The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-19
CAMARINOS
PASSES AWAY
THE WELL KNOWN GREEK SUD
DENLY SUMMONED WHILE
ALONE IN HIS ROOM.

Demetrius George Camarinos died
suddenly yesterday morning of aneu-
riSm of the heart The well known
Bohemian was alone when deaths sum-
mons came to him. His Japanese SER
want left him sitting down to breakfast
in his room at about $3.50 a. m. and
fifteen minutes later "Cammy' as ne
was called by hundreds of friends, was
found leaning on his bed. evidently in
pain. He groaned when asked what
was the matter but did not reply. Be
fore help arrived his heart had stopped
beating. An autopsy by Drs. Herbert
Humphris and Walters showed that
aneurlsm of the heart was the direct
cause of death.
For several days Camarinos had COM
planned of not feeling well and he told
some friends on Saturday evening that
he was suffering with pains i'm the re-
gion of the heart Yesterday morning
G H. Brown called at his rooms. and
Camarnos again complained. saying
he had no appetite. He announced an
intention to go to Waikiki in the after
noon and Brown left promising to re-
turn and accompany him to the beach.
ID. q. CamarinOs was not only pro-
minent figure i'm Honolulu, but was very
well known in San Francisco and other
coast cities, and among army and navy
officers and steamship men ne had "a
very wide acquaintance Not steam
er touched at Honolulu on which he
had not friends.
The deceased who liked to be called a
Bohemian and who lived the life of one,
often related an incident showing how
he happened to leave his native land
for America. He was a clerk in his
fathers store i'm Athens and one day an
American traveller passed a $40 gold
piece over the counter Such a big
gold coin was a wonder to the young
Greek to whom the English sovereign
had been the limit of size He thought
that there must be much money in
country where coins were made so large
and inquiries finally led him to leave
home for the New World
At the time of his death Camarinos
was about As years of age He became
a prominent figure in the fruit import
ing business soon after his arrival in
California about 1873. No one was bet
ter acquainted with the business. or
had greater ability or energy in finding
markets and supplying them, and he
was soon reaching almost all over
the world to meet demands and short
ages of the seasons. 1t was his am
bition to branch out in the same way
mere but the inability to get land area
enough interfered with his plans.
short time ago papers were drawn for
a corporation to take over tracts of
land in Kona and Camarinos proposed
to devote this land to banana and pine
apple cultivation. He had figured out
the profits of the enterprise, and 1t is
probable that his death is a serious
loss to the Territory in checking an en-
terprise which might have gone far to
solve the Hawaiian problem of diversi-
fled industries.
CamarinOs combined with the DISPOSE
ton of the Bohemian, great generosity
and love of good fellowship, high
mental abilities and business talent. He
was energetic as well as farseeing in
business.
The late Greek numbered among his
acquaintance a large proportion of the
most prominent men of California. In
san Francisco he was the acting Greek
consul for time. The news of his
death will travel round the world and
few are the places in which some
friends will not be found to sorrow at
his taking off