The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-28
HoNoLULU's OPPORTUNITIES.

Editor Advertiser:-A visit this past
week to Hilo Boys Boarding School
has made emphatic many things well.
worthy of notice in Honolulu, but l
wish to call attentions to only three
or four.
In the first place, the school is in
dustrial. The boys have to study and
practise the particular branches of agri.
culture fitted for these Islands In this
way they secure part of their board.
They have fine rock-crusher donated
largely by G. P. Castle. The boys make
the farm roads and crush rock for sale.
Almost all the printing of the school
is done in the printing department and
| IS ereditable work. special donation
of about thousand dollars, by friend.
to Principal Levi Lyman, enabled him,
during the past summer, to secure a
| fine wood saving machine, lathe and
a few very important helps in the car
penrer shop and polishing department.
| A. partial supply for the blacksmith
| shop, little leather and few tools
| to help the boys learn how to make
| and mend harness, few cultivators,
| plows and other tools for the farm, a
| small supply of books for the students
| to use in connection with classroom
| study, a Kaleidoscope for throwing pos
| tai cards and any other pictures on
| a screen like a stereopticon, and pic
| ture postal cards of all kinds and from
all parts of the world were bought.
Tools, maps and permanent helps of
| many kinds were secured. Seldom has
so much been had for any school for SO
small an amount of money, and in no
school in the Territory is so much ac-
complished on so small a capital in the
| way of an industrial education.
In the second place the boys are
taught self-rule. The system of gov
erning by the juvenile court was in
trodueed some years ago by Mr.. Ly-
man. Ill-doers are taken in charge by
the policemen and tried and sentenced
by the judges chosen from the most
steady boys of the school. The system
works well.
Then again the school reacts forcibly
on the home life of the students One
of the most important new steps taken
in these Islands for the benefit of the
Hawaiian home, has been planned this
| past fall. A paper his been, and will
be, given to each boy going home for
any vacation. This paper has various
| blanks to be filed. The most import
ant are these:
Family name, etc.
Land, use of. 80.
| 0u-noI hv
! Debt or free.
! The information is brought back to
| the school by the boys and is put on
| file. Especial care is taken to give
| the boy hints to take back to make
the home property more productive and
| better secured to the family.
| / have called attention to these
| things, out of many more, to make
emphatic the statement that these boys
are receiving the best practical train
! ing possible at present in these Islands
for the common uneducated family.
1t should be noted that this is being
done on an endowment yielding lit
tie over $4,000 each year supplemented
by regular gifts from a few friends
| of about $500, with most economical
! annual expense of about $4,000 for
nearly one hundred boys.
The problem of meeting the annual
deficiency and providing for repairs
and the introduction of very important
helps, is heavy burden on the school
It is a natural law that people give aid
to the objects directly under their at
tention. The wealth of the Islands
flows into Honolulu and yet the benev
olenee of the Honolulu recipients /:
almost entirely confined to Honolulu
This question arises and needs seriou;
thought: Is it quite fair to forget the
opportunities to help other parts of th'
Islands, This boys school needs foI
its immediate work an addition Of
100000 to its endowmnt 1t needs fot
its present deficiency and absolutely
necessary repairs. at least $4,000 in ad
dition to the amount now given by tn
individuals interested in the school. A
is the case with every other school o
benevolent enterprise in these Island
much more could be wisely used. VIVA
an opportunity for a Christmas or New
ear s present
". D. WESTERVEL
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