Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-02
MANUAL TRAINING.
The LOCAL COMMITTEE GOES TO TOLEDO
TO-DAY,
Leaving This Morning Via the G. & P. and W. &
LEA Sketch Of the Admirable
Toledo School.


ton secured through the courtesy and
enthusiasm of Judge r. II. Cochran,
President of the Wheeling Bridge and
Terminal Railroad Company, will leave
Bridgeport, via. the Cleveland and Pitts
burg road, and will make connections at
Warren, jefferson county. with the
Wheeling and Lake Erie train, which
will get them to their destination about
: o'clock this evening. The committee
appointed at the last session OF
the Board consisted of Messrs.
J. A. Miller, S. L. Jepson,
S. S. Bloch, f. j. Park, j. l.. Dickey,
C. l.. Davis, Charles Menkemeller, 5. c.
EschstrutH, and Superintendent of
Schools w. II. Anderson. The gentle
men named, aside from MesSrS. JepSon
and Anderson, comprise the Committee
on Schools OF the Board. MessrS. Bloch
and Miller will be unable to go upon the
trip, by reason of business engage
mentS, ard Mr.. Park may also be de-
tanned. On the other hand, Principal
Stevens Of the Island school, may join
the party.
No matter of greater Importance to
the people Of Wheeling has lately been
brought to public attention, and in view
OF this fact the following sketch of the
Toledo school and its manner of opera
ton, from the pen of superintendent A.
w =, Of ti,-a
peruSal by our readers:-
IN Marcn, 1854 the Common Council of
Tolc DO accept / the trust in benalf of the
Guy, new Board Of Trustees was appoint
GO. aod ire department Of manual training
Yves orgSl'Gcu as part of the public
scroOi sys, en-, TO be managed jointly by the
University Trust ces and the Board of
Eddce ion
I'm October, 1891. the manual training
work bean in en- experimental way in the
rooms OF The II 9h School building. The
work began W TN "a class Of sixty boys and
girls, under the instruction OF brit one
teacher, graduate o. the st. Louis
Manual Training School. For the first
YER IRE only studies pursued Were carpen-
try or gnt wood. work and free-hand and
mecGanical drawing. But so popular and
useful seemed the work, and so eager were
Otbers to enter upon it, that 1t became
necessary greatly to enlarge the facilities
fol%the studies.
During the summer following the first
years experience with the work four
story 81 icll building was constructed, 100
by 30 feet, in direct connection with the
High School building This.structure was
commodioUs, and well adapted to the work
for which. it was designed. It's doors
oGened directly into the High and the gram
mar schools, rom which its pupils were
tGken, so that there was no more confusion
or loss of time than in passing TO the ordi-
nary recitation. The building was equlpp6d
with all the tools and machinery necessary
for school of this kind, and sixty hCr e
power eng me furnished the motive power
of the entire plant.
The conditions for admission to this de-
pa tment of the public schools are that the
pupil shall be thirteen years of age and
shall have successfully completed the first
seven wears work of the public school
curse or it's equivalent. This practically
Limit the sources rom whence pupils are
drawn to the four highest grades of the
public schools, namely, the Senior gram
mar and High School. But an elementary
course in drawing, clay moulding stick
laying, tablet placing, paper-cutflng, lold-
ing and FASTING is arranged from
the lowe-t grade upward in all
the schools as preparatory to the
manual or tcol-work proper extending
downward from the highest grade. AS
result of this preliminary course many
pupils are enabled to discover and train
their tastes and aptitudes in the direction
Of the h CHER and more scientific drawing
and tool-work of the manual department
roper.
"rhe manual work is elective to the pu-
pills. but those who choose TO pursue the
studies of the manual course do precisely
the same amount OF intellectual or text
book study and recitation, and i'll the same
classes, as those pupils who do none of the
industrial work. The question is often
asked whether the manual pupils, having
all their work in addition to the regular
course. can DO as successful mental work
as the pupils who pursue none OF the man
ual studies. The verdict of the teachers
who have both kinds of pupils in the same
classes is that the manual pupils. WITH
very few exceptions. do their Ec-k
Just as satisfactorily as the others, an "a
many cases even more successfully. Ill5
fact can only be explained upon the 81 I'd
that the fewer study hours of the manCa-
pupils. and their mornings and evenings
and Saturdays are more carefully utilized;
that the industrious habit is cultivated,
and that there is less distraction of the at
tention where there is greater demand
made upon the mental ard physical re
sources of the student. 1t must not be for
gotten either that there is something in the
handling of chisel, plane and hammer that
is recreatlve or stimuatve Of the mental
faculties: that Che entir3 change from shop.
work to study is conducive TO mental fresh
ness and vigor; that the boy goes from his
wood carving or machine SaOp with sharp
enCd faculties and renewed zeal for mGthe
MATES and literature The proper eQualib-
rum is thus preserved between the intel
lcctual and physical forces OF The pupil. 1t
is true that the boys and girls who take
this work have no time to waste. They are
never seen upon the s. Gets IN idle on vicious
company They have no ic'e hours or
hands 10 be provided with mis- ch'e:. But
they evidently love the work, for they are
continually asking that they may be per-
United TO do extra work they come to the
laboratories even on holidays aud em5ar-
raSs their teachers by a"l.i1g Ior the priv
ilege of working at The latheS, the carving
benches and the drawing tables.
about foJ: hundred p1pIs ale now pUr-
sung the manual studics requiring eight
teachers. The arnua' expense of the school
is about 5000. wu'cH is met ny a slight
levy upon the tax duplicate OF the city.
Several different deD9rementS have been
opened, and others VII follow as the de-
mand for them develops.
"OIe large room S devoted to modelling,
frce-haud and decorative drawing; another
TO mechanical drawing, embracing archtec-
tural and perspective work. On the same
floor is one fitted thoroughly tor instruction
in sewing, cutting and fitting of garments,
and another for training in domestic
economy or the chemical study and cooking
of food. One large room is equipped with
Ia Ches and tools for wood turning and cary
inr. Directly beneath this room. on