The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-12-14
THE DEAF AND DUMB RIJND
INSTITU rlON.

The Board of Trustees Moving tn Get
Separate New Buildings for the Deaf
Mutes.
The board Of trustees of the Deaf
and Dumb and Blind Institution have
issued an interesting circular letter set.
ting forth the present condition of that
establishment, and urging that there be
provided for the deaf mutes an institu-
tion entirely separate from the blind.
Among other things the circular says:
In the year 1S45 North Carolina es-
tabllShed, and has since supported, the
Institution tor the Deaf and Dumb and
the Blind. During this period several
hundred Of each of these classes have
received instruction here, and really
been brought from darkness into light,
and to- day there are many enjoying the
benefit and happiness of an education
who would otherwise have grown up in
| the most pitiable ignorance, had it not
| been for the generous hearted people of
| our beloved State. But while so many
| have availed themselves ST such priv.
| leges, it is sad fact that there are so
many unhappy ones who have not had
these advantages, for there are far more
of them, especially among the deaf,
who have never received such training.
and many OF these uneducated ones have
not the slightest conception of their
Creator
The facilities in our institution are
not suffi ,ient to accommodate one-half
of these children. In 1880 the deaf and
dumb and the blind population in North
Carolina was more than three thousand.
with over five hundred deaf children
alone under tweuty-one years Of age.
Yet we have less than thirty per cent. of
them in school. and could not admit
them if all applied.
The North Carolina institution is one
of only four or five in the United States
where two classes are kept together.
There is no reason why they should be
kept in the same buildings, for there is
no bond Of sympathy between them.
They cannot communicate their thoughts
nor even their simplest wants to each
other.
What we need is new institution for
> the deaf, entirely separate from that of
: the blind. There are more Of either of
, these classes in North Carolina than we
could accommodate in our present bull
dlngs. This means that we must DENY
a great many of them admittance. II
you had deaf son would you be willing
) for our State to say, "You cannot come
) in?' Our last General Assembly appro-
J. prlated one hundred acres of state land
! to the Institution for the Deaf ane
+ Dumb. but we have not a dollar to erect
> building. We need plant with suff
. cient room to accommodate one hundred
- and fifty white mates to begin with. Or
70 this land we might teach practical agri
% culture and gardening, raising and car
"a ing for stock. We should have industria
shops where we could teach carpentr,
s. and cabinet making, printing, shoe
st making, broom and mattress making
a. The North Carolina institution is th
Or only institution for the deaf in the Uni
;h ted States that has no art department
TX Many of our boys and girls have showl
Of marked natural talent for drawing.
fe is conceded by all who are we'll acquain
or ted with the deaf, that they make tn
of finest of artisans. Many State institu
tions for the deaf have turned out som
a of the finest artists many of whom hav
I'd made enviable regulations. We should
O. by all means, have such department. Al
a. is to the deaf is what music is to th
of blind.
lis We confidently believe thatif we ha
ed such facilities, we could make the institr
IT. .ion at least one third or fonrth sell
IS, SUI porting, after the second or third yea
n. Nearly every institution in the Uuio
tn has just such facilities as we are askin