Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-06-03


| forts of his lifelong friend Judge
Lee of the Supreme Court Of these
| Islands who was at that time one of
! tho holders of the fourteen shares
vt stock into which the capital of
| l.ihue Plantation was at first divided.
Tho others besides Judge Lee being
! E. o. Hall. General James Il. Mar
shall, w. G. Parkc, II II. Pierce and
| G.. r. Bishop. About this time Cen
cral Marshall sold his holdings. being
! fully convinced that there was no
future for the Plantation.
Mr.. Rice received. as Manager, the
salary of $500 per year. and there
were times when the stockholders
were unable to pay him even this
mcagrc sum and at one time his sal
airy was so much in arrears that they
were obliged to ask him to take stock
in payment which he did--much
against his desire at that time,
though the future proved that II was
| TO his best interests after all Thia
only goes to show how scarce money
was in those days, and how cCouo-
mically they were obliged to live.
But TO this cumpulslOn in regard To
the form in which he should receive
his salary Is due the fact that in
later years his widow was able To
give such great assistance to Chart
able objects as she did and to do 80
much for the Hawaiians. Every year
/ loo
has given nearly all her income
which became very much larger as
, the years went by, to Christian work
In various parts of the world.
Il Mr.. Rice, in his plantation career
has the distinction of being the first
plantation manager In these Islands
to introduce irrigation in the growing
, of cane. and he put In the first irri-
r CATION ditch for Lihue Plantation
ditch ten miles long and extending
from a place called Poo. in the head
waters of the Hanamaulu Stream, to
r tho fields of cane in Lihue.
t While conducting the Ilan'ation,
Mr.. Rice never lost his interest in
5 religious affairs. and both he aud
= Mrs. Rice always took an active part
5 In the church work ana never lost
e. their love for the Hawaiian race and
= their keen desire to work for its
} moral advancement Mr.. Rice faith
5 cred the erection of the first l.ihue
= church, and aided with his own hands
, to build It, its subst initial construc-
) ton being shown by the fact when
S this Church was built over and en-
q larGed few months ago, the same
7 framework was made use of-the
( solid koa and kauwila beams being
l. MS firm and tough as when they were
e first built, nearly sixty years ago
I There was only a thatch roof In those
D early days, however, and rush mats
, on the floor were the only seats. Mr..
= Rice preached every Sunday in this
! building In addition to his plantation
4 work until his death In 1863, while
T at the same time his wife was super
Q intendent of the Sunday School until
= she resigned IN favor of her son at
the time of her trip to Germany in
the early seventies.
], II may he said in passing, that the
\ Moiliili Church building in Honolu-
4 In, was also constructed under the
: supervision of Mr.. Rice and Mother
r Rice has assisted in its up-keep, with
the aid Of her grandson Paul X
Isonbcrg, ever since.
While her husband was manager
Q of the Plantation Mrs. Rice always
= took great interest in the industrial
: advancement of the young Ilawaiians
of the place and besides attending "a
7 their religious needs she gave the
10 girls valuable instruction in sewing
i and other domestic arts and indus
tries, and has done more than has
G been possible from any other inilu'
7 ence TO mculcate industry and frugal
: ity In them.
7 Mr. Rice died here in the year 1862
= of throat trouble, and from that ycal
e his widow has carried On her work
: alone surrounded however by by
u her children, grandchildren, and
great grandchildren, up TO the time
l. of her death. Her family is large
= ore, those living at the present date
: including three children, eighteen
o grandchildren and twenty-eight great
u grandchildren, besides seventeen hus
: bands and wives of the children anC
= grandchildren, total of siXty-six de
y scendants.
She has made occasional trips Il
Il the States during her long-lire here
II at one time living for two or three
u years with her daughter Emily, Mrs
I Col De Ia Nergne. at COLORADO