The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-04-11
The 6HIWINS
WORK WELL
Supt. Waldron on
Boys Brigade
Record.


genuine interest on the part ~ the
boys. 90 widening influence and pres
tite. of better, surer work un our part
certain laws OF boy life-habits. de-
sites. possibilities, are known, mapped
md available for guidance. Yet u has
been half year Of results more than
Investigation or experimentation. To
scientific investigation We can give
data. To our friends We can show
boys In five parts Of the city being
trained to self-control and enjoying the
training. These same local gangs are
receiving from the entertainment
course Omore properly university eN-
iension) much instruction about geo
graphy. travel, natural history. gold
mining. And all that comes to them
after a short school training Is what
We are giving them. And 1t is due the
volunteer lecturers to say II has been
OF "A high order.
| am thankful for the remarkable
growth which has come. but confess 20
vision, which is not visionary. Of
more wonderful future, sometime, UNI
der someone's hands, Of work along our
lines. for boys here and in every city.
Listen TO the reasons for such vision,
BOYS TRADE SCHOOL
September. From the first the classes
have been full, at times too full. Eag
er boys have pushed plane and saw till
they We're heated and blistered. They
have learned how to use compass, saw
and spokeshave and some have learned
the name and use of every tool of
carpenter shop. We have made wood
en- guns for the drill, tables and chairs
for the club have turned Indian clubs.
dumb bells, billiard balls, baseball bats:
every boy has turned a calabash and
some have turned over new leaves. For
there are morals and manners in manu-
al training. We took the carbons out
OF the stereopticon, and using them as
= plain arc light, built an annex,
which is being used as the advance
or commercial shop. under Mr. Gear.
Fer six months there was an average
OF over twenty boys in the afternoon
classes and over twenty-five in the
night. | venture 10 believe that more
hours beyond the days task have been
given to self-improvement by these
hoys than by any equal number Of peO-
l,le i'm this city.
Seventy boys have partaken of the
class privileges for periods of more
than two months, while taking off more
than hundred have been helped. This
is not only very gratifying but indeed
remarkable. The experiment Is such
no more. There will be times of less in.
terest. perhaps, but the strength Of that
hour can rekindle 1t.
THE CLUB ROOM
This was opened in September for
the first time. The trade school filled
IL with all necessary furniture, games,
and gymnastic apparatus, and lately
finished a stage front and dressing
rooms. The reading matter has come
from Mrs. Berger, of the Associa ted
Charities, and from the Y. NJ. G. a.
The popular things are the colored,
comic papers, as Puck and Judge, and
Yardleys local skits. l have noticed
"A Strengthening reading habit, such
books as Alice in Wonderland and Rob-
inson Crusoe. being dipped into. In the
gymnasium the popular things run in
this order: Punching bag, drum,
horizontal bar, ladder health lifts, In
dian clubs, etc. In trea ting the club
room in a critical way it is hard to be
sure of the real drift for these rea-
sons: "a Large numbers of boys; ,2)
many of these are not yet of our clubs
81 school and do not krow our require
ments in manners and morals; go the
club room director was the Trade
school teacher. But the school was
opened at 4:30 and most of the boys
have worked one and a half hours by
S, so by opening at 1915 by helper and
running it myself from S:15 to $780, |
kept hold on things. On Saturday
night we have over a hundred in and
yet this is naturally our smalles, night
But we are using Mr.. Richards Ian
tern. and by means of it we are giving
course on world travel and history
and have received an interested hear
ing from seventy-five boys. This club
room is a growth and Is on n solid ba-
sis. 1t would repay any young man to
take II certain night of the week
and measure his native force against
these fresh, unframed young lives all
ages. all races, and various degrees Of
birth and training.
One observation; the pleasure and
profit found in our simple gymnasium
impresses upon me the deep and abid-
ing power which would come to the
whole affiliated work by the compile
ton and use of our athletic field. l
think it very, very desirable for the
Brigade's sake. as all our spheres of
work are reacting to mutual benefit.
FORECAST.
The clubs are doing well. Years will
bring results They must. Patience
and perseverance are the principal
things, with a constant remembrance
that boy is boy, only this and
nothing more" Military drill should be
military to be efficient. Discipline
should be respected. But We should be
comrades, not official superiors. The
trade school will provide its own help
ers. and evolve its own methods; but
will be compelled to be a shop more
than school; to make rather than
teach; and 1t will be compelled to
change its work to keep interest alert.
The club will be constant source of
helpfulness and comfort to boys and
workers; and l think.it will present no