The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-03-18
". c. SMITH
BUDGET Of NEWS
tFrom Monday AdvertIseIl

on March ], and was given royai
reception by college students Of Cor
nell. of which he is "A graduate, and by
old-timc friends In characseri-t,c
letter Mr. Smith writes of his eS-
periences in the Colle-e city, and of
hi interview with Andrew ID. White.
Cornell's old president, an old.time
friend of the late Alatau L. Atkinson
and Hiram Bingham, whom he urged to
visit Honolulu. Mr.. Smith writes:
Il arrived here yesterday morning,
after an absence from my old home OF
20 years, save for one day in 1894, and
have since been having delightful
time. The Hawaii Cornell club had en-
gagged a hall for me on the university
campus, arranged for the lecture on
the evening of March and advertised
me in the papers, in the street cars and
with cards about town. The papers
themselves have been very kind for old
times sake.
Last evening an overcoatless and
bareheaded committee of law-students
came running over to this hotel from
another one two blocks away, when
| some three or four hundred of them
were having a smoker, and insisted that
| should go right over and take miss
ing man s place on their speaking pro-
gram. They would not listen to my
| eNpostulations and so ! went. Three
or four hundred noisy young fellows
were packed in the room, the air was
blue with tobacco smoke and the fu-
ture lawyers and statesmen were vainly
trying to reduce the beer supply When
came in l was received as a gray
| haired patriarch from the ancient DAYS
OF the college might hope to be and
there was a rolling thunder of beer
mugs when / arose to speak on sThe
Early Jurisprudence of Hawaii an adj
dress l concocted on the way over to
the hotel.
i . Heavens what time I had No
laudlence was ever more lenient with n
speaker s failings, none more vocifer-
ously responsive to his most incredible
statements. The speaker of the even
ing was world-renouned German
archaeologist who talked 'Babylonian
Jurisprudence, but our own had been
made to appear as strange and wonder
ful and so the German savant( Pro
lessor Schmidt) and became warmer
friends over each successive stein,
/ But in the afternoon 1 had en-
Joyed an even more interesting ex-
perlence in call on Cornell's old pres
ident, Andrew D. White. He is over
eighty but in good health, of which he
takes much care. He welcomed me
cordially and took me to COSY sofa
by the fire, where we talked for three.
quarters of an hour in spite of nv eff
forts to make the call short, all the
while sitting side by side like college
chums
He was full of Hawaii and had al
ways wanted to go there, especially
during the lifetime of some of his old
friends. He at once spoke of the late
Alatau T. c. Atkinson, whom he recalls
In his memoirs. DR.. Hiram Bingham
was ms old claSsmate at Yale. Big
bingham was the name he went by
there, and President White told of how
no (White) had been instructed by
MI. bingham in the navigation of a
yawl on New Haven bay. sBut L was
a bad pupil, said the ex.president.
and after nearly drowning all nv
friends they refused to 90 out sailing
with me any more and / left the sea.
faring life.
"Dr. White remembered Frank
Damon whom he met in Europe, when
both were in diplomatic service. Il
recall Frank when he was the hand
soonest and best-dressed young man of
American blood in our line of business,
said the old diplomat. 'Then we Amer
lcans cultivated a severe simplicity;
but Frank represented the Hawaiian
monarchy as secretary of legation, and
wore plenty of gold lace on wen.ftting
g, garments.
Il knew II. A. P. Carter. too-a
very, able and delightful man, whom
subsequently met in Washington
cold Vnla man IN tbo
Tally interested DR.. White and he also
knew of the presence there of many
young Comedians.
| am waiting to hear your lecture
at Sibley Hall, said DIR. White. { Mrs
White and / intend to be there. am
, especially glad that you will show
/ moving pictures of the Islands. l am
: an old homebody now, but whenever [
can go out and see good moving pic
lures do so. In fact it is through
: moving pictures that | have realized
a my lifelong hope of visiting India and
a seeing the cites there and the daily life
of the people
Then / told Dr. White that we want.
ed to see him in Hawaii, and asked
MN If he couldn't be prevailed ON tn
+ go therel | told him of the hospitality
+ ms presence would call out, how n col.
:, iege'bred community would welcome
. him as IL had ex-President Eliot and
: now much there was in tho melting
j. pot and the volcanic phenomena, to
r interest him as a student and author.
}. Gould not we have the assurance of a
+ Vislt from Mrs. White and himself
g Then he asked more about ths
v climate ana wants TO know how the
y Island people got on with the winters
mere atter being long in the tropics
> told him how tho first winter away
j. from there We resisted cold weather
$ H,iii that nature seemed 20 arouse her
q ser 70 Keep US warm 10 protect us
from severe weather u can under.
e stand that he said. DO YOU know
4 that Of all tho soldiers who followad
I Napoleon into Russia, tho Italian leyies
= stood the climate besti'
I'm tell you, added President
70 white, "Nhen tho steamers begin run
70 mug 90 iiouolulu through tho canal
II u undertake 20 20 over there with
hft Nhilo " $40 alp well enough.
pAs Dr. White b b great frirpd ~
Germany haYlna hfeu both Americas
q lmHItfar ana aWnaHai0r ihr0. n
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