The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-26
KONA HONE FOR ORPHANS
ENTERPRISE TO PROVIDE FOR
NEEDY CHILDREN.
Industrial Association to Clothe, Feed
and Educate-Grows and Sells Coffee
To Defray Expenses.

The Hawaiian Orphanage and Indus
trial School Association is the title of
an institution in Kona which is seeking
to carry out the objects suggested by
it's title.
The association was started by Miss
Beard of Modesto, California, who first
came to these islands some seven years
ago and engaged in active Christian
missionary work. Miss Beard is a lady
possessed of independent means, the
daughter of a wealthy father who de-
voted much of his worldly wealth to
charitable enterprises, leaving a portion
of 1t to his daughter with which to
carry on the present work upon his
death short time ago.
Upon the occasion of her first visit
to Hawaii, Miss Beard became enamor-
ed of a certain property in North Kona
and seeing there an opportunity for
Christian work, built a church and es-
tablished a Sunday school both Of
which have been regularly maintained
at the expense of Miss Beard. Further
efforts in this field resulted iii the build
ing of the orphanage and the endeavor
to create a home for the orphans, or at
least some of them, of these islands.
The home has been built on the prop
erty owned by Miss Beard, consisting
of some twenty acres partly planted tC
coffee with small patch of sugar cane.
The building is a comfortable though
not pretentious one, cons's ting of a
main two story frame building with
two ellis added at the back, between
which fiourishes a we'll kept little gar
den. There are dormitories and din
ing and play room for the little in
mates, a school room and tea chers be-
ing furnished for their mental cdifca-
ton. At present there are some twenty
orphans and friendless waits homed at
the Orphanage, of American and Japa-
nese blood. Orphans according to Miss
Beard proved hard to find and needy
children uncared for among HawaiianS
were also rarities, but the twenty that
are now there obtain the best Of care
and treatment and the promoter Of The
work looks and hopes for brilliant ye-
suits from the seed now being sown.
An endeavor is now being made TO
render the Home self-support!ng to
some extent by selling the coffee raised
on the little plantation and which is
claimed to be the best grade of Kona
coffee.
An agency under the charge of Miss
Beard has been established at the Wo-
mans Exchange where every pound of
the coffee purchased will help to lessen
the cost of the Kona Orphanage, the
total expense of which has up to the
present been met by Miss Beard with
the exception of a few contributions
amounting in the aggregate to less than
thirty dollars. The retail price of the
coffee has been equalised with that of
the brands usually sold at local gro
ceries.
The Orphanage enterprise was made
an association by Miss Beard in the de-
sire that the work should be carried
out without hindrance or abandonment
in the case of the death of the pro-
moter.
The children help in the cultivation
and picking of the coffee, a work web
suited to the employment of childish
hands and one that soon brings a
healthy tan to wasted cheeks that
rivals the brew of the berry itself.
There are regular hours for work as
well as play in the Kona Home, while
lessons are learned regularly and Sun
day school attended.
All cases of destitute children brought
to the knowledge of the association
will be looked into and If possible car
ed for without prejudice or favor.