Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-17
AnmoUR,s GENEROUS GIFT

 that MT. Armour's nearly completed five story building on Thirty third street, near | Armour avenue, supposed to have been constructed for use in connection with the l Armour flats, is to be given to Chicago for | a manual training school, and further that this magnificent bestowal is to be accom- panied by $1 400, ,O00 endowment, which will net the institution $50, 900 year and the Armour mission $25, 900. MT. Armour big packer left last evening for European trip, to let his big secret out. ''The place will be known as the Armour Institute, and will be to this city all that the Drexel Institute is to Philadelphia and the Pratt Institute is to Brooklyn" said MT. Gunsaulus last evening. "All that money and brains and labor can do will be done toward making it the greatest insti- for manual training, science and art in this country. It will be school good enough for the richest, but it will reach out for the poorest.
 s'Mr. Armour's wealth came to him in Chicago. He desires now to do something | for the young men of this city. It is said that upon his return from Europe he will | to large extent go into sort of partner ship with the young men and young women | who have or desire to have future. He conceived this idea years ago, and the plans have been carefully gone over with | George W. Childs, John c. Black, and Mr. Armour's sons, Ogden and Philip. His desire above all this is that his millions may aid in making life beautiful, inspiring and useful to the deserving young men | and women of the worlds fair city.
 "The building and funds for it's SUD- port are to be turned over to board of l directors. It is expected that the school | will open September 1 next. The most complete apparatus obtainable for every branch and library bearing upon every line of study will be secured.
 DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING.
 "The new building faces the Armour mission and the Armour flats. Absolutely no expense has been spared in it's erection. There is beautiful and lavish use of mar ble, the wainscoting being of that mate rial on every floor, and marble columns and arches appearing in profusion. In the basement will be placed the electric plant, and here will be located the students in forging and iron work. On the first floor Is a superbly lighted library, sixty feet square. Woodworking rooms and the rooms for reception and for the president ] of the institute are also located nere. On the second floor are the chemical laborato- ! ry, the chemical lecture room, the physical laboratory, the physical apparatus room, the physical lecture room, and electrical students in free-hand drawing, me chanical and architectural drawing, and , in commerce and business. The fourth ! floor is devoted to the domestic sciences- , | there being departments of cooking, dress making, millinery and kindred studies On this floor are also recitation, lecture | and class rooms. At one end of the fiftt floor ia the gymnasium-60x53 feet. Al ! the other end Ia the technical museum Connecting the two are dressing rooms fol the gymnasium and elaborate bathrooms fitted up in white marble.
 "The school will have such relations tt the public schools and to the university al will amply fit it for the preparation O. students, for the latter especially in tn, scientific branches. The idea is to estab fish an institution for the education O. head, hand and heart. MT. Armour's idle. in manual training is that all shall bt taught and done so that the muscles shal not be more thoroughly trained than tn, and beauty. The student in Chicago great manual training school will be giver the comprehensive basis of liberal cult ure. His teachers will form faculty O the highest standing obtainable in thi country The library will be completel, supplied with books bearing not only upol the English language and literature ant the more polite fields of learning, but als, upon the theory and practice of the steau engine and those things which are sup posed to be more in the line of 8 manua training school.
 TO EDUCATE GIRLS.
 "Girls who need to make living O would like to have the power to make one even though it is not 8 necessity, will b taken whether rich or poor and trained ii s the domestic arts. It is proposed to msk this education SO broad that no matte [ what other schools or colleges may hay taught the girl she may find her learnin supplemented at the Armour institute. 8 "There will be department of cooking which will have thoroughly trained che 8 as an instructor, and the kitchen and din ing rooms will be models. There will b s lectures on the chemistry of food and cook ing and upon physiology and hygiene beal ing upon the nutritive qualities of foo and the application to cookery. Tn , be taught, but the literary and scientifi course given to the boys will also be ope to the girls.
 "The gymnasium will be 8 feature an will be open to both sexes under con potent directors of physical culture. IT struction and training will be given anatomy and physiology, and the ibrar will be supplied with the most valuabl books bearing upon these subjects.
 "The purely scientific department wi be far in advance of that in many if nc all other American schools. The lectur rooms will be complete with every conver fence for experiment. The physical lat oratory will have an immense selection ( the best and most modern apparatu
 Electricity will be given the greatest poss
 ble attention. The chemical laborator
 will be fitted up with every valuable appl snce and will be unsurpassed in all it's sl
 pointments. The public will be admitte during the winter months to evening lee
 ures on subjects of general interest an
 upon scieoce and art. At intervals durin
 these winter months recitsIs will be give
 in the hope of promoting an interest in u
 higher grades of music among those who's
 opportunities in this direction have bee
 limited.
 IN THE LIBRARY.
 "The library will be one of the most in portant features of the school. There wi
 be special directions in science, art an an technology. There will be works in ge,
 eral literature, the highest standard (
 periodicals in every department of know edge, and in addition, it is hoped to nal a reference department of the greatest DO
 sible value. In connection with the
 brary form of university extension wi
 be pursued, circles being formed for sele' courses of reading, each circle being give
 special conductor. The public will r
 ceive the advantages of both the ibrar.
 the courses, and limited number of tt
 lectures. There will be technical mr
 scum, which must necessarily be matte on of growth, but which will start with exan
 ples of industrial work and the processt
 bringing about their production. Thel or will be of inestimable value to tho stl @ dents in connection with their work. M . Armour's idea in the establishment of u l. institute is that education in every othe