The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-28
VISITING FAMOUS INSTITUTIONS
Superintendent Ray Out on Trip for
The Benefit of his Institution.

Prof. John e. Ray, superintendent of
the Institution for the Blind here, is in
Boston to-day visiting the Perkins In
stitute for the Blind. This is where the
famous deaf, dumb and blind girls, Helen
Kellar and Laura Bridgman, were edu-
Gated. A deaf, dumb and blind boy,
Tommy Stringer, is being taught there
now. His tuition is raised and paid by
Helen Kellar While in Boston, Prof.
Ray will also visit the Horace Mann
School for the deaf established by the
philanthropist, Horace Mann, and will in
spect the Boston School of Technology.
Prof. Ray is on a tour of the New Eng
land and Western States and Canada,
visiting institutions similar to the one
here over which he presides. He will be
gone about three weeks. He left last
Tuesday, going first to Baltimore to the
Maryland Institute for the Blind thence
to Kendall Green College for the Deaf
in Washington. This is the only college
for the deaf supported by the United
States. 1t is conducted in most mag
nficent style.
Friday Prof. Ray went to Boston. To-
| morrow he will leave there for Hartford,
Conn, to visit the oldest school for the
deaf in America, founded in 1915, by the
elder Gillaulet, who went to England
and France to study the methods of
teaching used in the schools there. From
there Prof. Ray will go to Northampton,
Mass. where the oldest school in
America for teaching the deaf to speak
| is located. The speech methods of in
structiOn is made a speciality in this
school. which is presided over by Miss
Caroline Yale.
From Northampton Prof. Ray will turn
| back to New York and be there three
days While there he viii visit the
school for the blind, at whose head is
Prof w. r. Wait the most distinguished
educator of the blind in the world Part
of the five institutions for the deaf and
dumb in that city will also be inspected.
| Philadelphia will be the next point visit
ed. While there Prof. Ray will make
| his headquarters at the Pennsylvania
| Working Home for the Blind This is
an institute for men who have become
blind since birth. Is superintendent, III.
l.. Hall. is himself a blind man, and a
| personal friend of Mr.. Ray He is also
head of a bureau for furnishing evangel-
cal literature for the blind in America.
There is also in Philadelphia the veal
thiest institution for the deaf and dumb
in the world, and the best equipped.
This is the Pennsylvania Institute for the
deaf and dumb. The Pennsylvania In
statute for the Blind is also in Phila-
| delphia. Mr. Ray will spend three or
| four days at these institutions.
From Philadelphia he will turn back
90 Brantford Ontario. where there is the
only institution in the world that makes
a speciality of willow work. As willow
work has recently been introduced in the
school here, Prof. Ray will inquire into
the methods and working of this school
| with much interest and care.
| He will turn then to the Northwest,
| going first to Flint. Mich. where there is
the best industrial department for the
| deaf in America. Next he will visit the
| Lansing Institute for the Blind. From
there he will go to Chicago, then to In
dianapolis and on to Columbus, visiting
the institutions in all these cities. He ex-
| poets to return to Raleigh about April
| 18th.