Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-05
JAMESL. MLEAN
DIES SUDDENLY;
CITY IS SHOCKED
Vice-PreSident of Inter-lSland
Company SuCcumbS to
Heart-Failure
DEATH COMES AS He
TAKES EARLY STROLL
Steamship Company and BusI-
ness Organizations Mourn
His Loss

James l.. Mclean, yice-presiGent
and acting president OF the lnter-lsl-
and Steam Navigation Company, died
OF heart failure with shocking sud-
denness about o'clock this morning,
while taking his customary early Walk
on the streets about his home.at liza
South Beretania street.
r. w. Gaylord of the Hawaiian
Dredging Company was the first per-
son to see Mr. McLeans body after
the death. Gaylor1 was coming down
town when he made the discovery at
Hassinger street, near Pensacola. He
Immediately notified the police and
Motorcycle Officer Sam Ferreira
found the body still warm when he
arrived.
Deputy Sheriff Asch and DR.. George
F. Straub arrived shortly afterwards
but. too late to be of any assistance.
The body was taken home in the en-
ergency hospital ambulance. Mrs. Nc
Lean said that her husband had no.
been feeling we'll for some time, but
went out as usual at about $50 this
morning for his daily walk DR..
Straub gives the cause of death as
heart failure and Deputy Asch says
that probably no inquest will be held
or an autopsy performed.
Among Mr.. McLean's business
friends and acquaintances--and they
are countless in this city-his death
is ascribed in part to weakened ply
sical condition, brought on by severe
and uprernittings werk forsseysral
years past He was q very conscjen-
tious man in his MANY duties with the
Inter-Island and the business cares
with which he was entrusted gave
him no little anxiety.
Recently he had complained, though
only at times, os some pains around
his heart. Yet his general health
seemed so excellent that the news OF
his death was all the greater shock
to those who knew him.
Waterfront Shocked at Death
Jimmy Mclean dead? 1t can't be
true! Why. | saw him at work only
yesterday afternoon"
This is what nine out of ten water
front and shipping men said today
when they learned OF the sudden
death from aneurism of the heart this
morning of James L. Mclean, vice
president of the Inter-Island Steam
Navigation Company, Ltd.
Those who had known Mr. Mclean
for a third of century went around
in daze They had grown old here
and had seen him daily for decades.
They could not believe he had gone
out Of the world. Repeatedly they
said so.
Jim Mclean was the squarest man
in Honolulu" said one man grown
gray in the Inter-lsland's service. "He
always was the same, with courte-
Gus word for everyone. / never knew
him to get angry. He gave us all a
square deal every time"
Others spoke along the same line.
They commented on his business in
tegrity, his faithfulness to his work;
how he was always at his desk, how
he died in harness, closing his desk
for the last time at O'Clock yes
terday afternoon, going home cheer.
full and kindly. as he always did.
Offices Show Evidence of Grief
In the Inter-Island offices was mute
evidence of sorrow felt by employees.
1t was large tears which had fallen
on the linoleum floor covering in the
passageway between the offices. The
girl stenographers made no attempt
to conceal their grief. They we're
crying at o'clock this morning when
they learned the news Among the
men the same sorrow was manifested
not so emotionally, perhaps, but it
was still there They were grieying
as soldier grieyes for comrade
he has lost in battle
The central door of the Inter-Island
main offices was closed at O'Clock
this morning and remained closed all
day. On the glass pane was fastened
slip, Closed Out Of Respect to the
Memory of James L. Mclean, Vice.
| President of this Company"
President and General Manager
James A. Kennedy of the Inter-Island,
who is in San Francisco, was notified
this morning by Acting General Man
ager Norman f Gedge of Mclean S
death. 1t is not expected Kennedy
will return sooner than he had plan.
ned when he left here The president