The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-16
Practical Mind Is
Disclosed By
j. B. Castles Will
Testament Is Filed For Probate,
Made Years Ago, and Provided
For Continuance Of His Favo-
rite Projects

signed in September, 1907-eleven years
ago-it may be difficult to carry out his
desires and intentions as expressed in
the document, but insofar rs possible
the executors, who filed the will in the
circuit court yesterday For probate, will
try to carry out his will.
The will first names various enter
pr>cs in which his energies and capital
were engaged, and declares his desire
hat they may be continued, his aim
being not to accumulate q great estate
Tor his heirs or family, for ne plainly
says that he regards the possession of
great wealth as danger and liable to
rjurc character, and finally in the ag-
grPgate to result in national decay.
Vocational School
After making suitable provision for
his family, he desires that the remain
ing income he accumulated toward an
educational purpose, the object of which
is TO develop character and teach the
ruiinPnts of self-help. These ends he
hoped to accomplish through co edu
rational school where the principles of
scientific and practical agriculture and
domestic economy would be taught, in
which each pupil would he required to
earn at least part of the cost Of such
an education.
To use the exact language Of the will:
, " Such a school should be run MS a farm,
with the best ability that can be Sc
cnrpI for such purpose, and the en-
dowment Of the school should be Calcu,
'atpd to meet the deficit after full value
has been credited for the products de
lvrred to market, minus the credits
unid to the students for work and the
total expenses.
Entirely Non-sectarian
II was also Mr.. Castles desire that
in such a school no special religious
! form or idea should be required.
Such a school, he thought, ought to
train its students to the ideal that the
highest aim in life is to do as much
good and confer as much happiness on
one : fellow creatures as possible. Sub,
ordinate to this is the idea of absolute
personal independence.
! The executors and trustees named in
the will were L. A. Thurston, F. B.
MrStocker and D. l.. Wilmington. After
Mr.. McStocker s death a codicil named
| his son, Harold X. l.. Castle, for the
Vacancy, and there is proviso that in
case of the absence or disability of
either Of those named, w. R. Castle is
to act in any vacancy.
His will devses to his wife, Julia
White Castle, the estate known as Ma
huiiani, on Haleakala, Maui, and oil
\ The rest of his estate he leaves to his
executors and trustees for various pur
poses.
Continues His Projects
He makes disposition of the business
known as the Hawaiian Development
Company, which has ceased business tc
large extent, particularly in its active
numbering work at Pahoa, Hawaii. He
EXPRESSED the desire to have it go on
in the same way as though were
here" and even added that to continue
! It he wanted the executors to 'hypothe
cate all of nv securities; but, prefer
ably to the continued burden of heavy
! iudcbtedness, as rapidly as full value
NAV be obtained.
That Mr.. Castles heart was in al
! his Hawaii ventures, not only the Pah0H
Lumber enterprise, but over in Kona
District, is evidenced by his desire tC
have two thousand shares of Alexander
& Baldwin company shares sold to be
put into his Kona investments, prefer
ably the West Hawaii railroad, Anc
into the KooIau Railroad, which runs
| from Kahuku to Kahana, on Windwar'
| Oahu.
After the Kona Development Com
panv, and the enterprises which ] have
| nInnned to mature from the Iieeia Agri
cultural Companies properties ShaI
have become successfully established,
10 not wish to expand any further II
sugar, but only 40 far rs each mil may
become the central factory for the man
ufacturr of sugar from the cane bought
Of small growers, MIR. Castle wrote.
However, Mr.. Castle gave his execu
tors the widest discretion IN to invest
mrnt and development.
High Railroad Ideals
~ hope before many years that fran
| chises Of such character may be ob
tanned for both the KOOlau Railway
! company and the West Hawaii Railway
COMPANY as will simultaneously give tt
such companies the largest command
both of all the resources available FOL
| financing the same, and of protecting
the public interests by turning back t'
the State all the receipts in excess o.
such interest upon the actual cash IN
vested in the enterprise as may b'
agreed on as reasonable.
"These companies enabled to owl
or lease land without limit should logic
allv become me finest possible agency
| for wise Immigration and hOmcStead
! ING hv the redistribution of such land
along the lines of the road -