Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-08-13
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The Color Line at the Manual rraiai..
sehooI--A New Departure la Banaiss
Lucky Inventors

The Color Line at the Manual rrnin,..
sehool--A New Departure la BaIlaias
Lucky InysntoFs
The white students OF the Mann.,
Training School of Washington IIni'
yersity nave persistently objected II
the pEesenee Of the handful OF colore1
boys who were at the Institution. an3
towards the close OF the last session
there were so many disagreeable 49,
plessions Of this feeling that tha
faculty thought Il best % refuse he
yolored youths permission 70 enter
next year II seemed, however. ~
many accounts, such good thing fnr
the eol0red boys 10 be taught 10 ~.
come mechanics. il they wanted ~
that the Public School Board has taken
up the matter and the end Of tie nm.
aussion will be that one OK the pnblie
schools for eoloFed people, the Tone
saint School, will be equipped with the
proper apparatus and win train ~
boys ia skilled manual work. The
teachers az the University Training
school say that the col0red boys mAks
very good mechanics when they once
make up their minds 20 learn. ThBs
move Of the school board is an excel.
lent one, and the example ought 10 -
followed la other large cities where
they have 40 manual training school
Tor the eolOred boys
Three large Office buildings now guA
ing up down town are being con
structcd on a novel plan, GENERALLY
the walls Of brick or stone are built IN
from the ground. one after another
The walls 81 these buildings arc erected
oil az oaee. That Is, several aOers are
put ore on another, and supported b.
steel pillars, before q brisk Is laid
after the pillars are ia place she brick
o. stone y built IN betWeea them. The
Idea is new, and the architects regard
V ~ sensible departure from ola
lines The buildings thus put mn arr
both lighter aud cheaper than the otses
made Ia tie style OF our forefAshers
one story agtef another They can -
erected much mUgr quickly. tor.
HIS city aeeEls ~ encourage the ae.
yrl1pment ~ the Inventive Instinct A
friend Of Secretary John VI. Noble <
one q the suecrssful inventors who
lives here. lie has thought oat several
eoutrtFaucca hieh urc q hDan 10 The
deaf. httle arrangements which nnnse
TIE sound waves and are applied q thr
rar by means % walking sticks, fans
and Invisible tabea placed inside. AZ.
other young man who was q clerk rs
the custom house. on y small salary
has just inyrnted q faucet IS whleA
champagne rnu lie csnptird Into bottles
lake becr, instead ~ ppppiRg ont win
= report startling 70 nervous people.
sHG often q great waste % wine Thls
young man fuand friend ln \. Mar.
sha. John W. Emerson. who backed
hltn with money aud three months
after be- started u make his little fan.
Gets hc ionnl he had a iurtuue Ia bis
g. w
~ Louis = now tile only town Ia tha
country that has enough people inter.
rasFrl ~ horse racing 10 maintain a
trars Where the events are ran % al
H'5"t The managers 81 ;he track %
iiie southern part ~ lbe city beean
racing oy electric light laas Monaay
night, AID promise 70 keep Il -
through the summer. Ail sh1se inter.
esira " h9rcs as well al the book.
laa@ers Will DO thejr best % make tho
experiment success. and Il Il il y
wiaier track Will IT, established heFo
i'he the one % Guitrnbarg. The Mis-
s2Hr' law now permits no poei.teiilng
Ul any races nntsi6e the state. and The
effort - The huFsrmcu VIII be- 70 keep
racing going 10 TIC State all the year
round