The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-09-27
WEST'BROOk.
Newsy Bits From the Lively Manufactur-
ing City.

In one of the light and airy rooms OF
the Warren school building may now De
seen the novelty of school children seated
at wood working benches industriously
employed with the hammer ana saw bhe
triangle and pencil, instead OF pouring
over the ordinary school books or stand
ing in q row reoiting the multlpllca1loh
tables. This manual training school,
which has been fitted up at the expense
If S, D. Warren of the firm OF D u.
Warren & Co. was opened to the scholars
Of the grammar grade OF the puoIlc
schools Monday, and tomorrow rom 6he
ho,1rs of 10 a. M. to 10 II. and from 2.SO
D NJ. to 4 30 D. H. special sessions viii
be held when the public is cordially in
yited to be present By invitation OF the
school committee the PRESS correspon-
dent was present at the morning session
Of the school Thursday and he assures Uhe
public that they will not regret the time
if they attend Saturday. The room ao-
commodities twenty-five pupils at
one time, giving every scholar OF the the
grammar grade Of the public schools five
hours' instruction each week. A separate
bench is provided for each child ana
these would excite the envy OF any
mechanic. They are supplied by Chandler
g. Barber of Boston and are 1unlsheo
with the latest improved drafting and
wood working tools. Mr. Warren has
secured Mr. Oswald Eklof as instructor.
Mr.. EkIof is native of Sweden, the
home of manual training and has lately
taken q special course at the Lloyd train
ing school OF Boston
He has instituted the Lloyd system IN
the Westbrook school. This Is one OF the
systems now in vogue in the American
schools This system starts the chlld at
onoo on the construction of some articles
of wooden ware Of common use and he is
Taught the use and care of tools, drafting
and the like as the work progresses. 10
insuPe interest in the work the finished
article is his to keep as memento or to
put into practical use. ACCURACY, neat
ness and order are espelcaily insisted Up
on. In the advanced grade such useful
articles as toolchests, hammer handles,
clothes hooks. household utensils. etc.,
are madetby the pupils. The aims, means
and conditions OF the school are: Inc
harmonious development OF the pupil,
giving him by manual exercises and the
use Of the creative tinstinet such general
Uftt1utug 1S VIII O6Qhe w LIZ AAA4
morally and physically for any!Ef subse,
quent special training. The aim and
methods are: First. Strictly progressive
educational exercises, mentally as well
as physically; second : the appeal to
many Activities by means Of a judic1ous
variety of exercises, treating the hand
like the eye and ear as an avenue to the
mind; third, free hand work or,modeling
with the knife; fourth, the making and
the use of working drawings; fifth, form
study and the cultivation of the aesthetic
sense; sixth, an essential proportion be-
tween problems of thought, of drawing
and of tool work seventh, the cultivation
of habits of accuracy and thorough
honesty by the pupils correction OF his
own mistakes, no conceaiment of which
can be tolerated: eighth, consideration of
the general physical development, to
which judicious sequence and comblna-
ton of tools may be made to contribute
materially; ninth, both class instruction
and Individual Instruction, a true
progress Of exercises making both
possible even with large numbers; tenth,
The "new education demands, wherever
possible, as means Of mental develop
ment the complete thought Of the phrase
instead of the spelling lesson.
In sympathy with this idea the manual
training system employs useful model
and as the exercises embodied III the
1uOu6lh ct1O DooCNA oPOh PONoSOe5AOtst
principles so must the teaching be. At
present Mr.. S. D. Warren shoulders the
greater part of the expense of the school.
The entire apparatus and furniture was
provided at the expense of his private
purse. Mr. Warren, with friends from
Massachusetts,, made the school visit
yesterday.
Constables Phinney, Mariner and
Graham intercepted a car sidetracked at
the Portland & Rochester station in this
city Wednesday night. but found no
Illegal goods therein. 1t contained goods
consigned to- East Rochester parties.
Mr.. Andrew Boynton was arrested by
officer Cousins and conveyed to the city
lookup yesterday up. He has been labor
ing under arrangement of the mind
and was making things lively in the
neighbcrhoodaOf his residence on Dunn
Street, whensthe officer arrived.
6. D. Warren, ,tEsq., and his law
partner, Lois Drahdics, Esq, of Boston,
ara at the ''Mlfns."
Mr.. John Neal, clerk in S. D Warren
g. Go. s office in this city, is taking a
weeks vacation.
Mr.. Mahlon Jordan of Cornish visited
friends in this city, his former home,
Mr.. William H. Parker is acting as
ono Of the judges at the Cumberland
Fair.
DR.. Oscar Harmon of SoInersworth, N
H., called on friends in this city. his
former home, Thursday.