The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-10-19

The volume of business conducted by
the schools may be roughly estimate ted
from some OF the following state
ments
The total enrolment membership
Of the International correspondence
Schools with their families. on the
basis of five persons to family. would
people city of nearly 2.000.O0O popu :
lation. The postage paid by the schools
amounts TO nearly 5000 day. or $iOO. :
600 a year The schools pay the post :
age to the student only. and therefore
the above figures represent but half
the revenue that the United states
postotlice derives from the schools. II
requires 10000 checks a month to nay
the companys bills. The total attend
ance of all the colleges and universities
in the country is about 100000 student q,
while the International Correspondence
Schools at its present rate of increase
will soon have double that number.
In the publishing Of the instruction
and question papers, text books, adyer-
tising literature. etc, of the schools, 1872
persons are employed at Scranton, and
two of the largest printing houses I'm
New York city are largely supported by
their work. They are the largest pro-
ducers and consumers of books bound
In cloth or half leather in the United
States or the world. The number of
pages of advertising matter distributed
per month amount TO over $4,000, 600.
The printing and binding plant now be-
ing erected at Wyoming avenue and
Ash street will be the largest private
printing plant in the world, and will
have capacity sufficient to print, fold
and bind 1000 400-page 6x9 inch VOL
umes per day. The new printery will
be 16iN460 feet. three and four stories
high. ana will contain over 81 acres of
floor space.
In order TO handle the business of
the schools eXpeditiously. the work Is
divided into eighty separate depart
ments, each department having chief
who looks after til" business that comes
under his department. In 1898 the
schools had an instruction car built for
the purpose Of soliciting enrollments
among railroad men and give them in
structiOn in every branch of the SER
vice.
MORE CARS NECESSARY.
A few months demonstrated the fact
that this car could not in justice cover
the enormous territory in sight. Two
more cars We're therefore built and put
into service. Even these We're found in
adequate to handle the rapidly increas-
ing business. and early in 1900 three
more cars. equipped with sectional
models and working apparatus. were
ordered to be built. These six cars now
traverse nearly all the leading rail-
roads in America and assist in in
structing over 5000 railroad men. The
schools have arrangements with sixty
two railroad companies. representing
nearly 10000 miles of track and
equipped with 10000 engines, to pro-
vide education for their employees.
Some months ago, the Franklin in
Stitute. the Oldest, most conservative
and most influential scientific body in
America, on behalf of the Philadelphia
export exposition, awarded the Inter-
national Correspondence School the
highest award, diploma and silver
medal, for "a unique. thorough and
comprehensive system of technical edu-
cation by correspondence" 1t would
be hard TO find words more befttingly
descriptive of the International Colre-
spondence Schools system than those
used by the Franklin institute.
The location of the schools here has
been a great boon to the city of Scran-
ton. AS a result of theil. enormous ad-
vertising. the name of our city has be-
come famous all over the world They
give employment to an army of Scran-
ton people and they enjoy the reputa-
tion of having the best-pad force of
any institution in the city. Alto
gether, the International Correspond
ence Schools is an institution of which
the city of Scranton may be Justly
proud. and in the succeeding ten years
we wish it even a greater success than
it has enjoyed during the past decade.