The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-09-27

saw her beloved husband and bade hin
final farewell She was soon afterward
put to bed, and the sedatives admins
tered for the purpose of producing sleep
had the desired effect Mrs. Mckinley
was asleep when the president died.
This mercful unconsciousness tided her
through those dread hours of the night
At o'clock Saturday morning the Sc
, uatives lost their power and she who had
. retired wife awoke a widow. She was
told the news. But she did not appear to
fully realize that her husband was dead.
She still spoke of him as living, asked
! how he had passed the night, begged
. that she might be taken to him. Little
yby little the dread truth dawned upon
, her, and at length her pleadings became
too insistent to be longer resisted.
y Mrs. McWilliams and Mrs. Barber led
her into the room where the president
lay, the room in which he had died, and
left her there. What took place no one
| knows or will ever know. For an hour
the peir who had marched through life
| hand in hand, whose tender love had be-
con- g celebrated, were alone together.
. AT length the watchers heard no more
scries and appeals for recognition, no
more caresses and lamentations. They
opened the door and found the unhappy
woman in a swoon by her husbands
side.
Z When the funeral services were held
at the house Mrs. Mckinley was unable
( to core down stairs. More sedatives had
[ been given her and she was but half
conscious. Thus the hours wore on, and
&. the presidents remains were taken away
, to lie in state at the City Hall Mrs
, Mckinley did not know of their removal
! In the afternoon she reused and begged
! to be taken to her husband. When told
3 that the body had been carried to the
!. city Hall, where the people were to have
an opportunity to see 1t, she demanded
that 1t be brought back to her; he was
! her husband she had a right to him.
! The people had all his best years. his
\ Nstrength, his life. In death he was hers
I and she would have her rights. Hyster
ically she cried aloud for him again and
s again. A member of the family was has
tily called and some favored sending for
, the remains of the president In order to
calm the anguish of the widow with
soothing sense of possession. But at
this moment Mrs. Hobart, widow of the
. late vice president, succeeded in con.
! svincing Mrs. Mckinley that it was her
, duty to let the people see the face Of
B their beloved president.
: Thanks to the strong influence which
Mrs. Hobart has always exerted over
her friend. Mrs. Mckinley was finally
! Gained and induced to lie down and tr,
ato sleep. DR. Rlxey prepared another
glass of medicine and the crisis was mo.
. .mentarily over. Later in the day the
$unhappy woman again demanded the
! body of her husband, but for the second
! time she was comforted by her loving
friends. They have grave fears that
Mrs. Mckinley will not be able to endur,
the ordeal of the next four days
a
= NEW YORK, Sept. IA special to the
\ World from Washington says: The valu,
of the estate of the late president inclu
. sive of everything he owned and the in
surance policies upon his life is believed
! to be about 5000 600. When Mckinley was
elected for the first time he had just
l lost practically every cent he possessed
sby indorsing notes for Ohio friends. He
Twas a most generous man, caring little
for money. He stepped into the Whit,
House financially wrecked not merely
1 having lost all of his money, but heavily
Tin debt and with notes out against him
His friends, prominent among whom
! were Mark Hanna and II. II. Kohlsaat
4 &went to the rescue. They took up his
paper and put him on his feet.
~ The president was frugal and lived
tplainly at the White House. He saved
a good part of his salary of nearly $1,OG
Ia week, and devoted it to repaying the
friends who had come to him in the houi
4 of need. Eventually he paid back every
fpenny advanced on his behalf. total
!. of about 100000.
y The Canton home. the farm near that
place and the life insurance policies
amounting probably to not more than
800, 600. comprise the bulk of the estate
One of McKinleys closest personal
1 friends said today that the Canton house
was worth $4,000 and the farm $4,000
and that. with securities and cash OF
100000 ana insurance of $50, ,OOO the estate
swoud be worth a trife more than $780,
SUv.
n II am sure the estate cannot amount
to more than $500 900 at the outset and
beneVe 1t to be much less" said the
presidents friend. During the last three
or four years Mckinley devoted part Of
his salary to paying off debts acquired
several years ago. You can say author
itatively that when the president died
he did not owe a cent"
! THE PRESIDENTS WILL.
BUFFALO. Sept. l5.-Presdent McKin-
ley has left a will. The instrument was
executed some time before the shooting
and at no time during his final sufferings
was there any wish or occasion to revise
1t or TO frame a codicil. 1t leaves the
bulk of his property TO Mrs. Mckinley.
How much the estate is worth cannot be
stated with eNactness by those most ia
milar with the late presidents business
affairs, but 1t is believed to be a goodly
sum, although not amounting to a .arge
fortune.
LIFE INSURANCE.
NEW YORK, Sept l5.-That President
Mckinley expected to live for many
years and had every reason for so think
ing, Is evident from the Insurance heI
|, carried on his life in favor of his wife.
Only few weeks ago. it can be said on
good authority, he had changed al
straight life insurance policy of $50,0O0
for twenty-year endowment policy. He
carried this In one of the big New York
companies
\ 1t was announced by another insurance
company that Its agent had paid by
check on Saturday to Mrs. Mckinley al
policy calling for $4,000.
J Reports that the president carried in
'surance amounting to 100000 or more are
not credited by leading insurance men in|
this city. Several experts yesterday
placed the total amount al not more than|