Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-06
THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.

THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
 Birmingham made her first step yester- day in an effort to win the location here of the Industrial School for Girls. The Com mercial Club, always alive to the best in- terests of this community, appointed a committee to take the matter in hand, and judging from the material which composes this committed, the AGF- HERALD feels sanguine of it's success.
 That Birmingham is the proper place for an institution of this kind needs no arGu- ment to prove. Centrally located, with excellent railroad facilities-lines leading from every direction-fully recognized as the industrial center of the State, Alabama naturally expects our live and progressive people to lay hold of this opportunity of procuring so valuable an adjunct to their industrial surroundings.
 Every public institution which employs people adds wealth and population to the community in which it is located, and so worthy an enterprise as this will not only draw others to our midst, but prove a blessing to those of us who are already here.
 There are hundreds of girls and young women in Birmingham and vicinity, worthy in every way, who are anxious to fit themselves for honorable and useful employment. They deserve aid and en- couragement. The world needs them, and the State of Alabama is now awakening to the importance of giving her girls an op- portunity. In the Birmingham di strict we have an army of worthy white laborers, who are anxious that their daughters shall occupy profitable, useful, honor- able and independent positions. Society demands this encouragement for young womanhood, and lawmakers and dis pensers of public money are rapidly being made to See that avenues to seif-support ID ust be opened to woman that she may en- ter the race for advancement in the practi- cal wlaks of life; that the may play her part in the work of building up and devel- oping; that she may be useful not only to herself, but to the community in which she lives.
 The AGE HERALD understands that this committee is appointed to solicit donations in the way of land and money, and that they are anxious to go before the trustees, who meet in few days, and make a bid in behalf of Birmingham. It is earnestly hoped that our people fully appreciate the need and importance of this enterprise, and that they will give practical encouragement to the committee. Such school will be worth $50, ,000 per annum to this commu- nity from the start. When once established it will receive the fostering care of the pub lie, and it is quite probable that Federal aid can be procured in augmenting the appro- priation made by the State. In fact Con- gressman Bankhead has already expressed the belief that such school would at once commend itself to the attention of Con- gross, and he would be heartily assisted in any effort he might plan to secure govern ment aid by every member of the Alabama delegation.
 The AGE HERALD repeats its readiness to head the list of subscribers 10 fund for the use of the committee in the sum of S200, and is at once seconded by Messrs. J. L. Chalifoux 6 Co. for like amount. Who will be the next? Let's on.with the list.