Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1905-06-15

remarkable institutions in the country.
In the education of the states wards
the New York Institution for the Deaf
and Dumb. located upon Riverside
drive at Washington Heights, has put
into effect a unique system of ply
steal training for boys who. one would
naturally imagine, would be incapable
OF profting by a method adapted to
the human ear. but. according to the
Latin motto of the institution they
hear with the eye and speak with the
hand, and they perform the mcst as
tonishing evolutions of the military
drill with comparative ease. so much
SO. indeed. that their skill won the
admiration Of prominent West Point
omcer and other military critics. This
institution has been in existence for
SO years. and the total number of pu-
pills who have been received into its
instruction since its organization is
1888. At the present time IL shelters
SOB pupils. of whom 3O4 are males and
1873 are females.
E. r. Young of this city has been
given the commission by Charles M.
Schwab of placing an insurance policy
for 5000, 900 on the great palace which
the former president of the United
States Steel Corporation is now having
built on Riverside Drive. Seventy-third
and Seventy-fourth streets. Schwab
and his wife are now in Europe ran
sacking the art centres for rare works
OF art. tapestries and antiques to fit
tingly adorn the great building. The
insurance will represent a little more
than half the cost of the building. and
will, IL is said. be the largest amount
ever written on a private dwelling. IL
Is said to be the avowed purpose of
Mr.. Schwab. who Is now in Berlin. TO
will this palatial home and its con-
tents to the city, which will take DOS
session after the death of Mr.. Schwab
and his wife, and use IL as a museum
and show place. A fund for its main
tenance, IL Is said. will be provided
for in Mr.. Schwab's will and this fund
will also be sufficient to secure for adj
dition to the art treasures in the build
ing other works from time to time.
About 5000 boys in the United States
navy are called by the name OF one
"e" ". FycaiS tHcy nave Deen
known by his name In the surrogate's
Office. on the receiving ship in the
Brooklyn navy yard. and throughout
the navy generally. He Is legal guar
dian OF the entire number. and IL WIS
through him alone that they entered
the navy. This man Is neither gov
eminent official nor philanthropist-
just plain business man. with a bust
ness Office In a downtown skyscraper.
and he told his tale on the expre.s
stipulation that his name should not
be used
1T began quite by accident" he said.
''22 years ago. I was i'm the surro.
gates Office one day when the guardian
clerk remarked. I'm sorry for that
youngster over there: he wants to go
into the navy the worst way. and no
has no guardian to sign his contract
The government requires a con-
tract with every apprentice entering the
navy. and as the apprentices are
necessarily under age. and as no min
or can sign a contract under the law.
OF course. boys without parents or
guardians cannot enlist.
We'll. I offered to- act as guardian
for that first boy. was legally appoint
ed. and got him into the navy. and
since that I've kept on till now there
are somewhere near 5000 of them scat
tered over the world. That's all there
II to IT,"