The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-16
No ROOM On
Mr.. TAF1'S
SHIPS
Teachers Can Not
Ride on the
Transports.

fused to take the teachers of Hawaii t.
the summer school at Berkeley on th'
! transports was because the capacity o.
u the ships was already overtaxed.
"We are so crowded on the trans
ports that many of our own official:
have TO 90 by the liners" writes the
Secretary. 81 am very sorry, for
should like to assist the teachers, if ii
were possible.'' -
It is a fact, moreover, that the trans
ports passing honolulu are usually
crowded. to their utmost capacity
nevertheless it would seem that the Sec
retary Of War would have the power,
if he saw fit to exercise it, to give the
teachers a ride to the Coast. For the
matter of that, a special transport
might be sent down here to get them
or. there are a number of ways of ar
irving at the same result. The project
has not been abandoned. Superintend-
ent Babbitt has furnished copies of the
correspondence relative to it to the bus
mess men IS Washington delegation, and
those gentlemen have promised the
project what aid they can give it--af
course as matter outside the real pur-
pose of their visit.
The plan to have the teachers of Ha-
waii visit the summer school at Berke-
ley next summer was broached some
months ago, it will be remembered in
fba RnorH of EHnaatinn
/ ence followed between Mr.. harrington,
, of the Board, and Benjamin Ide Wheel
er, president of the University of Cali
fornia-incidental to which there must
have been correspondence between Mr.
Wheeler and Secretary Taft, although
this last correspondence did not reach
Honolulu in full. as a result of which
it was decided that the teachers could
not get passage on the transports. This
correspondence, or as much of it as
Mr.. Babbitt has, was turned over to the
Governor yesterday by the Superintend-
ent of Education, together with the fol
lowing letter from Mr.. Babbitt himself:
Honolulu, January II, 1906.
60 His Excellency, George P. Carter,
Governor of the Territory.
'ESir: Enclosed I beg to hand you
copies of the correspondence which has
passed between w. R. harrington, one
of the Commissioners of the Depart
ment of Public instruction, and Presi-
dent Wheeler, of the University of Cali
fornia, also E. c.. Moore, president of
the summer school in Berkeley, relative
to the plan whereby the teachers of the
public schools of the Territory of Ha-
waii might be enabled to attend sum-
mer schools on the Coast
''Copies of these letters have been
given the Commission about to start |
for Washington, who have promised !
their aid in the matter.
"Copies have also heen sent to the |
delegate in Washington, and to several |
senators and representatives in Con-
gress
FFWhile the reply of Secretary Taft |
to President Moore seems to indicate a
fnality in the matter, the Department
is loath to drop it, and hopes that by
4he aid of its influential friends. it may
still be brought about
>" May [ solicit your aid in this mat
ter, which will mean so much to the
teachers of Hawaii, and through them
to the children and parents of the Ter
rltOTy. Yours very respectfully,
"(Signed) w. H. BABBITT,
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion.''
THE WHEELER CORRESPONDENCE
The correspondence with Wheeler
and Moore relative to the matter opens
with the following from Mr.. Earring
ton:
''Honolulu. October 16 1905.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of
the University of California.
"My Dear Sir: Soon after my ap-
)Ointment by Governor Carter last
pring as a member of the Territorial
3oard of Public Instruction, [ became
with the great good that
must result to the cause of education
n this Territory if it were possible for
ur teachers to attend a summer school .
n the mainland.
Having in mind the Porto Rican
eachers who attended the summer |
chool at Cambridge some years ago, | T
'tfered q resolution that effort be made
o obtain transportation on the govern
nent transports for such teachers as de- I
Ired to attend summer schools at the I
joast This resolution was passed. The :
eachers did not go because the trans
'orts We're full, at the time, with Ma
liza passengers. In fact, regardless of
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