The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-06-05
TO RESCUE
THE GIRLS
Industrial School
Has at Length
Taken Form.

the care and reclamation of waywart
girls in Honolulu, those without par
ents or guardians or else only such as
has A. T. Atkinson, Superintendent d
Public Instruction, strived to have TINS
lamentable omission in local philan-
thropy filled. Often Judge Wilcox has
sagely and sympathetically expressed
from the bench his regret that there
was no humane manner of dealing
with incorrigible and neglected girls
brought before him.
An appropriation to establish girls
industrial school was voted by the
Legislature of 1901, but it never be-
came available for the reason that
the reformatory for boys could not
be vacated for the purpose within the
biennial period. Funds were lacking
to establish a boys industrial school
in the country, which was the cor
relative of the scheme on behalf Of the
girls. Now the boys establishment is
inaugurated at Waialee, on the line
of the oahu railway, the inmates of
the old reformatory having been
transferred there on May 10. Incl
dentally it may be said that today
there are 60 boys in the institution.
This having been accomplished and
an appropriation for the girls indus
trial school being available, the reno
walton of the reform school buildings
at Palama for that purpose is now in
rapid progress. Yesterday afternoon
an Advertiser reporter visited the
premises and was shown over them
by Miss Rose Dawson, school agent
for Honolulu, and Mrs. r. II. Gibson,
appointed matron of the girls indus
trial school at it's organization on May
IA by the Board of Education
The dormitories of the second floor
were first inspected. There are two
rooms, occupying the greater part of
the floor. That in the end next King
street is already furnished with %
iron bedsteads sanitarily painted in
white. Mrs. Gibson had kindly made
up one of the beds to show it's fur
nishings. These consist of a soft mat
tress and pillow upper and under
sheets of linen, blanket and white
counterpane-the aforementioned arti-
Gle only to be laid by day as an OBJ
ject lesson in refinement to the girls.
The lower part of the walls and WIN
dow castings are freshly painted in
brown, the upper part in light blue
and the ceiling in pure white. There
are sanitary closets at the rear. Fur
nishings are on hand for 100 beds in
all, the dormitory on the opposite end
to that described being larger than the
latter. In the front of the second
floor is clothes room, where the
clothing of the girls will be locked up
nights. They will be allowed only
nj, In, ha pria
On the ground floor the dining room
occupies the whole depth of the build
ing on the seward side. Carpenters
and painters We're at work on floors
and stairways upon this floor, where
everything will be renovated the same
as upstairs.
At the opposite end the schoolroom is
situated, the desks formerly used by
the boys needing only to be touched
up with plane and brush to be pre-
sentable.
Between the dining and school rooms
the hospital is located. 1t will be all
painted in white and made mosquito
proof, and furnished with six beds.
In the spacious yard in rear an
iron-framed building is being erected,
to contain six separate bathrooms
with cement floors. The boys had a
bathing pool in the open. Part of this
building will be used for n clothes
washing room The girls will have to
do their own washing. An ironing
room will occupy an old building.
The boys old carpenter shop in rear
of the matron's house will be trans
formed into n sewing room.
A cluster of dilapidated sheds will
be pulled down and nine-foot fence
erected about the grounds.
Besides the baths already mentioned
two bathrooms with hot and cold wa
ter are placed in one end of the kitch-
en- house, adjacent to the residence.
for the use of invalid inmates. Like
those in the other baths. the tubs are
porcelain-lined, The kitchen is spa
cious and wel-fitted with stove and
utensils.
Miss Dawson was asked about the
program of work in the school and
replied:
I'VE have not yet prepared the pro-
gram of instruction. 1t will include
hat-weaving. sewing, washing cook
ing and general house work. with OF
course primary school tuition.
I'VE bring the girls here to reform
them" Miss Dawson added, and IL
they are To be reformed they must
have pleasant surroundings, and be
taught to cook and take care of n
home, because they must leave here in
time. The great object of the school
is TO prepare them for lives of respect
ability and usefulness"
Miss Dawson is not afraid that
there will not be girls to receive the
benefits of the school, She gave one
instance of its timelness in being
opened. Mrs f. f. Berger manager
of the Associated Charities, the other
day wrote to Miss Felker, principal of
Kaahumanu school, consulting ffler
anxiously about girl twelve years of
age whom the Salvation Army had
taken care of some time but was now
compelled TO give up as incorrigible.
Miss Felker referred the case TO Miss
Dawson as that OF a girl who could
only be controlled in the Industrial
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