The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-10-17
GIRLS SCHOOL
AT SALEM.
Fifty thousand Dollars will be
Asked Of the legislature by
President Jones, ofWheeI-
ing.
Appointment Of State Agent
Will Also be Asked-schoo in
Splendid condition-Not room
Enough for Applicants
President Making Up
Report.

DR.. Harriet B. Jones, president Of
the board Of directors Of the Indus.
trial Home for Girls at Salem, is busy
preparing her report to be presented
to the governor. The document will
cover the past two years history Of
the institution and will recommend
the appropriation by the Legislature
OF money for two additional buildings,
each costing not less than S2b, 600.
One OF these buildings will be to fur.
nish accommodations for more white
girls In the institution as it now
stands, and the other will be for the
colored inmates. The home now has
100 more applicants THANH it can take
The report will also recommend the
appointment of a state agent to look
after the joint interests Of the Hu.
name Society, the Industrial Home
for Girls and the Reform school at
Pruntytown, 1t would be the duty Of
this agent TO see that none but eligible
girls were admitted to the home, and
that none but good families received
the girls into their homes, These ad.
ditions were decided to be necessary
at the meeting OF the board of direc.
tors October LIST.
Or. Jones stated Monday evening
that the home is In a tlourishing con.
dition. Her report will show the most
gratifying results of the labors OF the
last two years. She especially praises
the work Of the present superlntend.
ent, Miss Elizabeth Clohan.
The directors aIe unanimous In
| the belief that she is the best woman
we could possibly get for the place,
She is a good, kind, patient, Christian
woman, She looks after both their
spir Itual and physical welfare and has
completely won the heartsof the girls
Though she exacts rigid conformity to
discipline, they adore her,
AS a sample of the good results Of
the work Of the girls, the little farm,
which only covers about 40 acres,
said DR.. Jones, "made nearly fifteen
hundred dollars during the last two
years. They raise on 1t all the vege-
tables necessary in the home and sell
what they do not need In the sur.
rounding towns. The garden truck
raised Is Of the finest AS sample,
one Of the pumpkins this fall weighed
40 pounds.
Another important order passed at
the meeting OF the board was the ex.
tension Of the time limit Of the girls
in the home to two years. Heretofore
we have had no regular time, but we
find that 1t requires at least two years
to accomplish the object for which the
home was founded. We find that In
two years girls who were the most
unpromising material have become &C.
complished In cooking, sewing, bak.
ing and the various requisites Of
housekeeper, Many OF them enter ex.
cellent bones, or marry good men and
enter the new life well equippe1 to
meet its many requirements. You
would be surprised to find how bright
some Of them are.
We have the girls graded or CLASH.
fed. 1t takes one of them about a
year to go through all the different
departments If she is not efficient at
the end OF that time she is made TO 10
over the work again. The girls all
wear peat, blue calico dresses and
snug caps, and cleanliness and taste
In dress are compelled at all times.
The tables at which the girls eat are
different from those of most institu
tions Of the kind. White, but coarse
table-cloths and napkins are used and
sill yer knives and forks. These may
seem extravigances to some people
hut we do not consider them so, for IL
gives the girls refinement which fits
them for entrance into any family.
The home is well situated, on
beautiful elevation just outside OF Sa-
lem. 1t is surrounded with well-kept
lawns and Just secluded enough to suit
its ends. When the home was first
started we had trouble with some OF
the girls running away, but that has
become thing of the past. Many Of
the girls who have left and done well,
love to return and visit the place
which has pleasant associations, and
which has done so much for them. AS
a sample Of the good work the home
has done for one Of the girls she has
been adopted by one Of the well-to-do
directors Of the institution and viii be
the heIreSs TO his estate.