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TTTE SUNDAY OREGOWAX, POIlTLAXT, MAY 14, 1916.
COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE MUCH IN
EVIDENCE ON ISLAND OF HAWAII
Early Missionaries, Seeking Substantial Homes, Introduce New England Styles Lack of Carpenters Caused
Starting of First Trade School, Patterned After in Boston 40 Years Later Old Homes Beautiful.
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HILO. Hawaii, May 3. (Special.)
The architecture jf the Island of
Hawaii has undoubtedly been very
much Influenced by the early mission
aries -who came here nearly 100 years
ago. In fact, the first three missionary
families, the Lymans, Coans and. Wet
mores, were the first white people on
the island, and they soon built for
themselves houses as nearly as possi
ble like the ones they had left In
Massachusetts.
All the homes here previous to that
time had been of. grass, even the mis-I
Bionaries themselves living In grass
huts for several years, but all the while
longing for the stability and con
veniences of their former homes. Con
sequently, as soon as possible, they
built for themselves frame houses, the
lumber of which had to-be brought
from New Bedford in sailing vessels.
inese three houses are still intact.
and comfortable homes. Father Coan's
has not been altered, but remains as
It was originally built, a roomy Xew
England Colonial house. The other
two have had several additions, and
thus lost a little of their austerity. The
material for these three, as far as
practical, was brought In sections
around the Horn, and took months to
get here.
Carpenters were not to be had until
the natives could be taught the trade.
Father Lyman Immediately founded a
trades school to teach the boys car
pentry, cabinet making and farming.
This school is. with many additions,
still In existence and doing splendid
worn.
It was after this same industrial
school that General Armstrong pat
terned Hampton Institute, and it was
not until 40 years after Father Lyman
started his school that the first of the
many manual training schools in the
United States was Inaugurated in Bos
ton. Training; A'eed Filled.
How wonderful It is to trace the be
ginning of things. Here was the ab
solute need of training along these
lines and the one missionary who had
the Yankee ingenuity for doing things
found his Christian duty lay in teaching
these children, for all were children in
knowledge of work: and naturally, in
doing this he lay the foundation for
the future style of homes and other
buildings, as well as their furnishings.
It is wonderful how the good old
Puritan atmosphere of religion and
boms la felt la tbia tropical laud. Hilo
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village than anything else.
The following generation, although
building much finer and much more
pretentious homes, more ornate with
less true art, still followed the New
England type, and. thus we find some
of the finest homes on the island are
of this same period of architecture.
The missionaries brought fine old
Colonial furniture, heirlooms in the
family, that proved the patterns for
the furniture makers, four poster beds.
old Colonial bureaus, high boys and
chests of drawers, tables and chairs of
the Martha Washington period. At
first, when visiting different homes in
Hilo, I was amazed at the prevalence of
good old Colonial furniture, but after
an afternoon spent at the industrial
school watching the boys being taught
to make furniture in the gold old hon
est way, hand rubbed and perfectly
Joined, I marveled no more. They use
the native mahogany, koa, and it is
beautiful, a perfect golden mahogany
that looks like that of the early cabinet
makers in Virginia and Louisiana.
Shlpman Home Beat.
The largest, best built and most at
tractively situated home In Hilo Is that
of W. Ii. Shipman. This is one of the
pioneer and leading families of Hilo.
M Shipman received large grants of
land from the King In the days of
royalty, and that has developed into
a great fortune. Mrs. Shipman was
also a rich women in her own right,
owning lands in the Kona district and
.elsewhere.
The children are all being educated
in the States, the boys were graduated
from the university in California, while
the girls went to Wellesley, one having
already graduated from there. There
is a decidedly New England atmosphere
of culture and stability in this home.
The New England style of architec
ture is very good for this island. High
ceilings, French doors and windows
opening out upon porches give plenty
of air. Sunshine and air they must
have to keep the house from too much
dampness. There is from 200 to 300
inches annual rainfall, with everything
around green and luxuriant. There is
no glare of sand and the earth Is the
richest velvety brown, consequently one
wants the sunshine and plenty of light.
It is not hot here, either. All precon
ceived notions of a tropical country are
put to rout.
There are a few new California bun
galows here, but they do not seem to
Just suit this climate and environment.
look a little out of place. - Low ceil
inga and. Lroad overhanging toot a, with.
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the tusual bungalow veranda so often
walled in like a cloister, are conducive
to dampness, and as much as people
try to tell me that a bungalow is Just
thehing for the tropics I cannot agree
with them for the Island of Hawaii.
Bungalow ' 3iot Salted.
It is all right for India, where the
bungalow originated, and in California,
where there is constant sunshine and
a glare all the time, with so little
fresh greenness, but here it is Just
the opposite of all that. Consequently
the style of the Shipman house seems
more conducive of comfort and the
eternal fitness of things' than any
other.
There is one view of It that reminds
one of the castles on the Rhine, perched
so high up on the river bank that
it Is a perfect jungle of foliage. On
the other side it is set well back In a
perfectly kept lawn. There is a cir
cular driveway and a big porte cochere
that is very sensible where there is so
much rain. The hall is in the middle
of the house, opening Into both the
library and drawing-room with wide
archways, and runs back to the dining
room. A fine old grandfather's clock
ticks -the time away, and a big palm
gives just the right touch of green.
All the walls are done in excellent
taste. Those of the dining-room are
a soft, gray, paneled with a narrow
border, abstract design, in a soft dull
rose and blue. The furniture in -the
dining-room is of koa, massive - and
appropriate for so large a room. The
round table 13 72-inch Colonial base,
and there are a dozen or more chairs,
also of Colonial design. A verv larae
sideboard china closet, curate's table
ana several small taDies are or this
same beautiful golden mahogany of the
islands.
Furniture Is Joy.
It is a joy to see furniture so well
made, all the drawers moving easily,
and there Is no shrinking that leaves
unsightly spaces. The koa is thorough
ly seasoned, and it is hand rubbed with
oil only, no unsightly varnish to sooil
the Joints and corners. A very hand
some Japanese screen done. In hi eh
relief of mother pearl, stands in the
arcnway oetweMi tne dining-room and
dVa wing-room.
The breakfast-room, a big glassed-in
lanai, is back of the dining-room. A
conservatory off the drawing-room
proves a. most comfortable reading
room. This has windows on three sides.
one side of which opens out upon
porch.
The music-room has more koa fur
niture and, a very large pedesuU. pa
which stands a marbU bust. This is
a. kos stump in its ortg-in&l form with
the bark still on. but is beautifully
finished by hand rubbing with oil. that
really gives it a dull, satiny polish. It
stands in a big- bow window that has
an immense palm for a background,
against which the marble looks' lovely.
The rugs are Royal Saruks In soft
rose and blue tones. Heavy Duchease
lace curtains hang at the windows
without overdraperies. In this climate
heavy draperies are not liked nor used.
The touch . of color that they would
give to the room is supplied with cut
flowers, and one does not miss the
draperies so much. '
Flowers grow and blossom all the
year round, and they are used pro-
rusely. I noticed this the first time
that I called at Mrs. Shlpman's. There
were flowers everywhere, perfectly
beautiful ones In baskets, vases and
Jardinieres.
The library is a beautiful room and
has a fireplace, one of the very few
on the island. It is never cold here,
but after a rain It is damp, and a fire
place with a cheery fire at night would
be a delight. I should think. I notice
in so many houses that the books are
mildewed, and an occasional fire would
prevent this by keeping the room dry.
All Read Magraslnes.
Everyone here has books and maga
zines. I have never seen so many
magazines, and the very best ones, so
universally used and owned as here.
The Public Library also ha all the
leading publications, but every home
subscribes to a half dozen or more. I
have counted more than a dozen in. one
home. Music and books are great fac
tors in living In Hilo. and it does one
good to see a chauffeur reading one
of the standard magazines while wait
lng in his car, instead of one of the
light, trashy ones.
Going back Jo the library, the walls
are papered with a heavy, putty-colored
paper with a wide border in abstract
design, in soft pastelle shades of rose
and blue. The bookcases line the wall
and reach very -high, nearly to. the
border. There is a big couch piled
with pillows In plain dull blue and
rose, the same tones as those in the
border. The rugs are Oriental, and
the furniture upholstered in a very ar
tistic French tapestry of Ghobelin blue,
rose and green.
On the library table is a large squat
bowl filled with rose-colored hibiscus
Just the tone of the rose-colored silk
lampshade. On the mantle is a basket
of orchids, the Fhalanopsis Schlllerania,
a long, drooping spray of white flowers
that might have been white butterflies
on a stem. The long French windows
open .out upon a wide veranda, and
here, or In the drawing-room, tea is
served every afternoon.
The girls, in their sheer white gowns.
wearing their favorite flowers to make
a bit of coltr. are an interesting group,
for they are keenly alive to the up-to-date
topics of the world, although not
so strenuous as the girls of the States.
QUAIL A DAY IS POSSIBLE
Colonel Thornton, of Georgia, Sab,
lid It Once, Is Report.
SAVANNAH, Ga., May 6. Commis
sioner of Agriculture James D. Price
has wagered Representative L. C
Brown, of Clarke County, that he can
eat a quail for breakfast every morning
for 30 consecutive days.
It Is not known just how the Idea
that a man couldn't eat a quail a day
for 30 days got started, but It has
been held that a certain "gamey"
flavor about the quail, which is de
lightful for a while, becomes repug
nant to the taste and stomach after
one has eaten a quail a day for a
week or so.
But the quail-a-day-for-30-days
stunt has been successfully performed
in Georgia more than once.
The first time was in Atlanta about
40 years ago. It was during the days
of Henry Grady and his pet local
celebrity. Colonel Marcellus Thornton.
Thornton ate the birds and Grady paid
the bill. The last two or three birds
made Thornton very sick, but this was
probably due more to Grady's nagging
than to the flavor or the birds.
Two or three years later, about
18T9 or 1880, a similar quail-eating
performance was pulled off in Albany
Charley Powell ate the birds on a
wager with an editor. The birds were
served at the restaurant of Kemp &
Mock, In Broad street. Powell got
along all rig-ht for the first two weeks
and began to boast of the picnic he
was having and the wager he was go
ing to pull down, but the newspaper
man, relying upon the influence of
suggestion, commenced a campaign of
publicity which soon had everybody
whom Powell met asking him solici
tously about his bird-eating stunt.
The effect was in a measure Just
what it was intended to be, and
Powell got sick and tired of his quail-
eating enterprise before he was
through with it. Toward the last he
found it necessary to take a stiff
bracer or two before tackling his
bird; but he managed to put away the
30th bird on the thirtieth day.
GIRL OF 17 SHORN OF HAIR
Xew York Daughter of Interpreter
Does Xot See Assailant.
NEW YORK, May 6. The attack on
Hannah Beckerman, 17, two feet of
whose hair was clipped off while she
sat alone in the dining-room of her
home. No. 466 East One Hundred and
Sixty-seventh street, is still an un
solved mystery.
The girl, who is pretty, is the daugh
ter of Emanuel Beckerman, an inter
preter in the Morrisania Police Court.
She was in the front room of the apart
ment and her mother and a sister were
in the next. While the girl was oc
cupied with her sewing an unknown
person entered from an adjoining bed
room and clipped her hair even with
her shoulders. She ran hysterically to
the -next room and was unable to say
anything more than that a man had
done-it.
The front room was found to be In a
disordered state, the contents of a bu
reau drawer being strewn over the
floor. Nothing was missing.
Neighbors reported to Detectives
Mayers and Wagner, of the Fifth
Branch, that they saw a man wearing
a blue suit, a brown cap and brown-
topped patent leather shoes descending
the fire escape about the time of the
attack.
Miss Beckerman, when asked for a
description of her assailant, said:
"I did not see him. ' I was sitting
with my back to the door bending over
my sewing. I don t know what he
looked like."
LEGALLY DEAD, MAN BACK
Lone-Lost Heir to Portion of $200,
OOO Estate Returns Home.
AB.COLA. 111., May 7. John Hood,
long-lost heir to a portion of a S200.000
estate of his father, the late James
Hood, of this city, has returned to
Areola after an absence of 14 years,
during which the Douglas County
Court declared him to be legally dead,
and consented to his share of his fath
er's property being paid to his wife and
children.
J. R Beggs, of Areola, was adminis
trator of the estate and he refused to
accept John's supposed death as a fact,
requiring that he be furnished with a
bond, approved by the court, to pro
tect himself in case the missing heir
should return.
Young Hood is not Inclined to be
communicative regarding his where
a bouts during his long absence.
STUDENTS BUILD LAWN MOWER,
GAS ENGINE AND OTHER MACHINERY
Mechanical Genius of Harvey Leisy, of O. A. C Turns Out Auto Grass-Cutter That Has Relegated "Old Dob
bins," College Drudge, to Limbo of AU Displaced Horses.
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LEGE. Corvallls. May 13. (Spe
cial.) The automobile responsi
ble for the retirement of "old Dobbin"
and the one-hoss shay from the high
ways of the nation, has now bumped
him from the by-ways and shoved him
a little further into that "innocuous
desuetude" where abide other "ani
mals" at one time thought to be in
dispensable the wood-burner railroad
engine, the coal oil lamp, the spinning
wheel, the tidy, parlor "what-not." the
old-fashioned milkmaid, and e'en the
old oaken bucket that hung In the
well.
This latest set-back came during the
present week, and, to add insult to
injury, was delivered at the hands of
one naturally supposed to be friendly
to the snorting consumer of grains and
grasses rather than to the Standard
Oil octopus a student of the Oregon
Agricultural College. AH of which em
phasizes the fact that "you never can
tell."
Through the Ingenuity of Harvey
Leisy, vocational senior in engineering
at
Oregon Agricultural College, the
chassis of a discarded, auto was sawed
In two. the business end mounted upon
and attached to the gearing of the
campus lawn mower, heretofore pulled
by a lineal descendant of Jay Eye See
or Maud 8. and during the first day
of joyworking. young Leiny cut more
campus grass than "old Dobbin" had
been able to do in. three days. The
superiority of gasoline over horse
power was so apparent from the start
that the campus horse, grown gray in
laitnrui service, watched the new "ani
mal" Just long enough to get up extra
steam for an unusually hurried retreat
to her stall, over which the attending
veterinary, just a day or two later, was
compelled to hang the old familiar
requiescat In pace."
Ynung Genlua la Leisy.
The young genius responsible for
this triu.mph of mechanism over the
sinews of nature used a badly battered
1S10 two-cylinder Maxwell, dug out of
tne scrap pile. After dissecting It and
rejuvenating the weak spots, he hoisted
tne engine and hood over the mower,
connected up the roller with chains.
and proceeded to clfauffeur over the
green. Everything worked perfectly
from the start, and during the past few
days the auto-mower haa been sailing
over the 91-acre campus at such a rate
that soon it will be necessary to se
cure other fields to conquer If the
speeder is to be kept busy.
J oung Leisy is a genius with ma
chines. He came from Salem, a fact
rhat may account for this trend of hla
ingenuity. He has had but two years'
n vocational work in the course in me
chanic arts. The purpose of this course
is to assist those who expect to make
their way in the world by manual
skill In various lines of nor i vit v nnH
Leisy has exemplified the Dractical
utility of the course. Having made
lawn-mowing an automobile Jovride.
he has not only shown ability to apply
his training in an up-to-date fashion,
but he may have pointed the way for
the final use of all the old cltv "1It"
and the thousands of soon-to-be-worn-out
autos of farmers of the nation. The
sons of the latter attending the Agri
cultural College, at home on a vacation.
may laae tne remnants, attach a few
chains, press a button and dispense
wnn me winamiu, relieve the horses
on the binder, propel the disc plow at
aouDie , speed, get a real "hump on'
tne miming machines, and ran,, th.
old wagon to rival the Pierce Arrow
in an Dut comiort.
. Gas Endue Also Built.
Another niece of machinnrv t
the students, though less spectacular
in performance than the auto lawn
mower, is a four-horsepower, two-cycle
gas engine. In successful operation the
past several months. The drawings for
each and every part of this were made
vj Biuucuks, patterns were constructed
by them in the college shoDS. the cast
ings were made ty students In the col
lege foundry, the testing and finishing
were done by the young fellows, and
mis completed engine is now a hart
of the regular equipment used for ex
hibition and experimental purposes.
This is not a copy of any engine, but
is a real creation of the students and.
except in general. Is unlike any other
gas engine made.
During the recent engineering show
it was used to operate an electrical
plant designed for the farm home. This
engine came from the regular class
work of students covering several
months, being one of the many useful
productions intended to give the stu
dent practical understanding of how to
meet gas engine problems. The work
was done under strict shop methods, the
Insistence of Professor H. C. Brandon
being that the graduated student shall
be ready to enter the first-class shop
as a first-class mechanic, having the
fundamentals and lacking only the ex
perience. Hundred Machines Made.
The college shops have needed a
"hollow chisel mortiser"; recently the
students finished one a larg piece of
cast-iron mechanism for which they
drew the plans, made the patterns, then
the casting, and finally finished It so
it looks as good as anything that could
have been bought for 1175 to 3200. And
it does the work as perfectly. Two
others are in process of mrnufacture.
Six wood-turning lathes were needed
the students made them. Two double
beaded emery-grinding machines, with
line shafting, clutches, etc.. designed
and built by the young fellows, serve
the purpose of the best that could have
been bought and the students got the
practical work.
A hydraulic compression machine of
60,000 pounds' capacity, two sand test
,era, and a foundry bax-teating machine
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tire other necessities constructed by the1
students under shop methods, and so
perfect in construction are they that
the costly manufactured product could
not serve the purpose better.
The total estimated value of ma
chinery produced by the students dur
ing the past 18 months and now in use
at the college reaches 32000. And in
addition to this.that the young men
may be working upon the things prac
tical, college needs In the way of sewer
and manhole covers, grates, andirons,
foundry flasks, lamp posts, corner pro
tections, etc., are made by them during
their regular class periods.
The Big Aim Set Out.
The aim of this work is to enable
each student to do what young Leisy
did with the auto and the lawn mower
get the fundamentals in such a way
that he can make application at any
given time and place. It is not ex
pected that the young men who con
tributed to the construction of the gas
engine shall be able to make a gas
engine should they need one, but that.
having followed the making of such a
machine, step by step, from the draw
ing of plans to the painting of the fin
ished product, and having done the
work themselves and proved their
work by tests, they shall understand
gas engines, operate them regardless
of type (for all are similar) and make
needed repairs. The same aim is at tne
basis of all other work done in the
school of engineering at O. A- C. the
effort being to give the student the
sustained practical work, fundamental
training and demonstration likely to be
of most service In enabling him to
reach his KoaL whatever that may be
effective work In the office, shop, field
project, mine or simply as utility man.
In electrical engineering, highway
engineering. irrigation engineering,
civil engineering, mechanical engineer
ing. Industrial arts and mining engi
neering, the effort and the opportunity
are the same, and the offering as in
teresting and' effective In its way as
that which has led some students to
construct gas engines, others to make
auto lawn mowers, others to erect
wireless stations and others to do other
nectacular things.
Dean O. A. Covell reports that the
demand for trained men from the sev
eral departments of engineering at O.
a c. Is highly gratifying; In fact, he
finds a dearth of men to fit certain
special opportunities offered at times.
There was an overplus of engineers
three or four years ago. and the general
business depression, with Its lessened
activity in operation and extension of
great enterprises caused young men to
direct their attention to other fields
of activity.
a. a, consequence there have been
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fewer and fewer grads from the engi
neering schools throughout the country,
and the rising- business conditions, with
prospect of great and long-continued
activity, finds increasing opportunity
for the placing of men from these
schools.
A Portland concern employing engi
neers from several different schools
came to O. A. C. recently for a certain
especially qualified fitld man, and the
one and only young fellow available
filled the need so perfectly that he is
on the job and reports say that he is
making a great record.
Professor II. C Brandon says he Is
able to place industrial art grads -as
teachers everywhere at salaries rang
ing from 385 to 312S a month salaries
that are invariably increased as ntness
is proved. Electrical engineering at
tracted tremendous numbers of stu
dents a few years ago. and a corre
sponding slump followed, the develop
ment electrically having stopped with
the tightening of business conditions.
More Kle-rlol Men Xeodrd.
Electrical engineering is coming into
Its own again and the demand for
men will soon over-reach the supply.
The war has opened up a wonderful
field for the chemical engineer, th
extraordinary rise of the market price
of all metals has created tremendous
Interest in mining everywhere and
during the coming years the demand
for trained mining engineers will be
greater than ever before. The Interest
in good roads, roads scientifically con
structed, creates an enlarged demand
for the highway engineer, the man with
experimental engineering training, and
conditions generally indicate that in
the Immediate future no man Is going
to be more In demand than the various
types of engineers.
Oregon is fortunate In having at
this time an engineering school, thoroughly-equipped
for turning out young
men with the sort of knowledge and
practical training that Is now and will
be in even greater demand. The en
gineering plant of two buildings and
equipment at O. A. C. represents a to
tal value of 3213,666. there Is a faculty
of 24 thoroughly trained men. and it
Is a significant fact . that among the
present engineering students there are
young men from a score of states re
puted to have superior engineering
schools. These have noted the work
here, have come into touch with the
fame of the school, noted the success
of the graduates, have contemplated
the great opening field In the North
west and are taking their work at
the Oregon school.
In Italy fuel made of old nwpeers.
ro'.lrd and oiaprwtM. la coming Lola use
as a s-AbsUtuie Xor tAcaneod.
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