The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-05
SITE FOR BOYS
HOME PLANNED
Three Institutions to Be L0cat-
ed on Property to Be
Acquired.

The Board of Health is to seek t.
acquire the land now leased from tn
Bishop Estate on which the Kapiolan
Home for Girls and the Kalihi Receiv
ing Station. and the Detention Hospita
now used temporarily as a home fol
the boys brought from the leper set
Element, are located, and locate thes,
three institutions permanently on it
1t is expected that an exchange of pub
lie lands somewhere can be made fol
this land
The matter was discussed at the
meeting of the Board of Health yester-
day afternoon. 1t met with unanimous
approval 1t was pointed out that the
location was an exceedingly healthful
one, as healthfuI probably as any To-
cation on the Island. 1t is accessible,
and having the three institutions there
makes them convenient for admins
tration. There is an abundant water
supply from an artesian well. The ques-
tion of sewerage is settled by the fact
that the sewer is already built extend
ing into the sea, and that all that is
needed is to connect with the sewer.
As to the matter of teaching the boys
agriculture. which has been proposed,
Mr. Smith said that there was sufficient
land there available for all the work
that the boys could do, in gardening,
unless they were kept in the institu-
sion long after they were able to earn
a living elsewhere.
Attorney General Hemenway said
that he had never favored the idea of
trying to make farmers out of all the
boys. His idea was that the boys
should be sent to the public schools,
and be brought up as much like other
boys as possible, and when they were
old enough to earn living, work
should be secured for them, and then
they should leave the institution Other
wise the institution would develop into
a place where large number of able
bodied youth would simply be support
ed at public expense.
Dr. Golfer said he had already re-
ceived application from some people in
Kauai for one of the boys. The people
said they were able to take care of
the boy and were willing to do so. DIR.
Golfer was given power to act in the
matter after full investigation.
Other lands were considered in the |
of a location for the Boys |
Home. Some land opposite Allan Her |
bert's place in Kalihi, and some land
farther up the valley were suggested, |
but the objection to them was their
important in the matter of |
cost of getting building supplies to
them, and in administration and espe-
cially in the matter of the attendance
Of physicians when such were needed.
There was an offer also of the Kona
property in Kona from
Miss Alice F. Beard. She offered the
ready for occupancy, dormi
tories furnished, and twenty acres of
and reduced to cultivation. for s14,
100. This offer was placed on file.
The approval of plans for a chapel
for the Kapiolani Home was deferred
until after it shall be determined
whether the Board win acquire the
ZEE on which the institution is now
coated, or whether another location
shall be sought for all of these insti-
utions
The Attorney General was appoint
d a committee to look after the mat
er of negotiating an exchange of
ands so as to secure the lands where
hese institutions are now located.
The action of the President in ap-
pointing a superintendent at so a
month for the boys home, a matron
It $50. and two women assistants at
16 a month, and cook at SIS, was
pproved.