The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-04-09
SORROW MARKS PASSING.
OH B. +. DILLINGHAM; AND.
BUSY LIFE GENTLY CLOSES.

b, Peterson, y. r. Cooke 81, father Dnr
mon, Mother Crabbe. Mother O. aiIe.
and Father md M6thkf Srnith. ,4ii
The unusual hospitality giveh " tie
Island people ',was oaa Of the thihds
that most Impressed Young DiIlih CHAM,
and often III later years he talked Of
this ihtpf6ssioh. The, feeling ehRet-
dered on his frst visit to Honolulu WIS
strengthehedfon hisi second visit as Art
Officer Of the Whistler q II was onsthS
third Wit that occurred the ineideiit
that probably more than anything elSe'
led him to choose HonoluIu rs his5home
I Horsebeck riding ever has been the
haEardons hut always most Attractive
'recreatiOn ashore for sailors. DillinR.
ham AZ that time was doubtless, az poor
=, rider AZ any sailor that ever hestSode
q mount and Il il not wholly sufpria
ing that one afternoon, when In, sconil
pany with / a. number OF other officers
from vessels in port he set. OF for, a
horseback; trip up the Nauaun valley,
he came TO grief. His horse threw him
snd he suffereda compound fracture Of
the right leg below the knee. Near the
srene of the accident stood the home
OF, Rev, howelF Smith and the Injured
sailor was carried into it -. ....,p.
Meets FUTURE Bride t;l....
I Before he was removed to the United
States Marine Hospital he met AMI
was cared for by the clergynian's
idanghter, Miss Emma Louise Smith,
The outcome Of this meeting was their
marriage four years later, on April 20,
\ 1t was in the forty Ave days that he
hay apatient III the hospital that the
feeling that had been awak ened by His
former visits to Honolulu strengthened
into an affectiOnate regard for the land.
The beauty and lure of the Island eoufiy
try banished all thoughts Of the sea
and he. resolved to make a place for
himself in the Island community. In
September, when he was able to leave
the hospital, he went to live at the
home of his friend, /. B. Peterson, and
Y was about a month later that he
found work, q clerkship in the store of
II. Dimond b Son. rrt.
| All of the treniendous commercial
achievements that enter into the man 4
Seeoga grew FROM this position IN the
Dimond store. Four years after ne
went to work in the, store he became
one of his owners, Acquiring the prop.
erty prscticallyrw without capital OF, his
own, dDiiiinghanis sterling integrity
was speedily recognized, in Honolulu
Just as afterwards IL became a factor
10 the progress, Of The, Territory and
vas recognized In San Francisco, Chi.
cage, New York, Lyndou and Toxic
In dull times or In the days Of pros.
pefity he was always able to command
money. Astute financiefs In world can,
tails risked their hundreds Of thousands
on has mere word. 1t was because the
knew the man. s,-c, -, -, q
When w, II. Dimond returned TO Ho,
nOlulu from the war of the Rebellion
in which he had served as staff Of
hcer with General Grant, he and his
father. II. DimoRd, decided to dispose
Of their business,
Knew the Man ~ g, = 81 ~
Though they knew DiIlLngham had
10 money, In sense they had taker
the measure OF the man. They told
him if he could put up half Of tn,
sum required, they would accept hi,
notes for the balance ("
C. Alfred CaatIs about this time re
turned from San Francisco to take th,
| position of registrar Of public accounts
and upon his arrival Dillingham; useC
the. first opportunity to meet him AM
/ place before him the proposal to taxi
over the Dimonl store. The result Of
i this, fnterviewI was. that through hi
father, >. n. Castle, Alfred Castle ar
/ ranged to make the fifty percent pay
meht required. ",Dillinghan & Co..
was formed and the notes Of that com
Pany were given for the balance of thu
money due. f'h'FPH ~ 49,, 60
This hsw firm began business April /
1869, the same month In which NI
bingham married the daughter Of Rev
lowell Smith, whom he had met afte
the horseback aecidsnt. The 20 part
hership' papers bctween \ Castle AM
Dillingham; were for 4 period OF A.
years and " was Just bsfore this iperioi
ended that Alfred Castle died, III 1874
The ifmI' continued RtoNihg steadil,
! for the next seven years, when In iSs
James q. Spencer, became identiie,
with it as a large stockholdeE as wei
as treasurer snisedneht to the $iReot
P6ration Of the company Is the, Pacif
Hardware Company.sF ~
With a large and profitable bushes
that was mskiny' strides Dillingham;
then firmly established as prominen
merchant with n family growing abou
him, was at a point where the averag
man would have stopped. But his wa
not the vision Of the ordinary mar
His real commercial career had no
even been lauhehed.N He had, however
been casting his eyes over the 'eommel
\ ciaf possibilitles that he alone saw.
'Hpflhngham,s Foliy7l $500
b. Noftb' " the city lay great vast,
uncultivated area, which to him spelle
opportunity. Then came what Nigh
have beeB expected, the, conflicts O
minds when tho mah Of clehr visio
sought to show TO his ',shortersig hte
fellows the things be saw so plainl,
Skephcism, doubt, even ridiculs m,
him at all turns IN those days. He ha
proposed TO build A, railway, so with II
originality, of their Kind the scoffe
= dubbed this project ''Dflhngbam 5 fO
+ ly.ht " becams like many Of the grel
things Of .the4so~h an tiilgstration
0 the folly Of the shortsightsi.
Z All OF the mans efforts between h
wears of 1885 to 1900 went into Il
y nuGw stupendous task of organiaiu
building and equipping the railrou