The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-31
THE MEMORIAL
PLAN ACCEPTED
Teachers California Excursion
DiscusSed-POStal Card
Fake Exhibited.

There was a meeting of the Boar
of Education yesterday, attended b.
William Williamson, Mrs. ]. NJ. Dow
sett, F. T. P. Waterhouse, ]. J. Car
den and c. J. Hutchins.
Mr.. Williamson, in the chair, re
ported orally on the agreement witt
the Mckinley Memorial Fund Com.
mittee, under which the new High
School building is to be named after
President Mckinley, his statue to be
erected in front of the edifice at a
cost of not more than $4,000 and the
balance of the fund to be applied in
endowment of the school library, with
the exception of $1,000 to be spent i'm
mediately for books.
There are approximately 5000 in
the fund. Proposals for the statue
have in no case been above $500, fig
ures having been received from Mr..
Osborne of Honolulu and Mr.. Multi
gan of Chicago. Besides the cash the
committee owns tract of land at
Pawaa, opposite the baseball ground,
which can be sold any day for as
much as it cost.
An interesting part of the discussion
was the reading of views against the
proposal contained in a letter from
superintendent Babbitt, absent on the
mainland. He presumed that public
opinion would be strongly against
changing the name of the High
School. The members present smiled
at this presumption, knowing, as some
of them remarked, that the proposal
was the first one of many schemes
for disposal of the memorial fund
support in the community. Mr.. Bah
bitt, by the way, favored stadium
on the Normal School grounds for a
memorial structure.
On motion of Mr.. Hutchins, second
ed by Mr.. Garden, the proposition of
the committee was formally and
unanimously accepted.
superintendent Rabbits message
announcing that he had secured pas
sage for thirty teachers on the Army
transport leaving July 6, to leave San
Francisco returning on September 5,
came up for discussion.
AS the schools reopen here on Sep
TENDER 8, those who go will lose four
days-contrary to the regulations pro-
vided-and it was suggested that a
of some kind be granted
on their behalf.
Miss Daisy Smith, secretary, an
swering a question said that fifty
desiring to take advantage of the
privilege. Some mode of selection was
therefore agreed to be necessary, Mr..
Gardens suggestion of pulling straws
being regarded as fair.
Mr.. Rabbit was in communication
with President Wheeler of the Univer-
sity of California, with the object of
arranging for summer school courses
for the teachers who go.
AS Mr.. Babbitt expects to be home
on April %, action on the matter was
deferred until his return.
A letter from C. B. Hofgaard, school
agent for Waimea, Kauai, was read
which discussed a difference between
the department and him with refer
ence to the pay of substitute for
Miss Wilmington, absent on leave. 1t
was placed on file, but the discussion
resulted in the appointment of Miss
Fassett in place of Miss Wilmington,
as it was represented that the lat
ter's absence was likely to be indef-
mite.
An application for an increase of
salary, by w. j, Jordan of Anahole
school, Kauai, was turned down. AL
though he is only receiving a pittance
of $50 a month, Inspector Baldwin
advised the board that if he resigned
the school might be closed. Many of
the children of the section go to Ka-
paa, which is not far away, as their
parents have no use for the Anahole
school as now conducted.
A souvenir post card from the stock
of local dealer was exhibited, hav-
ing been sent to the department by
an anonymous correspondent. 1t is
entitled school Children of an Atoll
in South Seas-Hawaii," and shows a
rude grass hut, of a type unknown in
ancient or modern Hawaii, for a
schoolhouse, and in the foreground a
group of children clad solely in breech
clouts.
The exhibit was regarded with
amused Indifference by a majority of
the board, and besides it was assumed
that there was no legal recourse
against the preposterous fake
Judge Dole's proposal to send juve-
nile Offenders convicted in the Fed
eral court to reformatories was an
other matter before the board which
is elsewhere reported.