The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-28
PRIZES FOR
ARBOR DAY
Hitchcock Contributes
10 Beautiful Island
Pictures.

day is nearly three months past 1t is
by no means forgotten by the children
in the public schools, for they are
anxiously awaiting the day when the
successful grades in the tree planting
contest will each receive the prize
awarded for the good care taken OF
the prize tree.
In order that the award should be
a nerfectly fair one and that all the
schools rightfully to be numbered
among the prize winners should be
counted, Mr.. w. H Babbitt, Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, put In
not a little extra time during the
autumn months in sending out letters
and tabulating replies from the various
public school principals concerning the
Arbor day trees.
Since the awards were made and
the list of the fortunate schools com
pleted, Mr.. I. NJ. Cox, the Assistant
Secretary of the Board of Education,
has taken the laboring oar and in his
spare hours, and as his other duties
permitted, has been getting together
the prizes. which viii be distributed
some time before the end of the school
year.
1t will be remembered that in the
list of prizes desired-published in the
Advertiser some little time ago-many
of the schools asked that they might
receive pictures. Mr. Cox has accord
ingly paid special attention to securing
prizes of this sort, with the result that
he has collected what might easily be
mistaken for the nucleus of the pro-
posed Honolulu Art Museum.
Not only have the local picture stores
BEEN ransacked to supply his needs, but
Mr.. Cox has gone straight to the heart
of the matter by interesting local
artists to contribute to the good cause.
Mr.. D. Howard Hitchcock was the first
approached. In the same generous
spirit that prompted the givers of the
original Arbor day fund Mr.. Hitchcock
sold to the committee for fifty dol
lars ten most interesting paintings of
were in oils; two were water colors.
The merely nominal price charged by
Mr.. Hitchcock practically makes his
contribution gift; needless to say
one that is most thoroughly appreciated
by the committee.
In a letter to Mr.. Hosmer, the chair
man of the Arbor Day Committee, Mr..
Hitchcock says:
cit was not only to aid towards
the success of your committee in Great
ing an interest in landscape beautifca-
ton in the minds of school children
by tree planting, ETC., but also to-
wards the end I strongly advocate
and am working for-of creating an
interest among them in things artistic
(pictures, etc., that I was SO willing
to contribute number of my paintings,
at nominal figure.
81 only wish I were in a position
to have done more.
'sWith best wishes for the success,
in every way, of the good work be-
gun, 1 am,
"Most sincerely yours,
aD HOWARD HITCHCOCK -
Following is a list of the subjects
of the Arbor day pictures, contributed
by Mr.. Hitchcock:
Sulphur banks at Volcano, XII
lauea.
2.-Lava vase in Puna-about Is feet
high.
3.-Cutting sugar cane.
4.-Kaalanawai, the Blind Boy.
5.-Duck ranch, Kewalo.
6.-Lava arch near Kapoho in Puma,
Hawaii.
Valley scene mauka from Kane
ohe
s.-Hilo coast, Island of Hawaii
9-[Water color) Judd street, show
ing Rev. H. Parker's residence.
10.-(Water color) Bougainvillea vine
and coeoanut trees. /
Tt is understood that Mr.. Cox has |
also secured the promise of paintings
from Mr.. James A. Wilder, Mr.. Philip
II. Dodge and one or two other local
artists.
When all the paintings and other