The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-09
PAST WEEKS EVENTS
On ISLAND Of HAWAII
High School, Prospectus --Loebenstein on Re-
funding BilI-.Great Mail improvements
General and Personal.

HILO, July Ga prospectus of the
Hilo High School has just been issued
by Principal Richmond.
For some years past Hilo has felt the
| need of high school. A constantly in
creasing number of young people from
Hilo and the neighborhood districts
have been going to Honolulu and the
States for secondary education. The
Legislature, recognizing our needs, ap-
propriated at it's last session twenty
thousand dollars for the erection of a
high school in Hilo. The site selected
is that formerly occupied by the River
side School, the corner lot fronting
upon Waianuenue and Reed streets.
The building now being rapidly con-
structed has Easements and foundations
laid in concrete, with two-story super
structure of wood. The first floor con-
tains four recitation rooms, IS feet by
81 feet each, Office. portico, cloak-rooms,
and spacious hall with wide stairs and
leading TO the second floor and to the
basement. The ground dimensions are
II feet by - feet, facing Waianuenue
street on the east. On the second floor
are large assembly hall, four small
recitation rooms, library and labora
tories for physics and chemistry.
All rooms are abundantly lighted and
ventilated and supplied with most COM
modious single seats and desks. The
laboratories are equipped with all the
necessary facilities for careful science
eaehing-water, gas, electricity, dark
room for photography, sinks, tables and
cabinets for apparatus.
Two courses of study have been de-
signed with sufficient fiexibility to meet
the needs of all These are general
course in English, history, mathematics,
physics, chemistry, botany, Latin and
German, with some election from com
mercial subjects, and a commercial
course embracing, in addition to the
regular English work, typewriting,
stenography, bookkeeping, commercial
arithmetic, with some election from the
subjects of the general course.
LoEBENSTEIN's VIEWS.
A. B. Loebenstein, who represented
Hawaii on the delegation which went to
Washington, spoke as follows to the
Herald upon the side-tracking of the
Hawaiian Refunding bill:
81 must admit that l am disappoint-
ed. but | am not by any means disheart-
ened. From my meetings, i'll company
with others, with Speaker Cannon [ am
convinced that he is not hostile to the
aims and aspirations of this Territory,
but that he has rather assumed the po-
sition of the careful watchdog of the
Treasury. 1t would seem to me that
the present Congress has appropriated
so much money for new and unusual
matters that may be considered much
more important that the necessity for
going slow has appeared. Vast sums
Will have been appropriated for the
Panama Canal, for meat inspection, for
battleships, for relief in San Francisco,
for new guns, for public building sites
and for other matters, and it may be
that the Speaker may have thought that
the disbursements for Hawaii have |
reached a point that would justify Con-
gross in leaving the special refund over |,
until the winter session. OF course this |
is merely problematical, but it looks
that way to me.
CARL EMMER FOUND DEAD.
Carl Emmer, German, residing at +
Makapala, North Kohala, was found /
dead in his bed on Sunday, June "a. A
coroner's jury was summoned and re-
turned verdict that he came to his
death from heart disease, caused by the !
excessive use of liquor. He had been a |!
resident of the Islands for nearly TWEEN |
ty years, was a painter by trade, and it
is said that he has a wife and children |
living in Germany, also brother
AUDITORS REPORT.
The Auditor IS report to the Super
visors showed a balance in the general |
fund of $40, S51.57 at the end of June, /
and the following balances of the differ
ent districts special road tax deposits: /
South Hilo, $10,71S.52; North Hilo, So,
057.27; Hamakua, $S545. 30; North
Koeala, $7090.33; South Kohala,
s144.49; North Kona, $1306.19; South
Kona, $523.72; Kau, $429S.15; Puma,
S6l66.97.
NEW MAIL CONTRACTS.
The Hilo postoffice has received adj
vice from the Postoffice Department,
the Tribune says, of the new mail
schedule between Honolulu and Hilo.