The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1913-07-15
RALPH LYMAN VIII.
COX BROWNS At
HAENA
Gets Into Under-current and Is
Carried Beyond All Possible
Aid And Taken From Water
With Life Extinct.
ALL KAUAI IS IN MOURNING
Funeral Services Will Be Held
At Four O'clock Wednesday
Afternoon at Lihue Cemetery.

A strong under current a d a
heart insulficiently strong to offer
resistance is said to be responsible
for the passing away Of Ralph T..
Wilcox while in bathing at the
Haena beach about $50 p. NJ. list
Saturday. The news of the ul-
fortunate affair was SER to Lihue
relatives in telephone message
when all hopes for rcsuscltation
had failed.
Hon. S. w. WilcoI accompanied
by his daughter MABEL, picked up
DR.. Putnam and hurried to the
scene, arriving about nine clock.
Mr.. Wilcox had not been feel
ing we'll for some time and had
gone with a party to Haena for the
weekend, and together with him
at the time Of the accident, were
Mrs. Wilcox Il d Miss Water
house. Mrs. Scott who sat on the
lanai heard the cries for help and
hurried to the scene. Heroic efforts
were made to reach Mr.. Wilcox
by Miss Waterhouse and a Japa-
nese boy, but the current was too
much for them, and had it not
been for Mrs. Scott and Louisa
Kelaula, who both threw them
selves into the water, in all proba-
bility there would have been three
lives lost instead o one. Mrs,
Scott with Mrs. Wilcox's assis-
tance succeeded II getting Mr.
Wilcox ashore where willing and
loving hands with skilled assis-
tance did all in their power to re-
vive him but to no avail-He who
does all things for the best had
taken him home.
The body was conveyed to Ii
hue Sunday forenoon where pri-
vate funeral Services were conduct
ed at the family residence under
the direction of Rev. Hans Isen-
berg, after wNich the remains were
taken aboard the Kinau which
sailed at five o'clock for Honolulu.
Accompanying the remains were
Mrs, r. l.. Wilcox, Miss Mabel
Wilcox, c. II. Wilcox, Gaylord
Wilcox, Hon. Geo. N. Wilcox, w.
H. Rice, il Hon. J. H. COney
and Malcolm Coney.
Cremation took place in Homo
lulu yesterday and t h e remains
arrived on the w. c. Hall early
this morning. Funeral services
will be held at the cemetery in Ii
hue tomorrow [ Wednesday, after
noon at four O'Clock. at which al
friends are invited.
. The deceased was a son of Hon
and Mrs. S. w. Wilcox, was thir-
ty-seven yesrs Of age, and leaves
besides mother and father, wife
three sisters and two brothers tC
mourn his untimely end. He liveC
an exemplary life and was connect
ed with all the leading business en-
terp1ises of the island, being among
other things, General manager fo'
c.. n. Wilcox, treasurer of the Ii
hue Ice & Electric Co., and Audi
tor of The GARDEN l SLAM
Publishing Co. In the ! t
capacity the editor and manager o
this paper feel that they have los
a most valuable friend ana adviser
THE GARDEN ISLAND shares the
grief of the relatives and commu
uity at large, over the remova
from our midst of such an excel
lent man.
Ralph Lyman Wilcox was ont
of the earth's nobiemen, and hi
influence will be felt here
many years. Always quiet, grave
and thoughtful he was frienc
who could BE- depended upGn il
time OF need, and his talents as
mister Of whatever business he be
came interested in will make hi!
loss a very severe one to the Variou
companies and organizations wit
which Il was connected, to Sd
nothing Of his family and friends
His absence will leave a void III til
life Of Lihue nd this Islam
which ii will be absolutely lmpo'