St. Paul daily globe., 1891-05-06
INDUSTRIES We WANT
Therefore an Industrial
Training for the Youth Is
Desirable.
Why Prof. Phelps Supports
the Manual School Con-
tinuance.
Attorney Erwin Will Take a
Hand in the Elevator
Search.
The New Stove Works Pre-
pairing to Push Its New
Home.

''Now that the proposition to suspend
the manual training school has been
consigned, it is hoped, to the tomb of
the Capulets,a and that it is beginning to
be seen that that Institution Is really
one of the most valuable of the indus
trial forces in the city, it is we'll for US
to consider how its scope can be en-
larged and its usefulness increased"
said Prof. w. F. Phelps, yesterday.
Perhaps the most important Of all the
measures calculated to effect this object
is to enlist the warm and hearty support
of the people. Since the discussion of
the proposal to economic by abolishing
it has closed, the attendance at the in
stitutlon has largely increased, thus
proving the worth of little healthful
agitation
''What is much needed is more active
interest in the school By the citizens Of
st. Paul. especially those engaged in in
dustrial pursuits. This interest can be
best manifested by frequent visits to its
class rooms and workshops. Seeing is
believing Nothing would SO encourage
the students or stimulate the teachers to
do their best as daily visitations by the
citizens. The day is not distant when
the manual training school will need to
be enlarged and its appliances for in
struetion increased. This is the history
Of all similar schools throughout the
country, showing that they are meeting
demand for more practical educa-
tiun.
.'It cannot be too often repeated that
the manual training school is not trade
school; that it is not to make mechanics
and skilled laborerS, but that it is de-
signed to cultivate those powers of OBJ
servation and those exact methods of
thinking which enable the hand to exc
cute with accuracy and precision what
ever it finds to do. 1t needs no argu-
ment, however, to prove that this style
of education greatly increases the apti-
tude of the student for industrial pur-
suits. This is secondary considera-
ton, but one of vast import in connec-
ton with the promotion of industrial in
tereStS.
'sThe manual training school of Wash
ington university, i'll St. Louis. is line
example of what may be accomplished
through such an agency. More than
thousand young men have tested its
advantages since it was organized, and
hundreds have been turned away for
lack of ROOM. So great is the demand
for admission that a committee of lead
ing citizens has issued an appeal for
cooperation in materially enlarging its
building, in order to give Uher thou
sands of young men An all-arOund edu-
cation. 1t is proposed to provide for the
accommodation of 500 students. The
plan is to erect new four-story build
ing adjoining the present one, which is
to contain eight large shops, Office,
storerooms, engine room, dressing
rooms. etc. The tools and shop
appliances that are now in use are
/ to be transferred to the new building,
and the present shops will be converted
into class, recitation and drawing rooms.
The general curriculum is to undergo
no change. There are at present over
sixty free scholarships in this school.
the ownership of the property being
vested in Washington university. 1t is
designed to raise the money in time to
equip the new and enlarged building
SO as to be ready for the next fall term.
The committee suggests that those who
prefer it should found scholarships.
Here is an idea for the wealthy men of
| st. Paul: What better use can they
make of some portion of their surplus
| than to endow the manual training
! thus Supplementing the public support
| and enabling the Institution greatly to
expand its usefulness?
> with industrial drawing in our
schools literally provided for, and the
manual training school encouraged,
built up, enlarged and rendered more
efficient the foundations will soon be
laid SO firmly for the prosperity of our
working classes and the growth of the
city, shat they cannot be disturbed
1T is said that one of the marked