The Saint Paul globe., 1897-06-05

ION, Will tend to decrease the facilities
or the school system, and I believe
that we can better afford to increase
our taxation, even If we have to fight
for new chartef in Srder to do it.
than to fall short aof maintaining the
schools have been brought up to-
l.. w. French. of Kellogg, Johnson
& Co., declares the manual
training school must not be limited in
It's usefulness as it-certainly must be
In the event Of the talked of consolida-
ton with the osa1er shigh schools.
There are manyA reasons" said he,
should not be made Not the least Of
these is the fact that according to the
hgures Of Principal Smith. of the CEN
traI high school. that building Will
accommodate about 1 500 students. Now
the combined attendance Of the central
hlgh school, the manual training and
the Cleveland and Humboldt schools
Is quite up to that figure at present
When fall comes and the natural in
crease In attendance is found, what
disposition Is to be made of all the
pupils who graduate from the many
grade schools? But, if I were a mem
Der OF the school board. I would not
vote to close UP theS most popular
School In the city, as long as the city
slons OF the Bell charter. Let us have
a new charter, and as soon as possible.
Inen this trouble will be obviated. Un-
I'll then say take some other way
OF cutting down the expense Of run
nlng the schools, by Shortening up the
length OF the, terms or IN other ways
nut not by cutting off any of the
schools, and especially the manual
training school,"
*. E. Hilgard, bridge engineer
Northern Pacific = railway, is a.
believer in the mechanic arts
school. Il have been much i'm
pressed with the results achieved in
the mechanic arts school" he said,
ana from my own practical profess
SION, am led to the notion that these
same results can hardly be maintained
with the proposed combination of this
sehool with the other high schools.
since L have been in st. Paul, 1 have
always favored the giving of that in
struct1on Which has been furnished by
TINS excellent institution, and will seek
70 encourage the facilitiesSsWhic are
furnished there to pupils: 1 am in
Iorneq 4credibly that the school has
since it's establishment 42enioyed a
steady- and substantial growth"
Z. w. Hackett said as a general
proposition he felt that the board Of
Scnooi inspectors was in position to
"NSNNA AAiAOW Tie SlludJIOH anu the DGSS
way out of the present difficulty. "I
1nclne to the behefs However" said
Mr. Hackett, "thatz when it has been
satisfactorily showH that there is need
or exercising economy, it should begin
somewhere at the top and not at the
graded schools. where, as is we'll
known, the great mass of our school
chlldren obtain the basis for such
knowledge as must be; of, use to them
In their struggle through life
samuel e. Stickney. general manage,
OF the Chicago Great Western railway,
IS another gentleman opposed to the
proposed union. ''The joining of the
mechanic arts school with the others
Is most unwise step from my point OF
View," said Mr.. Stickney. '"The edu-
cation most needed;in ST. Paul is of n
mechanica1 and scientific character.
manufacturing industries are prime
requisite in all cities, as necessary to
the support of the population. We are
educating too many lawyers and doc
(. tors, ETC., and are not giving sufficient
attention to the general education of
producers.
"All such are called upon to deal
with some chemical or physical propo-
sit1ons, and it is not sufficient for. the
average youth to know arithmetic.
grammar and geometry, but he should
aS-<Well. be at least we'll grounded III
matters which are cf a more practical
nature and which he6can call into play
IN the following of any practical vo-
cation"
C.. K. Sharood, Sharood & Crooks.
says he is vigorously opposed to the
pending. proposition. to Nunite the qxaEi-s
Gus high schools and the manual train
ing. school, Such "a step will destory
! the practical utility sof our school sys-
: tem," says Mr. Sharood, 'tand, while we
hc4 a To ,rirv =.
students little theoretical instruc-
ton, we can. hardly expect, under: the
proposed conditions, to supply them
with such instruction as will be of any
material benefit to them in their after
lives. have boy now attending the
manual training school I would not
be afraid to have him turned adrift to-
morrow pennilsss, for I am convinced
that he would find way to take good
care Of himself. This is the direct re :.
suit of his having been given a good
practical schooling" -
Milo Carrier, of the Crane Ordway
company, says: Our manual training
school is the only school in the civ
that is good for anything for boy
who means to go out in the world AMI
earn his. own GvingiJD This talk of con-
solidating it with the high schools, /
do not by any means favor It means
that, if the school iSsatoe be consolidated
with the central high school, it will
be practically annihilated, and this
means a great detriment to many
young fellows who are anxious to avail
themselves Of the benefits which arc
now being extended to pupils on its
rolls -
R. b Whitacre, vice president Robin .
son, Carey, company, says: 81 do not
think it would be aagood plan to con-
solidate the mechanic arts school with
the other high schools Of the city, for
the very good reason. that it has a
work of it's own to, do, for which it was
equipped and designed at large ex-
pense. Judging, simply by the number
of graduates this year from the school.
which shows most gPa trying Increase
over last year, it must appear that the
popular institution is rapidly increas-
ing in IT'S. general usefulness. In this
school young men are fitted in those
practical matters which are most es-
sential to them in the earning Of their
1ivelihoods. To say that this school
is a fad or even an experiment is, in
my Judgment, an entirely unfair criti-
cism.'' ~,