The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-22
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
The Conditions Under which Mr.. Emu
DRY Became Connected with 1t.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
There has appeared in your columns from
time to time. during the past few months,
various reports and interviews concerning
the Industrial Training School and my con-
nection with ii. number of these placed
me in false light, and have caused con-
fusion in the minds of some as to the place
this school was to fill. The present condi-
ton of the school is result of carefully
planned scheme of appropriation planned
some years ago. The various ac-
tons of the men interested, play
ing their parts. sometimes uncon-
sciously, but generally prompted-all
formed their component parts towards the
existing condition. 1 quote from general
letter sent out by the superintendent three
years ago. stating very definitely what was
desired to accomplish:
THE following is a statement of the con-
ditions under which the Manual Training
send this that you may decide whether you
wish to remain an applicant for its princi-
palship. We have yet no building Indeed,
we wish a principal to assist in its con-
struction and equipment At present a night
industrial school of three hundred pupils
IS IN rented quarters and one hundred day
students of our High Schools take eIe-
mentary work as one-third of their daily
High School work. The institution to be
rounded must harmoiZe these departments
technical high school, with laboratories for
the science and shops for the mechanical
drawing and shop work; and must open it,
sen at night to quite different class of
people. who cannot attend day school. but
VINO can take partial course If allowed to
90 90 Sat SO at night The financial situation is
as ioilows: A law was passed by our last
Legislature allowing the School Board of
our city to levy a tax of ) cents on the
500 for. the founding and maintaining of
such school. The board has for one wear
levied only z. cents, and seems, as yet un-
wiling TO go higher; but must, of course,
40 SO when grounds are purchased and
buildings put up. The full 5 cents would
realize $4,000 per annum. The presence Of
an enthusiastic principal of the school.
would, no doubt. conduce TO the levying of
the 1ull tax each year for some time There
is now no recognized head to the work l
employ several men of ability in different
departments; but most Of these have other
employment and do not wish to continue.
A principal would eventually have an on.
portunity to select faculty."
Comment on this letter is hardly neces
sary. 1t, in ITSELF shows, by comparison
with the present condition, how the scheme
or appropriation has been worked
about frietion i in he s smes
Inc work of the principal and director was
SO carefully divided that friction was i'm
possible so long as there was no deliberate
attempts on the part of the present in
cumbent and his associates TO assume re-
sponsioilities TO which they had not been
assigned. 1t existed only in their minds
In iacd, me charge of friction Was. has
since developed concerning the petition of
the Students, the resignation and the re-
porting Tor insubOrdnation-a trumped-un
pcntlcal trick beneath the dignity of a self
respecting man, or the guardians of educa-
indianapolis, June 2,