The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-06
Something About the Grand Old Man of
Philanthropy Whose Ninetieth Birthday
Is Near at Hand--His Marriage to
BY WALTER G. SMITH, in San Francisco Chronicle.

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Young Chiefs School, where the Prin-
ces and Processes and the native
aristoCracy were educated, he was a
frequent and well-liked visitor One
of the pupils, Bernice Pauahi Paki, ,
beautiful Hawaiian girl with the blood
. of the .Kamehamehas in her veins, ad-
mired the young American, as he did
her in return, with results which were
Iforecasted i'm this letter from Mrs.
Amos Cooke, a missionary, to her sis
I lter, Miss Montague. The letter APP
Epears in The Memoirs of Bernice Pa !!
: uahi Bishop" work written by Mary
H. Krout.
! "HONOLULU, Oahu, S. Is, Febru-
airy %, 1S5O.-Saturday night wrote
hasty line to c., but as it did not
get off yesterday, l have thought II
j would fill another sheet to you ~
5 Juliette and Miss Bernice are engaged
/ in sewing and Mr. Bishop is reading
/ to them from the Life of Hannah
+ Moore. Probably you are aware that
/ Miss Bernice has an admirer who calls
9 every evening and probably will until
y they have a home of their own. He
% is fine young man and is collector
n general of customs. We much prefer
that she should take up with such
u man as he, than with either of the
II young Princes now absent with DR..
- Judd in Europe"
r Paki, the father of Bernice, wished
e her to marry either of the two Prin-
III ces who afterward became King, but
IL the young girl had her way and on
IS June, 1850 in the parlor of the Young
ie Chiefs School, then situated on Pal
~ ace Walk, narrow street skirting
Vi the abode of the reigning family, she
20 became Mrs. Charles Reed Bishop.
pe But few are now living who were
" present at the ceremony, and they de-
scribe it as very simple, the bride
wearing white muslin with a jasmine
III wreath in her black hair. And ther
mt go ,,,oddo, Iifo not lass ,sof,,1 :,
si' Hawaii and Hawaiians than it was
Us happy to the participants.
Ost
Ike 'e's TIC N''e' ''''
.en 1t was natural that a man of Mr.
Bishops business reputation should b.
Id. sought by high Office in communit!
Mr. where the King and chiefs realized
es their own deficiencies in public admin
ant istration. Some time after he hat
me inter-married with the royal line ant
to had retired from the collector-general
ms. ship of customs, Mr. Bishop was in
ed vited to accept a seat in the ministry
m. Kamehameha w. offered him a port
lev folio. But as the managing partne
he in a banking house, he wanted all hi
ast time to attend to his private business
st and he found every year, a large
ed nsibilty-more to do. FINAL!
ms he made some exception to his rul'
he against taking office by accepting ;
YER seat in the lower branch of the legis
Ia. lature, but that did not require mucl
est of his time. In 1860 he was made
noble for life, thus becoming a mem
Der of the upper legislative chamber
but only with biennial duties. But al
:, time went on and he was able to leavt
more of the details of the banking
business to others, Mr.. Bishop yielded
~ to the public desire that he SHOULD
:, identify himself with the administra
tive branches of the government
-, Having a keen interest in education
he became president of the board o
:, public instruction, and as such parti
~. cipated in an era of school building
and of modern ways of teaching which
-, had much to do with making the Ha
- waiians the most literate aborigina
people in the world. There was alsC
-, work to his taste in the Privy Coun
Gil, where he held seat during three
~, reigns.
,rt In the Ministry
be. The last of the enthroned Kameha
on mehas was Lunalilo, who lived t
his reign about one year. OF Lunalilo''
,er, personal stability there was SOM
Ter doubt and the responsible elements il
lily. the country wanted to guide him will
ON strong hand; so Mr.. Bishop was in
wo duced, for the public good and witt
ate the Kings eager assent, to accept of
rly fee under him and form a ministry
ing In the resultant cabinet, Mr. Bishop
retaining his place as noble in tn
yo. legislature, became minister of for
,ck eign affairs, his colleagues being white