The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-28
John Charles Peterson
Passes Away in
Hospital.

Diamond Head Charlie" yesterday
afternoon at 2 o'clock sighted ship
for which no three whistles were
blown, whose coming was to take him
out on the ocean of eternity. He who
for nearly thirty years has been the
lookout at Diamond Head passed
away at the Queens Hospital, dying OF
chronic nephritis. He was sixty-seven
years of age and nearly two-thirds of
his life was spent at sea.
John Charles Peterson was born in
Gothenburgs Sweden. He went TO sea
as a boy and for some time Travelled
between New York and Liverpool in
both good and bad ships. loving the
sea if he did not love all that went
with it. firing of the monotony OF
the same run time and time again, he
shipped for CalIao and was wrecked
off the coast of Chile, walking with
Others of the crew to Callao, a consfd-
cradle distance, and suffering many
privations From CalIao he sailed for
San Francisco, but again the ship that
bore him was wrecked off Santa Bar
bara. Peterson then enlisted aboard
the revenue cutter Lincoln and went
10 Alaska Later he went from San
Francisco to China, thence to India.
Manila, around the Cape of Good Hope
Ixr Er1al1r RI New
York, whence he came to Honolulu IN
steamship service.
: Peterson leaves one daughter, Miss
Melika Peterson, who is in Honolulu.
being employed as stenographer al the
nursery on King street. He
left no other relative here. The funeral
will be held at $3.50 o'clock this after
noon from the Williams undertaking
pariors and interment will be IN the
Nuuanu cemetery. Following are the
paIlbearers: Hon. NJ. P. Robinson
Hon. John c, Lane, Gen. John II.
Soper, Capt. Thomas Clarke, 5. ..
Rose and George p. Castle.
Peterson was generally liked ana
never a Christmas passed without the
merchants and others of his friends
of Honolulu getting up substantial
nurse as a holiday present and as
token of their appreciation of his SER
vices as a lookout. For Diamond
Head Charlie it was whose eyes first
caught the smoke of the approaching
steamer the topmast tip of the COM
ing windiammer or the first sign OF an
island boat.
In DAYS before the cable the tidings
of the nearing Of a steamship Win
mail and newspapers from tue DIG
world beyond, sent over the stelephohe
hire 70 town long before the Yessel
vas near the harbor, was glad news
to Honolulu people and they plesseu
the man who gave them the hrst intel
ligence of the coming communication
with the outside world.
.sDiamond Head Charles life as
laolxo,,t on the slope of old Learn was
,,ot career of excitement and con-
slant entertainment by any means 4
.;,,,as he was almost lonely, and ne
would have been very, very lonely eA-
cept for his telescope, dog car anu tiie
telephone. os-.
In recent years there was less pos
sihility of loneliness for tourists US
covered the lookout anu Aou
n his. station an interesting Iea'uie
Of a visit to Honolulu. f'er ms paeh
70 "a he had an extinct volcano, an uil
usual thing in back yards, ana Tor ms
fro,,+ Garden he had the breadlh VI
49, parif9c where everyday there grew
something new and interesting IN tue
800, 80 ehins from all the corners OF
World charlie could spot a vessei
a. a remarkable distance and cal her
aright. seldom did he announce
T - IS by any name except the name
she bore. no4e,sa,, was
in the hospital and little nope was
held for his recovery. .oorA
close on the allotted three se esat
years and ten, he has now signteo INA
mysterious bark whose captain IS can
ed Death.