The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-06
CHEhAWA SCHOOL
HAS SPEED RECORDS

Aloha De" is now one of the selec-
tons played at the Salem Industrial
School, Oregon, copies having been sent
the school in advance of Alex. Hume
Ford s recent visit. When Mr.. Ford
arrived at the school the band was out
to meet him and struggled with ''Aloha
De- The parts had not been written
out for the various instruments, but the
Indian bandmaster will attend to that
later on.
Ford says that their gymnasium is
more than a hundred feet square and
has gallery running entirely around
the building, all built by the boys The
seven hundred students were all pres.
ent, the boys in uniform in the gal
1ery and the girls sitting on benches
against the wall Of the main floor. The
band and distinguished guests were on
the stage.
A basketball game was played. The
young braves hold the Pacific Coast
record for relay racing and other speed
ICEUiAs. bOEs 1IOIu ANOuIC anu lIOiA
interior Alaska, men born in tepees IN
the foothills of the Rockies were there.
When the Coast Indians scored against
the Indians from Alaska the great roof
reverberated with the yells and shrielIs
of partisans. Between games the band
played and the children swung into
line and marched to the music.
To Mr.. Ford it was like day at Ka-
iulani school The Coast Indian boys
and girls could easily be distinguished
by their Oriental cast of features, and
the Alaskans could be picked out also
as many were as fair and white as eau
.casians.
While there Ford saw couple of
Flathead Indians stop two Hawaiian
boys, left there when the Hawaiian
band was in the Northwest, and en-
deavor to talk with them. They tried
several dialects. They took the Ha-
waiian boys for Indians and were sur
prised the island boys We're foreigners
to them. Mr.. Ford requested the cor
netist to play .'Aloha De-. He said
the effect upon the seven hundred stud
ents was magical. They stopped and
listened intently, and when the selee
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prolonged applause and the piece had
to be played over again. ''Aloha De .
has won its way fairly into the roper
toire of the Indian band and will be
heard at many state fairs IN the North
west The children wish TO learn the
words, but Ford says he did not have
the nerve to perpetrate his pronuncia-
ton of Hawaiian words upon an unsus
pecting and confding Indian school.
Mr. Ford has sent a request to the
Kaiulani school to send to the Salem
school a photographic disk Of the song
In return the Indian girls are sending
their school banner to Kaiulani. 1t is
a red pennant with the word "Che
mawa'' worked lengthwise in white
This is the Indian name of the school
and means Happy Home" Ford told
the children about Kaahumanu and Ka
iuiani schools entering into correspond
enee with mainland schools. The Indiar
| school now wants Kaahumanu pupil:
| TO write letters to the pupils of Che
mawa and they viii be answered
The originator of the Outrigger Clut
also states that he was sounded by tht
Superintendent of Chemawa as to thu
possibility of making an exchange OF
students with the Kamehamehe
Schools. or other Hawaiian industrial
school That is, take five pupils o.
Chemawa and send them to Kameha
meha, receiving five Kamehamehas il
return. Mr.. Ford hopes that some on
viii take up the matter here and writ
TO Edwin L. Chaleraft, Chemawa, Ore
gon.
The Indian boys have a splendid
harness shop where they make and sci
harness and also construct wagons. Il
the tailor shop they make their owl
uniforms and send out clothing for sale
The girls are taught domestic science
The pupils get out weekly paper call
ed the Chemawa American. which MI
Ford is having sent regularly to Franz
Damon S school and Kaiulani and IA
ahumanu. The boys are also laugh
practical farming. raise their own eat
tie and grow their own crops.