The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-03
PASSING OF The
QUEEN DOWAGER
tContiuded from First Pase.l

Carriage with H. B. VI. Consul Gen
eral Hoare and Vice Coasul Thos. Rain.
Walker
Carriages with ether members Of the
Consular Corps. Including representa-
tives OF China and Japan.
Carriage with \. Perry and w. /.
Stanley. Judges of the Circuit Court
for the First Circuit.
Carriages with Government officials.
Many carriages with private citizens.
Private citizens afCot.
The procession was thirty-five min
utes passing given point. The line
CT march was from Kawaiahao church
to Nuuanu on King and thence direct
TO the royal mausoleum. All along the
route there were great crowds of spec
tators.
TOMB OF KINGS.
Everything was managed with per-
feet order at the cemetery. The
crowds were kept back, no one al all
being allowed within the gates unless
privileged. The different elements "
the pageant passed in and were ar
ranged so that the first bodies TO go
through should be nearest the gates.
The National Guard was drawn up in
front of the mausoleum. As the cata-
falque with the casket in full view.
neared its destination, the wailing
grew louder. The kahili bearers were
formed on either side OF the roadway
leading to the tomb. When the ar
rangements We're completed the pail
bearers took up the casket and bore il
within the mausoleum.
The interior of the tomb mad been
decorated the previous day. and 4
number of kahilis added to the effect.
The caskets of Likelike and KaiulIni
had been moved, leaving a large space
for that of the dead Dowager Queen.
The services were brief. Bishop
Willis read the eommittal service of
the Church of England. Let Saints
on Earth was sung by the choirs
after which the benediction was said
by the Bishop. AS the strains of "Ha-
wall Ponoi,' the air so loved by Ka-
piolani in life. swelled forth an softly
died away, the assemblage filed out,
leaving the dead alii in the mausoleum
of Kings and Queens with Aer insignia
of royalty about her.
QUEEN DOwAGER'S DEATH.
Queen Dowager Kapiolani. after an
illness of many months, passed from
condition of Inconsistencies to
death at S:45 O'Clock Saturday morn
ing, June 24vh. She had been oblivi-
Gus to everything for about three
days. The end had been expected at
any moment for a fortnight, but Ka-
piolani had been strong woman ply
sically as well as mentally, and was
able to meet the weakening influences
of her ailments with the equipment of
a vast store of vitality. There were at
the bedside at the last moments the
Princes David and Cupid, nephews and
heirs of the Queen Dowager, her ply
stefan, DR.. F. Howard Humphris, and
a number of her retainers and house
hold people. Late the night before DR..
F. r. Day had been called into COLI
sultation.
The we'll springs of the tears of the
Hawaiian people were again opened
and the grief over the death of the be-
loved ALI was manifest everywhere.
All during the time the illness has
been considered extremely serious, the
Waikiki home where the death oc-
CURED was thronged day and night
with devoted friends of the widow of
the late King. Pualeilani, near Alma
hau is a beautiful place. The house
is an old one set back in cocoanut
grove.
The news came as black i'll tidings
to thousands of foreigners as well as
to the race which the deceased
adorned. Kapiolani was held in the
highest esteem by all.
Dr. Humphris gives as the immedi
ate cause of death uraenia. The
Queen Dowager had survived no less
than three paralytic strokes, and it
had been known for several years
that her heart action was weak and
deranged. and that besides she suffer
ed from a mild, though uninterrupted
attack of Bright's disease.
Death was expected early Friday
night, when a number OF friends were
hastily summoned to Pualeilani.
There was a sinking spell. during
which for an hour or more death was
expected momentarily. There was a
rally. and as late as o'clock in the
morning it was the confident antici-
patton that death was of perhaps for
several more days.
FIRST RELIGIOUS SERVICE.
The first religious service over the
body OF the Queen Dowager was held
at the home at 8 p. III. Sunday, the
18th, and il was in every way. inn
pressive and notable. It was conduct
ed according 10 the ritual OF the An
glican Episcopal Church by Rev. V.
H. Kitcat, chief of the personal STAFF
of His Lordship, the Bishop of Homo
lulu. Those present We're Prince Da-
vid, Prince Cupid and wife. Governor
\. S. Cleghorn. Stella Keomailani. Te-
resa Owana Kaohelelani. Col. Saml
Parker and Mrs. Parker. Mrs. Jaeger.
Mrs. Paul Neumann. Col. w. II. Corn
we'll, Sister Albertina and Sister Bea-
triX.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Kapiolani was born (Thrum's An
nual, 1879 on December 81. 1884. and
would have been siXty-five years of
age at the end of this year. II was in
1884 that Kamehameha " LiholihO)
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