The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-06

patients, cleanliness of both wards and
cooking department, ARE all matters
which this Grand Jury can recon-
mend as being well conducted at the
asylum.
What is absolutely needed is:
~ A new ward in place of the pres
, ent wards and g.
90 Sanitary plumbing in closets and
sinks
/ 90 A cessation of the stone crusher
nuisance
(D A wing addition to the woman's
ward SO that no two patients need be
90 The automatic unlocking device
for emergency use
co A tight 10-foot board fence on the
mauka side of the premises, with a u
foot picket fence on the other bounda-
ries
REFORMATORY SCHOOL
This was visited on the 18th instant,
where we found thirty-six boy inmates,
about ten of whom had been sentenced
for truancy.
The boys are turned out at a. m
in summer, and at a. m. in winter
their time being occupied until a. m.
in making beds, sweeping and doing
the cooking for the day. No cooks are
employed
d..
2 p. m, with half an hour for lunch,
the instruction in the class room being
given by one tutor employed by the
Board of Education.
In the matter of manual training we
find that three shops have been start
ed; harness and saddlery, tinshop and
carpenter shop, the latter being the
only one in use at the present time; the
harness and tinShopS being closed for
the want of instructors
In the carpenter-Shop we saw some
very creditable specimens of work, con-
sisung of desks, tables, etc, the in
structor informing us that they were
the entire handiWork of the pupils
Here are also made many boxes or
chests for the Board of Education, for
use in the various schoolhouses
throughout the Islands.
The manner of cooking we found de
cidedly primitive; brick furnace with
sheet-iron top and a farmers kettle
for soup, etc.
The dormitories we found kept in a
neat apd orderly manner, but here we
( found matter to condemn, viz: the
! absence of sanitary closets. To take
! the place of these were open pans or
buckets to receive the excreta which
must be carried downstairs in the
morning, contents removed, and con-
tainerS cleanSed.
We strongly recommended a proper
some sort of dry earthen system; also,
: the same convenience for the sick
ward.
We do not find any system of re-
. wards for good behavior, giving some
! incentive toward reform.
We find that the lands set apart for
! the school have been so encroached
upon for the uses of public schools,
etc, that there is no opportunity for
agriculture being taught or practiced.
The superintendent, after fourteen
years of experience and careful atten-
ton, is strongly in favor of a location
for the school where fifty or more acres
of land might be obtained for cultiva-
ton, believing that with good farm
the school could be made nearly, if not
quite supporting
We cordially commend the superin-
! tendence of Mr. Needham, which SUI
perintendence has been carried on un-
der many difficulties. owing to the lack
of funds or appropriations, even the
paltry sum of $500, given for the cree
ton of harness and tinshops, not being
of present use owing to the lack or
instructors, as above mentioned.
The Grand Jury disapprove Of the
present system of committing boys to
the Reform School for trivial offenses.
such as truancy, disobedience, etc,
where the comparatively innocent are
thrown among really bad characters.
We disapprove also of boys being com
mitted for short terms of ten days,
Lore month and similar short periods.
This makes the Reform School a Jail
for youthful miscreants, which we be-
lave is not the intention in a reforma-
tory school. We believe that a truant
! school would be a remedy for this fea-
ture, where boys sentenced for short
terms and trivial offenses could be held
and disciplined for the period Of their
sentence.
OAHU PRISON
This Jury have nothing but COM
mendation for the conditions as they
exist at the prison, where discipline
and scrupulous cleanliness appear to be
most efficiently maintained. Separate
quarters should be provided for pris-
oners held under committal for trial
as at present, they are, for want OF
room, confined in the same yard with
convicted criminals.
This Jury believes and recommends
that the photographs of political pris-
oners under the Republic of Hawaii
and the Provisional Government
should be removed from the archives o1
the prison, commonly termed the
"Rogues' Gallery"
PROSTITUTION AND 1WILEI.
Complying with the charge Of the
, court, the Grand Jury has made twt
visits to Iwilei, and ascertained the fol
lowing facts.
}, There is but one corral or enclosure
Z used as refuge for prostitutes, tn
{ land belong to John Ena, ESQ.,. ant
) leased by him to Ching Lum AM
Leong Cheau, who sub-let the prem
Uses to Masuda, who contrors, at pres
? ent. the premises under his lease.
The place is managed by Mr.. Kane
, matsu and Mr.. Eugene O'Sullivan, II
behalf of the lessee, Mr. Masuda.
Mr. Era receives as ground renta
from Ching Lum and Leong Cheat
$3.50 annually.
Ching Lur and Leong Cheau receiv
4 a bonus of $4,000 from T. Masuda for
2 lease of the property occupied by tn
I corral ard Mr.. Masuda also pay
= them a ground rental Of 5000 per an
= mum. There are five buildings on tn
premises. containing 225 rooms and tn
f rooms are rented by Mr. Masuda 9