The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-02-11
TO THE NAME OF HONOLULU
WOMEN THEY BOW.
Fine Tribute by ]. Solely Cole of Com
pany E, First New York-Resolution
of Thanks Voted by Oneida Chapter.

j. Soley Cole, of Company e, First
New York, has given a fine tribute to
the women of Honolulu. The remarks
were made before the Oneida Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolu
ton, and brought forth a resolution by
the chapter, thanking the Honolulu la
dies for their efforts on behalf of the
Utica boys.
Mr.. Coles lecture occupies three col
umns of the Utica Daily Press, and de-
scrbes the stay of the regiment and
modern Honolulu very accurately. In
speaking of sickness which attacked
the boys" Mr.. Cole said:
ut was at this crisis in our regiment
that we began to appreciate the kind
ness and tenderness of the women of
Honolulu. The Red Cross Society of
daily drove to the camps and served
little delicacies to the men, who, while
not sick enough to go to the post hos
pital were unable to muster appetite
sufficient to eat the severely plain fare
of the camps. Other ladies visited the
hospitals, carrying with them books,
flowers and fruits and volunteering
every service in their power to render
Not few secured permission from the
colonel to take sick boys to their own
homes and nursed them back to life
and strength"
Later on Mr.. Cole tells Of the Thanks
giving dinner given to the troops in
these words:
"The ladies of Honolulu had
made arrangements to give the
boys of our regiment and the battalion
of engineers, about 1000 in all, a genu-
line Thanksgiving dinner, with turkey
cranberry sauce and all the accesso-
ries When it Is known that the camp
grounds we then occupied were situat-
ed fully seven miles from the city and
were reached partially by roads built
provisions were carried in carriages
and drays, you may gather something
of an idea of the enormous task which
these ladies undertook and carried to
successful completion. 1t was a glo-
rious day. The sun shown brightly
and the temperature, which averages
rs degrees the year round, ran up that
day to so degrees. The ladies attrac-
lively attired in light summer gar
ments, arrived early in the morning,
and laid out their campaign in an or
derly and soldierly manner. That day
the ladies captured the camp without
resistance, and dignified officers ran
errands and did their bidding with all
the readiness and earnestness of a coll
oners orderly. At l o'clock the tables
were spread and the men sat down to
the best dinner they had,had since they
left mothers board. The ladies SEEM
ed determined to make the men thor
oughly happy and freely gave spoons
and small plates to the souvenir fiends
who asked for them. These were the
women who had previously raised $780,
900 by subscription and fed 22, 900 SOL
diers of other regiments who had pass
ed through Honolulu en- route to Ma
nila. 1t was these women who smooth
ed the hot and wrinkled pillow of the
fever patient and placed flowers upon
the caskets of the unknown soldier
dead. Does it seem strange that the
boys of the first New York have a very
warm place in their hearts for the
women of Honolulu, and instructive
ly raise their hats when they hear
their names spoken?
THE men they fed that glorious day
in November left week later for their
northern homes far across the sea and
the great United States. In all prob
ability we shall never meet again. We
are home and have resumed our labors
at a point where we left them. The
gay will laugh, the solemn brow of
care plod on, and while each one as be-
fore may pursue his favorite phantom
the memory of the good women of Hon
olulu will be with us always"