Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-03-31
Objects To Sending
Juvenile Offenders
To Oahu Jail
PROPOSES TO COMMIT them
To REFORMATORY SCHOOLS
The Board Of Education Is Asked To
Pass Upon the Plan Of Ha.
waits Benevolent
Jurist

Judge Dole, whose duty 1t is to
sentence prisoners, both young and
old, who have been tried in his court
and found guilty, is making an eff
fort to find some means of sending
the boys to the Territorial Boys In
dustrial School instead of having to
send them to Oahu Jail, where they
are liable to be turned into hardened
criminals instead of started on a bet
ter path.
With this end in view, Judge Dole
has been in correspondence with At
torney General Bonaparte, and the
latter has advised him that II salts
factory arrangements can be made
with the Territorial authorities, he
may sentence the youthful offenders
who come before him to the reform
atories instead of to jail.
The matter came before the Board
of Education at its meeting held yes
terday afternoon, Chairman William
son reading letter from Judge Dole
in which the Judge said:
81 desire information as to the age
limit at which minors may remain
at such schools, whether, IL properly
sent there, they may be sent there
to remain until they are of legal age
or otherwise.
There is one Hawaiian boy to be
sentenced in few days whom | de-
al 80, Nn hn n n an
school He is sixteen years old ac-
cording to his own report"
Assistant Secretary Cox yesterday
wrote to Commissioner Williamson
in regard to the same matter, It hav-
ing been brought to his attention by
Marshal Hendry. Mr.. Cox stated
that the Federal Government would
be willing to pay the Territory 80
cents per day for each person sent
to one of the reformatory schools. He
enclosed a letter from Superintend-
ent Gibson of the Boys Industrial
School, who very much favored re-
ceiving juvenile offenders from the
Federal Court rather than have them
sent to Oahu jail.
All the correspondence on the mat
| ter was read at the Board meeting,
but there being some doubt about the
| age limit for sending boys to the In
dustrial School, the matter was, on
motion of Commissioner Hutchins.
referred to the Territorial Attorney
General for an opinion.
Aside from Judge Dole's sugges-
ton, most of the matters that came
before the Board were of a routine
nature and aroused little discussion.
II appears that there Is liable to be
scramble among the teachers as to
who shall be of the thirty who may
avail themselves of the free transpor-
| tation to the States and back next
summer obtained by Superintendent
Babbitt in Washington. In reply to
question, Miss Daisy Smith, secre-
tary of the Board, stated that al
ready applications for transportation
have been received from fifty teach-
ers. The fortunate teachers will -lot
return to Honolulu until four d ys
after the date set for the reopening
of the schools, so 1t will be neces-
sary to grant those who go an ex-
! tension OF their leave of absence.
Superintendent Babbitt, writing
from the East, was evidently not
aware that 1t had been decided to
dispose of the Mckinley Memorial
fund by endowing the High ScnGol
Library, and that the name of the
school had been changed to the Me-
Kinley Memorial High School. He
expressed the opinion that the pub
lie would be strongly against chang
ing the name, and favored stadium
on the Normal grounds for memo
rial to the dead President. The
Iagreement to utilize the fund for a
library, etc, and to change the name
OF the school was formally presented
to the Board by Chairman William
son and adopted.
Two proposals for the statue OF
Mckinley have been received, one
from Mr.. osborne of Honolulu ant
the other from Mr.. Mulligan OF Chi
cago. Neither tender is above $500
The Board appointed Miss Fassett
teacher at Waimea. Kauai, in place
of Miss Wilmington, who is absent OF
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