Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-06-03
Young MEN,


6oSsework :.......lo Industrial room. Is
CLASS ~
YOUNG MEN.
FarnsnTs;: ..",s Wheewrights. s
Shoemakers. Engineers. ............ 4
III nslll1lis; i:-......" Butcher
The departments Of mechanical industry and
instruction in the school and their condition at
present are as follows:
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT..
j. B. H. Cot in charge
instruction given is in steam and gas-fitting,
with care of engine and boiler. The apprentices
also get some ideas of working at the bench
with coid-chisel, file and ratchet drill.
Number OF students employed. ...........1S
Earned last year. .................$1,13 100 "a
and increasing. This branch has been estab-
ilshed eight years, but has never had suitable
quarters. 1t has piped all the principal build
ings for steam water and gas connecting them
6y an underground system Of steam pipes /, 500
feet In length, which works admirably; made
three hundred DedsteadS out Of gas pipe; at
tends to ten boilers and four seam engines and
repairs machinery
A gentleman has just offered four thousand
dollars for q new brick workshop 6Ox4O feet. two
stories, in which bone mill and grist mill can
be placed to great advantage.
THE KNITTING DEPARTMENT..
has 80 Lamb (hand) knitting machines. worked
by student labor, according to demand Of the
firm in Boston. Last year upwards Of
$4,000 dozen pairs Of mittens were made by over
twenty coored students, chiefly boys, thus pay
Ing part OF their expenses. some fifteen of them
working through the summer vacation.
The progress and success of the colored and
indian apprentices, in the engineering depart
ment. are reported by the manager as good, the
average comparing favOrably with white appren-
tees of the same age
OF THE HUNTINGTON INDUSTRIAL WORKS.
Colored students employed ....8 8
E1aiheu iast year ...................$o "a, 535.OO
Earnings will be increased this year. This
consists Of saw-mill and woodworking estab-
lishment. The capacity of the mill per DAY is
fifteen thousand feet of lumber. Every year
class of from fifteen to twenty destitute,
ignorant, but earnest young men, enter the
mill for one year of steady day work of ten
hours. or the most promising a few are
selected for two years apprenticeship in the
woodworking shop in the second story. They
are work students studying two hours every
night till they enter the regular course. and
then are employed two days each week, study
ing four days throughout the three years
course. being able to save from one year Of
steady work at the mill $50 to SO, and in two
Sl4O for school expenses. They are the poorest
class. but ask no charity.
About one-fourth drop out for various rea-
H.
The mill Is doing good business. preparing
and selling building material Of all kinds.
OF AGRICULTURE.
Number of cOlored students employed. S.
Earnings last year, &c, O25; to be increased this
year.
This department has two FARMS one of 100
acres, connected with the school, and another,
AZ miles distant, Of $50 acres, called the
'Hemenway Farm" a gift to which has recently
been added, by purchase, another of $50 acres
adjoining; both are wen adapted for stock and
grain.
The last-named. of GOO acres is in charge of
Mr.. Chas. H. Vanison. graduate and is cult
waited entirely by work students. On the former,
Mr.. Geo. Davis, also graduate assists Mr.
Howe, the general manager.
Alphabetically the school is well appointed:
nearly complete, with land, outfit, machinery
and stock.
The entire cost Of gas, and 10000 for the
steam works. was provided in quiet way by
unexpected and most generous charity.
WORKSHOP FOR INDIAN BOYS.
The Indian workshop is now making, for the
Indian department in Washington. to be used
in the west, two thousand pairs Of shoes seventy
sets of double pillow harness, and hopes to sup
ply something more.
Indian apprentices are slow, and, owing to
ailments, not very regular but they are neat.
interested in their work and learn easily
Alphabetically, the negro is going ahead, for
he Is the labOrer of the south; he is buying
farms at S. an acre, and covering the land with
his small holdings.
Mechanically, he is losing ground, for there is
no way for him to acquire the needed skill; the
majority, however. are not adapted to mechan-
les. For all that; they are capable Of producing
an excellent mechanical class. The shops, north
and south, are as rule. closed to them
The present generation of cOlored mechanics
were nearly all trained in slavery.
SPECIAL NEEDS.
For the coming year considerable amount is
required, as follows: already referred to above
To complete payment on farm. s. 500 co
10 equip machine shop, grist mill, &c.. 100000
TO complete "stone BuiIding;... ...... 5000 90
10 repay loan. Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
sas,voOo
This loan was incurred to meet, in part, the
following expenses:
Balance on steam heating apparatns. a7si ~
Balance due on library binding. $500. 1714O0
Balance due on academic hall. 200. ....... 2BO57
Academic hall was burned in 1879; rebuilt
with many improvements, at cost of
S37. 4.S9, to do which we had these resources:
Insurance In money, s2sSH:s2 the gift OF friends
S6,OO0 Balance, %, 6S0.57.
The work Of the past two years has been 70
increase the capacity Of the school from 800
boarders to 5O0-nearly doubling it. and in
consequence charging and building up at great
expense There is now property worth up-
wards of $500, 600, carefully inventoried, we'll
insured, in good repair, and, excepting the
small loan above mentioned, out of debt
Among the many enlightened friends Of edu-
cation who attended the closing exercises at
Hampton and examined its work surprise and
admiration were the prevailing sentiments
Those who came fer the first time were aston
ished-all were pleased and convinced of the
vast possibilities OF these neglected races when
That system Is here illustrated in it's best phases
The hand, the head, the heart are sought to be
developed in unison. Work, which was thought
hard necessity, when organized by intelligence
and aided by machinery, is seen to be blessing.
a pleasure. and the surest means of mental
growth. "The stone that the builders rejected
Is becoming the head of the corner" Let the