The age-herald., 1900-07-01
ALABAMA INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
 AND FARM FUR MAYNARD BOYS
The Buildings Are Nearing Completion and Will be Formally
 Opened in August
CHIEF OF POLICE AUSTIN ON
 BOYS INDUSTRIAL FARM

BOYS INDUSTRIAL FARM The Boys Industrial Farm will be one of the greatest institutions in the state when completed.
 E The site upon which this institution IS located is near East Lake and one ot E the prettest sites in that section It IS X the very place for the boys; a piaee where they will be free from all .He g temgtatiens of the hardened set of the s city They will be free from their older associates which upon many occa- sions led them to do wrong. There they will have an opportunity to learn : trade and at the same time to get q good education. They will be well taken care of and given the comforts of home' which many of them never had.
 There is never a night in the month that the police do not have to suppress the actions of some of the boys of tnls city and hardly a night that the police . do not see many homeless boys. II they have a home they do not go there . Some for causes and some without causes. Some say they are not treated v right and others say they do not care to * go. These boys have already signliled . willingness to go to the farm and stay ana say they are anxious to be sooa men. if they only had the chance to get an education and learn a trade by which they might make a living
 Mrs R. D. Johnston and Mrs. s. D. Cole both deserve much praise for the good they have been doing among the boys already, and the zeal with which they are working towards the comple- ton of the new building.
 Many of the boys who roam the streets day and night are continually asking when the building will be completed so they may be able to go to the farm.
 The Boys Industrial Farm will be great benefit to the city and the city chould contribute generously to it's sup port. c w. AUSTIN, TIN : . ing even in it's unfinished state a pie turesqueness that lends itself admirably to the background of mountain summits. The building is four stories in height, as both the basement and the attic are so con- structed as to be brought into use In the basement, that is well lighted and venti- lated, will be the printing tailor, shoe and other work shops together with a play room and bath rooms.
 The kitchen is also in the basement which is equipped with dumb walters, the dining room being on the second floor. The plans are so complete that any improve ment could not be suggested. The main entrance which will be approached by a beautiful roadway through the farm leads into a large reception hall from which the main stairway arises On this floor are the school rooms, the dining room and the private dining room and library of the superintendent. The dining room and school room for the boys may be thrown into one by means of the sliding doors, thus making an apartment 70 feet long by 25 feet wide, and lighted at each end by series of long windows. It opens upon a wide balcony from which one gets a view of magnificent trees on lawn, below which nipples a spring of ice cold crystal water that does not fail even in the droughts of summer The dormitory is on the third floor, long wide apartment sun lighted while the hospital room and other apartments are also on this floor. The garret will be used for storage and win be divided into separate apartments. The entire building will be finished in hard oil, and the plans call for all modern con veniences that from time to time will be added.
 It is most compactly built, and architec- turally it is perfect. MT. Spink, the archi- tect. donated his services gratuitously Marshall & Co.,, are the contractors, and in looking over the specifications yester- day with MT. Burns who is one of the firm I was told that the specifications called for the best material, and while the state appropriation for the building was only s, ,000 the building represents today an eX- penditure of s10,000 which goes to show what fine financiers Alabama women , make.
 If the women who asked for the appro- priation had been content to build a $3,00C house, there would not have been sufficient money to put roof, but with the S3,000 as a nucleus, they succeeded in se- curing donations of lumber, brick, shingles, etc., from firms and individuals that ag- gregate several thousand dollars. The re- suit has been that Alabama women have given the State home for its wayward and criminally inclined children that ap- proXimates an expenditure of more than three times the appropriation made by the Legislature. The farm of 100 acres, which is one mile from East Lake, was purchased by Blrmingham's Commercial Club, and an additional forty acres was bought by the industrial school board. With the building nearing completion the needs for furniture