The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-23
FUNDS To
BE RAISED
The HiIO Boarding
Schools New
Plans.


Boarding School have brought Mr.. and
Mrs L. C. Lyman Of Hilo. Hawaii, TO
Honolulu, for the purpose OF securing
subscriptions to an endowment fund OF
500, 900. which will be necessary 10
construct buildings already planned 10
start the school on a broader career
as an educational institution not only
for boys, but for girls as well, and 1or
all nationalities. Mr.. and Mrs Lyman,
who are at the head or the present IN
stitution, have secured promises IN
Hilo for about $4,000 of this amount
and during the next two weeks, Whlie
they remain in Honolulu, they hope To
get subscriptions for much larger
sum. A prospectus has been ISSUED
and large numbers of copies or the
same have been sent to certain locali-
ties on the mainland, where the pro-
f.noters feel assured they will not meet
with failure in their quest for funds
The present buildings OF the Hlio1
Boarding School are used for the nous
ing and schooling of boys only. and
twere erected about forty years ago.
Whey have seen their best days. ana
the promoters hope to get things liked
SO that they can be moved out or the
way and used as sheds or Tor manual
training purposes. The plans OF the
reorganization call for two new build
ings, one for the boys and the other
for the girls, both of the modihed
Spanish style. They are to be two sto-
ries in height. including roomy Dase-
ments. For these the outlay would De
in the neighborhood of $4,000 The
ground plan is arranged to have these
buildings at opposite ends of the prem
Uses facing out upon Seml-circular
driveway, with a covered passageway
connecting the two buildings, the CEN
trail portion TO be graced by a gateway
of the Spanish style leading to the
principals home in the background.
The girls building would contain on |
the first floor the dining hall for Dotn |
schools, the kitchen, sewing room, |
weaving and carving rooms, one base
merit being supplied with laundry con-
veniences. The second floor would con-
tain dormitories for the girls and rooms
for the women teachers. The boys
building on the first floor would con-
tain school rooms for both boys and
girls, office, reading room and sitting,
and on the second floor the boys dor
mitories and rooms for men teachers.
Principal Lyman believes the time Is
ripe for the co-education OF boys ana
girls. He believes in the proper devel-
1pment of the Hawaiian youth, and
that there are problems which can be
better solved by co-education than by
my other means. The co-educative
dea seems to him to be particularly
adapted to the conditions of this
school, The boys would act as the pro-
Il
'ruits OF the farm and gardens, while
he girls would turn these productions
nto palatable dishes for the tables.
rhe school is. to be open to all nation
ilitieS- Such a plan would treble the
present number of pupils, now num-
,eriug between fifty and sixty. and
would necessitate the purchase of more
and and an increased endowment
'und.
The list of the present board of trus
A. \
for the new school plan, is as
ollows: Hon F. s. Lyman, president;
Rev. c. W. Hill. secretary; c. e. Rich
lrdson, Rev. 5. l.. Desha, Hon. G.. w.
\. Hapai. N c. Willfong, Mrs j. L.
DR.. Frances Wetmore,
Rev. o. p. Emerson, w. w. Hall, ].
;. Anterior. Principal and treasur-
II. l.. G. lyman; vice president, Rev.
3 X Baptiste; teachers, w. H. Beers.
Hansen. David Keahi, Mrs. ]. t. Lew
The Hilo Boarding School was found
ID in 1856, BY Rev. d. Is. Lyman. The
original plan was 10 fit the Hawaiian
'oys to become useful, Christian citi-
eps, and this has ever been the first
Tim. From the beginning of this
chool, manual training has always
,een its strongest feature. At re-
lnion given at the Hilo Boarding ,
school last June, the alumni were call |
ID upon to make a few remarks. and
I was exceedingly gratifying and en-
ouraging to all present to listen to
he handsome, stalwart, grayhaired
nen who responded to this call-men
Who have made something of them
elves, and who have the respect of all
Who know them. In those old days
when civilization was just appearing (,
n the islands, and when money was
cry scarce, these same men, then
members of the Hilo Boarding School,
urned their hands to many useful en- !
'loyments. There were no government ,
chools on this island. hence, Father
1yman," as he is universally called in Z
his country, formed a normal class, q
nd the Boarding School boys taught 9
early all the schools on the island OF :
laval. There was, as great a need
or ministers. and he added a theologi- 3
al class. and sent his young men out Z
D preach in the different parts OF the =
sland. AS donations came to the
chool, work shops We're started.
hough the applicants were necessarily 2
leager. The tuition was then, as it .
till is. $25 a year. but the boys were
lostly too poor to pay even that 9
'one. however. were refused admit r.
incc. II they had no money, some n
enevolent person was asked to sup
Ort them.