The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-12-19
KAMEHAMEHA SCHOOLS,
Celebration of the Anniversary Of
Founders Day. Interesting Tx
ercIses.

whose princely benevolence those
noble educational institutions, the
Kamchameha Schools, were found.
ed, was observed to-day MS Found
cr's Day" Appropriate exercises
were held in the large school room.
On table on the platform stood
several beautiful bouquets Of flow
crs. The pupils of both schools
were in attendance, looking exceed
ingly neat, and were very attentive
throughout the exercises. On the
platform were seated Hon. Chas.
II. Bishop, Gen. j. f. b. Marshall,
Revs. c. NJ. Hyde, d. D., and
Principal w. b. Oleson. Among
those present, occupying seats near
the plotform, were: ii. II. II. Prin-
cess Liliuokalani, Hon. John o.
Dominis, Hon. A. S. Cleghorn,
Hon. w. F. and Mrs. Allen, His
Honor A. +. Judd, Mr.. Justice and
Mrs. McCully, Mrs. Gen. Marshall,
Mrs. Alex. Macintosh, Hon. w.
o. Smith, Mrs. DR.. Hyde, Mrs.
Cooke, Mrs. w. w. Hall, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Rosa, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Hill, Mrs. Theo. Smith, Mr.. and
Mrs. Atkinson, Mr.. and Mrs. c. A.
Brown, Hon. w. j. Smith, Prof. w.
T. Brigham, Mrs. Henry Water
house. Mrs. L. II. Dimond, Mrs.
Oleson, Messrs. III. w. Severance,
G. M. Cooke, r. w. Meyer and
Wray Taylor of the BULLETIN.
The exercises opened at 10 o'clock
with the singing of brightest and
best" by the glee club. 1t was de-
lightfully rendered. The Rev. DR..
Hyde followed with prayer.
Hon. Chas. r. Bishop then adj
dressed the pupils. He said that
another year had gone and Found
er's Day had come around again,
and with it holiday. This was
one of the holidays that would al
ways be pleasant to him. Since last
Founders Day many of the older
boys had gone out TO engage in
various occupations, TO earn their
own livings. He hoped the advan-
tage obtained at the school had
done them good, and he was glad to
hear that they were all doing well.
Those boys who had been honor
ably discharged, he wished them
to understand, were always well
come. at the school, and cspeci-
ally on Founders Day. He wanted
them to keep up their interest. A
record is kept of all the boys who
leave the school so that they could
follow them, feeling an interest in
them to see if they were credit to
themselves and an honor to the
school. 1t was his desire that the
boys should know more about their
own country, about their kings and
chiefs and their own countrymen
who had taken part in public affairs.
He wanted them to know more about
such men as Richards, Judd, Arm
strong, Wilder and Lee. The lat
ter spent eleven years of his life in
Hawaii, and worked hard at his du-
ties, so much so as to shorten his
life.
After the school had sung "Hark
the Herald Angels Sing" Gen. j..
F. b. Marshall addressed the boys
as follows:
Washington Irving, a famous
American author, tells Il story OF
one Rip Van Wrinkle, who going
into the mountains after game lay
down to take nap, and slept twenty
years. When he awoke, supposing
he had only slept few hours, his
clothes were in tatters, his gun had
rusted and fallen to pieces, his beard
had grown long, and turned from
brown to white, and his limbs were
stiff and rheumaticky. Amazed al
all this, he hobbled down the noun
tain as best he could, to his home
where he YVES astonished and be-
wildered to find his wife an old
woman, his young children grown
up and married, with babies Of
their own, and that the small vii
lage, which he had left, as he
thought, only the night before, had
become large city, with now and
handsome buildings. Looking rount
for his young boon companions
with whom he had had many jolly
lark, he found they had suddenly
become stately, sedate old gentle
men, who did not recognize him
but greeted him with grave courtesy
Now my young friends of the Ka'
mehameha School, as l stand be-
fore you to-day, / feel as if / were
second Rip Van Wrinkle. Long
before any of you were born l livec
at these beautiful islands. Fol
twenty very pleasant years, / en-
joyed this charming climate, tn
Inequalities of the King and hi
people and the intercourse witt
warm and loved friends. Then
went away, and now, after thirty
one years absence, have been per
mitted TO return, and, like Rip Val
Wrinkle, stand amazed and almos
bewildered, by the wonderful
changes that | find here in nay oil,
home. Barren plains, where wer
then neither grass nor foliage, ar
now covered with pretty cottages
which are embowered IN trees an