The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-26

News of the death of William H.
yesterday morning, was so sudden that
the young newspaperman's many
friends in town were painfully shocked.
1t had been generally known that he
but the common belief was that he had
a rugged constitution which would pull
him through any ordinary crisis. The
fact was that Mr.. Coney had been APP
prised some months ago by DR.. Walters
that his heart was weak. At the same
time the doctor urged him to take a
vacation trip to the mainland, which
advice Mr.. Coney intended to follow
next summer. He wrote a sister in
New York to this effect.
On Sunday evening Mr.. Coney was
seized with the grip and complications
ensuing, DR.. Walters on Monday called
Dr. Humphris into consultation. Mrs.
Coney, the patients mother, was given
warning by DR.. Walters to expect the
worst. Mr.. Coney was then rational
but the same evening became delirious,
and the two physicians already named
watched and wrought with him all
night. The end came about nine o'clock
in the morning. Besides his mother
there were beside the young mans
deathbed his aunt, Mrs. Haalelea, and
his uncle, John Ena. He was in his
thirty-second year and, with the rela-
tives just named, leaves John H. Coney,
.l,o If Ire hG.r
Vos of New York, Mrs. Renjes in Ger
many, Mrs. Ashton of Oakland and
Mrs. Julian Monsarrat of Kau, sisters.
Will Coney as he was Familiarity
known, faced his fate when he knew it
might be imminent, with courage. On
Iy a week or two before his last illness
he went into the office of Drs. Herbert,
Walters & Humphris and asked the
last-named partner of that medical firm
to listen at his chest. Both DR.. Hum
phris and DIR. Herbert, after making
the examination desired, told Mr.. Coney
he was in way to have serious trou-
BILE some time. He asked them if it
was liable to be lingering trouble or
a sudden attack, and being informed
that he was apt to be taken suddenly
he quietly observed that it was all
right as he would have to die some
time.
The funeral will take place on Sunday
afternoon, under Masonic direction.
from Kawaiahao church. Prior to the
church ceremonies, the Rev. H. II. Par
ker wifi hold services at the house.
Richards street, opposite the Hawaiian
Hotel.
William Harvey Hulilauakea Coney
was born at Kaulu, Eva, Oahu,
November 80, 1872, being the youngest
son of Mrs. Laura A. and the late John
H. Coney. After a preliminary educa-
ton in the local schools he attended
the Ohio State University at Columbus
o. Upon his return home from college
he was recommended strongly by w.
n. Armstrong for a position on the Ad-
vertiser, where he began reporting
early in 1895 under the editorship of w.
r. Harrington, whom he followed to the
Bulletin staff in 1898. Mr.. Coney was
city editor there for three years up to
the time of his death. Energetic as q
methodical in work, a
lucid narrator and proficient in knowl- |
edge of Hawaiian as we'll as English |
he made a distinct mark in the re-
portorial field. He took an active in |
terest in public affairs and at his death |
was a member and the secretary of the |
Republican Territorial Central Commit /
tee. Governor Carter rendered the Of
fee of road supervisor to Mr.. Coney
when c. B. Wilson retired, but he pre-
TERED to remain at newspaper work.
Mr.. Coney was a charter member of
he Pacific Tennis Club and a winner
If a doubles championship with Walter
>. Dillingham; as partner. He was also
. member of the Myrtle Boat Club. |
n fraternal orders he belonged to
lodge lie Progress of Masons the Ha-
vaiian branch of the Knights of
oythias and the Order of Kamehameha.
.Ir. Coney collected the Songs of Ha-
vail, published by the Bergstrom Music
%, translating them into English and /.
rranging the music, he being an en-
husiastic amateur musician. For sew s
raj years past he had been engaged /
n collecting, arranging and editing the ]
egends and myths of Hawaii, which he
Intended to publish in a volume sup I
Elemental to that of the late King Ka-
lkaua. portion OF his collection was
D be used, with collaboration of an