The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-27


There are besides technical school
railway; preparatory school for the
Siberian cadet corps; school for the
naval department; a military school, a
Russian Chinese school. According to
the statistics the number Of children re-
ceived into the schools equals Is per
cent Of all the Russian population.
In Vladivostock, evening classes were
begun in the autumn of 1898 for the
study of Chinese and English they
were continued during the winter Of
! 1899 and met with reasonable success,
The Chinese classes have been trans
ferred to the Institute for Eastern Lam
guages, but the English classes have re-
manned under the patronage of the city,
The charge for tuition is 81 per month
three Lessons of two hours and a half
per week. In the winter of 1S9S-99,
more than $50 students were enrolled,
about half being women. The Chinese
! department began with some go pupils.
At the close of the session of 1S9S-99,
only so pupils remained in the English
department and much smaller pro-
portion in the Chinese section. The in
struction in both lines seemed to be Of
very superior character. There is
quite rivalry among the young Chi
nese employed in the stores here, in
learning English, Some have entered
the Russian and Chinese schools, and
others are asking the few Americans
here to teach them. The Institute for
| Eastern Languages, whose opening oc-
CURED last November, is doing a good
work, although not overburdened with
pupils. There are now about so students
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Manchus,
and Mongolians.
This desire on the part of the men in
stores to learn English, shows the adj
vance of American trade and the neces-
! sity that Is felt for acquiring what is
sure to be the main commercial langua-
ge.
Agent Greener further notes as fol-
lows:
Last year a Japanese Russian school
was opened at Blagovestchensk, where
a japanese colony has been established
as alec III Manchuria. Reports say the
Japanese pupils are very diigent make
great progress, and learn easily to read
and write Russian. The bishop of this
diocese is my authority that the same
! holds good of the mass of Koreans now
| scattered in this region as laborers.
Their children are bright pupils, and
both parents and children readily be-
come followers of the Russian church.
In the programme or reforms are
plans for agricultural schools through.
out the Empire.
A summer school for teachers was
held at Nikolsk during July The project
for large mechanical school at Nikol-
SIX in connection with the Great Siberian
Railroad is completed, and the build
ing will be proceeded with. The cost
is estimated at 100000 rubles 1851, 5000.
"A school for river navigation has just
been opened at Irkutsk."
Upon the ability and application of
the japanese we have had ample op-
portunty to judge here. The Japanese
who attend the Hawaiian schools are
among the best of the pupils and take
every advantage of educational facilt-
ties The passage about the Koreans is
worthy of special note. The children
make apt pupils and acquire Russian
readily, but not only that they readily
become followers of the Russian
church." Russia has been doing her
/ best to Russianize the population of the
Korean Peninsula Nothing will effect
this purpose more readily than the
bringing the population within the pale
of the church. Convert Koreans to the
| Greek church, and the white Car be-
| comes practically their patron saint.
This is the more interesting, as the
Russians have claimed that they do not
proselyteze
Not only are there educational fact
lltles for the young, but there are consi-
deraole intellectual opportunities for
those OF mature years. Most of the Of
hcials-military, naval, and civil-are
men of education and professional
training (many are not natives of Sibe
rial, and the lines of the various lite
rary, scientific, and philosophical So
cieties of ST. Petersburg are continued
in Siberia.
and eastern Siberia, libraries, museums
and societies are found, patronized py
most of the officials, while MANY i'm
portant contributions have come from
learned convicts. A branch of the I'm
perial Russian Geographical Society is
located at Habarofsk, and a museum
and library are connected with it. A
subdivision of this branch-the Society
for the Investigation of the Amur Pro-
Vince-is at Vladovostock. 1t has an
excellent museum and a fairly good Ii
brary.
The best equipped library says Agent
Greener is the Amur branch of the I'M
perial Royal Geographical Society at
Habarofsk, and next that of the Naval
Club at Vladivostock, another institu-
ton which would gladly receive MANY
OF the valuable publications of the
United States. Throughout the pro-