The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-03-13

to rest. In the MauSOleum where lie
the remains of so many of her royal
house, her body was yesterday placed
beside that of her mother
She died at the height of the terrific
rainstorm of a week ago. The day OF
| the funeral broke with the rain, which
! had been intermittent throughout the
six days of her lying in state, still
falling in torrents. But toward lG
| o'clock in the morning the sun broke
| through the clouds, and from then
until the last of the thousands who fol-
| lowed her to the grave or paid the re-
| spect of their presence at the funeral
had returned to their homes, the clouds
respected the occasion. Until nightfall
there was no rain.
GATHERING.
All day Saturday the remains lay in
state at Kawaiahao church and thou
/ sands took a last look at the we'll re-
membered face. At midnight the girls
/ of Kawaiahao seminary sang several
| selections in the church.
The funeral was set for 200 o'clock
p. m. Long before that hour the street
in the vicinity of Kawaiahao church
! began to fill up. The entire comnu-
| nifty, augmented by hundreds from the
other Islands, began to wend it's way
! toward the church or take position
! along the line of march of the funeral
|
were to be in the procession were early
and promptly in the positions deslg-
| mated for them. The hearse, drawn by
! 230 Hawaiians, uniformed in white
! trousers blue Jerseys and white mats
! and wearing yellow capes was drawn
up King street to the church at 1:O0
o'clock. The Second battalion United
| States Volunteer Engineers marched
! from their camp and formed in bat
| TALON front on the mauka side of king
| street, between Punchbowl and Rich
| ards street The First Regiment, Ma
| tional Guard of Hawaii, marched FROM
| the armory up Hotel street to Punch
| bowl street and formed facing the
| church on Punchbowl street, makat OF
King. The blue jackets from the Unit
| ed States ships Scindia and Iroquois
| took position on King street to the
right of the Engineers. The various
| civic and Hawaiian societies and the
pupils from the various schools and
colleges took position on the makai
side of King street Inside the church
| yard were the carriages for the FAM
lily and friends and the officials who
were to follow the hearse. On King
street, Waikiki of Punchbowl, hun
dreds of private carriages were in
waiting.
Long before the funeral hour people
began going to the church. but though
|
unseemly crowding. The public re-
spected the occasion, and there was no
| difficulty experienced in keeping the
seats reserved for special persons. At
no time was the church overcrowded.
THE CATAFALQUE.
The scene about the catafalque was
| much the same as on Saturday. The
catafalque itself, placed just in front
of the pulpit, was covered with a roy
al purple pail of velvet, and another of
yellow made of ilimas. The
white casket was almost buried in flo
raj pieces which kept coming in up 10
the last moment. On either side of the
casket six kahili bearers wearing vel.
low feather capes waved their kahili7
with rythmic movement. On each Side
of the casket large royal kahilis on koa
staffs were placed two large white
ones at head two smaller white ones
at the foot, and between them others
some black, some black and gold and
some of other colors, stood. At the
head of the coffin were lighted candles
in a silver candelebrum. In the aisle
near the head of the casket were two
large kahilis of lima and ferns sent by
Prince David Kawananakoa.
The pulpit was covered with lima
leis. The choir and the chancel rail
were banked with flowers and ferns
lima lelS DelHB pIOlllllleill'
THE MOURNERS.
The ushers were Edumund Stiles
George e. Smithies, Edward Dowsett
Carl A. Widemann, Christian c. Con
radt, Lioniel Hart, j. o. Carter, Jr., j
o. Spencer and j. w. Mcclure. Seats
were reserved on the left of the cata
falque for the president and cabinet
the justices of the supreme court, the
Judges of the circuit court and Other
, American and Hawaiian officials.
In the body of the church seats were
reserved for the consular corps, which
was present in it's entirety, members
of the house and senate, and Others
prominent in the community. On the
right of the pulpit We're the ushers. or
the right of the casket were the
mourning party, including Governor \
8. Cle~hOrn, Mrs. j. w. Robertson
Mrs. j. H. Boyd, Prince CuDi' Kala
nianaolo and wife. Prince David Ka
wanP no koa, J. II. Boyd, ]. w. Robert
son, Miss Elsie Robertson, Samuel Par
ker, Mise Helen Parkor Mr.. a1d Mrs
Woods Mrs. D. st. G. Walters and Mis-
. Kota Vida.
The girls from Kamehamoho school
all dressed in white, with black hat
bands H0d o knot of black, Yo'low ant
? red rihhoN on the lert shoulder, h''
, coats rse;~ncd to thew on the righ
I thu church wcs open to the genera
public
TIE SERVICES.
yTrGy Taylor presided at TIE organ
and had charge of the music, the choi
consisting of the Eawaiahao churcl
choir, the girls f ON St. Andrews Pri
ocy and the SUI pliced Hawaiian choi
from st. Andrews cath adral Will
the church was filling the oGgauis
played eCftl.-. At 2;0) O'Clock tn
Bishop of I oaolulu, preceded and ac
. companied By all the Anglican clerg
and the surp.icod choir came in, in pro
csssiolal.
Tho services began with the Orga'
selection In Memoriam," compose
by WrGy Taylor on the death of tn
Princess LiEelike, mother of Kaiulan
Bishop Willis read the sentences frOr
the burial services, beginning "I az
the resurrection am tho lifn." TIL
chant was Psalm X%XIX, Kawala
hao church choir sang Brief Life
Here Our Portion" in Hawaiian. Fol