Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-14
INDUSTRIAL HOME SCHOOL.
The Annual Report of the Institutio,
Submitted.

The Annual Report of the Institution
Submitted.
The annual report of the Industrial Home
School was made public by the Commits
sioners today 1t says in part:
THE object of the school is to maintain
and educate destitute children of both
sexes. prepare them for usefulness OF to
place them, as can sometimes be done, in
good homes, where they will be treated
and cared for as members of the family.
We have accommodations and means for
tbs support of about one hundred inma tes
Our own wards at the beginning of
| the fiscal year numbered siXt.-two, and we
had fourteen OF the board of guardians
making seventysix. We received during
the year A'95 seventy-one others, viz
Of our own, fifty-three End of the guard
! ians', sixteen: and we discharged in the
same year forty-eight, viz: of our own,
twenty-seven, and of the guardians
twenty-one, and we found at the close of
the year ninety-nine inmates. viz: of our
own wards Lightweight, and of the guard
ians', eleven.
I'm the health of our inmates We have
been particularly fortunate. During the en-
tire term Of our present Superintendent
say, SIX years among one hundred in
mates. WHICH has been our average num-
Der, not s single death has been due to
disease, and THE only one that did occur
was due to accident, by drowning. There
nave been many cases of the ordinary
diseases to which children are subject but
since OAR ground has been all underdrained
there have been none of the more serious
complaints, such as diphtheria. The school
Is branch of the public school system of
the District, and is taught by a male and
female teacher of that corps. The pupils
are taught the same branches that other
public school pupils learn. In addition the
nd oil
ments, and, in fact make much of the
clothing for all the children They are
also taught to cook and to do such house
work as every woman should become COM
petent to perform The boys beside their
lessons in SCHOOL, are taught to do all the
work required en- the place
we trust that those having the subject
IN charge VIII consider that the benef;-
Charles of the charity. destitute children
have the strongest possible claims upon
the benevolence Of the community, and
that they will almost certainly repay by
their good offices as citizens whatever may
be expended in preparing them for that
position; and finally, that the work is con-
Quoted on the most economical basis, since
all the supervision required is given with
out remuneration, as work of charity,
and that the only persons connected with
the institution who receive pay are those
employed in the work. and whose whole
see m to be approved by the experience of
our best governed states. and to be in
creasing in number throughout the Union.
From the report of the treasurer it will
be seen that the revenue of the school dur
ing the last fiscal year amounted to s12,-
99065, derived almost entirely from three
sources: The appropriation by Congress-
1900; the sales of products of the work
shop. gardens and greenhouses, s1.151. AZ,
| and sl.724G6 paid by the board of chill
dren's guardians for the support of certain
of their wards placed in our charge. The
expenditures during the same year amount
ed to 81. SS31S. which absorbed the con-
gressional appropriation and left a de-
fciency. which: however, was more than
covered from the other sources stated.
1.-The officers of the Industrial Home
School are: President. Henry F. Blount;
first vice president. DR.. T. B. Hood; second
vice president, J. D. Mcpherson; secretary
| Mrs H. w. Blackford; treasurer, B. T.
Janney: superintendent. Mr.. R. B; Bar
bour. The managers are w. B. Gurley
o. D. Conger. ]. B. T. Tupper, Mrs: j. B
T. Tupper, Mrs. ]. B. Edmunds, Mrs G.
e. Foster Lewis Abraham. DIR. NJ d.
Peck, Jas. B. Nourse, Mrs. Emily Nourse
Rev. Nelson Falls. Archdeacon G. F. Will
liams J. Ormond Wilson. James somer-
ville Mrs. B. T. Janney and Miss A. VIII