The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-05-06
Beloved and MOurned by
LoWly and Poor Of
Kakaako.

Succumbing to a second stroke Of
heart failure Phpres W. Rider, superin-
tendent of the Kakaako Mission, died
iast night shortly before eight clock.
Peacefully ending day filed with its
usual labor, and closing a life that has
heen filed with much Of it, the g May
or of Kakaako,''p surrounded by his
motley flock of ragged parishioncrs who
knew of the better things of life only
rs he had taught them, passed away,
three minutes after warning of his APP
preaching end had come. a.
Yesterday morning and afternoon,
The superintendent still apparently as
sturdy as during the stirring days of
the early sixties when he marched to
the Union drum beats OF the Rebellion,
he visited the police station, chatted
and joked with his friends, and invited
attendance upon his mission. Isfr ID
Last hight he made plans to go to
the GOA. n. meeting, where with the
remaining men of the Last Company,
he reviewed the old days and comment.
ed on the new. He was then told that
the meeting had been postponed until
today. .qHe rtD9ab fI.if
r'That is good he laughed, patting
his wife S hand ms they sat ON Their
lanai at the mission on South street,
81 will not leave You tonight,
A few minutes later, he leaned sud-
lenly forward.
Falls in Arms Of Wife.
Something's happening" he ex-
claimed, "My sight s gone.'
He placed bis head in his wife's lap
and size famed him Then he sudden.
~ stiffened. Alar..Ied she carried him
into the mission and laid him on the
floor. He died as his head sank to the
pillow.
He had left her, after all.
For the past eleven years Mr.. Rider
had been one of the few good angels
which that Providence.forgotten hole of
inhupauities has known. Only of late
years, leavened by the gentler ingred-
ents of life which he introduced to its
impoverished inhabitants, has that dis
triet been fit for men to live in. Much
of this Improvement for the better was
brought about by this good man.
Humanity's Friend.
For the past nine years, the Kakaako
Mission had been housed in new and
bright quarters supplied and maintained
by the Anterior Estate. For the two
years prior to that Mr.. Rider lived as
few missionaries to heather lands have
cared to live.
He had just passed his sixty-ffth
wear. Born in Delphis, Ohio, his boy
hood was spent in the East, aud his
early manhood in the defense of his
country. During the latter part Of his
life, before he cane to Honolulu. he
resided in the West, and left MERGED,
California, for his labors in Hawaii.
Had he lived until June first he would
have celebrated the fourteenth anniver,
sary of his arrival on these shores
He was deacon of the Central
Union Church, prominent in all fields
of religion, not SO much by his preach.
inGs or his brilliance but by his stead
fast adherence to the manly principles
that in the course of those eleven years
he had impressed upon this woe .begot.
ten district.
Date of Funeral Fixed.
The funeral services will be held at
the mission house, South and Queen
streets at three O'Clock this afternoon
under the auspices of his church, Doe
tor Scudder officiating. Interment will
be in the q. A. H. plot, Nuuanu The
members Of the GoOrpe w. DeLong Post
Grand Army of the Republic will hold
services at the grave, The details
have not been yet fully arranged The
pall-bearers have not been selected as
yet.
Mr.. Rider had been subject TO heart
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