The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-22
OBITUARY, BY A COMRADE.

ing the Reaper gathered into his har-
vest Thomas Kinslea, for many years
a pressman in the employ of the Ha-
waiian Gazette Company. When the
news of the death was brought TO this
office yesterday forenoon by a heart
broken son of the deceased pressman,
a hush of awe spread throughout the
industrial beehive.
"Tomi dead? How could that beE
To be sure he had broken down several
months ago to such an extent that
trip to the Coast was decided to be
best. The trip did little or no good;
but didn he come smiling into the
office only couple of weeks ago, and
to hearty greetings say, 81 IN feeling
more like myself again!" Then there
was much friendly joshing, with thank
fulness back of it that TON he was
! "Tom' to everyone-would soon be at
his post again in the company's press
room.
s'You re !, sly one; you we been pre-
tending sick, SO your good wife would
baby you, and feed you on rich chicken
! broth and such like delicacies!" And
| "Tom'' smiled bravely in reply. He
was making brave fight against the
! nevitable-braver than all his friends
realized-but he was eonquered-or has
he conquered? And now we wonder in
awe at the slenderness of the thread
of life.
By what can a mans worth be
judged? By many things, of course.
"Tom' was everyone s friend in the
ofice-and if he had not been good
sympathetic, kind, true-that
could not be said of him. When it was
suggested that his fellow-workers send
a floral piece to the funeral, as token
/ of love for "Tom' and respect for
! his sorrowing family, there was not
one but contributed his or her mite,
according to their circumstances. And
| their love is registered somewhere in
| letters as big as if their little offerings
had been princely sums.
| Many years ago, in old San Fran
cisco-not the risen city of today
''Tom' was pressman in Bacon s
! printerv. One of the apprentice boys
| who washed rollers and did other
| "devil'' work for "Tom, was the
/ present foreman of the Gazette COM
pany's pressroom, Mr.. Boisse. In 1896
L
given the position his former appren-
tice boy now holds. After time ''Tom
| quit his work and returned to San
| Francisco, but not to remain long away
from the Islands, he being sent to Ho-
! nolulu by the Pacific States Type
Foundry to set up a printing press
purchased by the Bulletin. He was a
skillful pressman, and in 1902 Renter
ed the employ of the Gazette company
working tremendously as first assistant
| under his former "devil.' He was
| faithful and true in his work, cheer
| fully assuming any extra burdens that
! came to him in rush times. And we
believe he was just as true and kind
in his home and civic life as he was IL
his business life. 1t is of our knQwl
edge that he worked hard and denied
himself many things in order to give
his two boys-William R. and Herbert
/ Leach a good education, that they
! might be better equipped than he had
been for life s struggles.
Thomas Kinslea was born in New
York City, October 10, 1851, and was
Just past his fifty eighth birthday. He
| was married in Oakland, California
September Z, 1880, to Miss Ella vii
liams, who, with their two grown-u
sons, William and Herbert, survives
him.
The remains will be cremated, and
the funeral services held at the Chris
tian church, of which Mr.. Kinslea wa:
a member. at three o clock this after
noon. At the request of the family
three of ''Tom 50 friends in the EN-
plov of the Gazette company will act
with three others from the church a.
pail bearers.
IEVERETT H. MESICK.