The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-31
CAREER Of
H. {. ADAMS
Retires From Kaneohe
School After Long
lncumbency.

Henry Cobb Adams, whose resigna-
ton as principal of Kaneohe school
was briefly mentioned in yesterdays
Advertiser, has had considerable of a
career OF which much has relation to
these islands. He arrived here first as
chief officer of the steamer Hankow
with 1900 Portuguese immigrants in 1883,
being then the. youngest chief officer
in the employ of VIM. MiIburn & CO. of
London. Having made the reutrn trip
to- London via Hull. Mr.. Adams was
appointed purser of the Atlantic liner
| City of Paris, which came here with
more Portuguese immigrants in July,
1884.
On the arrival of the City of Paris
| the Portuguese Consul. Senior Cana
varro. requested Major J. H wode-
house, the British Minister, to hold
naval court of inquiry relative to an
sci, also as to TIRE cause of an accident
that happened on board at Coronel,
Chilli, while the City of Paris was par
ticfpating in the celebration of a CHI
Ian victory. The captain officers AID
purser We're tried before the commander
of the Mutine and exonerated. On this
occasion Mr.. Adams, as the representa-
tive of Mr.. Hoffnung of London, made
some remarks that We're complained of
as offensive by a gentleman since de-
ceased. The family of Mr.. Adams has
been connected with the navy and
III in
mortal.
Mr.. Adams's original appointment I'M
der the Board of Education was to the
Reformatory school in 1886. He WAS re-
quested to go as first lieutenant "a he
Hawaiian cruiser Kaimiloa, on the
famous Samoan expedition the same
year, but declined the honor. Mr..
Adams was appointed principal Of Ka-
neoae school in 1891, when it had an at
tendance of forty-six pupils, of whom
eighty-nine per cent were Hawai;ans,
six per cent part Hawaiians and five
per cent Chinese. These figures firm
an interesting comparison with those Of
the school on his resignation, when the
attendance numbered sixty-eight pupils,
of whom forty-fve per cent were 1a-
waiians, eighteen per cent part Hawai-
ians, tlirty-three per cent Chine Sc,
lIiISS per CcIli dDdIieSc anu OIIc Per
cent Americans.
In 1891 there was no school at either
Waimanalo or Kailua. Children used
to ride over to Kaneohe from those
places daily, some staying with friends
in Kaneohe for the week. The popula-
ton of the village has since been great
ly reduced through deaths of the aged
and migration of the younger people to
Honolulu and elsewhere.
Mr.. Adams has not found life I'M
pleasant or tedious in Koolau, where
the climate is much cooler than In Ho
nolulu. He found ample relief in devo-
ton to arboriculture and reading. The
school grounds have been greatly i'm
proved under his direction by the plant
ing of trees More than thirty of the
children attending school since 1891
have died. Mr.. Adams, as school agent
for the district, will retain his inter-
est in the school. He resigned the prin-
cipalship chiefly on account of his
health, which has been poor since an
attack of pleurisy in the early part of
May Doubtlessly the Department of
Public Instruction will record vote of
thanks to him for his services.
Mr.. Adams has a private place at
MaunawiIf Koolau, where he intends
going fully into arboriculture with fruit
trees a speciality. He will also do con-
siderable stone wall building to protect
the land along the banks of streams.