The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-03
Ladies of the Girls Industrial School
Are Arranging for One.

The ladies connected with the Girls In
dustrial School are completing their ar
engagements for q Food Exhibit" at Tom
linson Hall, in the near future. They are
in correspondence with the leading manu-
facturers of food throughout this country
and Europe, and have received promises of
sufficient donations TO insure it's success.
These exhibitions have been held at the
Madison-square Garden, New York, and
were objects of universal interest and social
as well as financial successes. and 1t was
upon the recommendation of the ladies
who held the New York exhibitions in the
interest of a school similar to our Girls
Industrial School. that the officers of the
latter decided to hold a similar exhibition
here, and for which arrangements are now
being completed.
These exhibitions are first-class advertise
ments for all kinds of food, and our ladies
expect to add all kinds of household wares
such as soapine, pearline, patent lifters and
all useful articles required i'm housekeeping.
Tickets will be sold at % cents each and
will be received in paymen for any article
OH exhibition.
The Girls Industrial School is one of the
most meritorious of all our charitable in
stitutions and it is the only one that re-
ceives no aid from the city. county or
State. and pays no salaries of any kind.
Its work is carried on by some of our most
energetic and charitable ladies and is sup
ported by contribution solicited by the la
dies III sums Of from % cents to SIP, the
latter being the largest sum yet received In
n single subscription, from which Ii will be
seen that n vast amount of labor is re-
quired 10 raise money and donations of
goods to furnish the children with material
10 work upon. This work OF soliciting has
been largely performed bV one of the nfIl-
GERS of the school. who says she has never
been refused a donation of goods or sub
Scrtption by any gentleman solicited.
This school does for the poor girls of this
city what no other charitable Institution
pretends to do. 1t teaches them to sew
and thus enables them to help their moth
ers and earn their own living in later years.
The garments made by the scholars are
presented to them after they are completed,
The school now numbers over five hun
dred and IL increasing al the rate of from
twenty-five TO fifty each Saturday. and its
necessities are greater than ever before, as
additional material is needed and more
cast-off clothing and shoes for the thinly-
clad children that attend. 1t is a constant
struggle To keep the school going and ad-
ditional teachers are needed. There are
hundreds OF comparatively idle young ladies
in this city who should feel it their duty
TO devote two hours each week to this good
work of aiding poor children TO make their
way in the world.
1t Is the intention OF the officers of this
school to enlarge its field as soon as an APP
propriate building can be procured in order
that they may teach the girls TO cook and
perform every species OF work required i'm
housekeeping. One of the officers has coll
lected $500, which has been put at interest,
as n nucleus for a building fund which is
TO be added TO each year,
A prominent Washington-street merchant
provided one hundred families of the chill
dren who attend this school with ample food
for a dinner on Thanksgiving. He also pro-
vides clothing for three small children from
that outsrown by his own. The needs of
the scholars are very great in order that
they may be comfortably clad while at
tending school during the winter months.
The school meets at Tomlinson Hall. at Q
O'Clock. every Saturday. The entrance is
through the Delaware-street door and the
public is invited TO visit the same any Sat
urday afternoon and judge for themselves
OF it's usefulness and the devotion of the
lady teachers 10 the work in which they are
engaged.