The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-02-20

fine lawn in front, well dotted with
magnificent shade trees, consisting
of monkey pods, algerobas and in
gas. On the premises, there are
also considerable numbers of fruit
trees, maugos, tamarinds, alligator
pears, and Java plums, most of
which have been planted by the
present superintendent. In connec-
ton with the institution, but about
three quarters of mile away from
it, there are two lots of land on Lii
liha street, of three and thirteen
acres respectively, where all the
taro required for the bill of fare in
the dining room is raised, the work
of cultivation by the boys them
selves being the principal feature of
the industrial department of the
school.
SCHOOL BUILDINGS AND PLAYGROUND.
The school building is plain, well
built and conveniently arranged two
story structure. The upper fiat is
the dormitory, and adjoining this is
the warder's room, standing, like
watch tower, over veraudah in
front of the superintendent office.
The dormitory is bright airy room,
with high ceiling, and is seventy-two
feet long by 81 feet wide. Four
rows of beds run the full length of
the room. The beds are arranged
at equal distances apart, affording
ample space to pass between. Those
on one side of the room are for
large boys, and on the other side
for small boys, and are arranged
with view to keeping the boys
separate, during the time of occupa-
ton. All the bedsteads are of iron.
Grass mattresses are used, and are
all made in the institution. Every
Saturday, the floor is scrubbed, and
altogether the dormitory wears
bright, clean and airy appearance.
Adjacent to the dormitory, in the
rear part of the building, is water
closet for night use, which is cleared
out every morning. From this side,
a door opens on to the stair leading
down to the enclosed playground.
In the opposite side, door opens
into the warder's room, so that he
has instantaneous access to the DOR
mitory should sickness, disturbance
or inspection require his presence.
On each side of the warder's watch
tower, doors open from the dormi
tory on to two flights of stairs lead
ing to the verandah on the lower
fiat. Passing down one of these
stairways, the visitor finds himself
on the verandah at the front door
opening into the superintendent
office, which, with the school room,
class room and dining room, occu-
pies the lower fiat. The superin-
tendent's office measures 1S Y fit. !;
the school room, 27 X 81 #. ; the
class room, 1Sx25 it,; and the
dining room, 34x27 #. A door
opens from the office into each of
the other three rooms. The lot on
which the main building and the
outbuildings stand is enclosed by an
almost air-tight board fence, ID feet
high. The area thus enclosed is $50
feet long by $50 feet wide. About
200 by $50 feet of this is an open
playground, where the boys have
ample room for outdoor amuse-
ments, military and baud drill, and
other exercises adapted to the con-
stitution of the genus boy. Facing
the playground stands the old dor
mitory, now used as clothing room.
The internal arrangements of this
branch of the establishment may be
said to be complete. When school
is out, the boys are marched in here
to change clothes preparatory to
going to field work. After work,
they return to the same place to
throw off their agricultural costume
=. and rehabiltate themselves with the
suits of the morning. The furniture
of the room consists of a wardrobe
for new clothes, case for boots, ant
a case for washed clothes. The tor
of this last is finished desk fashion
and when new clothes are givel
out, a record is made of the articles
delivered and the names of tn,
,, happy recipients. Round the walls
, there are numbered pegs for TIN
suits, and every suit is on its Owl
o peg, the numbers of the respectiv
! pegs corresponding to the number
g of the boys, so that every on
+, knows where to find his own outfit
The repairing, washing and ironing
!, of their clothes are all done by them
:. selves. Until recently, clothing wa
: made on the premises, but this wa
e found to involve more trouble an
< expense than buying the article
4 ready made. The next building t
q this is the cooking shed, structur
n erected out of old lumber. Th
q cooking is on the wholesale plaI
\ The utensils consist OF large bet
"a boiler and taro steamer. III
Il next building is the bathing an
washing shed, under which stan