The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-04-26
THELMA PARKER.
IS ENGAGED
TO WE'D
Henry GaiIIard Smart
of Virginia Is the
Lucky Man.
WEDDING IN JULY
Romance Of Heiress
Started on Trip
Down.
WEDDING IN JULY
(From Thursdays Advertiser

<trom ThurSuay AdVertlser'l
With the announcement of the en-
gagement of Thelma Parker, the cattle
princess of Hawaii, to Henry Gaillard
Smart, the son of country parson In
Virginia, and former bank clerk in a
small Virginia town, who broke away
from his little home community just
few months ago and set out for Ha-
wall, came to light yesterday the de-
tails of most picturesque romance,
involving the deep sea courtshlp, the
charming heiress just out of school,
huge ranch with rollicking cowboys in
the background and all the other es-
sentials of a Chest seller. -
Back in Boydton, Virginia, Hawaii is
one of the distant waste places and
when young Smart gave up his clerk
ship and left his fathers parsonage
his setting ont was in the nature of a
pioneer IS venture, not pilgrimage of
love that was to end so brief time in
the winning of the richest heiress in
the midpaeifc.
Romance Begins.
When the Korea sailed from San
Francisco for Honolulu last December
Henry Smart was on board, seriously
contemplating his prospects in Hawaii,
and Miss Thelma Parker, just out of
fashionable San Francisco girls school
and returning TO take over in her own
name, the vast fortune that had been
held in trust for her during her minor
ity, was on board with her mother,
Mrs. Fred knight. The third day out
the romance began, and when the ship
docked the sympathetic passengers
watched the young people with pro
phetic smiles. At the big luau in
March which marked Miss Parker's in
lheritanee to the estate rumor of a COM
ing wedding was rife, and yesterday
out came the engagement and the whole
STORY.
Like many another parsons son
Henry Smart started out in the world
with a college diploma and the promise
of a position from his fathers old
friend, R. II. Trent of this city, and
that was ali. He was a graduate of
the University of Virginia with
clerical position awaiting him when he
Boarded the Korea in San Francisco,
and when he disembarked in Honolulu
NE had won the love of girl whose
fortune has been counted in millions
since she graduated from the cradle,
who probably does not know how many
cattle, horses and sheep she owns
-On her Hawaii ranch and whose
eighteenth birthday Is made the occa-
sion of festivity at which five hum
-dred people from cowboys to near.
millionaires assemble and toast her.
McCorriston Cupid.
As tho storv bas II Miss Parker and
nor mother Vent 70 their staterooms for
tho FIRST three davs of tbe voyage then
4be sobooIor;rl .,as +emn+ed On 5eck Inv
a hall which was conducted nv Jimmy
Wilder. During the festivity party
of young people, including the lovers
-to-be and Robert McCorriston, who
was a predestined Cupid, took refuge
IN the dining saloon and there McCor-
riston introduced Henry Smart to
-Thelma Parker and courtship was on.
Throughout the voyage they were con-
stantiy together. Upon his arrival
here Smart took up his residence in the
Y. M. c. A., still keeping to the role
of the minister s son, continued to see
much of Miss Thelma and incidentally
entered upon his duties in the Trent
Trust Company.
In the mind IS of the young people it
was all settled long ago, of course, but
Mrs Knight, Thelma IS mother, had OBJ
jections. The girl was very young, she
Thought, the courtship was short, the
family had Just started to build a San
Francisco home and Mrs. knight pro-
tested that she would be equally lonely
on the big ranch on Hawaii. in the
Honolulu house or in San Francisco
without her daughter. But these OBJ