The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1898, Page 2

THE SAN FRAN CO CALL, 1898. DAY, AUGUST 21, AMERICA'S FLAG FLOATS OVER _ THE LAND OF THE KANAKAS HONOLULU’S AS CAPITAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF HAWAII Events on the Eve of August 12, 1898, When the Island Flag Was Replaced by the Emblem of Ametrican Authority. Gentle Natives Were Disconsolate, and From the Gardens of Ex-Queen : Liliuokalani Came the Sound of Wailing Over a BY Spectal Correspon, ALICE RIX. nce of The Call. HONOL 7, Aug. 11.—Twelveo’clock and all is well. The whistles are sound- Ing a last noon for the Hawalian flag. When the hands have gone around the again to midday the Hawailan have passed down a page to take its place among the that were. o-morrow at 12 o'clock, noon, on v, August 12, 1898, the Stars and of America will be raised over w possessions. s naked fact, by detail unadorned, has been given to the world. The pro- me of the ceremony remains a nder confidence among officials and not »d or bully-ragged out them. nally I have not had methods, but Pe recourse to either of these I can fy that polite questioning availeth ing. nce Admiral Miller safled under ed orders into Honolulu harbor, and known to have sealed orders for ted States Minister Sewall in his pocket, the seal has been distinctly fashionable in official circles. Not a man moving in them will tell so much the time o’ day. The official walk come a stealthy tread. The offi- e has discovered a scale of S; the official eye doth wink and the official | We have mno word, dark, bodeful, mysterious enough, sur free, frank tongue to paint the offi- | zial manner. It should be done in Dan- ish, to Peer Gynt musi I suppose there is some good and sufficient reason for all this and an- that other on for not explaining 2 United States Minister is s acting under orders from ton, and no one else candivulge | refuses to tell. Mr. Sewall is ymatic to offend, too clever to made this mis! The form of which succeed the which belongs | to say nothing | ited States. It curiosity ‘Washing- | . But in I wish to have government present republic is a £ to the people of Ha of the ly impe to lift ton evidently thinks otherw 2nance of McKinley remark that all this mystery savors more court intrigue than of the avowedly free methods of our govern- for and by the people. people, as here rep: ated, are, v speaking, furiou: know how 7 arc to be and by whom. y will know to-mor- | row when the proclamation is read and fore—not if the United States ter can help it. In the meantime, e the coming of the Philadelphia, ulation has been wide. I was told an authority next door to being su- preme that there will be little if any change in the internal administration— executive or judicial—either now or on the coming of the Commissloners. The situation will wait on Congress. Meantime everybody will be in office who in effice now, except the Min- ister of Fo n. Affairs, whose office, like that of the United States Minister, ceases to exist. It is confidently sup- posed by everybody that a place will be found or created for Mr. Sewall by the administration, with which he is so popular. He denies that he will be Governor, and says there will be no Go or at all. Very few accept the st ent as frankly as it is offered. m in the habit of believing people of the is of wh e word ought to be worth some- thing, 1 print his statement for a fact. I would that T might also print his proclamation—for which I asked him genially and which he as genially re- fused. There is something, I think, even in not getting what you want under agreeable auspices. As far as may be determined by the unofficial mind, aided by the grudging information that can be raked and scraped together, the ceremony, So Jong expected, 8o enthuslastically awaited, and for which a number of .good people, including the present be, have journeyed two thousand one hundred and something miles to see and to record, will occupy perhaps ten or fifteen minutes—the time con- sumed by the mere mechanical action of lowering one flag and raising an- other. It is en possible that the flag may be raised from the tower of the Executive Building instead of from the ground, when, of course, another fivc minutes can be chopped off to make the ceremony deeper still. The Annexation Club, which held ov two tons of fireworks from the Fourth of July stock for the purpose ‘of bombing, rocketing and otherwise exploding its national joy and has planned for songs, speeches and exer- cises of the day, so dear to political organizations of all climes, was snubbed with the information that the programme would be strictly official and referred to the opera-house and their new devices for whatever enter- tainment pleased them best. Later an indignant delegation of the men who ‘had given heart, blood and bone to the annexation movement waited on Mr. Sewall and put the case pleadingly be- fore him, and now I believe they are to be allowed in at the tail of the of- ficial programme. Of course the passing of the Ha- walian flag will receive the ironic cour- tesy of a salute. The same that will raise our own flag above its fallen head. It makes no difference to the cannon’s’ throat what tune it sings. “Hawail Ponoi” and “The -Star- sgpangled Banner” from the band, joy . to Americans and sorrow to Hawaiians, are what we may presuppose without in | 1 LAST DAY Nation’s Death. | homes to-morrow. Some, including the Princess Kaiulani, have already left the island. The Queen will mourn | in her house in sound and sight of the | ceremonies—as she has been all along— | | fore the Hawaltan Barracks, and | her own band playing the martial n usic | of that Union of which she has become |an unwilling part. Walling. sounds from her gardens day and night. The sentiment of Hawallans is single—a broad stream flowing from unnumbered sources—grief at extinction which they realize is the ultimate result of annex- ation, while the broadest minded among them admit its advantages over the present form of government. | I went the day before yesterday to | the Executive Building to look on at what was reported to be the United | States Minister's last official visit to | Bresident Dole to be paid in company | with Admiral Miller and a glittering, | gold-laced naval train. The las ial | visit of the last United States Minister to the last President of the Hawailan republic—which is the Hawalian répub- lic no more—ls history. 1 thought I | ought to be there if only for the grati- | fication of saying to my grandchildren: | “And you should have seen the admi- ral, my dears, a most distinguished man, in the splendid uniform they wore in those d | "And after all it was only the visit of | courtesy the admiral himseif was pay- ing to the President, although the splendld uniforms and the distinguish- ed presence were In evidence. The navy arrived early—too early by ten min- utes—and gave one a chance to admire and to pity, for the day was one of the scorching, tween the sweet trade winds, and full dress uniform Is as stuffy as it is splendid. Mr. Sewall arrived punctu- ally on time, faultlessly attired accord- Ing to our lackluster views of what is fit in man’s attire, and, as usual, im- | | perturbably cool. Mr. Sewall Is always cool, or, at least, he has the thin, dry gift of never looking warm, which must be of in- finite use to a diplomat in this climate. The Hawaiian Guard was on compli- mentary parade, and the Hawaiian band discoursed the Sousa strains, and the executive grounds were gay, any- way, with preparagions for feasting the St. Paul's’ troops. The tables were pread under long arbors stretched with some long, dried grass or leav with reminiscent early Hawaiian effect. I wish I might have seen this land when everybody lived under a thatch. I dare say I should not have been half so comfortable as I find myself at the Hawalian Hotel, where the comforts of life and the joys of a civilized soclety are found, but the visit would have pleased me more. Honolulu has a few good old Southern many porticoed houses standing knee deep in her sweeps of moist, sweet green, but ar- chitecture is, for the most part, rigid and characterless, except for such char- acter as you find in New England vil- lages too young for one’s respect. The Executive Building, which was the old Palace, 1s pretentious, but hardly splendid enough, one would think, to have pleased a King. On this particular hot morning Chi- nese and Japs are shuffling about with baskets, layin~ tables under the long, thatched arbors, and early girls in pale muslins and big. summery hats made pictures of themselves against the sumptuous green. The St. Paul's troops were marched in before I left. They are as fit as you please, in good health, spirits and form, the gayest lot of men to march in and out of Honolulu since I have been here. They came up Hotel street in step to a mighty whistling chorus which they have got down—or rather up—to shrill_perfection. I did not think “A Hot Time” could offer further variety to my wearled ear, but it gathers a quite new warmth whistled 800 strong with jovial castanet effects in tin cups and the tramp, tramp of 1800 feet. The troops had excellent care, well-cooked food and shower baths on the trip down, and the immeasurable advantage of change to camp here, and so will go on to the front, armed for climatic disadvantages and the fortunes of war. If, as General Merritt sald to me, an officer should consider his/troops as his children, their commanding officers and Colonel Barber are among the best fathers in the army. Colonel Barber was still looking for a site for the garrison when I last saw him this morning. “This will be an expensive port, any- way,” he said, “and the Government naturally does mot like expense. I hoped to find a tract of Government land lying about somewhere, but I haven’'t found anything at all suitable yet. There is a lonely stretch lying out beyond Waikiki, close against Diamond Head, in a little gap through which the wind always finds a way, and I shall look into that to-morrow.” The truth is that the Hawalian Gov- ernment has leased large stretches of the best Government lands for periods of from flve to twenty vears. Even since the islands have been annexed to the United States a large tract _of fine land has been leased, which would have furnished an ideal camping ground for the American troops. I spoke to Colonel Barber about the new Military Hospital which is about to open at the old Independence Park. The Park is better adapted for a rice field than for any other purpose, for it lles under water all through the rainy season, and is a spot to breed rather than curb disease. He sald he hoped it would do at least until the rains set in, and shook his head dis- tractedly, and I felt that I had most unwillingly added tq his woes. Since poor Hawail must lose her head, a more merciful executioner than Admiral Miller could never have been found. Coming on this mission, which means to the Hawaiians the loss of all they official assistance. The natives {n num- bers will shut themselves hold dear—flag, country, name and in their race identity—he meets the respect, with United States troops in camp be- | breathless sort which come | | confidence and affection of the people. | And I think these could not be in bet- ter keeping. “This was a military necessity,” said Admiral Miller to me, ‘‘justifiable on those grounds, but I think the best thing that could have happened to Ha- wail. I llke to think so, for I feel great sympathy and liking for the Ha- wailan people. Now, this much of the | raising of the flag. We all like to see our flag going up, but I think no one | can see the flag of a country come | down without sadness, certainly not that of a country never hostile to us |or to our interests. I have the Ha- | wailans at heart in this matter. I have saluted their flag many times. It is forty-one years since I first sailed into this port, and I have many friends | here. This is one reason I am strong- ly against a demonstration and gen- eral rejoicing among our people to- morrow. There will be many sad hearts in Honolulu to-morrow, and there are all the reasons of tact, deli- cacy and consideration against mak- ing them any heavier.” SICK VOLUNTEERS IN HONOLULU HOSPITALS United #tates Soldiers Who Were Unable to Complete the Voy- | age to Manila. HONOLULU, Aug. 10.—There are ] twenty-six United States soldiers in the | hospitals here. Sixteen of these are at | the Red Cross Hospital and ten at the Queen’s. are very sick. The others are doing | well. Two from the Red Cross Hos- pital expect to return to the coast on the next steamer. They are James Lavin of Company D, Twenty-third Infantry, and Guy D. Boynton of Com- pany A, Thirteenth Minnesota Volun- teers. Those at the Red Cross are: William J. Russell, Company F, Twen- ty-third Infantry, U.'S. A.; Roberf Cryan, Company L, — Regiment ¥ @ Cook, Company L, First South Dakota Volunteers; Marfon Stewart, Company C, | First South Dakota Volunteers; Edward Beechwood, Company F, Eirst South Da- kota Volunteers; John O'Connor, Com- pany M, First South Dakota Volunteer Corporal Joseph C. Moss, Signal Corps A. H. Whittemore, Company G, Four- teenth Infantry, U, S. A.; Alfred Houby, Battery G, Third Artillery; James Lavin, D, Twenty-third Infantry, U. S. “ompa; | A Wilberforce Gioud, Compan F, | Twenty-third Infantry, U. 8. A.; Martin Martin, Company G, Fourteenth Infantry, J. 8. A.; Charles H. Outten, Company G, Fourteenth Infantry, U. 8. A.; Frank Stanley, Battery D, Sixth Light Artillery; Guy D. Boynton, Company A, Thirteenth Minnesota Volunteers; ILieutenant Hunt, adjutant Fourteenth Infantry, U. 8. A. At the Queen's Hospital a complete record of company and regimental or- ganization was not furnished to the hospital authorities in each case, and of course the hospital aathorities have been too busy so far to look up this subject. The names of the soldier pa- tients and the organizations they be- long to, so far as they are known, are as follows: ‘William Fales, Company A, t Cali- fornia Volunteers; Tdward H. Charette, hospital steward, First Montana Volun- teers; Corporal Vance Prather, Company | K, Fourteenth Infantry. U. 8. A.; Alfred | Fought, l'«’!m(;)mny L, First South Dakota | Volunteers; George Filley, William Pat- ton, Fred W. Smith, Orville Johnson, Company I, Fourteenth Infantry, U. 8. A.; ‘W. H. Hatcher, George T. Fowler, Volun- teer Signal Corps. - Coolie Labor Trouble Averted. HONOLULU, Aug. 11L—Diplomacy has averted the trouble which was thought imminent with the Japanese contract laborers. The Hawailan Gov- ernment in a friendly manner called the attention of the Japanese Legation to the fact of current rumors in regard to the Japanese laborers striking and creating trouble and disturbance. Mr. Shimamura’s successor, Consul Eleve Hirai, at once promptly took the mat- ter up and issued an authoritative cir- cular to the laborers and agencies warning them and comvelling them to proceed with their labor and to await the opportunity of testing their condi- tions before the law courts. Any im- proper conduct on their part would be attended with the displeasure of the Japanese Government. ———— Get-Away Day at Joliet. JOLIBT, Ill, Aug. 20.—Get-away day at In- galls Park developed only mediocre racing and showed a decidedly unfavorable contrast to the card of yesterday. A fleld of ten faced the starter in the 2:20 pace. The Nebraska | mare, Lena Russell. won with comparative ease in straight heats. In the 2:16 trot Hazel Kinney won in straight heats. Joe Patchen, driven by Colonel Marks, went against the track record here of 2:02%. The mile was paced in 2:03 flat. Results: 2120 pace, purse $1000—Lena Russell won first, second and third heats. Time, 2:10§, 2:11%, 2:121. Partitude, Hal Patchen, Bocadian, Americus, Leah, Anna V, Tim Donovan, Little Pete and Pink also started. 2:16 trot, purse $1000—Hazel Kinney won in straight heats, Time, 2:12, 2:13%, 2:13%. Slster ‘Alice, Campania Girl, Heir Medium, Leutolu, Josephine Dixon, Minnie Birchwood and Silver Simmons also started. ADVERTISEMENTS. Keep Cool In hot weather, and keep your blood pure at all times. The result will be good health the year round. The means to this end is Hood's Sarsaparilla. This great medicine is prepared by experi- enced pharmacists to make your blood rich and pure. Sarsa- Hood’s parilla Is America's Greatest Medicine. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. L Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. One or two at each hospital |} RN = X bris] mar ton. whe! Lau in e fitth Brit 0 21 and ANACONUA BARRED Hastings won the unfinished always favorite, barred in the bettin 2:08 class trotting, Fridey) MRS. NICKERSON, WIFE OF MAJOR A. H. NICKERSON. third and fourth heats. Time, Kodak won first heat in imes third | second, 2:16, Happy Ch! IN THE BETTING | 28 class pacing. purse $1500—Anaconda won ht heats ime, 2:07, 2:08, 2:01% 51 | ‘B third. Quadriga BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 20.—The Fort Erfe rted. grand eircuit meeting ended to-day. Grace 'W_S_\X“‘:»‘{":rl;dlzr;sq";n‘:rré 2:08 trot after K pooling by the admirers of the Kentucky e and the Village Farm horse, Tommy Erit- Egozen won the 2:17 pace in hollow styl Anaconda was such an ov 2:08 pace that he was | He won In straight | contest of the day came in the » youngsters, on the card. | fight Charley Herr to the wire | : heat before winning. Results: e Original, widow purse 31500 (four heats on | &S Fall River Mills, Grace Hastings won third. fourth and : : heats. Time, 2:09%, 2:12%, 2:03%. Tommy | FPostmasters appointed: Washington— ton won first and second heats. Time, | Cumberland, 8kagit County, Frederick Nolte, vice T. F. FLawson, removed; 4, 2:09%. Rilma third. Kentucky Union Ptlot Boy also started. Machlas, Snohomish County, A. H. Boyd, Charley Herr won mes third. The also started. 4 a y nd General Coast Pensioners and Postmasters. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Pacific Coast si granted as follow: Original—Andrew C. Shear: Increase—John W. Mil Earl, May Monday a Iming favorite for t rels had t - Walker, 2:17 class pacing, purse $1500—BEgozen won | Vice Albert Sapp, removed. HOOD’S PILLS cure all Liver ills. 25 cents. Mshrehreboshreprafrofrrphrsasieshrsheshrsfrnprahroprehrsireirehrsrsirchrsieshechshrshrefrshreiraacirsirsirchrsireirir ehrehrefrefrefrnirsirshreleshostoshrehesfenfrnde ADVERTISEMENTS. Aspeesprchrnprchrehrshebrshshirshsbsishrshoashisfrshisrsheiaste shelrsrshesjasrsiasirele sfaslrcfasteriselosirciecirsiesiasy Special Correspondence of The Call. BY ALICE RIX. HONOLULU, Aug. 11.—The St. Paul steamed into the harbor on the even- ing of August 6 with eight hun- dred men and one woman on board. In the sensation created by landing of the one woman eight hundred men passed compara- tively unnoticed. She was so entirely unexpected tha for all she is a little woman and light of foot as thistle down, she came over the side of the ship like a bomb. and speed each ship that comes to port put up its glasses and gasped politely as petticoats were perceived to flutter on the deck of the St. Paul. Nobody | knew whose petticoats they were. No- who comes to Honolulu as commissary general to the post to be established here by Colonel Barber, had asked and | got permission from the War Depart- ment to bring his wife with him. Liv- ing as we do two thousand miles from a lemon, the first woman who ever raveled on a troopship had to sail into | port, her journey ended, before we got | thé news of her startins. Those in daily touch with telegraph and cable cannot conceive the sweet | suspense of not perceiving what is hap- | | pening in the wide, wide world or the lovely gratification of finally finding | out. Finding out about Mrs. Nicker- | son was the most exciting event of the ! week. The joys of -speculation were exhausted long before she landed on Honolulu ground. Speculation was nat- urally limited to the idea that she was a stowaway. I met her later in the day at the Ha- walian Hotel, and she told me how she jhappened to take the trip on the troop- The crowd which gathers to greet | body knew that Major A. H. Nickerson, | 1 | | | | | | FAIR PASSENGER ON A TROOPSHIP TO THE ISLANDS Wife of Major Nickerson Carried to Honolulu by the Transport St. Paul. Eight Hundred Volunteers Awed by the Presence of a Single Woman Aboard. ship and also how she liked it. She is a Southern woman—‘'a Cyarter,” as she says—with sweet, soft eyes and a swW soft speech, and is related to the army through brothers, uncles and cousins first, second and third. Major Nickerson has been thirty years in the service. Their friends are among the powers that be and whatever influence was needed to obtain the necessary or- so to speak, in the Major Nickerson was in Chick- and his wife in Washington family. amauga ¢| at the time of his appointment to the Honolulu post, and Mrs. Nickerson made swift preparation to meet her husband in San Francisco. “I had the most exciting time getting ready,” she said, “more excitement by far than I had on the ship. I had no time at all to begin with, and then it seemed such an odd thing to be doing. Army women get used to sudden | jJumps, you know, but this was a jump in a new direction. There are my girl friends in Washington, who were wild over the idea. They thought it would be great larks to be the only woman on board a troopship. I think there wasn’t one of them who wouldn’'t have gone in my place, and of course it would have been girly for a girl.” And Mrs. Nickerson, who is still a good deal of a girl herself, smiled se- renely. “It was the first time the ment has ever issued a permit to woman to sail with troops, isn’t it?” ‘I think it is. I know no ever did it before. General Merriam wouldn’t hear of it when I got to San Francisco. He wouldn't recognize the letter I brought. ‘I am sorry,’ he said, “but it will be impossible to let you go on the ship unless I receive a formal order from the War Department. Major Nickerson wired to Washington at once, but there was so little time and 1 was afraid of some delay. No one quite understood fit. I was ordered ashore with other visitors the day the ship sailed and nearly put off when I refused to go. 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