The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-25
PROGRESS IN
THE GOOD WORK
An Athletic Field is Offered to
Brigade Full Treasury
industrial Report.

The annual meeting Of the Boys
Brigade officers was held last evening
in the parlors of the Young Mems
Christian Association. The following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: President, Theodore Richards,
reelected; treasurer, ]. P. Cooke. sec
rotary. John D. Waldron.
The business of the evening was the
reading and receiving of the annual
The treasurer's report covered practic-
ally two years. In that time the Boys
Brigade has expended s4,3S9. 80 for trade
school building, tools and machinery
for shops, and salary.
The Boys Brigade tourney. held on
Nav 25. was successful from a finan-
cial standpoint. the net proceeds being
| 81, 957. Is, thereby leaving balance on
hand.
President Richards report was to the
effect that the brigade had abandoned
it's point of only meeting the boys once
q week, as by the Inauguration of their
club they were induced to come every
night. The industrial has been the
best and most valuable class of work.
The trade school has been the wiSest
effort of the officers of the institution.
The military department, however, has
sustained the interest, and good work
has been the result OF the military IN
structor Major E. S. Wilson.
The field day of the brigade held on
| the premises of S. M. Damon at Moa-
nalua was an unqualified success, and
more than demonstrated the need for
an athletic field. In his report the
president stated there was a PROPOSE
| ton from the board of education to
use portion of the ground formerly
occupied by the, relief camp on Vine
yard street, and the Bishop Estate has
practically agreed to give the use of
more acreage, making a plot of five
acres in all. He says that such lot
| in the heart of the city can hardly be
| duplicated. There would be but one
| expense to the brigade in taking over
the proposition, and that is in placing
| it in proper condition. A financial COM
| mittee consisting of ]. P. Cooke, ]. 7.
| Waterhouse, George r. Carter and T.
Give Davies, has been appointed to
Hook into the matter and report upon
the advisability of accepting the offer.
In the entertainment work the Off
GERS have found the boys critical to a
marked degree, demanding the best,
OF they would not listen. There will
be more practical subjects considered
| in the entertainments, and the stereop-
ticon win be given a preference
The industrial report submitted by
John D. Waldron. the superintendent
of the Boys Brigade School, showed
there Were 40 boys in the shop since
the school began in November. with
thirty regular attendants and twenty
five casuals. His report is an inter
esting one, and is as follows:
III T>r1 A or
WHAT IS IT7
1t is a school, run as a carpenter shop.
The use of all woodworking tools is
taught by practice, and the principles of
construction are learned by applying
them in the work done.
What precedents does it follow? Reg
ular apprenticeship to the carpenters
trade; ways used in the shop at Moody's
school, Mt. Herman; manual training
methods of the United States school sys-
tenn; and some of the exercises and mod
els of the Lloyd work. Then it has to
evolve easier ways and more attractive
forms of work to fit the cases of some
of its very mixed attendance.
Who are its pupils? Members of the
Boys Brigade; any male who goes to
the Thursday night drill of the Brigade
Yet this year others have been received
diiu tbSti SSAl W luS CluUS. 1nuS we nave
had all ages and nationalities. But the
Hawaiians preponderate, with a very
faithful number of Portuguese, and very
encouraging number of mixed Europeans
Do they pay? Not for instruction but
If they make things to take home the
material is paid for.
Have they accomplished anything? Yes.
boy worked nearly three months on a
stand and finished it well. by many 9TH
ers little articles have been made for
themselves. For the shop the boys have
finished tool cases, built benches large
case for tools and nails, mallets. oil
stone blocks, step ladder, turning lathe
benches and many other things. Besides,
they have done a great deal for the club
room upstairs. making all ready for
wainscoting and ceiling, finishing tables,
benches, piazza rail, office platform, etc..
and thus they have acquired a practical
working skill.
Why has the Brigade put its energy
and money largely into such a school?
Their reasons are these: % Every per
son has need for such training. This Is
the industrial age; this generati ton more
and more will have to live by trained
hands; and yet with this, for some rea-
son, the age of trade apprenticeship is
past; employers are too busy to take a
green uoy ana train nlms tney demand
knowledge of the fundamentals to start
with. C) Moral reformers realize Satan
finds some mischief still for idle hands,
to do; man will build or destroy, and
there Is no better way to prevent a boy
from smashing a window and a man
from burning building than to let him
nave hand In making them; then he
knows the work and trouble 1t will be
to restore; besides, his energies are used
In creating. Manual work is the best
friend to honesty and morality. CO
Statesmen see the better future for a
people that are skilled In handicraft,
O While the educator has seized work
as developer Of mind as well as morals
and muscle.
When are your hours? Mondays, We'd
nesday and Fridays, from 2:30 to 500;
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:15 to 4:3o.
Well, finally, what results? How did