The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1892-07-01
OUR ST: LOUIS LETTER.

The Color Line At the Manual Training
- sehsol-A NV Departure In Buildiug
ts.eky Inventors
The white studenta OF the Mantidl
Training School Of Warrington Uni
ve1ity havc persist~ntly objected to
the presence Of tho handful OF colored
boys who were ut the institution, and
towards tho close Of the last session
there were 90 many disagreeabls OK.
pressions Of this feeling that the
faculty thought II best to refuse the
coioreu youths permission to enter
next year. II seemed, however. on
many accuut1ts, such 4 good thing for
the eolorcd boys 10 be taught 70 be.
come mechanics, II they wanted 10.
that the Public S,hool Board has taken
up the matter and the end Of tho dis
cussion will 10 that one ~ the public
schools for colorcd people, the Tous-
saint School, will be equipped with tho
proper apparatus and will trnin The
teachers at the University Training
School ssy TINT the colorcd boys make
very good mechanics when thoy once
make up their minds to learn. This
move OF tho school board Ia an excel
lent one. ind the example ought to be
followed in other large cities where
they have no manual training school
for the colored boys
Three large Office buildings now go.
ing up downtown nre being cou
structcd on novel plan. Generally
the walls Of bricl, or stone are built up
from the ground, one after another.
The walls Of these buildings are erected
all Mt once. That Is, several floors are
put 6ne on another, and supported by
hteel pillats; before brick is laid.
After the pillnrs .hrc Id place this brick
or atone is built IN between them. The
idea Is new, and the architects regard
Y as n sensible departure from old
lines The buildings thus put up are
both lighter md cheaper than the ones
made In the style OF our fotefathers,
one story after another. They can be
erected much more quickly, too.
This city seems to encourage the de-
veloprnent Of the inventive instinct A
friend of Secretary John w. Noble is
one Of the successful inventors who
lives here. He has thought out several
contrivances which are boon TO the
deaf; little arrangements which nurse
the sound waves, and are applied to the
ear by means Of walking sticks, fans
and invisible tubes placed inside. An
other young man who was n clerk in
the custom house, on n small salary,
has Just invented faucet by which
champagne can bS einptied into bottles
like beer, instead of popping out with
a report startling to nervous people,
and often great waste of wine. This
young man found friend in u. 5. Mar
shall John w. Emerson. who backed
him with money, and three months
after he started to make his little fau.
Gets he found he had fortune in his
grasp.
st. Louis is now the only town in the
country that has enough people inter-
cstcd in horse-racing to maintain n
track where the events are run off ut
night. The managers Of the track in
the southern part OF the city began
racing by electric light last Monday
night, md promise to keep IL up
through the summer. All those inter.
estcd in horses as well as the boolt.
makers, will do their best to make the
experiment n success, and II 1t is, q
winter track will be established here
like the one Mt Guttenburg. The Mis-
souri, law now permits no pool-selling
on any races outside the State, and the
effort Of the horsemen will be TO heer
raeasg going In the State all the year
spuDd