The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-08-21
Death COMES
!. to- FORMER
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Walter q. Smith, Lecturer for Ha.
/ vail Promotion Committee,
succumbs TO Attack Of Apo
plexy in Hospital az San ,Mateo,
California ,.,sts $50,
sANM&TsO, August 2o,-(Ao-
Coeiated Press by Federal Wire.
less) waiter q. Saith, formerly
sditef bf TIE ADVERTISE, died IN
| Che hosost3l here last night. he
/ vas broAyhs here 4 few days ago,
siffefl1g rem the effects OF par.
llytic stfo,ke, which had occurred
on the train, while he was en- route
10 the Co3et from his home ia
shetbrt4e, New York. go. E. apa
\ Waitm s6iifc+a Saith YVES pore in
She burne. Chrnango County, New
YorhOh July % 1889. Belore reach.
ing his rsinrity Mr.. Smith had stud
ie,l tat tho Brooklyn Polvtechnic, va.
ineNs privste scho0Is and the Hiehlan,l
Militsry Academy Of Worcester, Mas
shchnsctta, where he we elassmate
sf she Int Frederick Remineton, the
artistan nntkor. Interested ard ae.
Iivein affnis@ from Akovhood. he wasya
saJjfaia M tho Nati0ac Gunr,l a. six.
1rca and serra,l with his re Eipent on
-tfiRe ,Aaty, we writer for The press
Aven before that, and at nineteen was
stump speaker FOR the, Rersbliean
party. UT PSI
orisinasa casrino Day.
At he ugs,ef tw entv.two Mr.. Smith
entered car1eii University, later
bought on interest in the San Diego
Sun, with which paper he began o
movement that revived aud built ~
tho waaing lesfon industry Of Saa
Diego Comfy. In 1902 he psoeo ell
and helped to organize the celebration
OF the three hundred and fftieta an.
dyersarv Of the discovery Of Califer.
ait by .hian Rodfiguez Cebrillo,, for
which ~ ~ec~ived tbe ienyro$sed Thanks
of tAe Sify Of San Dicgos In this con-
nectioA re wrote and published
boob. asfhe STORY ofa San, DiegoS'
which sefs the 6fsf serions attempt to
record Tho annals Of that ancient town.
= Folsht. for Annexation.
AZ was customary with him, he easily
Exchanged, the sanetHm for the plat
form, aadi fi9 Sswarspeech,2t which
was quoted with others mi Congress
ional document. had much to do with
sli3hihg the citizens Of Honolulu in
armed opJositl6ni 10 President Cleye.
tand y policy Of restoring the Queen.
Throughout he was active in. public
affairs he was angOgReer of the Giti-
tehs' Guard, ehairmaniof the exeent-
i've committee, of the American League,
4 member Of the enrolment eom5aittee
Of the Annexation Club, a member Of
,the commission named by President
Dole 10 draft the Constitution of the
Republic OF Hawaii, and be received a
nornination from both political organ.
cations for vacancy IN the Advisory
sonneil, the Legislature OF that daN,
from which, at the request Of the ~
-eetors OF his paper, he Withdrew
The time was an exciting one, and
mnhy attempts wore made, one of
them by Claus Spreekels, 10 throttle
.hc Star and its radical editor, bat
zone Of them succeeded. When things
cooled down and island affairs lost
their interest TO Mr.. Smith, he return.
| ed TO the. Coast. On his departure
the American League presented him
with an address reeountiny and prais-
ing his service to the American cause.
~ j Correspondent in China. I
Going East from Honoluld in May,
1894, and thence back to San Diego,
where be delivered the Grafton on the
second Discovery Day celebration, the
following Noyesnfer found him in
China with the invading army Of Japa
nese. He had been sent there by his
old employees, the San Francisco Chron-
icle, as a war correspondent. Attached
to the headquarters Of Marshal Oyama,
he had chance to see all the fighting,
military and naval, ending in the fall
of Wei,hei- Wei and the surrender Of
what was left Of Admiral fing's fleet.
Mr.. smith was on the firing line Ia SIX
battles and many skirmishes, accom-
panying the field correspondent Of the
London Times, and had some pietu.
rescue personal experiences. At one
time he found a Chinese official map
of Wei-hei,Wsi harhor, which aided IN
the naval attack on the port, service
which the Japanese government sub
stantialiy recognised, After the war
he was received by the Premier Of
Japan, the then Count Ito, and by u
Hung Chang. TO whom he was presented
BY former Secetarytof State John w.
Foster The Chinese Yiceroy, before
concluding his work at the Shimono-
.seld peace conference, offered Mr.
Saith colonel 3 commission in his
provincial army, which the war cor.
respondent, not knowing the language
and having no technical training as a
soldier, declined. ~
a.. Came 70 Honolulu. f.
Mr.. Smith spent the next few years
with the Chfoniele, first as assistant
city editor, then as chief editorial
writer He also lectured in California
on his war experiences, In 1899, how.
ever, he returned TO Honolulu 10 take
the editorship Of The Advertiser. The
time was one of transition from the old
Hawaii TO the new, and, journalistichlly
speaking. IL was exciting 70 a degree
Mr.. Smith went into the struggle, TO
give and take, and IN battle ten years
long for good government this paper
made a record which can De read in tho
whole structure of American civilian
tion here. In candor, in honesty, in de.