Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-20
HIGH School AT
HILODESCRIBED
BY ITSDESIGNER
Charles R. Forbes Tells of Plans
for Proposed Building on
Big Island

Comulete in every detail. fashioned
on modern lines OF educational archi-
lecture, and spacious enough TO care
+ for a student body much larger than
at present is the high school To be
4 built Al Hilo, according TO the plans
of Charles K. Forbes, superintendent
! of uublic works, whose aid in the mat
/ ter was summoned some time ago by
/ the board of supervisors of the county
/, of Hawaii. liz.
In a report ON: the high school build
! ing which he has planned for HilO,
/ Superintendent Forbes touches upon
/ the manner in which school building
/ should be designed. 49,.
Above all other buildings" he says,
! "the schoolhouse ought TO be an OBJ
| iect of pride IN a community, for it
| has to Geal with the training OF the
f! future man and woman, the future
wage Garner, housewife and citizen.
| Other public buildings, in most in
stances, are built for those OF years
and experience; the school house is
! pioneer. ..... 49,. -.
Its erection involves an implied
obligation assumed by the community
| to inculcate not only the three RS
but right ideas in taste, and founGa-
ton, through its own worthy self, for
| things that are beautiful, practicable
and serviceable. -. - n
1T should not sacrifice these prin-
| ciples in an effort to be ornate, or
pleasing to the eye alone: neither
should it be, by its unattractive APP.
pearance, an ally to the natural anti.
patty of youth for school days. II.
Site Without Superior - a.. ...~-... =.
Mature has endowed the island OF
Hawaii" continues the report, with
! advantages second to none. Fortune
has placed in the hands of the county
a strip of land, embracing approx
mately five acres, which for the site
of a high school is without superior.
The idea of placing the building on
the knoll proposed, aside from its SUI
perb vista of the adjacent country and
ocean, is one which, for mere sanitary
reasons, if no other is worthy OF con-
sideration by those inclined, perhaps,
to believe the location somewhat re-
mote Situated on the hill, it will
have the advantage of natural drain
age system. Utilizing the natural am
phitheater at its foot, parking the land
below, terracing the approach will pro-
vide a monument that any city might
boast oil" i -. ..--.>
Forbes points out that the athletic
field slopes will form a stadium suf-
ficiently large to take care of 10000
people. ,-.-. i, 49,. ss.,.. !. ..a- u.
49, cIonoc torro ood ond oroded
will form a gallery for spectators. Be
low is the river, where, with little
artificial aid, swimming pools may be
located. Mauka will be the aSricul-
tural gardens, Inere it is proposed by
the agronomical department to teach
scientific cane planting and culture. In
conjunction with this course will be
the laboratories and machine shops.
Building Absolutely Fireproof
The building should be positively
fireproof," says the report, for 1t is
nothing short of criminal to build in
flammable structures for the use OF
masses of children. The additional
cost of structure actually fireproof
as against socalled .fire-proof con-
structiCn (wooden floors and parti-
tlons) is about ~ per cent, This dill
ference in cost is more than offset by
absolute safety a building is not
necessarily fireproof merely because
it's walls are OF incombustible materi-
al, although the layman is apt to con-
slider it such. ~. -:
when such building, miscalled
fireproof. burns, the community looks
with disdain on all other 'fireproof'
structures, bur In point of fact it is
not the fireproof building but its. in
flammable contents that have burned.
Buildings fireproof in fact as well as
name have been and can be built, and
it is such a type that we propose to
erect. ~ -. p, .a-...r T.. Il
Entrances and exits, halls, corri-
doris and stairways have been planned
with this all-important~ question of
safety from panic in mind. Consid-
GRAFTON was given to width, not so
much for appearances sake as for the
maximum NUMBER of students who
may use them at given moment .
The superintendent adds that the
! building should be fitted with the fire
alarm system. -...-.- -: ... -.
Separate entrances for boys and
girls will lead to the basement. The
boys department of the basement con-
| tains toilets, locker rooms, showers
and manual training rooms. The
girls side will have lavatories and
lockers and sewing room, suitable
for domestic science work and
| kitchen. ==. -. So. -. -. T..
Not least in the plans for the build