New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-27
FOR POOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
JACOB ToMEs's PLANS FOR A FREE TRAIN
ING SCHOOL
READY TO SPEND MILLIONS IN CARRYING OUT
HIS PURPosE-HoPING TO MAKE THE WAYS
OF LIFE SMOOTHER FOR THOSE WHO
HAVE NOTHING BUT ENERGY
AND BRAINS

AND BRAINS!
lBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRiBuSE.l
Baltimore, Jan. oe.-The endowment by jacob
Tones Of free seminary and manual training scnooi
at Port Deposit will not be 100000, as repored
bu Will be nearly 100000, NOT
more His plans are fully formed ana
work on the seminary will DO vigorously
pushed Port Deposit is town Of about twenty
two hundred population, on the east side OF inc
susauehanna River. II is there that MI fomes
arose from penury 10 wealth. He could not De
Induced to talk Of the school until tonight "hen
he said:
aI want to give poor boys and girls chance
I know what it is TO fight your own way IN me-
and II can won't TO try and make the ROAD n,,'o
smoother for Others. My purpose is to erect 'ne
necessary schools and workhouses for hve hunnreo
children. I want them to have practical edueatoh
and sound manual training Tho boys l want 70
teach the use of tools, and want them 10 learn
the ground work OF any trade they may select Inc
rirls Will be taught to sew, to work and 70 eooA
and then they may learn telegraPhy, snor'nauu'
typevrtng and tho other occupations In when o'uer
Young women arc engaged. The school is ues'siis'
urimarly for orphans OF residents OF FoH poPost .
second for children Of residents Port Deposits thiu'
for orphans Of residents Of Cecil County pu''p'
children of citizens of Cecil County and u 'neie
are then stm Accommodations left. all Maryland shali
have a chance II will not be boarding sehooi'
7 desire 10 keep my plan Heo "'n'
the idea Of charity house eAPo.'
70 set aside &c 100000 as an endowmen' "hp.
,ntend no erect several buildings on two acres OF
rrcnnd which I have set aside they VIII cost
probably $500 900, and l hope to start WprA Oh
them next year. -
10 g rrobabls that Mr. Tome will mako The en-
dovrnent three millions instead Of two. Ho Is
much interested IN the work, and In wishing 10 sec
n accomplished before his death is following voc
example Of Isiah Williamson and Enooh fr@'',
The school Is incorporated as "The Tome Male ana
Female Seminary OF Port Deposit The moor
nora,ors arc Eyalyn s. Tome, John a. j. CresNeH'
William j. Jones Henry C. Nesbit, Samuel d. ho"-
land. John NJ Clenahan, Thomas C.. Bond kooer'
g. Hopkps and Peter T. Tome, all OF whom Ne
residents of Cecl County. Mr.. Tome 10 seitmAno
man. He was born August n, 1910 IN haan'
helm township, Work coun5, Pennsyivafeas o.
oerman parents HIS early educational advsn'ages
consisted Of few short winter sessions AZ District
school For several years he hired out ~
farm work in Pennsylvania HIS his'
step upward was "a a school teacher ne hneo NJ"
self for the place by private study, and for Wo SeA
had charge OF a school noar Ezabethtown, Lancaster
County, Penn. In 1888 he went to Port DoPoSp
and cot employment In a hotel, af,erward securing
a c,erksh,p with lumber dealers In thai town. III,
activity aud earnestness attracted attention. ara Davla
Rinehat, banker and lumber merchant OF Mstoual
Penn, proposed business o0n,loGs,op' Ss arm ~
Tome a Rinehart was thus started and Tor slAtcsI
years It's success uninterrupted. lp 1901 hr
Rinehart died. and tho accounts showed caphA "
sIOO 600 Since that tine Mr.. Tome has been On'
OF tho mo9 active and enierpuslng capitalists ~
Maryland, apd his business connections extend oye
several States Now he Is many times . millionaire
| Mr. Tome was p strong Union man during the war
He has always been sturdy Republican Hs wa
member Gt Ihe aSsdae SIn for Governor o MSrsc
In 1s7i, but was defeated by William Hneknfy Whye