St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

GLOBE: TUESDAY ]
total cost of maintaining the school up
to something above $50 per head.
MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
This school is conducted in a separate
structure erected especially for its ac-
commodation. The purpose Is. as us
name indicates to give to pupils taking
the elements of the mechanic arts.
To this end workshops or laboratories
have been fitted up in the building, with
| various tools and implements. for work
ing wood and metals. Skilled mechanics
have been employed to instruct pupils
in the mode of using tools, and of mani
| pulating materials. These teachers are
understood to be men without scientific
training, and with merely practlcal
| knowledge of their respective arts The
salaries paid would seem to be muGh
| above the wages they would receive In
| private employments. Accurate mechan-
| ical drawing is a study in the school,,
| 1t is not the purpose, nor within the
| capacity Of this school, to turn out arr
tisans. Pupils could not quit the school
| as skilled workmen in any trade. The
| purpose is rather to round out the edu-
cation of the pupil by training the mus.
| cular sense, and giving him practical
knowledge of those general facts about
the nature of materials. ard the modes
| of working them. that all handicrafts
are concerned with. p,
The chief cause of the large cost per
| pupil of carrying on this school, fs the
| fact that the attendance is so small
| Double or thrice the number Of pupils
could be taught at but slightly, II any;
increased expense. But about 20 ped
| cent of the boys taking high school in
| struction resort to the manual training
school. This is chiefly because so small
| a proportion of the pupils in our high
| schools expect to become mechanics. The
superintendent of the city schools could
not give the committee the names of any
of the boys now in the high schools who
plan learning trades after finishing their
studies. The principal of the manual
training school has the following infor-
nation touching the present occupations
Of 81 former students of that school. and
of the plans of 143 now attending there.
The 81 former students are occupied as
follows:
At college ........11 Engineer .........
Dentists .......... Mechanics b
Draughtsmen -. Teacher ..........
Surveyors ........ 2 Law .............
Mech cal engin's.. Manufacturer -.
Merchant ......... Ranchman ........ l
Newspaper ....... / Unknown ........ z
Clerks ............n Total ............5 81
OF the 153 enrolled pupils the plans of
143 are as follows:
Expecting to attend college. AT
OF these IT will follow professions, 20
mechanical pursuits; 10 are undecided.
Expecting to finish their education in
the city schools. s.........................9 ..96
OF these 26 intend to follow mechanical
occupations, % business occupations,
music; the remaining As are undecided.
The data in the committees possession
do not afford material for accurately
separating the cost of the mechanical de-
partment of the school, from the total
cost. Probably it would not amount to
more than 1000 or $4,000 per year.
TEACHERS TRAINING SCHOOL.
The purpose of this school is to enable
residents of the city to secure normal
rolled are II. About As enter yearly.
Practically all pupils of this school are
graduates of the city high schools. The
graduates of the training school now en-
number 1913. St. Paul undoubtedly pos
sesses enough talent to fully supply the
demand for competent instructors in it's
schools. The teachers training school
is in the line of this idea. Other things
being equal, our own people should be
preferred in all classes of city employ
ment. The cost to tax payers of main
tanning the training school is small and
saves those wanting to follow teaching as
an occupation, the considerable expense
Of going. away from home to attend one
of the state normal schools.
The annual expense for teachers in this
school is given by the superintendent at
$500 per year. The other items of
expense have not been separated from
those of the school as a whole; there,
being 329 pupils in other grades, oc-t
cupying the same building. The pupils,
Of the teachers training school do con-
siderable teaching in the schools of the
city without charge. The superintend-s
ent estimates the saving from this to be-
$1,6S0 per year. t,,.
F LOWER GRADE SCHOOLS. ~
The pupils in these, for the year ended
1895, were approximately as follows:
Average enrolment. ........... ......16,S47I
Average attendance ................ IA, S52p
terest, was $413 1873. This made the cost
per pupil per year $21.92, based on aT-
erage enrolment, and $27S1, based on
average attendance. This includes the.
portion of interest on the school bonds
chargeable to lower grade schools
kindergarten instruction is given in "a
schools The enrolment of this class
of pupils, in November, 1895, was 1889,
and SO teachers were employed, at sai-t
TEACHERS. :. T..
Of the total expenditures for keeping
open the city schools, about rs per cent
are for teachers wages.
The present corps of teachers averages
500. In the month of November, last,
The force is classified as follows:
there were 523.
Princinajs .,....... 30
PRINCIPAL teachers 80. ..... 13
Supervisors. -. ........ ......:..'..
Special teachers Of mechanical arts.
Special supervising teachers. ..........
Teachers training school instructors.
High school teachers. ..... -............ so
primary and intermediate. .349
Kindergarten. ....... ......... ........' %
Total .. ...... $50
The salaries, based on the November,
1885, pay roll. are classified as follows:
Number OF Annual
Teachers Salaries.
T.. 50. 50OI a.. ........... $500