The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-04
TO RESCUE
THE GIRLS
Industrial School
has at Length
Taken Form.
Old Reformatory Being
Prepared for New
Institution.
Pleasant Home and Training Pro-
vided for Neglected and
Maynard Girls.

AT last something is to be done for
girls in Honolulu, those without par
ents or guardians or else only such as
are unworthy and incompetent. Long
has A. T. Atkinson, superintendent Of
Public instruction, strived to have JnIs
lamentable omission in local philan-
| thropy filed. 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 a 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
to establish a boys industrial school
in the country, which was the cor
relative of the scheme on behalf of tlles
girls. Now the boys establishment isl
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 50 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. T. 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
ytress and pillows upper and under
sheets of linen, blanket and white
conference.-the aforementioned arti-
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 a clothes room, where the
clothing of the girls will be locked up
nights. They will be allowed only
night dress in the domitories.
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. It viii 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 a clothes
washing room. The girls win 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 a sewing room.
A cluster of dilaDidated sheds viii /,