The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-13
A GERMAN ARTIST
Submits Prize Design for North
Kona School House.

Submits friLe beHish ioi 3" %'"''''
Kona School House.
"Put me down as an artist" said
voter to Registrar Rodgers yesterday.
81 can do anything" continued the
caller. II can paint house, white
wash a fence or put on wall paper.
am genuine artist"
1t may be that this is the man who
has furnished plans for $4,000 two
room school house at North Kona. AT
least the delineator in point must have
been a fellow student with the unique
artist.
1t would be no infraction of Holy
Writ to worship the plans and specifica-
tions now at the service of bidders.
There is nothing like them in the
heavens above, or the earth beneath,
or the waters that are under the earth.
They are fearfully and wonderfully
made.
The proposed abode of learning is to
he PC x 4Sx12 feet. No elevation view
is presented with the plans This I'M
lmnortant detail is presumably left to
the taste of the builder. The architect
has also neglected TO supply scale OF
measurement. However there are
plenty of good guessers in the building
trades in these days
Every well informed person knows
that light for a school room should
come from the rear and fall over the
left shoulder. In this prize design for
North Kona, the light comes from the
right and will strike the pupil in the
face. Windows are to be five feet and
an inch in height For a twelve-foot
ceiling they should be seven feet two
inches.
1t is perhaps an error in the specln'
cations to stipulate formally that the
foundation stones shall not be less than
eight feet apart.
The rough side of the TG. tongue
and grooved) lumber is to be inside
1t is to be lime-washed and hat ano
coat hooks are to be driven beneath the
blackboards. That will be a hrst-rate
place for hats and coats
1t is required that the ceiling have
three coats of the best paint, Comparing
this to the provisions for the wall, 1t Ii
evident that painting goes by FAVOR
The beams, between ceiling and ROOF
are not painted as IA usual thing. ii
the new brand of school house they ar
to have three coats of paint.
Seats are dismissed with the remarl
that they are to be the same as those II
Mr.. Whites room. All the man VIII
wishes to submit tender has to do is
make a rush "Trip to Mr.. Whites roof
on Hawaii. 1t is likely that Mr.. Whil
is fixture there and that the latch
string is always on the outside.
One feature OF these peculiar Plar
might be called an inspired aitel
thought. When the main building ha
been finished the architect noted thu
cloak rooms were absent. This WI
easy for a genius. A 6x6 closet WI
added at each front end. They loo
like coal bunkers. They are real hand
too. A scholar has only to cross q
lanai twice TO visit the cloak room. III
closets have no direct communicate
with the main structure.
The number of pieces of studdlng
be used is not indicated or name
There are probably other defects
these plans that IA layman would n
notice. The reporter thought howev'
that the employment of an archit'
would have been wise.
Pipe smokers should call at once
Hollister d Compdnys and inspect IN
stock of q. b. ID. pipes, cigar a
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