The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-03-31
THE NJ KINLEY
FUND SETTLED
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AP-
PROVES THE STATUE AND THE
LIBRARY PLAN.

Superintendent w. H. Rabbit, who |
is now in the East on business con- |
nected with school matters seems to !
be the only member of the Board OF |
Education with an objection to the |
proposal to eXpend the money Of the
Mckinley Memorial Fund in placing
statue of the martyred president in
the new High Schoo building, estab-
fishing High Schoof circulating libra
ry, and naming the institution the Nc
Kinley High School. His objections
were read before the Board at it's
meeting yesterday afternoon in a let
ter received from him. He stated that
public sentiment would not approve
the plan. Inasmuch as public senti-
ment seems to have been a deciding
factor in the matter, a report of the
committee which had the drawing up
OF the agreement with the Memorial
Fund Committee was approved, and
the disposition of the money is now
fully settled. The monument is to cost
not more than $4,000, and the balance
with the exception of $1,000 TO be spent
Immediately for books, is to start an
endowment for the maintenance of the
library to be established. 1t is thought
that the statue will not cost over $500.
The money in the funG approximates
about $4,000.
It was stated that over fifty teach
ers have already filed their names as
, desiring to be one of the thirty which
Superintendent Rabbit, as recently
/, stated, has secured passage by trans
, port to the Coast on July 9th, return
, ing leaving San Francisco September
9Th. 1t is probable that some system
, Of drawing will be adopted to deter
mine who shall receive these prizes
The matter will be further considered
after the arrival home of Superintend-
, ent Babbitt who gets back on April %
t 1t was stated that Superintendent
! Babbitt is arranging with the Univer-
\ sity of California for a summer course
for such local teachers who go to the
Coast, who desire to attend.
Miss Fassett was appointed teacher
at Waimea Kauai, in place of Miss
= Wilmington, who is absent, and Will bt
:, away for an indefinite time. The ap
. pointment came as a result of a mis-
, understanding with the school agent
c. B. Hofgaard, with reference to thu
= amount of pay for a substitute.
- The Board refused to increase thu
= salary of w. J. Jordan, teacher of thu
Anahoa, Kauai school, from $50 pc
. month. The action was taken on thu
advise of School Inspector Baldwin
, who stated that the school was un
satisfactory, and might be closed i
= Mr. Jordan resigned.
u The Board decided that it had N
{ remedy in the matter of a fake pos
Il card exhibited, labeled School Chill
dren of a South Seas Atoll-Hawaii.
1t showed a group of naked children il
;. front of a grass house of pattern nev
I err known on these islands.
' If the Attorney General of the Terri
e tory decides that certain boys in tn
u Oahu prison sentenced by Judge Dol
Il of the Federal Court, may be admitte'
to the Boys Industrial School, on
u question of age, several youthful of
tenders, notably those which compos
II ed of a gang of boy junk thieves whicI
g was broken up some time ago, will b
II removed to the Territorial institution
II to serve out their sentence. This wa
Is decided upon by the Board yesterday
l. as a result of line of communicate
r of the Federal authorities on the mat
d ter. Judge Dole started the ball roll
ing by letter addressed to the AttoT
a ney General, in Washington, whic
: brought the reply that under the stat
l. utes he might commit minors to an
II Observation-Disclosures
ID new home Mrs. Stevenson has pun
Of chased at Santa Barbara, and will n
doubt become the objects Of curiosit
a of the tourists who winter at that rC
lie sort