The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1895-11-05
FUNERAL OF DIR. BR0DIE.
Tributes From Many of His
Friends.
Services by Bishop WILTSHIRE From
observation-disclosures Floral
Offerings.

The Waikiki residence of the late
DR.. John Brodie was truly house
OF mourning yesterday. In the
rooms and the outside lanai were
persons who had called to pay their
last respects to one who had been
their friend in times of suffering
and who had been suddenly taken
from them. There were few eyes
which did not plainly show the
traces of the sorrow the hearts
felt. The ladies who had volun-
teered their services to look after
certain details of the funeral were
so numerous that they jostled each
other in their efforts to have every
thing to their satisfaction. DIR.
Murray, the friend and associate of
the deceased, was so crushed in
spirits that every one, stranger and
friend, extended their sympathy to
him. During the funeral services
he sat at the side of the casket as
chief mourner, and swhen Bishop
Willis read the solemn service OF
the dead, beginning with a. am
the resurrection and the life," the
young man sat staring into space,
his eyes bearing evidence of the
burden his heart carried. DR..
Brodie had been his friend and, in
a measure, benefactor, and a men
tai record'of his kindly actions to-
ward the young physician was
brought wildly before him. By
his side was Miss Newman, and
opposite were Mr.. and Mrs. Witcher,
who have been guests at the doc
tors house for some time. In an
other room sat Mrs. Riley and Miss
Jones and Fugii, a little japanese
girl, of whom the doctor was very
fond.
The remains were encased in a
handsome dove-colored casket. Rest
ing on the floor at either side were
pots of maidenhair ferns and at
the foot was bunch of the beau
tiful blossoms of the royal palm.
Around an easel in one corner of
the room the def hands of loving
friends had entwined sun flowers.
The tall mirror facing the door of
the parlor had been covered with
black velvet and over this fragrant
tube roses were festooned from top
to bottom. On the lid of the
casket there were two exquisitely
beautiful floral pieces; one, at the
head was a large pillow made of
pink carnations, the other a broken
cross made of white eucharist lilies
Separating these was the massive
plate containing the name, age and
date of death of the doctor. DR..
Brodie's friends are legion so that
there were a host of volunteers
from among the ladies of Homo
lulu. From early Monday morn
ing until the hour of the funeral
Mrs. J. H. Boyd, who had charge
of the floral decorations, Mrs. G.
Beckley, Mrs. J. w. Robertson,
Mrs. Lille Aud and the Misses
Blanche Cornwall, Helen Parker
and Lucy Ward were busy shaping
huge punches of cut flowers into
designs suited to the occasion.
Each of the rooms on the lower
floor contained more or less potted
palms and ferns, so placed, how
ever, as to conceal any attempt to
display. 1t was the opinion of the
ladies in charge that the decora-
tons should be marked with SIM
plicity rather than ostentation, be-
cause they believed it would have
been the doctors wish, could he
have given instructions concerning
his funeral.
The pall-bearers, who were Sc
lected from among the doctors
nearest friends and the medical
profession, were: F. NJ. Swanzey,
F. A. Schaefer, Frank B. Nc
Stocker, George w. Smith, James
H. Boyd, Abraham Fernandez,
Drs. Herbert and Myers.
A very large number of carriages |
followed the hearse to Nuuanu
Capatarv wbere the remains were |