The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-03
DAVID K. GOSS RETURNS.
He WIFE spend the Summer Months
in the United states.

David K. Goss. ex-superintendent of the
Indianapolis public schools. who has been
I'm Strassburs, Germany, for the past year,
where he went to establish an American
school. has written an interesting letter
to a friend here telling OF his new enter
prise. The letter was written on board
the steamship Grosser Kurfurst. At the
time of writing the ship was rolling badly
from a rough sea. The letter was mailed
after Mr.. Goss landed in this country. He
says in his letter that he will be among mis-
old Hoosier friends about May %. His pur-
pose i'm coming is TO get students for his
new school In Strassburg. He will be in
this country until early in September.
In speaking of the first years work of
the university Mr.. Goss says he feels high
ly ~gratified at the results accomplished.
Four teachers are employed. ne says. three
of whom hold doctorates from w~ell-known
universities. These teachers are engaged
i'm educating boys from sixteen to twenty
years of age in the classics, three studies
being the limit allowed TO the student.
Continuing, he said:
THE university is located on the Ruprecht
avenue. The avenue is one hundred feet
wide, leading from the university 20 the
city gardens. and is one block from the
river lille. Strassburg is the most intense
ly interesting of all the German cities.
whether viewed from the standpoint OF its
checkered history. its quaint structure, the
composite and contradictory elements in
its population or its dual speech. Even the
commonest people can speak two languages
French and German. But whatever else
IL exemplihes Strassburg Is a great ex-
ample of what human Will and purpose
plus art and science may do Tor the
physical and spiritual well-being Of a peo-
pie. The narrow. quaint and dirty second
rate French provincial town OF a century
ago has been paved, drained, lighted, re-
fortified and FURNISHED until II now shines
as a trst-rate capital.
"The public works and buildings under
taken and completed are tremendous. In
the same time that indianapolis has taken
TO build up a library of $4,000 volumes
Strassburg has built up a library OF 4.@0,0O
volumes And what volumes. Not an r.
=; Roe or a Mary Jane Holmes IN the list.
to show the French and the Alsatian and
the world that Strassburg, Germany, Is
greater than Strassburg. France And she
Is not stopping at millions OF outlay in the
demonstration
Mr.. Goss was very much impressed with
the looseness of affairs on the ship on
which he came over TO this country. He
speaks OF his own observations among the
steerage passengers on the boat. lie says:
Doubtless the increase or immigration
into the United States has excited some
attention. wish the American people
might look into the steerage OF this great
vessel. With a registration permitting 1000
Storage passengers TINS Neosti u ms
1889 such people into New YORK. All the
lines are doing the same. Although tsss
IS a German vessel and these people en-
barked at a German port they are not all
Germans. There are Pollocks. Russians.
Slavonians. etc. in the lot. What kind of
policy for the United States TO admit these
hordes, What folly 10 protect our products
with a tariff and then admit this wage
cutting element with whom the American
workman cannot compete because he IN
sists on a decent standard of living Whose
interest or welfare is IL that these people
should be dumped on our seacoast clues!