The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-07-19
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
An Interesting Meeting Held Yester-
day Afternoon.

day Afternoon.
A Teacher From Honolulu Elected to the
Manual Training School-Two New
Kindergartens Located and Teachers
Elected.
A special meeting of the school committee
was held yesterday afternoon, DR.. Vose
presiding, in the absence of Mayor Baxter.
Messrs. MCGOWAN and Bradley were
absent.
Mr.. Mcdonald was chosen to fill
vacancy on the committee appointed to sign
the certificates of the teachers lately
elected.
Certificates were ordered granted to Alice
E. Ballantyne, Mary L. Larkin, MAZDA A.
Cleaves, Mary A. Lawrence, Edith Delano,
Trulett P. Parsons, Annie W. Doughty,
Grace E. Richards, Amanda D. Fenno,
Marian Richards. Ethel M. Frost. Mabel
Skillings, Harriet Grant, Clara B. Smart,
Nellie l.. Kelley, Lucy Verrill, Margaret J.
Worcester.
Mr.. Brownson announced that there were
eleven graduates of the High school among
the number who have passed the examina-
ton for teachers of.the training school, one
of whom-from Deering-must be left
out. Of these eleven there were places
for nine. The eight who were entitled by
rank to be elected were Misses Skillings,
Doughty. Frost, Cleaves, Delano. Worcester,
Smart and Marian Richards For the other
place two ladies, Misses Parsons and Larkin,
held equal rank. On ballot Miss Parsons was
elected by three votes to two for Miss
Larkin. Miss, Parsons is from the island
schools =.
1t was voted that Miss E. E. Coe be trans
ferred from the Bracket to the Park street
school.
Misses Helen M. Langthorne, assistant
principal, and A. M. Stubbs Mary : E. Fales
and Clara @. Sawyer were reelected
teachers at Bracket street school.
1t was voted to establish two new Kin
dergartens, one at Chestnut street school
and one at the North school. Mrs. Mabel
Sargent was elected teacher of the Chest
nut street, and Mrs. Alice B. Beck of the
North street, and their salaries fixed at $500
each per annum.
On motion of Mr.. Brownson, it was voted
to have the old rank lists of the High school.
that are lying unbound at the school.
properly bound.
ssIt was voted, on motion of DR.. vose, that
tee room at an expense not to exceed 500.
Mr.. Allan reported that Mr.. Baxter and
himself, by vote of the board. had made in
quiry for a competent assistant to Mr..
Holden in the Manual Training school, and
they would recommend for the position, Mr..
George H. Babb, from South Windham, who
has done splendid work in the manual train
ing school at Honolulu. SO markedly as to
I, 1od faxy h1a 10, off
Minister Stevens.
On motion of Mr.. Allan. Mr.. Babb was
| unanimously elected, and his--salary fixed at
$1,000 per annum
Like Mr.. Holden, Mr.. Babb is a graduate
of the1Maine State college. Three years ago
he went to Honolulu to become a teacher
of manual training and mechanical drawing
in the Kamehameha school there. This
school was founded twelve years ago by the
last of the Kamehameha dynasty, a native
princess who married an American named
Bishop. She might have had. the throne,
butdeclined in favor of the King Kalakaua,
whose sister is the recently deposed queen.
Mrs. Bishop was woman of much in
telligence and public spirit. She desired
that the school should be for native
scholars. only, or rather all those, who had
any native blood in their veins. As long as
there were sufficient of such applicants to
fill the school, no whites would be received,
but should the number be less than the
schools capacity, then the whites might
enter The school has always been filled
by native scholars, the present number be-
ing 100.
1t is a school of the academical grade, in
which no languages, except English, are
taught. The scholars come to it from the
preparatory school, having learned to read
and write and cipher as far as fractions.
The first principal was the Rev. W. B.
Oleson, a native of Maine and a student
though not graduate of our State college
He went to Hawaii sixteen years ago, and
for the first eight years was principal of the
Hilo boarding school there. Then for seven
years he was the principal of this Kamaha-
meha school, but resigned year ago and
came to Worcester, Mass, to accept the
pastorate of church there. He was sue
ceeded by A. M. Richards, the first
assistant, graduate of Middleton college.
He and Mr.. Babb were both base ballists
in their college days, and under their en-
couragement and instruction the base ball
team of the native students became so pro-
fcient that they have held the championship
of the island for the past two years, and
will probably win it this year, as they have
won six out of the series of nine games. Mr..
Babb says he thinks they would give our
Portlands hard rub, wherein, our new
manual training teacher is of course talking
without adequate knowledge of the facts.
There are two white teams in Honolulu.
but the native team from the academy is too
much for them. They have gloves and
masks. etc., as good as those in this country,
Mr.aaBabb came across the Cotinent by the
Canadian Pacific, and therefore saw and
felt nothing of the strike. He made the trip
from Honolulu TO Portland, a distance of
5lG0 miles is just two weeks, which is very
rapid travelling, when you stop to think of
| it.
MUNICIPAL COURT.