The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-06-15
KAMEHAMEHANSH
pAY 4 TRIBUTE
TO DEAD FRIEND
School Cadets Attend Memorial
Services In Honor Of Late
Charles R. Bishop MI
ADDRESSES MADE IN BOTH = I
HAWAIIAN AND ENGLISH
Fred W. BeckIey and Hon. W. o.
Smith Tell Of Life Work Of
Benefactor "a
(From Monday Advertiser

(From Monday Advertiser.)
Kamehameha School cadets attended
in a body yesterday the memorial ser.
vices held in Rawaiahao Church in
honor Of the late Charles Reed Bishop,
founder Of the Kamehameha Schools,
and listened TO the eulogies pronounce
by Fred W Beei1ey, an old Kameha-
mehn boy, and by the Hon. W. o.
Smith, lifelong friend and one of the 4
trustees Of the Bishop Estate and prcsi-
lent; Of the board Of trustees of the
schools. IS 80 i#eTE. gil
Mr.. BeckIey spoke both in Hawaiian
and English and Mr.. Smith in English.
Their portraits Of the mans salient
characteristics agreed. Mr.. Smith quot
cd, as perhaps more typical than any
other one utteranee, the acknowledge
ment Mr.. Bishop returned to his friends
here Of the greeting they sent him on
his ninetieth birthday, three years ago
last February. .. .-... :.
Honolulu Moro Truly Home !
Sever since my arrival in Honolu.
H. he w7ote, elm eighteen hundred
and forty six have been treated with
great kindness and respect by the peo-,
pie of Hawaii, ma i've and foreign of all
ranks, making Honolulu more truly my
home, wherein the people are really my
ncighbors, for a greater part Of my life.
than any other place .,s. !.
For the prosperity which has en-
sblCd me to contribute toward the vari-
Gus objects of public and private in
terest have been largely indebted to,
nv fellow residents of the Islands for
their confidence, good will and cooperaE
ton. and tho success of the institutions
in which ] have been permitted to take
part has given me great satisfaction.
"To all who have congratulated me
on my birthday wish to express heart!
felt thanks and to wish that the re.
naming years of their lives may be as
manv "a they desire and all filed with
God s choicest blessings
Rc7a From humble Rank
"Mr. Bishop" continued Mr.. Smith,
twas a man of humble beginnings.
have often heard him tell that almost
his first employment here was helping
post the books in the finance depart.
mrnt for dollar day.
"He believed deeply in the eduea-
tive value of labor, that the best re-
wa'ds OF this life are born of effort.
II was a maxim of his that, although
inherent talents and different abilities
may be assigned to men, the greatest
opportunity of all, the opportunity to
work, is given alike to all.
"He might have retired to live
lif" of h"no"s. case, self qualification
and self deyelopment comparatively
early, but he retained to the last o
wish to exercise what he often called
- 'strwarhahiD' ovn- interests that he
did not regard as his own.
~ ...kr "wled Qment have read
to you shows, he was always mindful
.Is ueULs co othe $. The grateful,
cooperative spirit of that note was
>srongly Characteristic of the man.
Scrupulous Integrity
81 think of him as a man of scru,
ImIous personal integrity, not only in
his business DEALINGS, but in all the
other relations of life. He never made
ovcrstatements He had perfect self
control. He was exceedingly slow to
speak evil of any one or anything lie
was ALWAYS mindful Of the courtHsies
due to others.
ellis association with his wife the
Princess Bernice Pauahi Paki, and the
MANY prominent percentages her rank
and birth brought him in contact with
was of great help to him. They had
W" children, but 1t may be said that
his many benefaetions were born of
their love.
1.-THE Bishop museum is not only
monument of scientific lore and store.
house of the curious, but was planned
for the sentiment preservation of the
Hawaiian past" ..
Fa~@eeihg Provision
Fred TeckIev spoke of the farsesing
r~"visiou with which Mr.. BishoiJ
planned for the gigantic struggle
which young Hawaiians must meet with
IN" children Of other and older civiiiza,
tinrs.o '.-r. ..
lie. painted him as quiet, austere
man, Of few words, but always, father
~ aud Kind. G1, oil "a i,ul.
Lu all the years I knew him. he
said, 81 never heard aim speak one
cross word. At our last meeting N
San Francisco, with tears 81. canning
down his aged countenance, he gave me
this greeting to carry home:
4" Give my aloha to my boys. Tell
them To be one, never tn quarrel, to
avoid fractional feuds Tell them to
stand up for whatever Kamehamehu
stands for, but TO remember also, u
they find they are in the wrong, that
they must be men enough to acknowf-
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