Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 63, 16 Malaki 1894 Edition 02 — IN MEMOHIAM. [ARTICLE]

IN MEMOHIAM.

Hawaii&ns Hemember ' Friends. Tfaa I5tfa of Marrh w»« p*CM<i bv tbe grewt and »• tb«y so plume lhemseive* the trpreeeQUti v« 1 of pure y Auieiiein InU'nwU, tbe 1 Star and A- r trii~r witboct a * line to the memcry of the noble i and brave men who Iost tfaeir 1 iive«, on tkat same date, five i ! years ago in tbe terrible wr»th 1 of tbe elemcnt« at Apia Samoa on ! ! the 15tfa and 16th of M.\rcb 1889, ' On tbat dny tbe navie« cf tfae < | great |»owers were present in 1 j b«*ttle »rrwy in the faarbor j •f Apia cr d- r tfae aio»t strained | reUtiona. Tfae only power. whieh [ I couid have interfered wilh poeitive etfect at thal tinie was tfaat of Hitu wfao boids tfae winds onder control. And witfa wfaat fearfal eflect ’ Well is it remombere*l, by n«. tfae bravery displnyed by the offi- j | cers and men of all tfae warshij»«. when they foaght tfaeir mnt ia’. foe. Tbe Ang'o S»xoo race «ere there i <nd n*>b!v did lh**v mainUio the * hf-n« r «f the r»*'e. Et;glish. Araericans. «nd (»ermans foogbt together in one eflbrt to wiu a victory. Srace (orbids a detail of the bravery of the officere and men of the U. 8. S. Vandalia. or the Oemian warship Eber atul Adler •nd OIga, all lefl iheir bones on Ihe sands of >araoa. Bat what joy, -vrn mi' gled with grief when the -!■ ry of the U- S. S. Treiit«>n’s fight fcr life and honor was heard. i Aud the pulse bfrat «juicker when it was learned thal the >>fficere and men of the Nipaie, Vandalia and Trcnton, f:\cing «ieatfa as tbey were, the grim nessenger tinnotioed, cfae«red heartily aud faonestly the bold, determined and wiuning, fight, | raad« bv th« Eugiisfa ship j Ualliopo. lodar, h«rr in Honoinlo, th« | Hawaiians aro pr> bably the only ones \vfao reraeuiber tbose wfao were lost. Tfaey, tfae Hawaiiaua, Iat that time wer« the enteri tttinets of tfaoso brav** officere md men of tfae American shij>s before they left Honolulu for th«ir fight for life. May tfaeir meroory be ever greon witfa us Hawaiinas. an*l coold they, wfao h»ve gone, speak frora th« spirit laud thev wouhl sav, aloha. ■ — m 11