Part 4 (1/2)
The chancellery was not exactly in its proper setting On its door-step children of the tene dolls with clothes-pins; in the street a huckster in raucous tones was offering wilted cabbages to wo from the fire escapes; the smells and the heat of New York in midsummer rose from the asphalt It was a far cry to the wave-swept island off the coast of Brazil
De la Boissiere receivedpapers had made him man-shy; but, after a few ”Your Excellencies” and a respectful inquiry regarding ”His Royal Highness,” his confidence revived In the situation he saw nothing humorous, not even in an announces to Trinidad” Of these there were _two_; on March 1, and on October 1 On the table were e-staovernment, the thousand-franc bonds, and, in pasteboard boxes, the gold and red enamelled crosses of the Order of Trinidad
He talked to me frankly and fondly of Prince James Indeed, I never met any man who knew Harden-Hickey ho did not speak of hiressive loyalty If at his eccentricities they smiled, it ith the sarded him not only with the affection of a friend, but with the devotion of a true subject In his uished that I felt as though I were enjoying, on intimate terms, an audience with one of the prime-ministers of Europe
And he, on his part, after the ridicule of thepapers, to have any one with outward seriousness accept his high office and his king, was, I believe, not ungrateful
I told him I wished to visit Trinidad, and in that I was quite serious
The story of an island filled with buried treasure, and governed by a king, whose native subjects were turtles and seagulls, proreatly pleased I believe in o he even lifted one of the crosses of Trinidad and, before arded it uncertainly
Perhaps, had he known that of all decorations it was the one I e, or sworn allegiance to King Jaht be a chevalier, withthe knee, I reached for my hat; the count replaced the cross in its pasteboard box, and for icalof the honor, weremy fellow-reporters who, like myself, came to scoff, and remained to pray, was Henri Pene du Bois, for some time, until his recent death, the brilliant critic of art and music of the _American_ Then he was on the _Tiraph_, was hiseditor
When Du Bois reported to Cary on his assign funny in that story It's pathetic Both thoserobbed of their rights Their only fault is that they have iination, and that the rest of us lack it That's the way it struck ht to be written”
”Write it that way,” said Cary
So, of all the New York papers, the _Tian of the Government of James the First, and in time Cary and Du Bois were created Chevaliers of the Order of Trinidad, and entitled to wear uniforms ”Similar to those of the Chamberlains of the Court, save that the buttons bear the impress of the Royal Crown”
The attack made by Great Britain and Brazil upon the independence of the principality, while it left Harden-Hickey in the position of a king in exile, brought him at once another crohich, by those who offered it to hireater value than that of Trinidad
In the first instance the ht the man
In 1893 in San Francisco, Ralston J Markowe, a lawyer and a one-tiained renown as one of the Morrow filibustering expedition which atteovernment in the Hawaiian Isles and restore to the throne Queen Liliuokalani In San Francisco Markoas nicknamed the ”Prince of Honolulu,” as it was understood, should Liliuokalani regain her crown, he would be rewarded with soh office But in the star of Liliuokalani, Markowe apparently lost faith, and thought he saw in Harden-Hickey tily, twenty-four days after the ”protest” was sent to our State Departiance to Harden-Hickey, and to hiust 26, 1895
BARON HARDEN-HICKEY, LOS ANGELES, CAL:
”Monseigneur--Your favor of August 16 has been received
”1 I aent of the Royalist party in so far as it is possible for any one to occupy that position under existing circumstances With the Queen in prison and absolutely cut off from all communication with her friends, it is out of the question forlike for any part of the territory cannot give rise to any constitutional questions, for the reason that the constitutions, like the land tenures, are in a state of such utter confusion that only a strong hand can unravel them, and the restoration will result in the establisho doith the expedition I have organized I shall be in full control of the situation and in a position to carry out all my contracts
”3 It is the island of Kauai on which I propose to establish you as an independent sovereign
”4 My plan is to successively occupy all the islands, leaving the capital to the last When the others have fallen, the capital, being cut off from all its resources, will be easily taken, and may very likely fall without effort I don't expect in any case to have to fortify myself or to take the defensive, or to have to issue a call to ar force to join o withbefore them without active cooperation from the people there
”5 The Government forces consist of about 160 , and of whoanized as infantry There are also about 600 citizens enrolled as a reserve guard, who ency, and about 150 police We can fully rely upon the assistance of all the police and from one-quarter to one-half of the other troops And of the ree in a sharp fight in defense of the present government There are now on the island plenty of men and aret off very soon the people there will be organized to do the ithout other assistance from here than the direction of a few leaders, of which they stand e of the vessel is 146 She at present has berth-rooed in the hold for 256 more, with provision for ample ventilation She has one co inforard to her I will have to obtain and send you to-morrow I think it must be clear to you that the opportunity now offered you will be of incoreater value at once than Trinidad would ever be Still hoping that I may have an intervieith you at an early date, respectfully yours,
”RALSTON J MARKOWE”
What Harden-Hickey thought of this is not known, but as teeks before he received it he had written Markowe, asking him by what authority he represented the Royalists of Honolulu, it seems evident that when the crown of Haas first proffered him he did not at once spurn it