The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-02-20
INSTITUTIONS IN H0N0LilAU
Ths Industrial and Reformatory
School.

was uttered by the wisest of men,
it is no less true that it is a proof of
wise forethought on the part of those
responsible for the training of their
own heirs and successors in the
various walks of life that they devise
ways and means for giving practical
effect to the principle embodied in
the precept. In every community,
and in every age, there are waits of
humanity destitute as well of the
means of subsistence as of improve
ment and development. Others
there are, born or bred under inhu-
ences of pernicious sort, and
whose development in the wrong
direction is only too rapid, but who,
when detached from their surround
ings and brought under salutary
discipline. are fitted to become use
ful members of civilized society, in
stead of being thrust out from it,
1t has long since become one of the
recognized functions of civilized
government to make provision "for
the care and education of helpless
and neglected children as also for the
reformation of juvenile offenders :"
and for this purpose the Hawaiian
Legislature, in the reign of Kameha
meha ", passed an act, dated the
30th December, 1864, to establish
an Industrial and Reformatory
School. Accordingly the school was
started in March of the following
year, at Keoneula, Kapalama, under
the superintendent of Mr.. L. j.
Hyde. The President of the Board
of Education, Nj. kekuanaoa, in his
report to the Legislature of 1866,
says there were then in the school
fifteen boys, "well cared for"
Grained in habits of industry" and
"recelvlng fair literary education.
The Board express hope that "for
them, rs well as many others here
after, useful manhood for some,
who otherwise would have been lost,
will richly repay the state for the
| CulC VI JntlHs TIC uCl VI tlC icy
islature referred to above was super
seeded by a new act passed 2lst
July, 1870, which is the statute,
probably amended more or less in
matters of detail, under which the
institution has been conducted dur
ing the subsequent fifteen years.
Previous to the adoption of the new
law, however, sundry changes and
improvements had been made. In
December, 1867, Mr.. Hyde was
succeeded in the superintendency
by Mrs. Frances Corney, whose
daughter at present sways the edu-
cational sceptre In the Pohukaina
Girls School, on Likelike street.
A new and spacious building was
erected and opened in 1868, and the
premises, previously held under
lease, were acquired by purchase.
The report of the Board of Educa-
ton to the Legislature of '68, shows
that at that time there were in the
school 81 boys and 2 girls, and the
total since its establishment was
then 81 boys and A girls. The in
stitution had passed the stage of eX-
pertinent, and was already recog-
nized as an established fact that had
"come to stay" In view of the
enlargement, present and prospec.
tive, of the school, an increase OF
appropriation was asked and granted
The appropriation, at the present
writing is 5000 per annum, which
is disbursed, with one eye to ELI
cheney and the other to economy, 81
that income and expenditure ar,
pretty evenly balanced, year by
year. The names of girls, of whom
u very small number had ever beer
inmates, gradually disappeared from
the roll, and the school has, fo
several years past, been eXclusivel,
boys school. Mrs. Conveys pc
riod of service terminated in Feb
ruary, 1869, when Miss Mary Parke
held the position until January
1873. At that date, Mr.. G.. ii
Dole became superintendent, ant
was succeeded by Mr.. Walter Hill
who took charge of the institution
in January, 1876, and has held tn
position to the present time, identi
flying himself so closely with tn
care of the boys that his first an
only holiday vacation, during hi
ten years Of service, was taken fo
three weeks in September last
During this time, the Reformation
School has had measure of sue
cess that will stand favorable cou
parison with any other institution {
the kind in the world. Graduate
Of the institution have acquitte
themselves very creditably in variol
situations, and when it is know
that most of the entries consist {
the worst elements of juvenile $,
ciety, the number of boys who ha,
gone out and become worthy an
industrious men, speaks volum,
for the efficiency with which Il
establishment has been conducte,
1t is exceedingly unfortunate tn
Mr. Hill has rhipHu On, q ornupt