The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-12

at present, can well accommodate Fifty
pupils, Just such a number as would be ,
in attendance as soon as the institute is
made free to all the deaf mutes OF school
age in the Territory.
Thus far, the history of the institution
has BEEN tale of difficulty and trials;
what its future will be, depends upon
the
GENEROSITY OF THE LEGISLATURE
and the humane policy to be pursued
by your Exeellency.
As tc what the needs of the Institute
are, they may be briefly described as
follows:
FIRsT-A permanent location.
SEcoED-A free system OF education
and support until they finish their
course.
THIRD-More teachers and attendants
are necessary to the well-being of the
pupils, and [ hope this will not be
grudged to them, when it is considered
that they have lost the most important
of all avenues to the mind-the sense
of hearing-which makes it difficult for
them to acquire an education whlc. is
to fit them for The duties of life. 1t is,
and always Fas been, our purpose to
add an oral department, for the in
struction of such pupils as have not
lost entirely the power of speech-in
speech and lip-reading. Atpresent, we
are confined to but one systematic
manual method-whlch is applicable to
all, but the latent faculty of speech
should also be cultivated as far as
possible, and by combining these two
methods for two different classes of the
deaf mutes. we will have in this school
what is ca: ed
THE COMBINED SYSTEM.
which is in use in fourty-seven out OF
the fifty-six institutions for the deaf in
this country.
We can have good site for Terri
torial Institute in the Hooper residence.
1t is within convenient access to the
University, where the educational work
is carried on It can be had cheaper
| than it would be to bnild a new iRsti-
tute. We can have it for Sic, 000, the
price the executor of the estate--Mr.
| Thomas Jennings, is willing to sell for.
We invite an inspection OF the buildings
and premises from all interested.
| There is another course open to us.
| We could build an institute after the
plan OF other institutions upon the
| University grounds at a cost Of S25 600
which will accommodate large num-
Der of pupils for several years to come,
Now as to The amount necessary for
the support of the two departments
educational and domestic. The original
| appropriation was 50 600 for each year,
OR "a 600 for two years; the next, Ill
1856, was $4,000, or Sc, 900 for two years
4 IF n hn ht.r that n
| amounts were appropriated for the
! educational department alone. As we
are to have an institute
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE UNIVERSITY
as I hope and believe-the sun OF
SIS 900 per year, or $4,000 for the two
years between the meetings of the Leg
| islature will be sufficient for both de-
partments.
Please let me recapitulate:
For site and buildings .......... sl5, GOO 90
For education and support 10000. 90
IoSdl-.-- SLo,uVV.Vu
The official census of 1880 gives lis.
OF lis deaf mutes in Utah. In list
which / have in my possession, how
er. have discovered several cases
which were not named in that list, and
with the natural increase since 1880.
there must now be eco or more of them
in Utah at the present time. That there
is urgent need of providing proper
educational facilities for the deaf mutes
of Utah, at the earliest practicable mo-
ment. goes without saying; and with
high hopes in the future of the Insti-
tute, l AN,
Respectfully,
HENRY @. WHITE.
10 HIS EDcelSency, Principal.
Governor Caleb " West.