The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-11
ideal SCHOOL
What is Proposed For
The Royal"
Industrial Department to be One Of
The Features - Earthquake
> Proof Building.

referred the appropriation OF SI5,OOO
for the purpose of building a 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, III. l., April TO-, 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 me-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.
The associations of the past are such
that this school should always be
Royal" and il is entitled to well
equipped and handsome building. Dc
cupying as it does place so central,
in a populous district. the site upon
which to build 4 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. IL
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 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 ii is profitable
for a boy to pursue them in school
IL should offer such instruction In
drafting as will enable the graduate tC
earn his living by this occupation from
the first 1t should give more than the
ordinary college course of bookkeeping
and business and such matters as viii
make it's graduates valuable In the OF
fees of the country. When the boy has
fitted himself in the common schoo
department. he will then be given the
\ benefit and opportunity OF the higl
school department and industrial de
partment, so as to fit him better to earl
his own living and paddle his owl
!. canoe.
The plans of the proposed new Roya
iob he hac of p=ti m
was made and asked for by Ministe
Mott-Smith is three-story concret
steel framed building with basement
BY an extension of the basement on tn
lower end, (the front of the buildln
facing Emma street, the industrial dc
partment or shop will be located. Thi
portion will be on the lower side OF tn
sloping ground; so it can hardly b
considered a part of the basement {
the main building. But it will be hig
n above ground, Well lighted all aroun
y and a convenient place for shops.
q suggestion is also made in that pla
as to a possible extension in the futrI
for an increase in the Industrial az
partment
The third story is to be the hig
school department. 1t provides gel
eral assembly room, commercial d.
reading room. two laboratories an
three class rooms. 1t is quite probab
that these arrangements will be chan:
ed somewhat as these plans have bee
hastily drawn, but in general the pre-
ent ARRANGEMENT is adapted to the pr
posed school.
The first and second floors proviC
twelve class rooms besides the large a
sembly rooms, and will accommoda
$40 scholars. The third floor or his
school will accommodate another 2
or more scholars.
Architect Dickey of the firm of Ri
ley & Dickey, who got up the plans al
estimates, said that with steel rot
twisted together cold and placed dia
rch onally as well as vertically in the wal
as planned to be used, and bedded
lad with the concrete, steel framed, ct
this building will be practically cart
quake proof as well as fire proof
The present Royal School has now
it's care some 500 scholars, and is u
comfortably full, in fact full to owe
flowing. The new building will a
commodate fifty per cent more witho
crowding, with far better facilities +
educating them. Your committee ful
believe there is nothing like educati'
to make good and useful citizens, al
- are in favor of the high school depal
"a ment. and the better and more scie
q. tific education and training the pup
XIX will receive. The Hawaiian is as RI
~ a very apt scholar, and takes imprt
sions very quickly when his interest
pleasantly aroused, and therefore yo
ID, committee think the scientific studi
Il which the high school would give the
will be of great benefit. For instan
among the scientific branches in viii
the pupil would be trained, one wou
- be the physical and chemical depa
ments, and if made interesting by sol
- of our physicians of Honolulu givi
- occasionally lecture from practi'
standpoint, they having already rece
ed the theoretical side, say once
al month, those lectures would be look
forward to with interest and make la
ing impressions on the scholars mil