Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1894, Page 13

SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS District Odd Fellows to Celebrate a| #3. * Notable Anniversary, A PARADE AND PUBLIC The Story of the Birth of the Or- der in Baltimore. GROWTH IN, THE DISTRICT York and Massachusetts, On April 15, 1824, EXT THURSDAY will occur the sev- enty-fifth anniver- sary of the founding of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in this country, and the Odd Fellows of the District are ar- ranging to celebrate N it in an unusually ANS impressive manner. ANS mete tox gant te Ww terest is taken in Oda Fellowship in this city at present, because at the meeting of the Sovereign Grand Lodge to be held in Chattanooga, Tenn., next September an in- Vitation is to be extended from this juris- @iction to the supreme body to hold its ses- sion in this city in September, 1895, Wash- ington has always been a stronghold of Odd Fellowship. Baltimore was the birth- Place of American Odd Fellowship, but the order very soon after its birth obtained a footing in the District. The program for the arniversary exercises next Thursday Provides for a parade in the afternoon and eppropriate ceremonies at Convention Hall. The various lodges, encampments and can- tons will meet at the Peace monument at & o'clock in the afternoon for parade. The Foute will be along Pennsylvania avenue to the White House, where President Cleve- Jand will be asked to review the line, thence feturning by way of Pennsylvania avenue to New York avenue to Convention Hall. Whe exercises at the hall will consist of mu- The Seven Stars Tavern. ste by the band, singing by a choir of sev- eral hundred voices under the direction of Erother John H. Roeder, with Miss Dorothy Byrd Rogers as soloist; prayer by Rev. Thos. C. Easton, pastor of the Eastern Presbyter- fan Church, and addresses by Senator Mar- tin and Second Controller Mansur. A re- cess will then be taken until 8 o'clock, when @ reception, promenade concert and hop will! be given in the Convention Hall. Invita- tions have been extended to the lodges of Alexandria, Va. and of Falls Church to participate in the celebration. ‘ A History of the Order. The Indeperdent Order of Odd Fellows hhad its origin in London, England, about 1745. The character attributed to the ear- Nest societies or lodges of Odd Fellows is that of assemblages mainly for social pur- Poses, having an initiation ceremony and a oats being made to aid needy mem- rs, About the year 1800 the lodges in London and Liverpool were known as “The London John H. Wood, Grand Master. Order.” In 1809 2 member of the London fodge removel to Manchester and intro- order into that city, where It was received that several lodges ized. and in 1814 the ity were con- “The Independ- Fellows of the Manchester » composed of those r of noble grand (the r term in a subor- zed and assumed ordinates. The Lon- ther lodges through- nowledge the Odd. @on association: @ut the country refv eu f the Manchester organization and several other unities sprang into ex- istence. The Manche: adherents attain. of their ri ses in Great ter authori- ed greater prosperity than a: the increase of 1c ined the Manchi in the rst meeting of which was held at Hanley, in the yotteries, Staffordshire, May 19 and 2), 1823, and was attended by ninety-eig2t deputies, representing the sev- @ral subordinate lodges. The First American Lodge. Societies or lodges of Odd Fi organized in New York and o the United States as early as 1806, but had @ brief experience. The father an under of American Odd Fellowship as it is today Thomas Wildey, ‘was born in London, January 15, 1782, and on reaching manhood was initiated into an ws’ lodge, w F. A. Stier, Grand Representative. c im. He met one member, and, to greceded Mother three—the requisite number being five—inserted in the Baltimore Amer- fean, on March 27, 1819, the following notice of the gro How — ‘eile rill be giad to meet their brethren ing, April 2, at_the Seyen Stars, ne hour of 7 p. m.” . three additional Odd Fi and on the memorable Into a loc ich they named “Wa of Odd Feliows,” receiving its war- ar dispensation as a free gift of the hester Unity of England. ‘A member of a lodge at Preston, Eng- fand, visited this self-instituted body in the THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. latter part of the year 1819, and on his re- turn to his home procured from Duke of Sork’s Lodge of the Manchester Unity, located at Preston, a document, dated Feb- Tuary 1, 1820, clothing the American organ- with the powers of a grand, as well subordinate lodge, under the title of “Number 1, Washington Lodge, the Grand Lodge of laad and the United States of America.” This action of a subordinate was subse- quently confirmed by the grand committee of the Manchester Unity. On February 22, 1821, Washington Lodge surrendered the En- glish charter to a “body of past grands” and the “Grand Lodge of Maryland and the Uni- ted States” was regularly organized—the members of Washington Lodge receiving a subordinate charter from the new grand . In 1823 the self-instituted lodges of Philadelphia, New York and Boston were induced to recognize the Maryland organiza- tion, and that body immediately forwarded charters to the subordinates as well as charters for Pennsylvania, New it was deemed advisable to separate the powers of the national from state organiza- tions and the project was consummated February 22, 1825, when the first meeting of the Grand Lodge of the United States was held. In 1826 Thomas Wildey, the presiding officer of the Grand Lodge of the United States, known as “the grand sire,” visited England and obtained from the grand com- mittee tee geese Unity + cra dent er, granting to the Gra Lodge of the United States authority “to conduct the business of Odd Fellowship without the interference of any other coun- try so long as the same is administered ac- cording to the principies and purity of Odd Fellowship.” Separating From England. Intimate relations between the two grand lodges continued for several years, but in 1842, after fruitless efforts on the parts of the heads of the order in England and the United States to reconcile, by correspon- dence, vital differences in the work which had arisen, James L. Ridyely, grand corre- sponding and recording secretary, and Isaac D. Williamson, grand chaplain of the Grand Lodge of the United States, were commis- sioned as special deputies to the Manchester Unity to adjust the matters in dispute. ‘The commissioners attended the meeting of the annual moveable committee at Wig- gan, May 16, 1842, and after a conference continued through several days found that their efforts for harmonious co-operation were futile. The commissioners presented an elaborate report of their proceedings to the Grand Lodge of the United States in September, 1842, and that body adopted a series of resolutions on the subject. The hostilities of the Manchester Unity threat- ened in 1842 and consummated in 1843 by their attempt to institute lodges in the United States resulted in an entire sever- ance of the existing relations. land territory of the United States, local Grand | The objects of American Odd Fellowship are “to visit the ick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan.” It seeks “to improve and elevate the charac- David L. Hazard, Grand Patriarch. ter of man, imbue him with proper concep- tions of his capabilities for good, enlighten his mind, enlarge the sphere of his affec- tions and lead him to a cultivation of the true fraternal relation designed by the great Author of his bein ‘he motto: “Friend- ship, Love and Truth,” was known and used in conection with the order in 17 The organization for attaining these ob- jects has two branches, closely connected, yet entirely distinct—lodges and encamp- ments. To become a member of a lodge under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of the United States the applicant must be a free white male of good moral character who has arrived at the age of twenty-one y and who believes in a Supreme Being, the Creator and Preserver of the universe. The encampment branch of the order came into existence on June 14, 1827, when Jerusalem Encampment, No. 1, was in- stituted. Washington Lodge, No. 1, and Jerusalem Encampment, No. 1, are still flourishing m the city of Baltimore. September 20, 1851, through the instru- mentality and eloquence of the late Vice President Colfax, grand representative of Indiana, the degree of Rebekah was estab- lished, whereby the wives and daughters of the members of the fraternity could co- operate in disseminating the principles of the order. In 1882 the Sovereign Grand Lodge adopt- ed a degree for uniform patriarchs of the encampment branch, which work was re- organized in 1885 and the degree of the Pa- triarchs Militant came into existence. The representatives of the several grand bedies constitute the United States Grand e. The Grand Lodge cf the United States has organized grand lIcdges im every state the provinces of Canada, Switzerland, Aus- tralia, Chile and a Grand Lodge of the German empic2, which has several grand lodges under its jurisdiction. Subordinate lodges have been organized in the Sand- wich Islands, Peru and London. Grand and subordinate encampments have been insti- tuted in nearly every locality where lodges are established. Condition of the Order. ‘The condition of the order at large, ac- cording to the report of the grand secretary of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, presented at the last session of that body, was as fol- lows: Dee. 31, 1802 | Tnerease, ‘rend encamped oct sik 2,483 1x7 2.905 241 85,509 5,300 6.732 1,080 FERS 61:105 Encampn ns eiibars ist. 31400 (os epee aca 189, 869 28,018 Relief ba loa | $3,015, 979 95 fs 901,801 88 ~ Total relief. Revenus of Revenue of encamp- “*Decrezse. In the District of Columbia. The, order was established in the District of Columbia on November 26, 1827, when Central Lodge, No. 1, was instituted. One year later, Nevember 24, 1828, the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia came into existence. In January, 1834, Colum- bian Encampment was instituted, and on April 25, 1546, the Grand Encampment of the District of Columbia was organized at Alexandria, Va., then a part of the District of Columbia. Georgetown Lodge, No. 2, was instituted January 15, 1528. Since the organization of the Grand Lodge in 1828 twenty-five additonal subordinate lodges have been instituted. Georgetown, No. 2, Concord, No. 3, and Jonathan, No. 4, have ceased to exist, while Pocahontas, No. 5, Potomac, No. 8, and Mount Vernon, No. were transferred to the state of Virginia by the change in the geographical boundary of the District of Columbia. Marley Encampment, No. 2, was insti- tuted at Alexandria, Va., April 21, 1840; Mt. Pisgah, No. 3, at Georgetown, October 2, _1S#4; Magenenu, No. 4, March 25, 1846. Since the organization of the Grand En- campment in 1846 three other encampments have been instituted—Ridgely, No. 5; Mount Nebo; No. 6, and Fred D. Stuart, No. 7, Of these subordinate encampments Mt. Pisgah, No. 3, and Ridgely, No. 5, are Ge toll list if thi it a ie following is a ol e past gran masters of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia: ‘T. M. Abbet he Get site! t, 1828-29; James Gettys, 1830- James Gettys and Thomas Holtzman, rs, 1848; Fred. D. Stuart, 1849; Thomas Rich, 1850; J. W. Hodgson and Oliver Du- four, 1851; Anthony Buchly, 1852; Chas. Calvert, 1853; John T. Clements, 1854; Jere- miah Hepburn, 1855: S. T. Shugert, 1856; Jas. A. Brown, 1857; John R. Piper, 1858; George W. Robinson, 1859; John Thaw, 1860; George Brown, 1861; R. Finley Hunt, 1842; Wm. R. McLean, 1863; Samuel BH. Douglass, 1864; J. Edmonston, 1865; W. J. Brown, 1866; John T. Given, 1867; Byron A. Kidder, 1863; Chas. B. R. Colledge, 1869-70; Wm. Kettler, 1870-71; Andrew Jackson, 1871-72; John W. Thompson, 1872-73; Thomas . Fowler, 1873-74; Harrison Burr, 1874-75; Lucius B. Allyn, 1875-76; J. Thomas Petty, 1876-77; Joseph H. Daniel, 1877-78; Ed. Bawsel, 1878- 79; Alfred H. Gawler, 1879-80; Solomon B. Faunce, 1880-1; John Edward Mason, 1881- 82; John Long, 1882-88; John H. Selffert, 1883-4; Mahlon D, Montis, 1884-5; Clark P. Crandall, 1885-6; Wm. P. Allan, 1886-87; Geo. E. Enimons, 1887-88; Jas. A. Watt, 1888- 89; William H. Frazier, 1889-90; Theo, F. Kinney, 1890-91; Henry C. Hazard, 1891-92; Benj. F. Crawshaw, 1892-93. The following are the past grand patri- archs of the Grand Encampment of the Dis- trict of Columbia: William Towers, 1846-7; Wm. W. Moore, 1847-8; William B. - der, 1848-49; L. A. Gobright, 1849-50; John Sessford, jr., 1850-51; Thomas Rich, 1851-52; Fred D. Stuart, 1852-53; R. Finley Hunt, 1853-54; George W. Robinson, 1854-55; Chas. Calvert, 1855-56; W. D. Stewart, 1856-57; John Thaw, 1857-58; Andrew Jackson, 1858- 59; James Skirving, 1859-60; John F. Haven- ner, 1860-61; Chas. J. Wright, 1861-62; Wil- Ham 8. Roberts, 2-63; Alfred H. Gawler, 1863-64; Jos. S. Tucker, 1864-65; John T. Given, 1965-66; John T. Suter, 1866-67; By- ron A. Kidder, 1867-68; Thomas W. Fow- ler, 1868-69; Thos. Greer, 1369-70; Andrew Representative J. Donaldson, 1870-71; H. Clay Espey, 1871- 72; Sol. L, Hable, 1872-73; Wm. R. Newman, 1S+0-74; John H, Seiffert, 1874-75; George 8. King, 1875-76; George H. Baer, 1876-77; Jos. 5 man, 1880-81; John Edwin Mason, 1881-82; Wm. A. Frazier, 1882-83; M. D. Brainard, 1888-84; B. C. Grumley, 1884-85; Geo, A. Green, 1885- 83; John A. Shackelford, 1858-87; T, Waiter Fowler, 1887-88; Josiah S. Moffatt, 1888-89; F. A. Norway, 1880-90; James A. Edgar, 1890-91; Richard H. Sorrell, 1891-92; A. 8. Webster, 1892-03. There are at present about 2,400 Odd Fel- lows in the District. The Grand Lodge meets the third Wed- nesday in January and July. The Grand Encampment meets the thitd Tuesday in January and July. The subordinate lodges meet weekly, while the encampments meet twice a month. The Rebekah lodges meet twice month. The subordinate lodges in this jurisdiction and dates of their institution are as follows entral Lodge, No. 1, instituted November 12, 1827; Wash- ington Lodge, No. 6, September 9, Eastern Lodge, No. 7, February 11, Harmony Lodge, No. 9, December 7, 1 Columbia Lodge, No. 10, July 13, Union Lodge, No. 11, November 9, Friendship Lodge, No. 12, August 20, Covenant Lodge, No. 13, April 10, Beacon Lodge, No. 15, September 16, Metropolis Lodge, No. 16, January 15, Excelsior Lodge, No. 17, April 18, Mechanics’ Lodge, No. 18, April 13, 1849; Oriental Lodge (German), No. 19, July 21, 849: Federal City Lodge, No. 20, January 1877; Golden Rule Lod No. 21, July 22, January 21, Pleasant Lodge, No. 23, January $; Takoma Lodge, No. 24, Junuary 28, 1893; Brookland Lodge, No. 25, August 7, 1803; Langdon Lodge, No. 26, January 30, 1804. Rebekah degree lodges—Naomi, No. 1, Septerrber 7, 1875; Ruth, No, 2, September 1, 1586; Martha Washington, No. 3, March 4, 1890. Encampments—Columbian, No. 1, January 6, 1 Magenenu, No. 4, March 25, 1846; Mt. Nebo, No, 6, January 13, 1847; Fred D, Stuart, No. 7, July 29, 1879. The District of Columbia Odd Fellows have been honored by having three grand- sires—James Gettys, W. W. Moore and Fred. D, Stuart—chosen from their number. The Grand Officers. ‘The present officers of the Grand Lodge are: Grand Master, John H. Wood; deputy grand master, Theo. Mead; grand warden, R. H. Sorrell; grand secretary, Wm. R. Hunt; grand treasurer, J. A. B. Espey; grand representatives, F. A. Stier and Wm. P. Allan; grand marshal, Thomas J. Jones; grand conductor, J. K. Davison; grand chaplain, John P. Lucas; grand guardian, S - Thomas; grani herald, L. H. Mc- ade. ‘The officers of the grand encampment are: Grand Patr., David L. Hazard; Gr. H. P. George W. Uline; Gr. Sen. War., D. W. Keck; Gr. Jun. War., Andrew Turnbull; Gr. Seribe, Samuel E. Boyce; Gr. T: John H. Seiffert B. Stahl; G. I. S. Irwin; G. O. 8. R. H. Monfort. The Patriarchs Militant branch of the or- der consists of Cantons A and B of the Grand Canton Washington and Canton Potomac, No. 5, the latter organization having a drum and bugle corps consisting of sons of the members. The organiza- tion is commanded by Maj. John T. Chan- cey. The officers of the cantons are: Grand Canton Washington—A, W. T. Galliher, captain; Charles H. Campbell, lieutenant; J. G. Morrison, ensign. B, Joseph Bur- rovghs, captain; W. D. Coleman, lieuten- ant; H. C. Given, ensign. Canton Poto- mac—J. A. Shackelford, captain; D. C. W. Ourand, Heutenant; James Hughes, en- sign. Col. James A. Tait of East Washington is probably the oldest initiated Odd Fellow living in this jurisdiction. He was initiated in Washington Lodge, No. December 20, 1886, and is still an active member of that lodge. Joseph H. Daniel, the well- known music teacher in the public schools, is the oldest member of Central Lodge, having been initiated January 7, 1839. The lodge at that time met in a room over Kimball's stable, on C street between 4 1-2 and 6th streets. > Depen: on the Point of View, From the Chicago Tribune, “It beats all how the gum habit is grow- ing,” the passenger in the snuff-colored suit was saying. ‘“‘There are.not less than half @ dozen young women in this car chewing gum.” “I see,” answered the passenger with the heavy gold watch chain. ‘Well, I can say one thing; I never chew it.” “Neither do I. It’s a detestable habit.” “It 1s, indeed.” ‘And it doesn’t do anybody any good. It's not only offensive, but utterly profitless.” “Profitless? I’m not so sure of that. By the way, I am just starting with my family for a tour through Europe. We shall be gone about six months.” ca “What has that go to do with the gum- chewing habit?” “Nothing, except that I’m the proprietor of a chewing gum factory.” ROYALISTS’ PLANS Many Hawaiian Natives Will Now Refuse to Vote. ELECTION TIMES ON ‘HE ISLANDS The Unwillingness to Recognize the Political Future. GRAND LUAU FEAST nee Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, April 5, 1894. Hawaii is just now in the midst of an active stir of politics. An election for dele- gates to a convention for making a con- stitution has been ordered for May 2, Reg- istration of voters has been in progress for @ week past. The sole qualifications for Voters are to be non-Asiatic, a year’s resi- dence and to forswear monarchy and swear support and allegiance to the provisional government. It was expected that a con- siderable proportion of the former native voters would decline to take that oath, but that a large number would cheerfully do so. The danger of their doing so seems to have been thought sufficient by the royalist lead- ers for them to publish what are not in form, but in fact, stringent orders to the native Hawaiians to take no part in regis- tering or voting. 4 It is probable that this intimation of the will of the ex-queen will be effectual in de- terring the great majority of her people from participating in the election. They are generally greatly afraid of her. Presi- dent Cleveland's interposition in her behalf has for a full year past instilled into their minds an assurance that her loss of power has been only temporary. Nine Hawaiians out of ten have little doubt that Liliuoka- lani will soon resume her authority. The powerful President has formally so de- clared. He has not reversed his declaration, He has, tt is true, waited in order to secure from his Congress some necessary support. ‘That, they do not doubt, his immense au- thority will soon obtain. Minister Willis told the attorney general, on December 16, “President Cleveland is the government of the United States. He controls Congress.” When Mr. Willis so believed, it is not strange that Hawatian Kenakas should con- tinue to think that Cleveland's will is cer- tain to be executed, This is a very serious and vital matter to these people. Liliuokalani is fully published as having expressed her intention to take condign vengeance on her opponents. True, she promised amnesty to the whites, under strong pressure. She has promised no am- nesty to natives. Every native who has sided with the revolution knows that he is under sentence of severe punishment to be executed whenever the queen is restored. Of course, few natives will now have the courage to come out and abjure mon- archy, thus putting themselves on “written record as the enemies of Liliuokalani. The truth is, that by the failure, so far, of any explicit deciaration by Congress in any way disavowing or nullifying Willis’ demand in December, Liliuokalant sits acknowledged as cn her way to resume her power, at least in every native Hawaiian's mind.’ In this — saps 4 5 under duress from her au- jority, and dare not express thi Opposed to her, i en Sam Parker’s Confidence. It has only just come to my knowledge, on the best possible authority, that Sam Park- er, the late premier of the ex-queen, a few days since told Judge > With his usual frank candor, that he was entirely ready to co-operate with the provisional government in forming a new constitution, “but I have seen positve advices from Washington, of undoubted authority, that the queen will Very soon be restored, and I must act with her.” The authority quoted by Parker is weil known to be a notorious political bum- mer, who has the ear and some pay of the royalists here, and pretends to be in secret confidence of Mr. Gresham and President Cleveland. He is evidently able to work much mischief with these confiding natives, This government is using every effort to make the natives understand that they have full opportunity to participate in the elec- tion of delegates, and by their numbers to exert a great influence in the convention. It Js well understood that in the new con- stitution it will be sought to follow the forms and provisions of that of 1887, so far as consistent with republican government, as in that constitution there will doubtless be a very wide aad open suffrage for mem- bers of the house of representatives, but a somewhat restricted suffrage for nobles, or senators, as they will probably be called. Great complaint and outcry was made un- der that constitution that the natives were deprived of the franchise which they had previously enjoyed. This was wholly un- true. The native commoner had never at any time enjoyed the privilege of voting for nobles. Those members of the upper house had always been appointed by the king, and so the people had no voice in electing one-half the legislature. By the constitution of 1887 that power of ap- pointing the upper house was wrested from the king and given to all otherwise qualified voters who had an annual income of $600, This included the majority of the whites, and so gave them that control of legisin- tion which had previously belonged to the king. The real grievance of the natives was not that their share in legislation had been diminished; they continued to exercise all the voting power they ever had. In addition, some ten per cent of the native voters possessed income enough to vote for nobles, which was a new and added privilege unknown to them before. Their franchise had really been enlarged. Their real griev- ance was entirely different. The controlling power in government had been wrested from thelr king, the native king, and bestowed upon the foreigners. who chose nobles of thelr own way of thinking. These nobles, with a minority of the representatives, con- stituted a majority of the legislature; they sat together in one chamber, as one house. This was unquestionably felt by the great body of the natives as profoundly a grievance. The native cares really little about ruling himself. He wants his king to rule, he loves to be ruled by his own king, he hates to have the wiser and stronger foreigner dominate him. The Polynesian is an Asiatic. He originated in farther India, He has all the tribal in- stincts of the Siamese and Burmans and Javanese. He loves to be the abject = le subservient slave of a royal prince. craves an absolute ruler. The ment. All his native instincts are for al solute monarchy. The missionaries taught the royal Hawaiian chiefs to set their serfs free, to endow them with homestead lands, and to give them votes and a voice in legislation. For forty-five years they have enjoyed these privileges. But for exercising legislative power they really care very little. They liked to be officials of the crown, and to get together and vote just as the king ordered them. Nine-tenths of the people today would make no resist- ance to a native assuming ab- solute power. They would enjoy prostrat- ing themselves on the ground before him, ir as the aged people still living always Opposed to the Foreigner. But they do not want the foreigner to conjrol the government. That is their Stievance. They are not content to *give the foreigner a share, especially a leading share. What they desire is to have a native sovereign, paramount and supreme ruler, with all his or her caprices, ignor- ance and incapacity. Their theory is that Hawaii is absolutely theirs by prior right and possession. They have dwindled away and the strangers have multiplied, until the natives form but a trifle more than one-third of the population. Still they cry: “Hawaii for the Hawalians!” their skill and industry the foreigners have de- veloped the valuation of property from one million to fifty millions in sixty years. Nine-tenths of this new wealth is in for- eign hands, but every native has ten times the wealth that his grandfather had. It is a vital necessity to these foreign owners of capital, plantations, machinery, shipping, that they shall con the government. Native control simply means ruin. But the poor Kanaka is still taught by his leaders and chiefs to shout: “Hawaii for the Hawaiians!” The growing commerce of the Pacific, still in its infancy of its de- velopment, finds in lone Hawaii, midway of this enormous ocean, its one haven of re- freshment and port of call. The main- tenance of the needed supplies and facill- tles here for this commerce increasingly calls for the most capable service. High intelligence and capacity are summoned to preside in Hawaii by the great American and Buropean civilization which is stream- ing across the Pac! and fast developi: its lines of commerce. The so-called “m! sionaries,” that is, the lineal and spiritual missionari: resent, and to denounce his best friends as traitorous to him, because they have recognized the inevitable necessity that the intelligent and capable white must rule, and not the inefficient Polynesian. It is interesting to observe that the for- eigners who are most active in teaching the natives how their American “mission- ary” friends are betraying them, and how the natives have the sole right to rule, are Englishmen, who everywhere else relent- lessly and systematically press down the dark races by the strong hand. English- men hoid one-half of the Pacific Islands under their control. There they keep the native inhabitants under a fairly beneficent subjection, as absolute as possible. Of course, it is natural that Englishmen should desire to perfect England's chain of connections from Australia to British Columbia—at any rate, to prevent America from occupying Hawaii, the most im- portant link of that chain. A Feast in Native Style. Last Saturday a great social event came off for the upper strata of half-white and native society in Honolulu. A grand Luau feast was held to raise funds for the Kapiolani Maternity Home. There shone all the bright ladies with Polynesian blood in their veins. Only the ex-queen could not be present to meet her former friends, with whom her relations are just now somewhat strained. There was, as well, a large attendance of the whites of all classes. The scene was a remarkably gay one. The feast was held in a very large villon erected on the grounds of the jome. It was one belonging to Mrs. Dominis, and formerly put to similar use on the palace grounds, It was luxuriantly embowered with palm and fern leaves, the fragrant maile, or native myrtle, and gay with roses and brilliant flowers. The food was cooked in native syle, wrapped in savory ti leaves, and steamed on hot stones in gtound ovens. It was served on wooden trays, still wrapped in leaves. Occasion- ally a whole pig of large size a) wrapped in steamed banana leaves, and dripping in savory juice. Bowls of pol studded the tables everywhere. The food was not served on mats on the ground. The native fashion was departed from so far as to use tables and chairs. We stiff- kneed haoles did not have to double up our aching legs under us, as is the ordi- nary custom at luaus. For the white guests there were tables provided with silver forks and other table ware. For the most part, the guests tore the savory meats apart with their fingers. The same dex- trous members performed the duty of spoons, and conveyed the luscious poi paste to the mouth with an agile twist and twirl. The pol bowls were costly and elegant ones of dark polished kou wood or polished cocoanut set on feet of koa wood. The old royal store closets had evidently been drawn upon for the occasion. Of course, all the visitors and tourists from sbroad improved the opportunity to witness the native style of doing things. Many of them became wreathed in leis, or flower garlands. The flower girls were in great force, and sold over two hundred dollars’ worth for the benefit of the home. Dowager Queen Kapiolani presided at the chief table for sale of flowers. She is in- firm, suffering from effects of paralysis. It Few ae, to ee Dole and wife advance to pay their respects to the good old lady. She was much pleased, and selected a flower, which she presented to the president as a mark of her ‘The able and genial president has always been on the best of terms with Ha- waiians, their known and tried friend. Hi has been especiaily active in benevolent plans for their benefit. This Maternity Home has been mainly in native Hawaiian hands. There were three or four infants in sight; one arrived the day before. No doubt many native mothers find care there, without which they might se- riously suffer. Over one thousand dollars were taken for tickets of admission to the Luaee, and that amount was realized over expeises. A Princess’ Estate. The trustee of Princess Kalulani, who is her father, A. S. Cleghorn, has filed his final report. The revolution has greatly embar- rassed the estate by cutting off the royal allowances. Mr. Cleghorn had been build- ing a fine mansion for his daughter, when supplies were stopped. The estate now owes him several thousand dollars, When- ever the efforts of Mrs. Dominis and her niece to recover the lost throne are defi- nitely abandoned the government will be disposed to negotiate some suitable pro- vision for each of them. To advance them supplies now would be contributing muni- tions of war to the enemy. Kaiulani’s new house {s a commodious and handsome dwelling of wood, on the site of her moth- er’s house. It is in a park of fifteen acres at Waikiki. The soil was purely beach sand. Mr. Cleghorn has improved it, and the place Is nobly embowered. Four large Indian banyan trees contribute shade and greenery. There are two large groves of un- usually luxuriant cocoanut trees of Mr. Cleghorn’s planting, a great number and variety of other trees, including many orange and lemon, favored by the shade of the premises; also a fine fish pond, full of rich varieties of water lilies. Kaiulani’s mother, the Princess Likelike Cleghorn, although not rich, seems to have been fond of jewelry, The inventory of her daughter's personal property shows an enormous list of such things left to her by her mother; rings, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, pendants, studs, watches, bangles, churms, jeis, crosses, pins, earrings, and nearly every one has some story connected with it. There appear to be over three hun- dred articles of jewelry. Then there is a list of costly leis, or native wreaths, some of them ancient heirlooms—“two lei mamo, one lei e-e, one lei hue, two lei wili, two lel pauku, red, yellow and green, &c.” These last must awaken the covetousness of the curator of the Bishop Museum, which is fast filling up with Polynesian curios, and is just completing a large annex. Poor Likellke had been a gay young princess. She bore no personal likeness to her royal brothers and sister. She died still young, the effect of the superstition which Kalakaua so actively cultivated in his court, and which her suroundi: had in- stilled into her from infancy. Likelike was really quite ill, but mending, when the erup- tion of Mauna Loa in 1886 suddenly poured an enormous torrent of lava into the sea. It was two hundred miles away, but the poor woman thought it meant that she was to die, and at once lost heart and suc- cumbed. Our chief volcano “sharp,” Prof. Lyons, is predicting another great eruption as due about this time. Kilauea is already doing its best in gushing up the flery magma at the rate of some millions of tons a month, but only on its own premises. What is called for is an outside outpour from Ki- lauea or Mauna L covering a few dozen square miles with rock twenty or thirty feet deep. Such a performance ts to be the next thing in coder in thet re. gion, KAMEHAMEHA —\—+0+_____ It Leads, From Newspaperdom. m There are three things in which The Washington Evening Star is pre-eminent- ly peculiar to itself: It enjoys the distinc- tion of having the largest local circulation of any newspaper in the world in propor- tion to the population of the city wherein published; it carries the largest number of daily “commercial” advertisements (changed daily) of any newspaper in Amer- ica, and probably has the best-established “bureau of local advertising writing” of any paper in the country. ——_——_—-2+______ A Good One on Judge Lisle. From the New York Press. Judge Lisle, the young Congressman from the mountain district of Kentucky, has a bright brother, who is a prosperous farmer at home. 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