Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-20
HONOLULU men
ARE SAID TO BE
SEEKING WIVES
Two Employees of HaCkfeId &
Company Are Heard of
From Boston

| Searching for wives is the delightful
manner in which two clerks of II
Hackfeld & Company, Arthur X. XieT
| ra and Manuel r. Goeas, are emPluy
/ ing their time during a four months
vacation on the mainland, according
| to the Boston Post.
Together with photograph o.
young Goeas is printed an interest
ing story which bears the title, $500
Miles Journey to Seek Wiyes-Hono
lulu Offers Great Marriage Chance
Says Goeas." The story follows here
with: :~.s.
IN. P. Goeas and Arthur r. Vierra
two young men of Honolulu, after q
550O-mlle journey to Boston, yesterday
called upon Mrs Charlotte Smith
head of the Homestead Association;
and informed her that good American
girls could find homes aplenty-and
husbands, too-in Hawaii. They left
last night for Chicago, whence they
will return to their home. ....
Both WelI-to-Do. .....-... ~ 49,.
Young Goeas has for some time
been in correspondence with Mrs.
Smith. He is well connected, and
like Vierra, who travelled with him, is
of Portuguese ancestry. He brought
the highest references from the arch
bishop of Hawaii and prominent bust.
ness men. Both young men are we'll
to do. .. .--.. s.-..-.- ..-.. .-
THESE young men wrote me some
time ago, said Mrs. Smith last night,
and tolC me that they believed that
Hawaii, being an American possession,
should be more closely allied to this
country, not only by Industrial ties,
but by social ones.
They explained to me that there
are opportunities galore for young
women who want intelligent husbands.
Most of the young men there own
property and are highly desirable. ]
told them of the Homestead Associa.
ton and they appeared in person yes.
terday and went over the problem
with me. -... -.
They came $500 miles to discuss
the matter. They, personally, are look.
ing for wives, but that was a second.
airy consideration. They wished to let
the young women of Massachusetts
and New England know that they can
find happiness and homes in one OF
the most beautiful spots in the world
Hawaii They tell me that the young
men there are much more ready to
wed than those here, and that most
of them are able to support wives in
comfort and ease.
9" l intend to make these young men
acquainted with several desirable
young women 2nd shall refer others
to them. feel that these young men
are morally and otherwise quite as
highly endowed as ours here, and they
have given me the very best of refer
ences from prominent people. ! hope
that some young women will see the
chance and secure the happiness in
Hawaii that an unchivalrous manhood
here has denied them ,
Fellow clerks of the two young men
at Hackfeld's showed surprise this
morning when told of the Posts aEti-
Gle. still" they say, you never can
tell
Now they are waiting to see what
success the two wanderers will have
to report when they return to Homo
lulu.
we thought Goeas and Vierra
were going away for sightseeing
vacation" said an official of the big
company. I'VE had no idea they were
out searching for wives and adver-
Using Hawaii as a place of happiness
for married folks.