The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-07-18
Description OF the Sorrowful
Journey TO Gods Acre.
The Line Of Narch.-0rder of Process
sion.-The Services at the
Graves Scenes and Incl
dents Along the

The barracks at the court house
was Sunday turned into 4 place
of mourning, and sombre emblems
of death were met on every hand.
Over the archway that divides the
long barrack room were the sorrow
ful words in dead black against
the pallid wall, 1--WE mourn our
loss The chandeliers were twined
with mourning colors, as was the
crimson drapery over the rostrum
behind the three lag-spread collins,
where the three brave men slept
nerveless in death, but loved and
honored by their living comrades
and the government they served,
Long before two o'clock the long
hall was filed with people,-men,
women and children, met to pay
a last earthly tribute to the men
killed at Kalalau, while endeavor-
ing to carry out the law Of teper
segregation, long neglected and de-
fed under the monarchy, fallen
none too soon. Along the Eva
side near the wall, hiding the gun
racks trimmed with death en-
blems, were ranged twenty mem
bers of George W. De Long Post |
GAR, come to attend veteran |
McCabe to his last earthly resting |
place among the greenery of the
Nuuanu cemetery.
''He was 4 G. a. r. man, was he
not" was asked of gray-haired |
veteran of the post, as he stood
facing the tlewer-decked collins.
mo, not s G. A. R. man, but
veteran of the war" replied the old
soldier, but he will be buried in
our plot just as if he had joind the
grand army, which he intended
doing by the way"
You all knew him, then?n was
asked.
Eyes, yes, We all knew McCabe,"
said the old man, showing a SOL
dier's interest at once, she enlisted
first in 1851, in the first Rhode
Island battery, where he served for
three months and was mustered
out at Providence, r. l. He then
re-enlisted in the third Rhode
Island regiment for nine months
and was again mustered out at
Providence, after which he re-en-
listed for the last time in the ninth
Rhode Island regiment and served
during the remainder of the war.
At the close he was honorably dis
charged. ALI here they come"
said the living eomrade, as he
closed up the line and held his
head up, looking straight before
him as Captain Zeigler came to
the front preparatory to the COM
of the services over the
dead.
The three biers stood in front of
the rostrum covered with Hawaiian
flags and loaded with floral tributes.
At the ends stood two rows of six
guards each, facing across the
biers, with their arms grounded
and their heads erect. Military
discipline was not relaxed even {
upon this sad occasion. On the
sides of the aisles next the collins
stood two gattling guns, and the
twenty G. A. R. veterans who
ranged along the wall held each a
boquet OF flowers in his hand,
while on each breast was the beau
tiful and honorable badge that
none but veterans of the grand
army of the republic wear. Nc
Cabe's coffin rested on the Eva
side Of the hall, Hirschberg's lay in
the centre, and Anderson's occu- {
pied the Waikiki side. The large
hall was crowded until there was
no further standing room when the
service began.
Immediately in front of /
the rostrum were seated President !
Dole, Viee-President W. C. Wilder
and Ministers Damon, King and
Smith. At the close Of the service