The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-10-27
Addresses Referring to the Late
Judge Rosa.
FROM BENCH AND BAR
The Man Professionally and as a Friend
Sentiments Expressed BY Bereaved
Associates.

haIa court speech of Senator HoIstein
in memory of the late Judge Antoine
Rosa. Following are the other ad-
dresses made on that occasion:
Chas. Creighton.-The late Judge
Rosa was a very intimate and personal
friend Of mine, and in fact, 1 may say
one of the oldest friends 1 had in this
country. Mr.. Rosa was one Of the first
members Of the bar l became acquaint-
ed with on arrival, thirteen years ago,
to practice in this country, and from
that time up to the date of his death
we were on the most intimate terms,
professionally and personally. Mr..
Rosa was Circuit Judgeof this Circuit
but for a short time. / think during
the term two years ago this month.
During that time he discharged his
duties greatly to the satisfaction of all
persons concerned and everybody hay
ing business in this Court, and l know
from what was said to me by a gentle
man prominent on the island of Ha-
wall, that they regretted exceedingly
that Mr.. Rosa did not continue in the
office as Curcuit Judge for the island
of Hawaii, and none were more sorry
Of that than the late Judge Hitchcock,
his successor. Mr.. Rosa was a gentle
man who was a self-made man; his
education was good one in the
schools of Honolulu. He was a clerk
in the Supreme Court office, and after
wards a confidential clerk and Secre-
tary for the late Chief Justice Harris,
one of our best judges that sat on the
Supreme Court bench in this country.
From that he became practitioner at
the bar, Deputy Attorney General, At
torney General, and subsequently
Judge of Hawaii His career from
first to last was an honorable one; he
was entirely a Hawaiian Of the Ha-
Waiians; his education was entirely
Hawaiian, received here, and he hadn
/ know, been away from his native
land to any foreign country at any time
in his life. Mr.. Rosa was a man whom
the Hawaiians could feel proud Of; he
was a man of ability, and | might say,
one of the shrewdest and ablest of
lawyers that the Bar has produced, at
all events during my time in the Ha-
waiian Islands, and | will gladly sec
ond the resolutions, and the motion
to have them spread on the minutes OF
this Court.
EP. Dole-If the Court please. l am
comparatively a newcomer, and have
not known Judge Antoine Rosa as long
by any means as the gentlemen who
have already spoken, but have met
him a great many times, especially in
Honolulu and on the Maui and Kauai
Circuits, and have had occasion to test
his proWess many times. He was one
of the hardest fighters of the Hawaiian
Bar of either race, an able and &C
complished jury and court lawyer; he
was also, and | thing this is higher
praise, he was also, so far as my ex-
perience goes, a fair fighter. | have
never known him in the trial of a case
to be guilty of sharp practice or unpro-
fessional conduct. He was man out
side the law, so far as [ can judge from
conversation with him, of an unusual
amount of reading and of wide infor
nation, and of thorough information
in many respects, and of bright mind.
/ think the ability and conduct he
showed at the Bar mark him as one
of the gentlemen has said, a man OF
whom the Hawaiian race may greatly
be proud. On occasions of this kind,
if the Court please, it is in order to
say pleasant things; it is also in order
not to say anything which is not true.
/ thing that is so at all times. | don't
believe in any stereotyped speeches on
these occasions to fit all men, but what
/ have said, so far as my observation
in Court goes is in my judgment
structly true, and l second the motion
that the resolutions be spread on the
minutes of the Court and a copy fur
nished to the family of the deceased.
Hen. w. l.. StanIey.-In ordering
the resolutions to be spread ON the
record, | think it is but fair to myself
and the late Judge Rosa that [ should
say few words. l knew Judge Rosa
both as q practitioner and as a judge.
Before being elevated to the Bench, my
practice in connection with the var
ious lawyers in Honolulu was very
largely conducted on the Circuits; and
[ think one never gets 10 know ones
brother lawyers abilities without you
travel with them from place to place,
and see them under all conditions. In
Honolulu somehow social relations are
more strained; you meet merely profess
sionally, and, | think, have not an op-
portunity to get at the inner side Of
the man, the same as you do when
travelling from place TO place with him
can heartily endorse eyeryth ing
the members of the Bar have said with
regard to the late Judge Rosa. l have
often heard it said that he was one
of the brightest members of the Ha-
waiian Bar, speaking Of the Hawaiian
nationality. To my mind Mr.. Rosa
went far beyond that, he was one Of the
brightest members of the Hawaiian
Bar. as Mr.. Dole said irrespective of
race. [ know that the brightest and
most skilled lawyers Of our Bar dread
ed Mr.. Rosa in real estate cases. l
think in real estate cases Mr.. Rosa
shone. He had vast knowledge of
common law, and l think it is to be
traced to his association with, and his
training under Judge Harris. In real
estate law I think Judge Rosa was a
master. 1 always found him, and can
so speak Of him, as being courteous IN