The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-09-19
.HILO ALSO NEEDS
MORE SCHOOLS
OPENING ON MONDAY LASTFOUND
MUCH NEED OF SOME MORE
BUILDINGS.

awe WIN CnllQfen OF all naJlOnallIleS
seeking their different seats of Learn
ing after three months of play and
pastime. Approximately there were
four hundred children in their places
this week.
The greatest school need in Hilo is
more land and a new building for the
Union School, one of twelve class
rooms and an assembly room The
Union School is now so overcrowded
that one of its classes has to be sent
over to the High School, occupying a
room there The present building is
practically an old shack, out of date
and not fitted in any way for modern
school requirements.
What is needed for the Union School
is a title to the Loebenstein property,
which is now owned by Mr.. John A.
Scott. A few years ago negotiations
were pending, between the government
and Mr.. Scott, for land trade where
by the desired property might haze
been secured but, for some reason or
oEheg, theyl fell Through. BY also
acquiring the Mason property, the
Union School would thus secure about
2 1-2 acres, stretching through from
Waianuenue to School street, afford
ing a large enough site for good
building as well as providing a play
ground.
Governor Frear is expected here
shortly and his attention should be
drawn to the matter as well as to the
need for an appropriation and for
more teachers. In the meantime the
| political conventions meeting today
could pledge their candidates to the
Legislature to work for these needs
and, should they accomplish nothing
else, they will at least have done one
good work With the growth of Hio,
which has already begun and seems
certain to continue, lie need for larg-
er and better school accommodation
will be felt more and more every
month.
Other sections of this Island are now
well provided with school accommoda-
ton. Bids have been invited for the
erection of a new school house at Ha-
lava. Plans are being prepared in Ho-
nolulu for a new school house at Ho-
nomakau in Kohala, also at Alae, Ko-
ma. When these buildings are finished
there will only be Hilo to consider,
and here the much larger and grow
ing population makes the school re-
quirements the more urgent
TTHsHshuHsHuHs1sS.H NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
Reliable Hill. The deck boys, however
won out, amidst stupendous enthusi-
asm, and they deserve it, too, for they
have been practicing to beat the band
still, had the other chaps won they
also would have deserved, for they
also, have been practicing most con-
scientiously and with determination to
gain the triumph.
The senior six-oared barge race was
| looked forward to with immense in
terest not only by the contesting
crews, but by the hundreds of sympa-
thizers on both Sides There was q
rumor around last night that the Myr-
ties would win, but no rumor is re-
liable until it has been proved. It Is
said that last nights rumor was bas-
ed on the fact that the Myrtle boys
were always smiling while practicine
in the bay, while the Healani BOYS
were wearing anxious frowns This is
| just about what all rumors are baseo
on-although there is frequently some
thing in them as today brought forth
Well, the Myrtles won by about
twenty lengths, easily, but, as above
noted, the race was called off on &C,
count of one of the boys outside drift
ing and the Healanis losing si2
lengths How the buoy drifted is {
mystery and it is hardly thought tina
the drifting of the buoy made as muct
difference as was observed at the fin
ish.
1t was suggested that the race b.
run over again, but the Myrtles were
stubborn and refused to repeat thu
dose, with the result that the contes
was as if it never had been on tn
program-nobody' race.
Just the same the Myrtles are salts
fed that they won and you will no
find many Healanis VINO will discus
that phase of the question, satisfyin
themselves with the fact that thei
buoy was adrift and they could not b
expected to show up in the lead wit
mark gone wrong.
Prince KuhiO Kalanianaole's "a
; won the six-paddle canoe race and tina
was a race that got to the hearts o
the people, for it recalled many plea
SAINT memories. And was it not fifth
, that the prince should get the victory
the Kamehameha Athletic Clubs Ke
9 awamalei and Majors Alabama did nc
show up and there were but four en-
o tries The Outrigger Cubs Hanakt
olli got second place on foul.
3 In the freshman six-oared barg
race the Myrtles made the distance i
thirteen minutes, twenty-three and
half seconds. 1t was a splendid affai