The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-06-08
Dead Banker and PlilantIropist
NJ Donated Vast Sums To Education
Bishop During Long Life For Haoia
EEaFE% I Institutions Of Learning and Charities #@<

reeds OF the community invited. The
specific interest which Mr.. Bishop took
in il greatly extended its facilities.
His frst notable gift was the Bishop
Hail of, Science. Large sums added to
the endowment resulted in the construc,
ton Of two fine buildings, which the
trustees named Bishop Hall and Paua hi
Hall, the latter after Mrs. Bishop. Six
sChblafships were also provided for, tho
benefits Of which are enjoyed by bright
Echildren who need financial help in ac.
Iqii'ia" IN education.
Ksmehamsha schools
The Kamehameha Schools, however,
are the ones with which the name of
. Bishop Is most notably associated.
They are among the Instructive and
beautiful sights Of Honolulu. The
ground they cover, through which one
Of the principal streets of the city
runs, has an inelosed area Of more
than one hundred acres. Laid out like
. Lrarks, tie divided campusps are
grassed aud shaded, with here and
there building OF striking archi.
tecturRl henuty, the trees representing
, the choicest aTboreal growths of the
! tropics. Besides the school buildings
proper and the dofmitorics, is the
, chapel which Mr.. Bishop erected to
the memory of bis wife, and museum,
, the latter containing what is said TO
he the best collection of Polynesian
curios, fauna and fora and relics in
the world. The museum is also a place
of scientific research, curator and
staff being constantly employed there,
and Bulletins issuing in exchange with
/, those Of other centers of scientific in.
/, quiry. The museum was built by Mr..
Bishop in memory Of his wife.
The museum, without the land il
. occupies, cost Mr.. Bishop about mil
' hon of dollars; the Bishop Trust, from
which the schools profit and which Mr.
Bishop. alone provided, amounts to more
= than $65O,000 at the present time. Mrs
> Bishops personal endowments are now
valued at about $3,o00,0OO, half OF
! which are renresented bv the lands OF
: tho Bishop Estate, the largest corpo
rate holdings of real estate IN Hawaii
Q Immense Bishop Estate
Everybody who visits the Islandt
hears soon of the Bishop Estate, some
q times favorably, often unfavorably, ae
c cording to the knowledge of the preju
) dices of the man talking. This estate
n dukedom in size, is the endowment
of the Kamehameha Schools. 1t con
n sists of land in the five principal isl
p ands of the group, tens of thousand
of, acres in extent, the bulk of il be
e ing in the form of lofty, mountains
y but slightly tillable, and of fields o
7. lava. the result of ancient and moder
atternptfofl from the twin Volcanoes; on
VI of them now extinct, of Mauna Lo
e and Mama Rea.y One of the assets Q
ne the estate is. the active volcano O
y Kilauea, which is leased to q hot,
T. proprietor, But there is enough arab
Is or susceptible land to make the estat
VI a large factor in the present and esp
~ perially in. the future agricultural d.
IN Velopment of Hawaii II is hard 4
ok find out just how much land is include
ut Held, by Chiefs .,. sE
in This estate was the original holdin
er of VARIOUS, high chiefs, tho heirs
ID. island kings rcigning in each snhdiy
al sion of the group before Kamehamef
Nv ! made the conguests which welded II
i islands into one political system.
al time ownership centered in Kamamal
ut sister of Kamphameha ", and Kan
UT hameha v, and KCkuanaoa, father
both kings. From these dignitari
pc, title passed to the Princess Ruth, al
pc the latter made her cousin, Mrs. Bish0
nd her heir. Besides this splendid herita
ny Mrs. Bishop also received from her pa
ents and her aunt property Of eonsi
cradle value. She was then the large
nd and richest property owner in the kin
CT dom. She could look at the map
nd the Islands and see on almost eve
i'm hand land of which she had sole tit
or, mountain uplifts, piercing the clou
roe and clad with virgin forests; smilir
lat fertile vacancies in the valleys a
The along the coasts; wet tarO lands wht
nv, the natives made their humble livin
Dse hsh ponds, streams and waterfalls, a
or. ! even the "lakc of everlasting fire
rty where the superstitiOus of her race ps
an tribute to a goddess of destruetiC
ar. happy villages and urban homes a
or- felds-all hers, hers to- do, with as
the pleased, but which in her simple pi'
md and bepevolence she regarded as a tn
en- with which to serve the higher int
,iet ests of her ncople. To this wide-rea
hi. Mig estate Mr. Bishop, when his W
had laid ont her benefcent plan
educate Hawaiian youth with its
was come, added some of his own prope
igb belongings in the agricultural distri
of of the group, including a stocked RAJ
am. on Molokai -.
her LACPb 4Ok oNAOOAo ...t#-. IL. L. a..
reIy 1.-THE estate is spoken Of"
cess Bishop once said, I'm a way to g
re-. the impression that a great deal
To. valuable land is arbitrarily held fl
lo., those who would make better use
90. it than we do. They say that we
mao vent distribution. 1t is natural Il
,.,os holding the estate ns trust for
10 Kamehameha Schools, we should
fam rid ourselves of it. No better seen
' .' for the school endowment could
~ found than the arabic lands we h,
~ but If we 10 not, AS a rule, sell Il
w.. Wv properties, we lease them, on lib
h"e' terms and thereby encourage agri
20 ture. From this business our inc
ing is derived; and the amount of
W.. W. income shows how many have ava
'toI, themselves of the easing privilege
H'e oVcr the group. Unfortunately a '
Seh' large part of the land Is unsuitable
eng farms-cliffs, lava fields and hold
above tho snow line. g.. .r..ar. q.
eve have sold land for school
ltiOu Establishments now and then, and
'OHal have bought land TO increase hold
l,,k Al and a.. -.