The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-03-08
Sudden Death Of Captain I. D.
Crane Of This City.
MANY YEARS A RESIDENT
Had the Esteem and Confidence of
Ali Was a Man Among Men.
Career-A Large Funeral.

little before noon on Saturday last,
the community sustained a genuine shock
in the announcement that Capt. E. S.
Crane had passed to the great beyond.
No other citizen was better known and
no other man of Honolulu had more
warm friends No other man stood high
CT among his fellows here when judged
by the standards used in measuring men
of character and nobility, Captain Crane
died al his home in Palama surrounded
by the sorrowing and stricken members
of his family and a few intimate friends.
This was at 11:15 a. m. on the 5th inst.
The funeral was held on Sunday after
noon at o'clock from the hall of Maso-
mic Lodge lie Progress.
Capt. E d. Crane was 81 years of age.
He was a native of New Bedford and
took 10 the sea when a boy of 1S. This
calling he followed a great many years
with more than ordinary success, being
entrusted with important commands and
errands requiring the exercise of ability
beyond seamanship. 1t was in the whal-
ing days that Captain Crane made him
self well known in both the Atlantic and
Pacific He touched these Islands first
in 1874 became impressed with the coun-
try and the thought that it had a fine
future. Returning ten years later, after
active work and number of adventures,
he became a permanent citizen of the
country and has remained here ever since.
He gained the confidence of all with
whom he came in contact, was known
from Hawaii to Niihau by the native Ha
waiians and was trusted implicitly by
them and was their firm friend. One of
the Kings appointed Captain Crane to
be Sheriff at Kau, Hawaii, and he dis
charged the duties of the position in
satisfactory and creditable manner. As
the commander of inter-island packets
he was known to everybody. Members
Of the reigning families and chiefs were
always partial to the craft in charge of
Captain Crane He was master of the
crack schooner Nettie Merrill When that
vessel was wrecked about a dozen years
ago at Waimea, Kauai, Captain Crane
came ashore to stay. He was given a
position in the Water Works Department
and was up to his death a faithful con-
scientious and valued man in a position
requiring intelligence and judgment be-
yond the ordinary. He performed his du-
ties carefully to the last and when he
knew he was becoming weakened by age
thought first of his word and then of his
family and friends and last of all of
himself He will be missed in the SER
vice as well as elsewhere. The cause of
his death was heart trouble. The de-
mise was FASTENED by an accident few
IN, fol
vehicle on Judd street while looking after
some water works business.
The family of Captain Crane consisted
Of his devoted wife, his three sons and
daughter. There existed between the
Captain and his family members an af-
lection that was deep and strong. His
home life and associations were happy in
the extreme He was in every way a
model husband and parent.
Capt E. d. Crane belonged to two of
the most prominent secret fraternal So
cieties and was prominent and esteemed in
each. He was an earnest Mason and an
earnest Odd Fellow, deeply touched and
ever mindful of all his obligations. He
was veteran member of Masonic Lodge
le Progress and of Excelsior Lodge of
odd Fellows The men in these societies
knew well indeed and many shed tears
upon learning of his death and again at
the funeral.
The funeral of Capt. E. D. Crane was
under the auspices and direction of the
le Progress Lodge of Masons. The cor
tege was one of the largest seen in Homo
lulu in a long time and the floral tributes
MI
ers included offerings from the societies,
from personal and business friends, from
friends of the family and there were not
a few from native Hawaiians. There
were a number of exquisite pieces, not
able among these being the emblems of
the two secret orders mentioned and
anchors from seafaring friends.
The first service, which was held in the
lie Progress Lodge hall on Fort street, was
behind closed doors. At its conclusion all
We're admitted for a last look upon the
features of the departed. The procession
was then formed and the route by Fort
and School streets to Nuuanu cemetery
taken.
At the grave, under the leadership of
c. N. White, master of the Masonic
Lodge. the strong and deeply religious
service of the order was conducted in a
manner that seemed TO touch all. Worthy
Master White was assisted by Jos. NJ.
Little, Master of Masonic Lodge Hawai-
ian No. q and Past Master NJ E. Gross
man. After the Masons had finished the
odd Fellows. members of Excelsior and
Harmony Lodges, also placed sprigs of
green in the grave. The two secret So
cieties were largely represented at the
funeral Nearly all of the members
marched.
The pall-bearers were ]. ]. Williams,
L. L Lapierre, Louis Touissant, Captain
Campton, Captain Weller and a Masonic