Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-06
PHARES ". RIDER
ANSWERS final
SUMMONS
Soldier and Mission Worker Is
Dead Following Stroke OF
Heart Failure

Surrounded by his little HOOK OF
lioners who loved and respected
him as few Christian workers in these
islands has been loved and respected,
and who were aware of the greater
things in this life only as he had
taught them, Phares w. Rider. super
intendent OF the Kakaako Mission
and Familiarity known as the Mayor
of Kakaako," ended forever last night
his work toward the uplift OF the low
" and pood OF the kakaako. district
and. peacefully passed away IN the
mission chapel on South street short
" before eight o'clock, following
stroke of heart failure.
Yesterday the superintendent at
tended to his duties as usual making
the daily rounds which he has been
accustomed to for the past eleven
wears. In spite of his advanced age
he appeared as hale and hearty as
ever. visiting many friends, chatting
and Joking with them and urging
rpon them to visit the little mission
house which has accomplished SO
much good work under his direction.
He had made plans to attend the
meeting of the G. A. r. last evening,
but at seven o'clock received teie-
phone call which informed him that
the meeting had been postponed. This
information seemed to please him ana
he went out again on the lanai OF his
home and resumed his seat beside
his wife. who was conversing with q
group of residents of the district. i
shall not have to leave you tonight,
he said. as he patted her hand.
Mr.. Rider conversed for time with
the members of the little party and
then suddenly leaned forHard, Some
thing has happened" he said to MS
wife, 'my sight has gone"
She placed his head in her lap and
famed him for a moment, and then,
becoming alarmed. carried him into
the mission and laid him down. Just
as his head sank back onto the /pillow.
he died. His work was finished and
he had left her after all:
During the past ten years Mr. Rider
has been subject to slight attacks or
heart failure, and had become fully
convinced that his death would come
as a result of it sooner or later The
symptoms have appeared from time to
time during the past week and yes
terday he sought his physician for
advice Although he was told that he
was in bad condition and that
trouble might be expected at any
time, the superintendent gave out not
one word of this information TO his
friends, but continued in his duties
with the same cheerful air which ne
has carried with him for the past
| half-score of years. 1t was with
gentle hand that the fatal malady
| touched him last night, and he passed
away reconciled to fate.
Mr.. Rider was sixty-five years old
and was born in Delphis, Ohio. His
boyhood days were spent in the east
and his early manhood in the defense
Of the nation. Later in life he left the
east and took up his residence IN
MERGED, California, from where he
came to Hawaii in 1899. From the
| time of his arrival here until his death
he had been in charge of the little
Kakaako Mission, which institution he
has built up until today 1t is one or
! the foremost of its kind in the islands.
He was practically the only person
who has had any influence over the
residents of the Kakaako district, and
many of the improvements for the
| better which now exist there were
| brought about by him. For the past
nine years the Kakaako Mission has
| been housed in new building sup
piled and maintained by the Atherton
Estate, and for two years prior to the
erection of the new building MIR.
| Rider lived as few Christian workers
| and missionaries to heather lands
haze cared to live. He was prominent
in religious circles, being deacon in
the Central Union church, and will
| ing worker in the interest OF any
/ phase of Christian undertaking. His
steadfast adherence to- the manly
principles which he had impressed
upon the people of the Kakaako dis
trict stand more in his behalf than
4 preaching or brilliance would have
/ done for some men.
Under the joint auspices of the
/ Central Union church and the George
| w. belong Post, Grand Army of the
Republic, the funeral services will be
neld in the mission house, South and
Queen streets, at three O'Clock this
afternoon Rev. A. A. Ebersole will
/ offfciate Following a short service
in their hall, the members of the local
G.. A. r. post will adjourn to the mis-.
sion house where the services proper
will be held The remains will then
be conveyed to the Nuuanu cemetery
where interment will take place. The
! G. A. R. will also hold a short service
! 1t tho Grave