in the office of Act, Y
ne Secretary of the Navy Winthrop {
ook about six minutes There was a
zig crowd waiting at the west steps {
d.