The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-09
MANUAL TRAINING
MAY Be STARTED
IN SAVANNAH'S SCHOOLS
,ro1,uTTEE THAT INVESTIGATED
srBJEoT FAVORs THIS PLAN.

rv.a visited - Conference Held
with school Authorities of Macon.
soxapnnh Needs $4,000 i'm Sight to
paw Teachers Before 1t Can Safe
~ start Project Here-RemRindeF
IF Amount Necessary Already
promised Board of Education.
After a visit to Columbus. Atlanta
ord Macon to study the question of
,-anual training for the public schools
- savannah, the committee from the
hoard of Education of Chatham coun-
-. and the other gentlemen who ac-
oor,nanied it's members. returned to
savannah yesterday morning con-
,+noed that the introduction of the
.vste,n in Savannah schools would be
a gain TO the present curriculum, and
will so report at the next meeting OF
,ha Board of Education.
Col ]. H. Estill, a member of the com
Yntrtee. in discussing the trip. and the
findings of the committee, said;
Riding on a rail- when one is in
nrivate car, with pleasant compan-
inns and an ample cuisine, is about as
ENJOYABLE a way of getting about as
This age of good things has to offer.
The car In which we Travelled was that
Of Vice President Winburn of the Cen
trail of Georgia Railway Company, and
the host of the occasion was Mr..
George J Baldwin. The party con-
sisted of Hon. P. A. Stovall, chair
man of the Manual Training Investigat-
ing Committee; Capt. Henry Blum,
Prof Otis Ashmore, our efficient super
intendent of public education; Mr..
Frank Crohan, Mr.. Baldwin's private
secretary, and myself.
Trim Pleasant One.
1T was a pleasant and instructive
outing and, barring the rain that
seemed to have followed the examin-
ers, all that could have been desired.
We went direct to Columbus, ar
irving in that city Wednesday morn
ing. We were met at the depot by
Mayor L. H. Chappell, President r. A.
Carson of the Board of Education,
Superintendent of Education Mr.. c. B.
Gibson. Fred Gordon, Esq, president
of the Columbus Manufacturing Com
pany, and a warm advocate of man
ual training. We spent the day in Co
lumbus, and besides inspecting the
schools, visited the Y. NJ. c. rs new
marble building, recently erected at a
cost of $4,000; the Muscogee Club,
where we were initiated into club eth
les as practiced on the banks of the
Chattahoochee. In the afternoon we
visited the great water power plant
erected by Bib Manufacturing Com
pany, and its large mill, in both of
which Savannah has large interest.
The president of the company is Maj.
J. f. Hanson, the South's greatest
manufacturer, We also inspected the
Columbus Manufacturing Company's
mills, Of which Mr.. Fred Gordon is
president. This Is said to be one of
the most up to-date plants in the
country.
These visits, however, though of
much interest to us, were merely Incl
dental our time and attention being
upon the work of Columbus in manual
training, and providing men to pro-
mote her manufacturing interests in
the future.
Columbus schools.
The first of these schools to which
we were taken was the Primary In
dustrial School, located in an old res
ldence near the factory district. In
this school were children of both sexes
and all ages and sizes. Its curricu-
lum embraced primary school work.
kindergarten and manual training. The
boys are taught carpentering or some
light tool work, and the girls cooking
sewing and homework. The latter in
Guides making up the beds, setting ta-
q Die and tidying the rooms used by the
n teachers.
fIhe smaller children learn paper cut
ing and folding, drawing and basket
making. The pupils in this school have
u 20 carry dinner to their parents, who
are employed in the mills, and the
scHool s sessions are arranged to suit
IN morning beginning at $50 O'Clock
and ending at IL; in the afternoon
beginning at l and ending Mt 3. In
tne evening there is session from Z
- 0. m. to accommodate larger
CAnuren who work during the day in
ne factories. The teachers of this
s9hooi, j. F. S. Neigh head teacher;
LIs Wife and Miss Georgia De Beie. re-
que que IN the school house, devoting their
time, day and evening, to the fulton
OF their pupils.
savannah Has Advantage,
of course. in Savannah there is no
or -, SClOOl ike Ln1S, as all,
u nearly all, of the children of this
80 S are SO situated that they can con-
80 III 10 one general school day. There
vast amount of practical good
re accomplished in Columbus hy
rs gni!lahthropic industrial enterprise.
49, au1lIlon 10 what l have mentioned.
currlcuium embraces q half hour
ii ing 'Ae saiis 10 read
:. IN the white grammar schools there
- manual training without the use
Loo!s from the first to fifth grades.
Ll.oiuslVe, in the class rooms for one
80 d week. In the sixth seventh
- ~ eIshth grades the boys take tool
49, Tor ninety minutes a week; and
49, SIls OF the same grades take cook
iessons ninety minutes a week in
go a. school. In the High School
4 Sesie. IS an elective course in applied
IS! OF Two hours a week
:. :" the colored grammar school there
- 9 carpenters school for bows. and
~. rev weeks it is expected that
\ S Sts@tSsAsfnlth school will be opened. One
,r5 va, oI me school time is devoted to
B ,,,ailSlrlal training. The girls have a
- ing laundry and sewing school
n e.s ".!cA one-hfth Of the school hours
O0st OF Manual c-a.a.=g.
ne cost &c manual ana Industrial
49,, .,11,'-:ag n Columbus, that IS. tha NV
-. eeHeEe IS hardly airy other exua~ e.
80 =. So,ao3 year. Manual t~a.ci-e Sas
IS W.th great favor - coiI~sh,,S
- - e3oSe :, charge sae-- 1.,siS
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