National Republican., 1888-02-27
GOOD RESULTS APPEARING
FROM THE ESTABLISHING OF THE MAN.
UAL AND INDUSTRIAL sc TOOLS.
Progress of Young Ladies in Cookery
Making Carpenters of Boys Cost Of
Establishing the sChoois-Pay of ths
Teachers,

Commissioner Webb Is rejoicing over the
grand results that have followed the intro
duction OF manual and industrial training
to the schools. For the white children
there are now two schools of cookery for
the girls and the attendance Is placed ot
AL, and the four schools OF carpentry have
GG0 male pupils IN training. One school OF
turning, molding, and forging is well under
way In the high schoo', ald numbers ll2
pupils. There Is but one school for sewing
and COO girls are interested In the various
branches connected with it. These schools
are taught by five male and three female
teachers, whose average salary is SOlI5O
per annum. The highest salary Is 500 and
the lowest is $500 per annum. The cost of
conducting these schools is very small con-
siderIng the good that is accomplished. For
rent s., $50 yearly is paid, and for fttiag up
buildings 1886 II has been expended. The
cost OF materials to Jan ], lSSS, was as
follows: For cooking, SSl,23; for carpentry,
$3.50; for turning, S45 60; Total, S21l,j3;
The estimated cost for the materials to
June 20 next is $3.50, which includes $50 Tor
sewing.
Tie objects OF these courses OF training
are SET IOTln hb lOIlONS ny superintendent
W. Il. Poweil
SCHOOL or COOKERY.
The object of the course /, 20 give the pu 1ils
instruction in plain cooking aud Ia house
keeping, 70 far as t. is dependent on the
kitchen. In addition to recipes Tor ordinary
dhheS and making ana cooking the same in
the school, notes should Oe given OH the proper
selection OF materials the proper way o.
mixing Ingredients, aud on the best method
OF arranging and preserving provisions, As
nj If ShpIli1
taught as is necessary for intelligent cooking.
Two hours week throughout the year.
School or CAGrESTEY.
Bench work-The correct method OF using
planes, handsaws Chiscls, gniges, brace aud
bits, BANNER gauge, and osher tools in the
working OF different kinds OF WOOD; the lay ng
ont OF work with knife ard pencil, u:ing tri-
square. bevel, and uividcrs, and working
from drawings made by the pupil himself; the
making of plain aud of more complex NOR
se.and. tenOn joints, dovetatling, and plain
cabinet making; the making OF articles Of
practical utility Tor the schools and shops: the
putting together of work with brads, nails,
screws. aud glue; the care and sndrp i0lng of
edged tools; the use OF circu ar saws lectures
on woods and other m1ter'as used in tae
shops, showing where and In what condition
each is found. aud by what processes II is pre-.
pared for use or for market; also, lectures IN
the manufacture of TOOLS two hours week
throughout the year.
SCHOOL OF TURNING, MoLDlSG ASD FORGING.
Lathe working-The use of all the hand
wood-turning tools, embracing plain and
fancy turning in hard and soft wood inside
and outside; the use of chucks and face plates
pattern tnrning.
Molding-Bench molding in sand and cast
ing soft metal, embracing the use of slickers,
rowels. riddle, &C., using patterns made by
, the pupil himself.
! Forglng-The forging OF small articles of
soft iron and steel, and steel tools, with in
| struction in the simpler methods of manu-
| facture of iron and steel; practice In welding
| iron; practice in hardening and tempering
| steel; lectures on metalurgy; two hours u
week throughout the year.
SCHOOL OF SEWING.
Plain sewing; one hour q week Throughout
| the course.
| Congress appropriated the sum Of S., ,00C
for this object, and the money was divided
between the white and colored schools NJ
follows: Whites, $780, colored, $3.50
The colored pupils have two schools for
cookery with 450 girls in training, and twt
| schools for carpentry with $40 boys al
work. There are four teachers employed
at an average ealary of $475 per annum.
The sum Of $l,3s0 is paid for rental OF build
| ipgs, and the sum OF $1,l2l.94 has beer
expended in fitting the places up.
| Any one caring to see the results alread.
attained by the pupils in their handiworh
would find 1t pleasure to visit the school
when the various instructions are given
and see the proficiency already acquired
and the zeal OF the girls and boys toward:
acquiring all the knowledge they can II
| the limited time given them. CommiS
sioner Webb has manifested great interest
| in the schools,anG his whole aim is to bene
| fit these practical objects.