The Evening critic., 1884-04-03
Industrial and Manual Training
Schools.

TO The EditoF Of The EUentno Critic.
lam glad TO see that the trades unions are
interested In the educational movement, as
shown by the discussion Of Senator Blair's
bill.
There is term "industrIaI schools" used In
the bill that affects tho well.being OF our tu.
ture mechanics.
What the term means is very important
point.
In England there are Government schools
for children under Ii found vagrants, or
those convicted OF petty ofrensea, or for chill.
dren whose parents are unable to control
them. They are to certain extent compul.
sorry; and II a child absconds before he or she
10 10 they may be sent TO n reform school.
In the United Statos the word "home" is
used in connection with the torn, and such
schools are called Industrial home schools,
and are mostly charitable institutions, but
with the same object the training OF the chill.
dren 10 habits OF Industry.
Tho writer wishes to convey to the young
and parents OF the young the Importance OF
special education.
Now, the idea of Senator Blair's bill is not
the establishment OF socalled industrial
schools, In which special industrial educa.
tion would bo given, but schools or shops So
called in an institution or school, Just as there
Is In all such institutions laboratory Of
chemical machines, &C., to teach tho arts and
sciences.
1t would be a good thing II the trades
unions would discuss the subject OF what In
nuence Industrial or trade schools would have
on their several trades.
The current number OF the Scientific AMsrl.
caH says; "ltis the folly OF parents In closing
lhe doors OF the trades in the faces of their
some Those sons with all the demands OF In
sllhct 10 learn trade are prevented from do
ihg 80 py their parents, who prefer to see
lntm MI the more important and dignifled DO.
sluon OF clerk, working fifteen hours a day for
Sl6 per month. We are getting poorer sub.
yects every year for apprentices for this very
reason. we can reach point 80 low that IL il
Impossible TO go any lower, and we have nnout
reached that point In some lines OF business
The manual training-schools which are
springing up In nearly all Of our large cities
are giving instruction TO many boys whose
parents, perhaps, would not, at the start con.
sent to them entering the shops. With such
schools warrant we see no need for fearing In at
the race ofgood workmen I'm any trade will soon
die out. on the contrary, we believe we viii
see mechanics increase In numbers aud'sklll
from year TO year."
II Will not be out of piece TO describe one OF
these manual labor or special trade schools.
II. 7. Auchmuty has established "plant," as
ne calls II, composed OF number OF trade work.
shops for the teaching OF special trades. Tae
special trades taught In his establishment at
present are bricklaying, plasterlng, stone.
cutting, iron work, In forge and foundry, ana
plumbing. He VIII add other trade school
couIHged In his work by the mechanics of the
trades no Is improving, by giving the trades
more competent and more skilled Workm an,
THIS plant comprises row of buildings In
bixty-eighth street, New York. Each OF the
trades 10 represented In the person OF a COM
petent INSTRUCTOR, and the buildings are df-
vlded into shops, Since these schools have
been organized there has been a steady In.
crease In the number OF applications for ad