Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-06-11
began ut the lowest round Of the ladder
and had spent fifteen years in Il country

began ut the lowest round OF the lad'ler
and had spent fifteen years in acountry
Office and listened to the criticisms and
suggestions of his thinking readers as
running newspaper, and learned from
every one of them.
Hon. j. w. IIine, of Lowell followed
with a valuable and thoughtful paper
entitled 1.-The Newspaper Laundry
showing that he had not spent years in
the newspaper business without becom-
ing acquainted with those pests he so
accurately described and who make
| life such a burden to an editor. Some
of the audience found it next to inn
possible to forgive him for the fiat
lirony" he used in some of his puns, but
as they were anything but board they
let them "wring" their hearts for Il
moment and then pinned them up
in their memory.
| The audience was then interested in
1.-The Personnel of the Michigan Press
do its Editors Honor their Calling?"
by IA \. Mcmillan, of the Bay City Tri-
J,me, which was bright and witty and
elected hearty applause from the en-
tire audience.
A. Potts, of the Grand Haven Courier
Journal was then called upon for few
remarks. He nearly killed off the aud
fence by convulsing them with laugh
| ter. 1t is not SO much what he says
but rather his manner that is so ludi-
crous as to excite even the most solemn
to shrieks of laughter.
At nine O'Clock Wednesday morning
the members all assembled at the opera
house where carriages were in waiting
to convey them to the State Public
school, an institution with Il national
reputation. This institution is located
about one mile from the heart of the
city upon slight eminence and there
are. all told, Is buildings as follows:
The administration building, with the
ground plan in the shape of cross,
having Il frontage of 1913 feet by depth
of l75 feet in the central part, around
which are grouped twelve others, one
Of which is used for Il water-tower,
| boiler. and engine house. gaS-Works
and laundry, one for hospital, nine
| for cottages, and one for Il school-hOuSe.
All of these are warmed by steam and
| lighted by gas. All except the hospital
are constructed of brick, and have not
only solid but cheerful and home-like
appearance. The latest improvements
in steam-heating, cooking, laundry,
bathing and ventiating apparatus have
been introduced. There is Il farm of
l25 acres connected with it, on which is
a bearing orchard of 800 apple trees.
The total cost of the outfit is about
S200, 600. The object of the Institution,
as our readers already know is TO pro-
vide for all the dependent children of
the State, whether in or out of the
county poor-houses, who are sound in
body and mind, over three and under
twelve years of age; TO maintain and
educate them while temporarily here,
and as soon as satisfactory homes are
found to place them there under con-
tracts securing good treatment, as
members Of the family, and an elemen-
tary education, thus fitting them for
good citizenship.
Since this institution was opened
May u, 1884. 1924 children have been
show 66 have died, $50 are now in the
School, and LIS have gone from the
School, of which number |, sos, or 90
per cent, are either self-supporting
men and women in the various voca-
tons of life as men and women live in
this State, or are in families being car
ed for by citizens who have taken them
by adoption or indentTe. All the de-
partmentS were visited and the Press
came away with an exalted opinion of
the grand work being there done.
Michigan is loyal to her people; in this
school she trains these waits and tries
to make of them good citizens; when
they go astray she has her reform
schools where efforts are made to re-
claim them; if they become demented
her asuylums open to them and they
are again cared for. 1t is wonderful
it is grand work a grand state that /
will support all these institutions, but .
who shall say that the work being done
here in this state public school is not .
the grandest and best? When heart
less parents desert their helpless child
rem and leave them worse than orphan
ed, the State of Michigan adopts them
and is father and mother to them UNI
til, through this school, they in time
find good homes. Here they are taught
the same things Il careful parent in
culcates into the minds of the young; to
be truthful ; honest in all things; clean