The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-19
JUVENILE COURT
AS CONDUCTED
III LOS ANGELES
Mr., Cesmond, Trustee of California State School,
Urges Best People of Honolulu to Engage
in Rescue of Boys and Girls.

eff you are ever going to start the
Juvenile Court in the Hawaiian Islands,
/ viii guarantee that it will never get
out Of business, either for the lack OF
incorrigibles or truants or for the lack
of interest by the people.
Cornelius G. Desmond of Los An
geles uttered the foregoing sentiment
to an Advertiser reporter vino called on
him at the Moana Hotel on Saturday
morning. That he Is qualified TO eX-
press an opinion on the SUBJECT may
well be conceded when it is known that
he has leading part in works OF be-
nevolenee and charity IN Los Angeles,
where he is president of the Particular
Council of st. Vincent de Paul and as
such has jurisdiction over nine con
ferences of that organization. Mr..
Desmond has lived in the ''City of An
gels" for thirty years and is one
of it's largest merchants.
THE JUVENILE COURT.
ssWe started Juvenile Court at Los
Angeles about two years ago, Mr.
Desmond continued, after expressing
his qualification at hearing that the
movement had already been inaugu-
rated In Honolulu.
..T+ has been one of the most salts
factory things that has ever been done
in California, Judge Curtis D. Wilbur
of the Superior Court has enthusiastic
aIlv taken up the matter and devotes
aaroa norton of his time to the work
Of me Juvenile Court. He sets aside
Friday afternoon of eash week for its
business. On that day an average OF
% or 30-sometimes as many as DO
Youngsters are brought before him.
.sInstead of sending these juvenile
offenders to Jail they are sent TO de-
fention home, where all the parapher-
MALTA incidental to jails is eliminated
In the home competent teachers are en-
ploved and regular school hours estab-
iished. and the children receive all the
attention that would be given to them
in the public schools.
CARING FOR GIRLS.
..The girls are treated with the
greatest possible degree OF protection.
For instance, when young girls VINO
have started on the wrong track are
taken in they are put into the judge s
nriva+a chamber. and, instead OF tax
ing the seats usually occupied by boys
when nshered into the courtroom, they
are brought out one at time ana
placed on a raised seat as near the
iudoe as possible Thus it is impossl-
bla for the curious minded spectators
TO listen to their recitals of misdolng.
H.In Los Angeles a Home of the Good
shepherd was established and Judge
Wilbur, although non-Cathole, IS
thoroughly impressed with the WORK
done hy the Sisters of the Good ohep
herd in the reformation of women and
Girls. He sends 90 per cent. OF the
GIRLS coming before him to this Home
instead of the State school at Whittier.
Out of 1873 girls sent to the Home OF
the Good Shepherd only three nave re-
turned to their former evil haplts- ne
Home Is conducted in non-sectarlah
manner. Of 73 inmates at present only
- are Catholic. -,
ssThere is laundry connected wite
the Home. where the girls are taughE
laundry work. They also learn sewing,
etc. to make them useful IN after me
Most of them on entering the 1nstltu7
tion are unable to do the most simple
domestic work After leaving they are
fit to earn their living and make excel
lent servants in families where pre-
yiously situations for them have been
provided And if the places first looked
ont for them do not prove satisfactory,
the Sisters and others interested in the
institution busy themselves IN hndlng
other situations for the girls.
.sIn connection with the institution
they have what is called a Ladies
Auxiliary. The ladies belonging to it
meet twice month and discuss all
matters connected with the Home
They are wives of the most prominent
men in Los Angeles.
cont of 200 institutions of the Good
Shepherd started all over the world 1t
is NOT known that one has ever had to
close I'D for lack of work or lack OF
funds.
"With regard to the BOYS, y Mr.. /
Desmond continued. Hwe ind that oy
giving a little attention to them 1t is
verv seldom our efforts are not quite /
successful.
eve intend to start a Boys Home
really a boys boarding house-ln Los !
Angeles in connection with the Juve- |
nile Court, to shelter boys who sleep IN
wagons and other odd places.
"It is intended to find suitable posi- |
tions for them and, when they are
started on the right track and able TO |
support themselves. to find homes for /
them IN families where they will be |
welcome.
THE STATE SCHOOL.