The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-06-08

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1.-THE estate, including real and per. !
sonal property, everything, and build |
ings, roads, sewers, fences, graded
realty. Il valued In round numbers
az $9.gf6,0Oh. On Gain, the value IL
$1,T37O0O; Hawaii, $34s,50O; Molokai,
/ $4,000; Kansb $24 900; Maui, $4,000.
Personal property 100000. Kamcha
meha Schools, $5O7 900. - e,
| 1.-THE revenue Of the schools from
| the estate amounts 10 SOL 800; for gen
praI purposes the estate Yields in addi.
tion 1884; total. &134,932. There is
a sntplua Of $40. 2o3, Repairs and i'm
provements Of all kinds are provided
FOR The museum gets, in addition to
its endowment, support from the
Charles n. Bishop Trust which amounts
TO over 5000, 200. "
wide Renefa ctions
= This trust Is quite comprehensive in
IT'S bonefaetiona After varioua rela.
:, tives of tho donor have been provided
for. 1t Il distributed, some Of it III.
/ rectly and some Of it at the discre-
tion Of the trustees, to the Mills School
in Honohila Ito remain 30 long as the
school In in charge of +. W. Damon or
lwifcl, Hilo Boarding School, Young
Men y Christian Association. Queen =
Hospital, Ameriean Relief Fund, Lii
brary OF Hawaii, Board of the Hawa
iinn Evangelical Associat ton, Maternity
Home, night schools in Honolulu, Ha-
waiian Historical Society, Kameha nleha
tomb, Kamehameba Schools Coward
celebration Of Founders Day, scholar
ships. chaplain. Alumni Association,
rhRpelA, KawaiahaO Female Seminary
and other simi!aL schools for girls, free
kindergartens for the benefit of Ha-
byhians, for establishing or aiding a
free Kindergarten for the general pur.
poses Of Oahu College aud for two
scholarships there, Central Union, Ka.
waiahao aud Kaumakapili Churches,
q American BOARD Of Commissioners for
: Foreign Missions, and for unidentified
charitable or educational institutions
(which the trustees of the fund may
: decide to help,
, The Queen Hospital was one OF Mr.
3 BiEhoDs fayorite benefactions 1t was
q established in 1889 by Kamehameha "
, and Queen Emma. The King and
:. Queen personally canvassed Honolulu
for subscriptions and secured enough
: The next year, 1860, the hospital wal
ppened to the public. Eventually Mr.
? Bishop built wing for its enlarge
! ment, and q. few years ago he addeC
$4,000 to the endowment, which wa
!. used, with other money, to conStruc
y the Pauahi wing, q structure large
u than the original main building, Fou
free beds added 10 the equipment b!
J. Mr.. Bishop represent an endowment o
$23, goo.
After his wifes death, which oC
Is Cured suddenly, Mr.. Bishop continue
B. his banking business, from which Nj
Aldfieh, his partner, eventually ~
D. signed s. M. Damon and John Pat
e. later went in as partners, and som
II years after Mr.. Paty's death Mr.. Ds
D mon bought out the business NJ
Y Bishop was growing old; be was seq
Is enty-two. and he felt the need Of tn
9 more invigorating climate of San FraI
s cisco. He already had interests Their
d and was a. stakeholder of long standin
70 In the Bank of California, and he fe
he hat he could find in. this atmospheI
y and in fresh undertakings long,
o. lease of life.
u Annexation Politics
n How far the annexation uuheava
which. divided society in Honolulu
= rbolished the monarchy and so change
-
=. rs to make things Hawaiian, seem sad
Mr.. Bishops leaving, one may on
80 'urmise, but his departure was ma
about the time, the provisional 20
N rnment gave way to the republi
10 The personal attitude of Mr.. Bish,
=" toward the political changes was tw
TX cold. To him the old institutions we
~ "ull of pleasant memories; the form
- Queen had been the, companion al
relative of his late wife and q Der
~ iciary Of her will: he knew and W
III he friend Of the old natives, royal a
~, 'Ommon the land was full of instit
oopt, lions which he. and the late Prince
o. 9ernice had built up with the fav
~ If the crown.
~. These circumstances must have Civ
~ him a sentiment averse to the n
order Of things, but bis practical mi
SRw at the same time that only by /
I nexatiOn of the Islands to the Unit
a. States could they be protected fir
- foreign aggression aud assured of
~ free trade with the American manila
wv which was essential to their prospect
On the side of sentiment he was
he independence of the, group; on
side Of safety and commercial stabil
y; We was for the annexation policy VIII
- the provisional and republican COVE
~ ments stood for. So he took no act
~ part in the controversy, except n
~. when the first annexation eommiss
~ vent to Washington he. followed W
40 view of doing what he could, in
w svcnt of treaty, to get the Gu
IL. md her heir, the Princess. KaiulI
" money compensation for their loss
Nv Mr. Bishop bad been previously UT
80 70 work at Washington in favor o
Drotec torate for Hawaii, instead
complete annexation, but after cons
ing John W. Foster and other Am
AN pubirists, he declined TO do so,
NJ. the ground that the United ST,
NJ, vonld not he responsible for the
eis IF any government it could not cont
" Mr., Bishop had no business utter
io in Hawaii at the time of his de
" but watched the, advance of prospe
Pie here with satisfaction which pro
'lM his continued loyalty to the old h6
He believed in sugar as the MAIN
Ioi of all Hawaiian industries, and, W
'iN welcoming every worthy effort to
NJ versify agriculture, did not think