The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-17
DEATH OF A
KAMAAINA
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King Afterward he went back to
New York and for many years was
commissioner of the Supreme Court
taking evidence as to damages caused
by the elevated railways and adju-
dicating thereon.
AS result of malaria contracted in
Virginia Mr.. Armstrong came to the
islands to recuperate and after a time
lin August, 1S97-he accepted the
editorship of the Advertiser, retiring
from that position in November, 1899.
He had made a study of the labor ques-
ton and was one of the strongest adj
vocates of the Introduction of white
labor for the plantations. From his
infancy he had a warm aloha for the
Hawaiian people and befrfended them
in every way in his power. After Civ
ing up the editorial chair he maintain
ed a quiet life devoted to literature,
taking about a year to getting out the
work already mentioned.
Mr. Armstrong; wife died in 1908.
Last year he again left the islands,
to visit his children and superintend
the publication of his book. His liter
airy ability was recognized as being of
the highest order. Around the World
with King is more fascinating than
a novel from its authors faculty of
depicting incidents in a humorous man.
ner. Readers of the Advertiser win
remember how replete his writings
were with entertaining anecdotes.
Probably there are few who leave as
many friends behind as William Nevins
Armstrong, as he had the faculty of
making friends and keeping them. Few
more cordial, more companionable, men
are met in lifetime.
Mourning his loss are three sisters,
three sons and a daughter, with many
less nearly connected, but scarcely less
dearly attached, relatives. His sisters
surviving him are Miss Mary Jane
Armstrong of San Francisco, Miss
Amelia Armstrong of Berkeley, Cal,
and Mrs. Ellen A. Weaver of Honolu-
lu. Matthew, Richard and Kalani are
his sons. the last of whom was named
by King Kalakaua. Dick" the sec
ond son, is a famed Yale athlete in
rowing and football. The daughter is
Miss Dorothy Armstrong, who was with
her father a the end.
GOVERNOR CARRIERS FRIEND. .
Mr.. Armstrong was more response
bic than anyone else,'' said Governor
Carter yesterday, for my accepting
public Office. Anyone who came into
contact with him could not but recog-
nize the great way he had of stirring
people up and inspiring them.
Some years ago there was a gath
ering at the Moana hotel of Yale men
at which there were none of the older
men except Armstrong. He was al
ways interested in college occasions and
showed that interest He turned what
oicrI1% n 1esf
ing and joviality into something more
serious by rousing response to the
toast Yale in the Pacific
He told how the work done out
here reflected credit on the older men
and wondered if we of the younger
generation We're using our opportuni
ties to the best advantage. In a
crisis take time to write to the friends
or acquaintance you made in college,
he said. The individual is only an
| atom, but if you write and get your
friends behind you the influence you
can exert is tremendous
Three or four months afterward re-
| Numbering his advice, I wrote to
friend, Mr.. Phillips Stuart, pointing
out some Of the errors I thought Presi-
dent Mckinley had made in appoint
ments here. Stuart showed that let
ter to the President and my troubles
began.
Il remember that it was Mr.. Arm
strong who called my attention to the
| fact that the missionary, Asa Thurs
| ton, had been a Yale man, and he was
always intense in his pride in Yale
| mems work. He urged upon US loyalty
to the land of our birth and our adop-
ton. He had a great notion of the
value of the college man.
Besides all this he was the most
! jovial and genial of men,
Governor Carter added that Mr..
Armstrong did not con1ne his talking
of Hawaii to these islands, but made
a telling speech at a dinner at Johns
| Hopkins University on college Men in
| Hawaii