The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-09-12
Fourteen Hundred New Pupils
Start Year, Estimate Of
Department
BUlLD lNGS Of HONOLULU
ARE FILLED TO CAPACITY
Royal and KaiuIani Send Their
Overflow Children To Gen.
D.. trail Grammar

| NO prettier and more promising
sight has been seen in Honolulu for
some time than the hundreds of chill.
dren who hurried yesterday morning
to attend the opening session Of the
schools From all direction they came
Singly, in pairs, and in groups; some
laughing some serious, but one and all
anxious not to be late for the first day
before the black boards.
And they were of all sizes not TO say
of nearly all races, from the shining
faced little fellow, with a flower for
his teacher, to his demure larger sis.
ter, who looked upon the occasion in
the light of social event.
With but few exceptions all the
teachers were at their places and were
kept busy at the work of enrolling the
pupils and assigning them to respect,
i've grades and classes. From esti-
mates made by the department of pub.
lie instruction, nearly 400 new pupils
will be added to the schools Of the
territory this year. The largest in.
crease will be in Honolulu, and IT will
be marked at the Central Grammar
School especially.
Central Grammar Exceeds 1000
Exact figures of the enrolment. will
not be known for several days. At
the Central Grammar the enrolment is
expected to be more than 1000. AL.
though there is no. OvercrowdinR, the
new twelve room building is filed to
capacity. In many cases It was nee
essaty to seat the pupils at tables be.
cause of the non delivery OF desks that
had been ordered from the mainland.
Thes" desks are expected in few
days. Central Grammar, besides ito
own pupils, is taking care of the over
flow from other schools. By the mid.
die of this week, say the teachers, all
students should be comfortably settled
More than 400 pupils are expected
to be handled by the Kaiulani School
| this year, which is 100 more than at.
tended the classes last year. One new
building has been erected to relieve
the congestion in the main building A
number of rOne-room buildings of the
bungalow twpe has been added to the
schools equipment. The overflow
from Kaiulani is being sent to Cen.
trail Grammar. Eleven students have
been enrolled in the school for defec-
tIves.
40 Are At Mckinley High
With 200 new students enrolled in
the freshman class the Mckinley High
School opened its books yesterday.
With the 240 former students, the en-
rolment was brought up to 40. The
school has thirteen teachers aud dur
| ing the summer a new five room school
building was erected to relieve the
congestion in the main structure. A
slight increase in the present enrol.
mrnt is expected by Prof Marion NJ.
scott.
The Territorial Normal School yes
terday opened it's twenty year
with the following enrolment: senior,
9ixtv: junior forty; sophomore, sixty;
freshman, 100. Four hundred were
enrolled in the training department.
When the Royal School opened yes
terday all new applicants were refused
and sent to the Central Grammar
This was caused by reason of the fact
that the school has been enrolling it's
old students since June %. In the
! first grade 100 were taken in, and
enough in the upper grades to fiji the
spare seats. The Royal expects to
have a total enrolment this year of
l 100 pupils.
College Of Hawaii Has Many
With the opening of the College of
Hawaii yesterday, President A. l..
Dean announced that the classes will
be larger than usual. The new stu.
dents have come largely from Punahou,
Mckinley and Mills schools. There
will be about twenty students in the
| freshman class.
No exact figures could be obtained
from the Oahu College and the Puma
hou Preparatory School, but indica,
tons point to the largest enrolment in
the history of these institutions.
Capacity enrolment was reported
from the Kamehameha schools, l35
students being registered in tn man.
ual department and 100 in the girls
school.
After regular torrent of little
mites had stormed the seven ccnters of
the Children's Free Kindergarten AS
scciation yesterday, Miss Frances Law
renee looked on the happy faces with
satisfaction and remarked that the
work of the Eindcrgartens is being
appreciated.
Fifty Turned Away
Kakaako, Kalihi, Kauluwcla, Fort |
street Miller street and Beretania |
street kindergartens all were patron
lied, many parents bringing their chill
dren in arms to launch them on their |
educational careers. Palama was espc
rially attractive to the Youngsters
Miss Alice Brown, director of this
school, said she had never Witnessed
such an influx of children, especially |
Japanese. After registration hour
had passed there were still more than |
fifty children that had to be turned !
away.
--$<S
Mr.. and Mrs. Manuel Garcia, Jr, Of |
l7lg Kahanu afr KuEh; unIcnmad |