Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-24

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terday. A politician usually winds up
in tn rear ranks with leaky torch.
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as that of Inspector Gibson toward
her. the latter having said in IIilo
that he had known the other teach I.
ers for years and she was q strang- |
cr to him so that their word would go
farther than would her own.
Commissioner Stanley did not give |
POpe Il chance to answer hut said !
that her word was Just rs good aa
Richmond's or any other teacher and
that the commissioners did not know
any Of them personally.
To clear up matters Aiken asked /
Mrs Compton TO tell why and how
she came to Hawaii.
Why She Came.
II graduated from Chicago tnivcr- |
sitv in 1907" said Mrs. Compton. and
since that time | have been teach |
ing, last year in Toledo University. !
During the summer | was In Chicago
and while there learned Of the posi-
ton in Hlo offered by Mr.. Richmond
who was visitor at the University
looking for a teacher When the pa
sition was first offered to me | rcrus
cd IT, hut after meeting Mr.. Rich
mond and talking the matter over
with him decided TO accept
story Convincing.
Mrs, Compton told her story In \
STRAIGHTFORWARD manner without any
hesitanCy or any dramatics. and she
went from point to point with the
sure perception of q well-trainch
mind, making good impression on
her auditors.
She told of The trip down from San
Francisco. about Miss Sandrey being
on the boat and that she was wrought
up because Richmond paid so much
attention to Mrs. Compton and her
roommate.
About Miss Sandrey.
81 asked Mr. Richmond II he
thought 1t was only seasickness which
was the matter with Miss Sandrey
! and he said he didn't know. | asked
| him what had been his relations with
| her and he said that he had gone
around with her some and written to
her and they had gone to the main
land together.
Mr. Richmond was In Chicago
about n week and Miss Sandrey had
not seen her mother tor three years.
Yet when he wrote her that he was
returning to Hawaii she came along
| too after but that short visit home
| and | thought that was strange II
there wa5 nothing serious between
them"
Has Worked on Text Books.
Then Mrs, Compton got down 10
the first charge against her, refusal
to hand In outline for her English
work. She told Of collaborating with
| writer's on the mainland in getting
| out grammar and showed letters
\ from Henry Holt and Company AMI
American Book Company about her
work on text hooks.
That the grammar In use In the
Hilo school did not meet with her
| approval In certain minor ways and
she asked permission of Richmond
| to change her instruction. He asked
for an outline and she worked on II
most of the time Saturday and Sun
day the request having been made
on Friday. That when she wanted TO
talk the matter over with him at tea
cheers meeting on Monday there WINS
nothing to he done rs he said there
was no meeting and That they were
| all going swimming,
Complied With School Requests.
81 never failed to comply with a
request of Mr.. Rchmond's about
school work" said Mrs. Comnton, en-
phasizinS the word school
Asked for Chicago Position.
Here she handed In reply to let
ter she had written 10 Clarkc's Tea
cher's agency in Chicago, right after
she had loft Mrs. Lewis house. ask
ing them to find a place for her to
teach on the mainland, and showing
that she wished to got out of the HtlO
position even before any real friction
came mp In school matters, all the
witnesses tcstifying that this did not