Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-09-07
David Mccartney. Jr.
None knew him bu, to love him
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David Betnrf0cU, Jr
None knew hin, but to love him.
None named him but TO prsise
SO wrote Fit1 Green lIalleek Of John Rod.
man Drake. So one might tuthfully write Of
David Mccartney Jr.-if one might fairly
write Of any mans pasi by the record Of three
brief years. This much Is known to all Of US
He came here three years ago with good rec.
concentrations, not one Of which was too strong,
and made himself reputation that needed no
recommendations. But to few in Honolulu the
story Of poor Mr.. MeCarney's tempest .tos,
life is known at least In part; and beg leave
to tell il now--as the haltng tribute Of one
whose life has known many friendships, ye,
among then not one better worth having than
the friendship Of David Mccartney
lie was born in Allegany City, Pennsylva.
mia, May 2Ist, 1857. ue was the second Of
FIVE sons and before he was ten years old they
we're motherlcss A, eleven he began to earn
his own living and up to the time Of his death
kept on earning it, with varying fortune but
unvarying persistence, honorably ambitious al.
ways, prudent always, yet unswervingi in his con.
seientousness, unfagging in his Fursui, Of duty,
undiscouraeed by the frown Of fortune or the
unkind cuts Of malice. lie educated himself
and well. lie mastered his specially, step by
step, and FIVE years ago owned a drug store in
Pittsburg. He was doing well, earning good
living and accumulating competence, until the
knife Of an assassin threw him on bed of lin.
gering illness
He arose in shattered health. It seemed
wise for his heslth's sake 10 sell out and ''go
ives, at least for a season. His friends
though, so and he agreed with them. West he
went and came at las,--seeking the fountain Of
you,h-to Hawaii. He travelled to Hilo and
the volcano, to Maui, and Il think TO Kauai.
The climate Of Honolulu seemed to suit his
health and, obtaining employment with
Jno. a. Palmer 81 Co., and then with Hollis.
ter & CO., he settled down with his accustomed
energy TO the exac,ing duties, the toilsome
round OF his profession. Meihodic, exact,
scrupulous to a nicely, he was oil that an
apothecary should be and more than many are.
There were few weeks In which he did not burn
the mdnigh, oil in studying his profession.
His own advancement, the interests of his
employers, the better protection Of the public,
held equal places in his thought. "one canno,
be unjus, TO cues employers, OF to the public,
withou, being unjust to oneself, he told me
once. The remark was key TO his nature
conscentiousness ingrained.
Socially Mac--as bis famliars dubbed him
was quiet to the verge Of reticence. Yet his
quie, had no touch Of haughtiness, not the
ghost Of shadow Of a suspicion Of ''airs." He
was grave beyond his years, quiet because his
experience had made him thoughtful, reserved
because he had learned to weigh men before
he took them into his inner confidence. Bu..
when one knew him, there was no better com
panion than he in all Honolulu. He had n
fund Of the sort of humor we call ''dry"-for
lack Of better word and some Of the bes,
thing the Press has published during the past
fourteen months were suggested by that same
dry humor. He was an intense American, in
love Of his country. in pride of its greatness,
in sorrow over its faults. He was an ardent,
nounced regret ever heard him utter was
that circumstances prevented him from being
at home 10 vote for president.
| A little over year ago he married Miss May
Tanning, recently Of Santa Rosa, California
congenial union. Their little home was as
nearly an Eden as homes ever become in this
world where
''Men mus, work and women must weep"
And there can be no more pathetic chapter in
any life than this-the death knel sounding
from new formed home like that : a good
husband, good wife, life ofuseful happiness
opening before them--to be closed again in
the twinklng Of an eye.
David Mccartney died victim Of overwork
--and martyr to his own conscientiousness.
He had been in harness three years without a
vacation. A more robust man might have
stood il without danger. Not so he. Two
month"; vacation taken year, six months, even
three months ago, might have renewed his
strength and fitted him to cope successfully
with the hard work he had to do. But there
was no one to fill his place while
he worked for Holister & Co., and
after he entered upon his duties as one oil
the firm Of Benson Smith s. Co., there was nc
time up to the week before his death-with
the exception of three weeks on Hawaii-thai
he felt he could be spared from his post. Hi.
partners urged him to take vacation or
many occasions during the past few months
Had they realized, had they even sus
pected, his real condition they would
have forced him away at the poin
Of physicians certificate. They die
not, could not know; and next to the chic
mourner and the father and three brothers whS
survive him, theirs is the greatest loss.
The funeral took place from St
Andrews pro- Cathedral on Beretania sueet
street Wednesday, The exercises were accord
ing to the service Of the Protestant Episcopa
Church, Rev. George Wallace officiating
Many were present, and the hearse was fol
lowed to the'grave by many sorrowful and sym
pathizing friends. He was buried in the cas-
division Of the Nuuanu Street Cemetery, il
Waikiki orner Of the mauka side, next to tn
. grave Of poor lie Favor-whom he had follow
ed to the grave only seven weeks before.
RS.S.
: Many Hawaiians know that the de
5 struction of the sugar industry Of thes
, Islands WOULD ipiure directlv or ind