The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-12-03

PAIA, Maui, December lon Satur-
day November "A, occurred the formal
opening of the Maunaolu Seminary at
the new building at Sunnyside, Paa.
Guests were present from all parts of
Maui and even from Honolulu and Mo-
lokai, making a gathering of several
hundred. The large school rooms
where the exercises, were held, were
full to overlooking, every seat holding
two, and even then a large number
were standing. The first and principal
event of the day was of course the lu-
au. The tables were spread in the
large dining room and about $50 guests
sat down at a time.
After the luau the crowd assembled
in the large school rooms to listen to
the remarks of the day II. 2. Baldwin
called the meeting to order and acted
as chairman of the day. Judge j. w.
kalua was the first speaker and made
very interesting address. Following
him Rev. Kekela, of Micronesia fame
addressed the assembly. He gave the
girls much good advice and lauded
Mr.. Baldwin for his generous gift, ap-
probation of which he hoped would be
shown hereafter. Rev. O. 2. Emerson
and Rev. S. Kapu of Honolulu, made
few appropriate remarks, Mr.. Kapu
calling for a vote of thanks and three
cheers for Mr.. Baldwin. Mir. Baldwin
closed the day by a brief speech, in
which he said that he hoped the Semi
nary would still be known by it's old
name, Maunaolu Seminary.
At the laying of the corner. stone
Rev. E. G. Beckwith had proposed the
name of Baldwin Hail, and so christ
ened the building, but Mr.. Baldwin
said he thought the old name was far
prettier and more appropriate, and he
hau. hot l. Ns.s.
ing the exercises the Seminary girls
sang some very pretty songs.
one circumstances of the day was
most universally regretted, and this
was the absence of Rev. e. G.. Beck
with who was not feeling we'll enough
to stand the strain and was obliged to
leave before the exercises began. A
noticeable feature of the day was a
square piece of tapa hanging in the par
Tor, with the motto in large clear let
tiers across the face of it, Baldwin
Hail." The color of the tapa was pink,
and the letters were of much lighter
shade, as also was a border around the
edge. This tapa was made especially
for the school and the occasion by an
aged Grandmother of one of the girls,
living at Kipahulu, Maui, and is much
priced by the Seminary. Another fea-
ture of the day deserving mention was
a beautiful bunch of white roses, tied
with white satin ribbon, on the chair
mans table. This was brought by
Mrs. S. E. Bailey of Makawao as a
token from Father Bailey, who had
greatly wished to be present at the
opening of the new Seminary. Father
Bailey built the old Seminary which
was recently burned, and he took
deep interest in the new building as it
grew upwards. 1t was great disap-
pointment to him that he could not
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The parlors of the Seminary had been
tastefully decorated for the OCCASION
with greens, ferns and roses. Mr.
Baldwin was loaded with leis presented
by the girls, many other rose leis were
in evidence.
Credit for the great success of the
luau and the day is due largely to
Manager D. c. Lindsay of Paia, who
had the affair in charge, and who did
much hard work towards the same.
The Seminary building is a large
structure of two stories, with a wing
on each side extending in both the
front and rear. In the main part of the
building down stairs, are the large
double parloTs, office, principals room
and matrons' room, with a large hall
way at each end, from which are two
broad stairways. In the right wing
downstairs, are the large sewing and
work rooms, dining room, kitchen, PAN
tries and Scullery. In the correspond
ing left wing are four large and airy
class rooms, fitted up with all modern
improvements. Upstairs in the main
building are neat little rooms for the
girls holding two and four each, and
here also is the teachers bath room. In
front part of each wing upstairs
is a teachers room and a guest cham
Der. Back of these are large dormi-
tories holding 80 girls each. In the
rear part of the wings are more teach
ers rooms, and small rooms and dor
mtores for the girls.
also. One part is utilized as modern
laundry while another for fine iron
ing room. Then forward of this is
large gymnasium, with six shower
baths and one large bath tub. Up
stairs on the back porch, which extends
the entire length of the building, are
large sinks with wash bowls for the
use of the girls. This completes most
modern and convenient Seminary, and
one that marks an epoch in the edu-
cational life of the Islands. The school
is now full there being at present lO2
girls boarding there.
The teaching staff is at present short
handed another teacher being requir-
ed TO fill out Miss NJ. e. Alexander is
principal and finds her hands decided
ly full at present getting new matters
installed, to say nothing of the new
pupils, but things are slowly getting
into good running shap.
LABORERS FOR SPRECKELSVILLE
KAHULUI, December 1.-The Maui
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