The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-18

mo one was more shocked than
when 1 read the Associated Press an
| nouncement in today's Advertiser of
the death of General Warf1eld,'' said
Colonel George w. Macfarlane yes
terday. The Colonel, for ten years, was
General Warfield's partner in the Cali
fornia Holel, although silent one.
when I read only the day before
that General Warfield had been ap-
pointed a Police Commissioner of San
Francisco, it occurred to me that it
would necessitate frequent trips to the
city of San Francisco from Mount
Tamalpais. He was the principal
stockholder in the Tamalpais Hotel
and the Tamalpais railway and Land
Company, and lately he had been man
aging the entire business. that is for
the past year. It also occurred to me
that he would have to use the gravity
car in order to be in the city in business
hours, to attend to his new public
duties. 1t struck me that such frequent
riding on the gravity car, which is
managed by hand brakes might even
tua1ly result in the loss of his life. I
was apprehensive of some accident.
Therefore, although I had warned my
self of the possibility of such an acci-
dent, I was yet shocked to hear of his
tragic end.
when 1 went up Tamalpais, during
big 30O-foot wireless telegraph mast,
built to flash messages across the Pa
sifis ocean to Honolulu. | men
toned to the general that I might
want to return to the city in the early
morning, but L refused to go on the
gravity, and to avoid it I had to wait
until noon time for the regular train
from Mill valley to come up the noun
tain.
II presume it must have been on
the gravity car that he met his death
though there was at one time, to my
recollection, q fatal accident on the
regular train which was ditched one
morning and the engineer killed"
It is well known that it was General
Warfield's intention year ago to
come here to purchase the Hawaiian
to the protracted illness of his wife,
he was unable to leave to carry out a
cherished project. He felt that he
would like to have an interest down
here that would occupy about half of
his time during the year. 1t is said
that Col. Macfarlane induced General
Warfield at one time to make an offer
for the hotel, without inspection of
the property, of $12O,000 but this was
declined by the bondholders. At the
time it was reported that they wanted
S140.0 900. The object of his intended
visit here was for the purpose of sat
isfying himself that it would be a good
hotel investment for the figure asked.
Mrs. Warf1eld has been lying at
deaths door, practically, for the past
two years, but notwithstanding this
and his former inability to leave on
account of her illness, it is believed
that General Warfield would have come
down here this year but for the recent
fire in San Francisco which destroyed
some of his city property.
Col Macfarlane learned from General |
Warfield after the earthquake that no
injury or damage resulted to the Mount
Tamalpais railroad or hotel.
When asked whether the death of |
General Warfield would prevent any
further negotiations or proposition in
connection with the Hawaiian Hotel |
purchase he said emphatically:
Il would not care to identify myself |
with any further hotel proposition here !
unless I had my old friend General |
Warfield to take over the direction of |
the entire hotel interests as partner |
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