The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-09
WAIALEE BOYS
AND BAND HERE
A Much Enjoyed Outing for
the Industrial School
Youngsters.

| Walter Dillingham; can have any
thing the boys and girls of the Indus,
trial schools have to give
| He was instrumental in giving them
the time of their lives yesterday He
brought them in from their institu-
tions, whirled them around town on
special cars over the Rapid Transit
company's lines; took them outside the
harbor on the Al steamseow Pioneer,
where the band from the Boys school
serenaded the South Dakota And then
they went aboard the flagship West
Virginia where they were received by.
the Admiral and Captain McCrackin,
and We're taken all over the vessel. 1t
was a great day for all the boys and
especially for the boys woo compose
the band. 1t was their first public ap-
pearanee away from the school.
Mr.. Dillingham; suggested the plan
to Superintendent Babbitt some days
ago. The superintendent was delighted
with it, only there were no funds from
which the expense of it could be paid.
Mr. Dillingham; said he would fix that;
and he did. He raised the funds for
the excursion. Over the Oahu Railway
the boys from Waialee came in yester
day morning on the train that arrived
soon after clock There were one
hundred and thirty-nine of them, in
Guiding the band. This is the band
that Captain Berger has been going
cut to the Industrial school every two
or three weeks for the past year and
a half to teach It did him credit.
At the railway station there were a
couple of Rapid Transit cars waiting
and in these the boys, with the band
in sonorous action, were taken out to
the Aquarium and Kapiolani park, and
a whole lot of other places, and at
noon back to the railway station where
lunch was served in the car in which
they rode to town.
After lunch the girls from the Girls
school were brought down to the Hack,
field wharf and both boys and girls
went aboard the Pioneer and out
throughs the channel and around the
South Dakota. The boys band sere-
naded the South Dakota. The Pioneer
landed them all at the boat landing
Just Eva of the Alakea street wharf.
Here they were met by the matlon,
Mrs. Dexter, who brought some of the
little tots who have been given to the
school by parents or guardians and all
marched over to the West Virginia.
.eIm go ahead and let them know
we re coming said Dillingham;, as
the youngsters lined up, with the band
at their head playing Justify.
eyes, do, said Superintendent
Babbitt, cor they might not suspect
it.
The West Virginia band played
while the youngsters were aboard. Tie
3:I5 train was held few minutes for
the boys from Waialee, but they got
back pretty nearly on train time, ard
out to the school in time to milk the
cows for the night.
Superintendent Gibson and part Of
the teaching staff were in charge of
the boys from the Waialee institution,
while Superintendent Babbitt, Mrs.
Wilcox of the Board of Education, and
Walter Dillingham; and R. w. Atkinson
gave up the day to looking out for
the youngsters and seeing that the en-
tire program was carried out.
The fleet has had no more interested |
spectators than these youngsters, who |
got their first glimpse of it yesterday