Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-02

late Mr.. Garrison has erected TO his
memory a greater, grander and more en-
during monument than the Hottest shaft
Of polished marble ever raised.
The courses of instruction in the
Garrison school are, l, Mechanical
Drawing and Machine Design; 2. Elec-
erical Engineering; 8, Domestic Science
and Art; 4, Machine Work and Smith
ing; 5. Woodworking and Pattern Max
ing; 6, Normal Manual Training. Each
OF these courses is subdivided in propsr
order, running the whole gamut Of high
er education, training brain and intel
lect toether with eye and hand. Domes-
tic science and art are especially for fe-
male scholars. who are trained in those
subjects OF which q knowlede is indis-
pensible in the administration of every
home, such as knowledge of food. it's
proper selection and preparation, cook
cry, laundry work, household science,
emergencies. home nursing, public and
private hygiene, e.c. In this branch of
study and practical training are taught.
also. sewing, drsssmaking and millin-
cry, and especially thorough and elab-
crate are the instruction and practical
training on these subjects.
1, needs no demonstration to show that
such a school as this is priceless boon
TO any community. 1t means the ulti-
mate lifting of its citizenship to high
er plane, and placing it far in advance
of those communities not so blessed,
whose young people are pitched into the
world with heads crammed full OF know
ledge largely worthless to them in prac-
teal life because they do not know how
to apply it, and with hands unframed
and utterly useless until trained by slow
and drudging apprenticeship or in the
hard and uncertain school of expe-
rience.
The difference between the old system
Of education and the new is simply this:
Under the old. when a graduate leaves
school he is but at the beginning Of his
real education which is 10 fit him to
earn his living: indeed. the boy who
never went TO school at all, but was
forced to do battle with the world from
childhood. is better situated than he to
take care, Of himself, and in most cases
is more successful. This sounds like
heresy. but we all know it is but the
simple truth. On the other hand, the
graduate Of the manual training school
is thoroughly equipped to take his or
her proper place in the world at once,
and for these in every community in
every branch OF business and life. me-
chanical. industrial, scientific, or in the
arts, the demand far, far exceeds the
supply. In recent communication read
before the New York Board Of Educa-
ton it is stated that boys attending the
New York Manual Training School are
in demand at from So to 81 week before
they have completed the school course.
The principal is burdened with repeat
cd applications for their services.
The old apprentice system is about
played out in nearly all trades. The
number Of boys in the thousands of pop
ulation who are educated as craftsmen
is lessening. and there is marked in
crease in the number OF those who have
no special training and no particular
skill in anything. The Manual Train
ing School overcomes this difficulty
whe: ever it IS established. 1t is no
longer an experiment. The only diff
Guilty in the way OF the general adoption
of manual training schools from one
end of the land TO the other is the cost
Of erecting and maintaining them.
That. however. is small in comparison
TO the benefits to be derived from them,
especially in a manufacturing commun-
ity, where practical knowledge and skill
are everything in the competitive race.
Given these qualities in his assistants
and employees, a manufacturer can dis
pense with many other advantages en-
joyed by his competitors and still lead
them in the race.
Manual training furnishes the only
reason why Europe still leads progress
sive America in some lines of industry.
Il will be found almost invariably that
in these particular lines the European
artisan has been especially trained, and,
consequently. his work is of class that
cannot be equalled in this country. for
the simple reason that our workmen
have not been specially trained to do
it. Skill in labor is everything and tho
skilled laborer is the cheapest laborer
no matter how great the price his labor
may command.
In a manufacturing city such as