The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-24

to provide buildings or quarters for the
schools. the schools were graded. the
courses of study prescribed. and the quail
ifcations of the teachers were defined and
their salaries fixed. free text-bo )ks were
provided for, and high schools. ihsnormal
school, and professional schools were or
ganiZed- From q table in President
CI2rk's report (as president of insuiar
board of education) it appears that at the
close of the school year. June, 1889 there
were 212 town schools, 3lS county dis
tricts with schools. and 126 without
schools.
In a population of S57 $50 there were
152, 961 boys and .s5l girls of school
age of whom only Is. s04 boys and 1855
girls were enrolled IN the schools, a total
of % 172, while the attendance was 21-SI3,
leaving 2e8, $50 children without school ia
ci1tties. There, were $50 teachers in 1898
90, II of whom were from the States The
salaries ranged fyorn $50 TO SIS per month
in gold. The municipal expenditure for
schools in 1S9s-s9 was 5000. 372 80, and the
total expenditure 1919 216. The insnlar
appropriation for schools for 1S99-l909 was
$3.50 ESQ In the first tenn, 189S-19ssg, the
enrolment was 15,440 boys S,952 girls To-
tai a 392 Average daily attendance, TO-
1853. Population of the island, 954r tf9- Tie
board of education offered an annual ap-
preparation of $50, GOO for any town in the
island which would provide like amount
for site and buildings for an industrial
and normal school This offer was ec-
cepted by the town OF Fajardo.
The Hawaiian Islands.
Concerning the conditions in Hawaii he
says:
1t appears that the first missionaries
in Hawaii in 1920 taught the natives the
alphabet. and many of the latter learned
to read English before their own language
WAS reduced to written form After this
was aaeeted. before the end OF 1924, 2'oo0
people had learned to read in their 0"n
languages and a system OF schools was ex-
tending over the islands, the people were
eager 10 learn reading and writing and
81 length nearly the whole population went
to school. After this early enthusiasm had
exhausted itself in 1881 high school was
organized for training teachers. This was
the Lahainaluna Seminary, which us sun
in existence Hilo boarding scaool LOT
bovs dates from 1886 as well as board
ing school for girls. and in 1899 an indus
trial school for boys was opened NuIneF-
ous mission schools have sprung up from
time 10 time Other institutions which
have had inf1ueSse are the Oahu Charlty
School GS33l. which became hnally the
Honolulu High School, the principal tunc-
ticn of which was TO teach the halI-WhItes
English; the royal school (194O) for chleIs-
which subsequently, became school for
all Hawaiian boys, ano was the leading
school for teaching English; and Punahou
school G84D for the children OF mission
aries. which was chartered as oahu Col
leee in 1853. In 1899 the Roman Cathohe
missionaries established their system OF
| Scboole In 1910 the first comprehensive
written laws were published and they in
cIuded 2 compulsory school law with pen
allies for both parent and child for non
| compliance with the law The law pro-
vided also that no iIliterate man should
| hold Office over any other man, nor could
an iiffterate man or woman marry A hth-
lister of public instruction was among the
| functfonaries provided by the rev law
IN 1855 2 board of education was es-
| tabIsbed in place of the minister OF pub
lie I,struei ion and III 1868 an inspector
| generaIship of schools was created IN 1870
| the reciprocity treaty with the onltea
states ushered in the modern area of com
| mercial progress. The influx of foreigners,
| especiaIly of English speaking ones, and
| the increase of business made English
more and more the language OF business,
and the necessity of teaching 1t IN the
J schools became more and more apparent
| English therefore, became the language OF
| the two principal schools, and It's use soon
spread to other schools. In 1884 there
were "A day schools with 100 teachers, IN
| which English was the language Of in
structfen. In 1888 the st. Louis College
| for boys was opened under the care of the
| Brothers of Mary, who had come to work
| in the Roman Catholic Schools. This col
| Iege had 245 students in 1884 At this time
English was essentially the sole language
of the private schools. employing loo teach
| ers. but was used in less than half the
public or common schools in 1883 all
| Government schools were made free and
| the attendance rose to $3.50. the total num-
Der in both Government and independent
| schools being 11.507- Since then nearly all
| the common sch ools, in which the Ha-
waiian language was t!!is ls-Ssium of in
struction, have teel converted into schools
| in which English alone is SO employed, So
| per cent of the children being at present
| instructed by teachers who use English