The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-04-13
IDEAL SCHOOL
What is Proposed For
The Royal"
Industrial Department to be One Of
The Features - Earthquake
Proof Building,

The committee on Public instruction
Of the Council of State. TO which was
referred the appropriation OF $4,000
for the purpose OF building new
Royal School," presented the follow
ing report to the Council yesterday. II
the plans of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs are carried out as fully as the
committee has dilated upon, the new
school will be the finest educational in
stitution in the Hawaiian Islands,
The report reads:
Honolulu. II. l.. April 10, 1900.
To the President and Members OF the
Council of State.
Your committee on Public Instruc-
ton beg leave to make the following
report on the item In Bill No. for the
Royal School.
This building has been pronounced
in the opinion OF two experts In an ex-
tremely dangerous condition, and the
time has come when without question
this ume-honored institution should be
reconstructed on more modern plans to
meet the requirements and needs of
our present as well as our future con-
ditions of school education. The pres
ent structure has faithfully served its
day and generation.
n The associations of the past are such
that this school should always be
Royal" and 1t Is entitled to a well
equipped and handsome building. Oc-
cupying as 1t does a place SO central,
in a populous district. the site upon
which to build a handsome school
building Is unusually fine, the grounds
are large and the whole place can be
made one of the attractive spots of the
city.
Your committee was in consultation
with Minister Mott-Smith and Inspec-
tor-General Of Schools, Mr.. Townsend,
and the outline of the future plans of
introducing into this school the COM
bination of an industrial and high
school department was discussed. 1t
was proposed as an ideal to be kept In
view in the development of the high
school department of the Royal School,
something which may be called a poly
technic high school. 1t should be pre-
pared to teach such trades as joinery
and pattern making as thoroughly as in
the nature of the case 1t Is profitable
for boy to pursue them in school.
1t should offer such instruction in
drafting as will enable the graduate to
earn his living by this occupation from
the flrst. 1t should give more than the
ordinary college course of bookkeeping
and business and such matters as will
make Its graduates valuable in the Of
fees of the country. When the boy has
fitted himself in the common school
department, he will then be given the
benefit and opportunity of the high
artyr mt NJ Inc ri aI
partment, so as to fit him better to earn
his own living and paddle his own
canoe.
The plans of the proposed new Royal
School on which the basis of estimate
was made and asked for by Minister
Mott-Smith Is a three-story concrete
steel framed building with a basement.
By an extension of the basement on the
lower end, (the front of the building
facing Emma street, the industrial de-
partment or shop will be located. This
portion will be on the lower side of the
slOping ground; SO 1t cdn hardly be
considered a part of the basement of
the main building But it will be nigh
above ground. Well lighted all around
and a convenient place for shops. A
suggestion Is also made in that plan
as to possible extension in the future
for an increase in the industrial de-
partment.
The third story is to be the high
school department. 1t provides a gen.
eral assembly room, commercial de-
partment, drafting room, library and
reading room, two laboratories and
three class rooms. 1t Is quite probable
that these arrangements will be chang
ed somewhat as these plans have been
hastily drawn, but in general the pres
ent arrangement is adapted to the pro-
posed school.
The first and second floors provide
twelve class rooms besides the large as
sembly rooms, and will accommodate
$40 scholars. The third floor or high
school will accommodate another 200
or more scholars.
Architect Dickey of the firm of Rip
ley & Dickey. who got up the plans and
estimates, said that with steel rods .
twisted together cold and placed dag
onally as well as vertically in the walls,
as planned to be used, and bedded in
with the concrete, steel framed, etc.,
this building will be practically earth
quake proof as well as fire proof
The present Royal School has now in
its care some 500 scholars, and Is I'M
full, in fact full to over
flowing. The new building will ac-
fifty per cent more without
crowding. with far better facilities for
them. Your committee fully
believe there is nothing like education
% make good and useful citizens, and
are In favor of the high school depart
vent, and the better and more scien-
life education and training the pupils
will receive. The Hawaiian Is as rule
l very apt scholar. and takes impress
'ions very quickly when his interest is
pleasantly aroused, and therefore your
think the scientific studies
which the high school would give them
will be of great benefit. For instance
Imong the scientific branches in which
he pupil would be trained. one would
,e the physical and chemical depart
nents. and II made interesting by some
Il our physicians of Honolulu giving
occasionally lecture from a practical
they having already receiv-
ID the theoretical side. say once
month. those lectures would be looked
ard 20 i.sta "A 10 Ias l..