The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-04-03
KONA ORPHANAGE
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an uncle in this city. Seven Japanese |
boys were left at the orphanage to be
located in various homes in the Kona |
district.
Miss Beard was very frank in her |
talk with the newspapermen this |
tural manner, though evidently very
much worn out by the trying expert
ences which she has gone through n
the last few days. She is apparently
woman of rather nervous character
and does not deny for a moment that
she believes in healing by prayer, but
states that she has held that faith ever
since she was sixteen years of age, 81
the same time being a member of the
Christian church. In telling of the
trouble and then her decision to give
up her mission of charity she said:
The decision to give up the work at
the Kona Orphanage was made very
suddenly. Mr.. Trent went around
among the people there and found out
all that he could then coming back
to me. He told me that he felt sure
that the matter would be brought be-
fore the courts. | was not of that
opinion but told him that | felt, just as
| had from the first, that [ would not
fight the matter. Rather than do that
l would give it up cltogether. I asked
him let me have a few hours to think
it over l did this and, as this was
Wednesday evening, l came to a de-
cision Wednesday night at 10 o'clock.
1T was a very busy time for us to
get ready and down to the Mauna Loa
next morning. The children were
walked up and we hurried through, as
| did not think it was best to leave The
matter till after Mr.. Trent had gone.
While he was there l. had the benefit
of his advice and felt that it was all
good.
I'VE had very rough trip coming
: down and the children are all tired out
r but they hardly look as if l had starved
them. When l decided to give the
2 place up l wanted to get them away
, from there and from under the in
fuence of drinking and swearing men
: such as those who had tried in various
= ways to interfere with my work. Thai
r was being done continually and only 4
couple of days before we left Mr. Over,
end had called away some OF the boys
to chase cows out of his cane fields
S promising to pay them, though hi
I knew that l had forbidden them Il
leave the premises.
THAT may seem a very small thing
to you but SO many of those LITTLE
- things of exactly the same kind were
occurring all the time that it caused
. continual trouble. In regard to oh,
children not having enough to eat
They would be called to, over the fence
and asked if they were hungry. You
> know how boy is. They may hav
had something to eat an hour before
but if offered something else which
= they are not accustomed to they woult
Immediately be hungry. They do no
Z look like starved children, do they?
Apart from Overend and Scott 1 d
not know of anyone who was agains
me in Kona. Many of the very bes
men in the district offered to help m
out in every way and have very man
friends there. Scott was against M
because l took children from the schol
that his wife is a teacher in. Som
Il time ago he wrote me letter askin
Il that l should not take any childre
from that district as her pay was rate
Il by the number of pupils and that l wa
y hurting him by doing this. That wa
one reason that brought all the chill
II dren down here with me, that the
I might not remain there to be used t
d the selfish ends of unprincipled men.
II Mrs Nuzum, about whom there ha
If been so much tax, will return to tn
Coast. There have been very unpleas
ie ant charges made against her in rela
,e ton to DR.. Yokum, but she is a pure
l. good woman, and has considerabl
l. means of her own. In regard to Mis-
t. Oleson and Miss Mullinger, they wi
come down on the next Mauna Loa an
r go to the coast 1 will furnish ther
n the money needed Tor their expenses t
II where they live.
+ Il started the orphanage as the resu
d of what a doctor told me about te
I years ago. He said that l had only
few days to live ana that had bette
III dispose of my property in the wa
u which desired that it should go.
~ then incorporated the Orphanage, di
20 ing this for the term of fifty years, thu
the work might be carried on after N
y death. l put all my own money int
" it and named as directors X. H. Tren
my brother T. K Beard, of Modest
81 California, who IL president, Miss Call