The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-12-19
SUICIDE Of
{. H. RAMSAY
From Saturdays Advertiser)

himself at Watluku, Maui, about noon
yesterday.
Dependency. financial entanglements
and loss OF all ambition 10 continue
to earn his way In the world while so
hampered, was the motive for his act.
MIR. Ramsay shot himself through the
heart and when the body was found
he was cold In death. The remains
will be brought to Honolulu today on
the Klnau. and the funeral will be
taken in charge by the Masons, Elks
and knights Of Pythias
Wireless kilograms from wailuku ar
riving yesterday for George II. Angus.
Exalted Ruler OF the Elks; c. c.
Bockus Of Lodge lie Progress. A. +. &
A. M, and others announced the
tragedy. one message received by the
wireless telegraph company was as fol-
lows:
Ramsay shot himself through the
heart. Dependency. Threatened sui
eide several times last two weeks. In
shop at Wailuku."
The latter sentence doubtless refers
to the place where he committed sui
eide.
Since the middle of November Ram
say has been employed by p. c. Buzz
zell, the Honolulu agent for the Singer
Sewing Machine Company. Mr. BuzZell
installed Ramsay in the Wailuku
agency, but according to his employer,
he has done very little business.
II don't think he has tried to work
very hard" said Mr.. Buzzel yesterday
when informed of the tragedy. II was
over there about three weeks ago and
Ramsay was very respondent. While
/ was there he tried to commit suicide.
He drank heavily one night and then
wandered TO the beach at Kahului and
! laid down on the sand and waited for
the tide to rise and carry him out to
sea. l followed him. brought him to,
and got him back to town safe again"
An Elk brother said yesterday after
noon that he met Ramsay recently in
Wailuku and found him quite despond-
| ent. He wanted to drink, but his
friend told him to cut it out, as he
(Ramsay) was on Maui on probation
| and ougB~ to brace up"
About that ti'ue Mrs. Ramsay joined
her husband, and she will probably re-
turn with the body today.
| Mr.. Ramsay for many years was as
sociated with Hart & Co, or the Elite
Ice Cream Parlors, as the business was
more generally known. He and Charles
Ludwigsen built up the business and
both made ii prosper while the store
was located where Miller's restaurant
now is. After the removal to the Elite
building. the business Stacked and Less
than year ago, in the reorganization
of the company. Mr.. Ramsay was drop
ped out. He went then to the New
England Bakery, but was there only
couple of months. Later he took charge
of the Perfection Home Bakery, but i'll
luck followed him and he did not re-
main there long. At one time he start
ed for Vancouver, but friends decided
otherwise for him and he remained
here.
He has had many troubles besides
financial ones. Mr.. Ramsay was about
81 years of age. He leaves a widow and
little daughter.
!, oooSSoocoSccococS
ter of the reservation of a tract OF
900 acres in the district of Hilo, is
land of Hawaii. Other large projects
on Maui and Kauai, embracing re-
spectively $4,000 and 37,5OO acres of for
est land, are so well under way that
final action Will be taken on them
during July or August.
In creating forest reserves 1t is the
custom to select definite area believ-
ed to be to the best interest of the
Territory to maintain under forest COW
er In declaring this area reserve
there Is set apart as compartments
thereof the Government lands within
it's boundaries not then under lease or
on which the existing leases have less
than two years to run The individu-
ais or corporations owning or leasing
land within the reserve are then re-
: quested to cooperate with the Govern
{ ment under the law in carrying out the
objects for which the reserve Is cre-
ated. This they are usually willing to-
do, as the establishment of the reserve
: is almost directly to their advantage
: in that they reap the most direct andl
immediate benefits from the water af-
= forded by the forest cover.
Quarters have been provided for the
Hawaiian weather bureau of the Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture
: the necessary instrument platforms
y have been constructed. and complete
= equipment of meteorological instru-
!, ments of standard pattern has been IN.
> stalled. The data obtained by eye OBJ
= servation and from the self-recording
:. instruments have been tabulated and
i presented to the general public i'm
a the shape of daily and monthly reports
!, appearing in the newspapers, the pub
lications of the local station, and the
10 publications of the central office in
70 Washington, d. G. The records have
n also at all times been available in the
= Honolulu office for consultation by in
" terested parties. During the past ten
q months Honolulu weather data has
,r been supplied by mail to many appli-
Z: cants in the United States and else
m where.
of Commercial statistics of the Terri
lt tory for the fiscal year ended June 80,
" 1905, are extremely satisfactory. While
v decrease of approximately $l,OOO.OOO
a is shown in the value of imports, there
s. is an increase of $l10OO,OOO in the value
OF OF exports. making a net gain of Sl2s-
e 100000 in the trade balance for tho
r year.
Is. In the trade with the mainland there
as has been a decrease OF $2sO,000 in the