The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18
NEW INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Indianapolis Will Have an Establish.
ment That Will Be a Model.
Character Of the Building TO Be Erected and
Apparatus to Be Used-Departments
Of instruction.

The action of the School Board at two
of its recent meetings. when q site was Sc
lected for the erection of q manual train
ing school. marks an epoch in the history
Of chooi work in this city. coward which
public opinion and favor have been drift
ing for years. The work of manual train
ing has been carried on in the two high
schools and the night school on Meridian
street for some time. This addition TO the
regular work and space prescribed for
them has crowded the schools. and pro-
gressed at q corresponding disadvantage.
During the past two weeks. however. Su-
~perintendent Jones has had occasion to
look In upon some of the best manual
treinIng institutions of the coun-
try. and has found that the
schools in this city rank below
none, so far as the work goes.
bounded by Meridian. Merrill aud Garden
streets and Madison avenue. and fronts 40
feet on Meridian street by two hundred
feet on Merrill street. This Insures light
for the institution, with no fear of the en-
croachment of other buildings in the future.
Including the basement. the building will
be four stories high. and built OF brick.
The intention is TO establish ut present q
nucleus. around which may be gathered
other necessary buildings when their cree
ton may be found necessary. The instltu-
fion Will be thoroughly equipped. a1d Will
in no manner be experimental. The direct
or, Prof. +. l.. Emory. now at the head or
the department of mechanical engineering
IN the University of West Virginia. viii
supervise the plans and see that nothing
naCaeGaru In fna GnCRaaarnI nnRTarlOn OF the
school Is neglected. Professor Emory Is q
graduate of the Worcester Poly technic
School. and fitted mp the entire manual
training plant at Washington, ID: Z. The
be begun immediately. contem-
plating a large and complete plant.
it Is the intention 10 complete all the
departmentsof drawing. woodworking and
the applied sciences at once. In addition
To Professor Emory and the three teachers
now employed IN the High-sehool manual
training departments. there Will be other
instructors added TO the faculty as the
necessities demand. The principal idea Is
TO expand the work as its popularity grows.
The new building will contain large. we'll
lighted rooms for the different departments
of drawing. free-hand. mechanical and ma
chine. which Will occupy the upper floor.
The workshops, when equipped. will need
nothing of apparatus by which to apply
che best thought OF modern times to indus
try. The sciences Will be taught especially
I'D tuttI hDp1lChtlOu y CoulllcECCa n nhn
u~factures. The large night-school of $50 to
POO pupils, studying drawing In the
Social T~urnverein Hall, Will be accom-
modated in the new night school that Will
be established in connection with institute
night classes. so that all classes of students
may be protited.
The exact amount of the buildings cost
has not been fixed. The special law passed
by the last Legislature. under which this
school Is organized. enables the school
board TO raise $4,000 q year until the neces-
sary equipments are obtained. The ground
has been purchased on ten years time at
q low rate of interest. During this time
only the interest on the cost prlce or the
lot will be paid. After this one-teDth OF it
Is paid each year until the debt is Cancelled
within ten years. This arrangement dis
tributes the payments over twenty years
time, and allows the board TO put more
money into equipments at once. The base
ment will be occupied by boilers. engines
aud machinery. The first floor will be &C.
cupIed as forging and molding rooms. All
metal work will be done here. The second
will be devoted 20 phases of woodwork.
laboratories. chemistry and physics. The
board intends this school to open with the
others next September.
TOO long already" said Superintendent
Jones yesterday, has Industrial education
been neglected by the people of less pre-
trntious elites. There is no other measure
or economics to be adopted which SO easily
and satisfactorily solves the problem of
- - y
slnce the establishment of the American
government capital has looked toward
Europe for its greatest skilled labor. The
mother country was forced. centuries ago.
60 the mechanical and industrial education
OF Its children. The coming OF such an in
etIJution as q thoroughly equipped manual
training school should therefore be- hailed
with something like thanksgiving by those
who have children that .lust enter the
eterDer side of life at no distant future
time.
AT an early day in the mining countries
of the West labor equaliZed all omers be-
cause the labor was all of one kind. III the
college-bred man possessed superior mus
cles he was the autocrst of the camp. but
IT he did not be occupies o less conspicuous
position at the labor board. 1t was at such
o time the graduate of Yale found no
theory equal TO the occasion.
The time has already come when labor
reigns over the land. 1t consists OF many
different kinds. but the old muscle and
lung criterion of the mining camp directs
the success of every working man. lt Is
this kind Of an institution hat develops
both and makes IL possible for u man to
support his family. At last the neces-
as the mind is recognized, and
Ct no better time could the
knowledge have come than the present
1Sr the future welfare of q city like Indian
spoiis. Many a young man who never
had the advantages or that kind of train
ing has tonne himself pennlless in a large
rIty. with all his theoretic education,
moving OF nothing be could do to earn n
dollar. unless be TeSorted to street work OF
the most mental and cheapest labor. Such
experience as this argues strongest for
mammal training schools"
What 10 the mechanical availability of
O man graduating from IN institution of
this kIndf" was asked.
when q man graduates from an institu-
tion such as Will be operated in this city, be-
ginning next Septem Der, he will be able to
20 To work at a good salary wherever his
services are needed. He escapes the long ap-
prenticeshlp which so often dwarfs the am
billions of less courageous men. and his edu-
cation will be q source of some revenue at
once. This 10 practical education. liz
would be pretty hard for q fellow to re-
ceIve q full course of instruction in any
department aud come out unavailable.
This naturally increases the Der of
skilled workmen every year, strengthens
commerce and the Industries accordingly,
and directly contributes TO the good of the
government and the Nation
How many pupils will stsrs with the
SCHOOL,"
That I cannot cay. The classes already
instituted. along with all the night schools.
Will swell the roll. Following the history
oflike institutions elsewhere. this roll Will
be multiplied each year. until additional
buildings will have to be erected In con-
nection with this one.D
The General Verdict.
New York independent
On the whole. President Harriscn's last
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