Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-11-05
IN ESTES MEMORY
BUILDERS EXCHANGE
MEMBERS IN EULOGY
INCIDENTS IN LIFE OF JURIsT RE.
LATED BY THOSE WHO KNEW
HlM-HIoH TRIBUTE
PAID.

At the meeting of the Builders and
Traders Exchange last evening. A.
Gartley, manager of the Hawaiian Elec.
trio Co., and president of the Elk.
change, in calling the meeting to or.
der, stated that in accordance with the
motion passed at a special meeting
held Immediately after the Judges
death, committee had been appointed
which was now prepared to present for
the consideration of the Exchange. the
resolutions they had drawn up. Z.
The president stated that the occa.
sion for this special meeting was to
hear the report of this committee and
also to give opportunity for those who
knew the late jurist. to express them.
selves, and that before the formal res
olutlons were presented such an op.
portunity would be given. The Presi
dent regretted that he was not one of
those who had known Judge Estee at
all socially, but as a public man, he
had known him to be a man of very
sterling worth. and that in his death
the Territory had suffered very great
loss. Judge Estee was representa-.
tive of the United States Government
here; that there were many who
thought. when the Judge first came
here he misunderstood the conditions
and the people here. but since he had
been on the bench in this Territory. he
had come to very thorough under.
standing of the situations In Hawaii. \
man who had met with great misfor
tunes. one might have expected that he
would have been soured, but he was
Ientirely too great a man for that, His
lprevious experience had been such as
Ito entirely fit him for the post of Fed.
eral representative in this Territory
His loss was keenly felt by the people
of this Territory.
In nrasontipg tho commit,ee's report
Mr. PInkbam said.
"Tbis AseocIa,ion hos mo, ,bo, 1,
may yivo its Testimony IN tho worth n,
tho lato Iudgo Norris Al Es,ec and
: extand its symnatbv tn bis bereaved
family We have mot that vo may OK
nross our deem sense of the Ioss sus
tained hv this commuritv nv tho daatt
; inf tbis loading mind Tho America,
5 nation has bocn fortunate in its nub
llic Ieadera occunvInp tho highest IN.
IdiciaI and executive positions Pro
IfoundIy IMPRESSED with their responsI
:. Utilities as pubIic servants they boy
1, Ihoon stiu mara nrofoundIv imnrosso
with tbeir rosnonsiIjlitIes az loader
lor nubIic opInion. from their command
i ling uosition They realize the merrill
/, Threatening the STABILITY Of the natio
and communities. From the platforr
land through tho press these men hay
;, Isought and seek 10 present the highas
: Iconceptions of fundamental principIes
l. duties and patriotism that must mel
I lmeate n nation and community I'm O,
lder that Justice. good government an,
1 individual liberty NAV prevail IN
n limited States of America represent
= the highest embodiment of politica
k liberty and manhood. The Hawaiia
= Islands. emerging from limited and al
= ltocratic forms of government. needle
c and still need. the public utterances q
Il learned men moved by a profound low
of liberty. Justice and manhood, tina
the entire citizenship may act wit
keen intelligence. moved by the sens
Ior individual responsibility, .patriotisr
and duty. irrespective Of race. cond
ton or afitIatlon.
j. I'm Judge Estec, these Islands foun
: their most eminent expounder of tru
l. Americanism From the platform an
through the press. he has ever pr,
= scented fundamental American prime
: pies so clearly and rorcIbly as to cor
:. vince the mind and direct the hear
. and spirit toward the highest conceT
ton and practice OF public and privat
duty and citizenship. Judge Estee ha
Il the power to stir mems souls and Il
II on them the higher resolution becaus
= his words came from his own heart an
his own convictions.
Men believed in his intelligence bo
cause it was not only that of the stu