GIFTS FROM QUEEN KAPIOLANI.

Aboard the ship Doric returning to the United States, in a weakened state, was Captain T. Myers of the warship Charleston. According to him, the silk American flag and the beautiful wooden calabash gifted to Captain Glass, the captain of the warship, when it landed here in Honolulu in June 1898, as a gift to the warship Charleston for returning the remains of her husband King Kalakaua from San Francisco.

Captain T. Myers was aboard the Charleston at the time and was the captain of the marines. When the Charleston ran aground and sank in the lagoon off an island in the Philippines, it took along with it the gifts of Queen Kapiolani down into the bowels of the ocean. They did not try to save any of the property; the lives aboard the ship were all that were saved. T. Myers greatly regrets the loss of these precious treasures.

(Aloha Aina, 11/17/1900, p. 2)