The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-12-14
The KcGormatory Again.

The B~cfornnatorY Again.
The Government paper, the editor of which is
a member of the Board of Education, having
taken no notice of the charges of m~aladministra-
ton of Office, made by this paper against them,
in their management of the affairs of the Reform
atory School, it remains for US to publish the
following Official notice, which corroborates what
has been said
To me Editor Of the Hauaiiaa Gazsue:
yaat, T.. J. HYDE.
EDuoArrox OFFICE, Nov. :, 1867.
,,l D r. r.: sI bsooIa,j .sPi IS, TO your ss r %9.e Of the : Is, inst, TTqpes,-
pre,lye % their satisfaction Of the manner in which the Indus
your direction, 1 ain authorized TO say, that since the commence
the Industrial and RefoTniatory school at Kapaiama, oahu,
has been conducted under the supervision Of yourself aud Mrs.
Hyde, has besn satisfactory 10 the Board. have the honor TO
w. Jas. SMITH, Secretary.
As the facts already published have failed to
impress upon the Board of Education the heavy
responsibilities resting upon then, it becomes a
duty to the public, though an exceedingly dis
agreeable one to somewhat elaborate the said
facts, and that in language - plain. rs To pcne-
trate even the obtu-cne-s displayed by the said
Board. This action is prompted by no malice,
nor party feeling, but with the purcst intention,
NN"t e' e@ ~ NhC Izio clDuIu Dt-
come thoroughly eognizant of certain R~eformatoFy
facts which cannot be disputed, facts with which
every person in Honolulu, except perhaps the
Board OF Education, is conyersant; facts, not TO
be passed over in silence, but which have finally
to be publicly discussed in the Legislative Assem-
bly,, and to winch it will then be impossible for
the Board to put in any such plea as ignorance.
l. That the Board have discharged a thorough
l.
man of some twenty years experience in school
work and industrial training Of children whose
conduct has always been satisfactory to them, as
they publicly acknowledge and have appointed
as his Successor one Mr.. Peter Corney, late of
Kauai, Il man who has never had the least expert
encc in the training of children, whose antcce-
dents should have suggested to TIE Board n loca-
ton for him, ut the greatest convenient distance
from an institution for the reformation and indus
trious training of young girls.
2. That the Board have discharged from their
service the matron, Mrs. Hyde, a woman of large
experience and known industry and economy a
mother, with whose conduct they also express
themselves satisfied q n woman :" to quote from
one of tine Board, not to be surpassed in her
influence for good over young girls - one who
has won and still retains the respect of every per-
son with whom she has become acquainted, the
truth Of all which every reader and every mem-
Der of the Board will i~nwardly corroborate.
8. That a foreign family of six or eight per-
sons, has been quartered and rationed on funds
appropriated for the reformation and maintenance
Of natire children.
!. That in addition to these, three others are
engaged by the Board to do work so that TO
manage the Reformatory on the reformed plan,
requires some ten or eleven persons, that il, about
one to every four children or are the Board pre-
pared to admit that only three of these are officers,
and the rest pensioners ON the Reiormatory funds ?
These facts are submitted To the Board for thciI
consideration, not in any spirit of i'll will, but
with one wish, that good may result 10 tie ma
tires. AZ for the public, on no subject has such
entire unanimity preyailed-sympathy for Mr..
Hyde, and indignation ut the conduct of the
Board. The Britishers, to their honor, have in
addition to their sympathy, offered the use OF
their purses in forwarding Mr.. Hyde's views in
leaving the country.
Ii should be considered that any institution
managed by unskilled and inexperienced officers,
whatever be their number must eventually be-
come n failure that the appropriation was allow
Ell for a R~eiormatOry School. and not fer the
support Of foreigners that the Board are rcspon-
sible to the Legislative Assembly for the cxpcndi-
turc Of the appropriation, and are conscientiously
bound To obtain the best possible officers in OPPOSE
ticn to any little private piquc, or nePotic feeling
for their connections.
The orly thing which remains to be done now,
Is to draw up a petition TO His Majesty, the King.
to remove the members of n Board, who have
thus disgracciully, If not corruptly acted. In the
mean time, if the magistrates do their duty, they
will use the discretion the law allows them and
discharge every boy for whom application shall be
made, and while managed n it Is, not send
another boy or another girl To Il place which bids
fair to become the reverse Of what il was intended.
We may have used strong words, but truths
which can be corrobOrated, warrant and excuse
them.
NIcNIco-IscnIto ~.Junrcz.
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