The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-01-04
ST. andrews
PR|ORY OPENED
Famous Old School Takes For
NAL Possession of Its
New Home.
Continued from Page one.l

Queen Emma. In the hall, which was
crowded. Sisters Albertina and Bea-
trice, who have been connected with
the priory for so many years, occu-
pied seats near the platform, and dur
ing the reception. after the program
was concluded, they held a little court
Of their own.
Prayers were offered by the Rev.
Mr.. Simpson and the concluding ad-
dress was made by William r. Cas-.
tie. who spoke in Hawaiian. The Ha,
waiian band was in attendance as was
Ernest Kaai's Hawaiian orchestra. Re-
freshments were served in the dining
hall.
The new priory is of the design
known as English scholastic Gothic
and is very imposing structure, two
stories in height, with a main build.
ing and two wings at each end. The
mauka first floor wing is devoted to
oratory, hall and school rooms, the
| main building to class rooms, and the
| maSai wings to offices, dining hall and
kitchen. The upper story is devoted
| to dormitories and small rooms for one
and two pupils.
The Bishops address, in part, fol-
lows;
The Bishops Address.
When the cornerstone of this build
| ing was laid on Sunday, February 8,
1909, / delivered an address in which
| went into details as to the history of
this school for girls. First of all let
me say something about the old build.
ings which stand on the land given to
the church by Kamehameha w., April
| 20, 1868. Queen Emma had been most
anxious to get church sisters to open
a boarding school for girls. She be-
lieved that such school was greatly
needed by the girls of her race. In
1864 Sister Bertha and Sister Mary
Clara arrived in Honolulu and on st.
Andrews Day of the same year open.
ed the School of st. Cross, Lahaina, Ma.
vi. In 1867 Miss Sellon, who did Sc
much to revive sisterhoods in the
Church of England, took the then long
and difficult journey to Hawaii for the
purpose of founding girls boarding
school in Honolulu.
When she came the church leased to
the society of the Holy Trinity, that
is, to the sisterhood, for nominal sum,
that part of the cathedral premises
where the old priory buildings and the
picturesque coral cross still stand. She
expended $4,000 of her personal fortune
in the erecting of the first of these
buildings. The refectory was standing
when Miss Selloh came, but she built
the cloisters, a dormitory, schoolrooms
a parlor and a chapel. She also pur
chased the land in the Waikiki direc
tion of this present building. The pres
ent oratory is almost exactly in tn,
place where the old chapel stood foi
so long. Miss Sellon bought this as {
playground and it was always called
"The Field.' This land was original
ly part of the Richard Armstrong prop
erty, the remainder of which now con
stitutes the Iolani premises. The kinl
in person thanked Miss Sellon for wha
she had done.
From time to time as the school grew
new dormitories were erected and il
"The Field' very good school room
We're built which are now being tori
down or removed. There was also bull
an infrmary or as it is now called eth,
Cottage" where the sisters now liv,
in retirement.
The Bishop found that nev
buildings must soon be erected i
the school was to be maintained
In August, 1905, the Robertson prop
, erty was purchased by the Bishop 70
$4,000, the property being assessed a
100000 Mrs. Robertson was anxiou
| for the church to get the land and &