The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-03

And should like to wander there
barefoot upon the. velvet sod,
But, ali the place is iuconDlete-
NO Dig eyed daisies dip and nod.
I know a stream, a silvry stream.
Wy y nose panks are lined with willows sweet,
| w mere graceful boughs are hanging O. er
ana swlrling waters. softly greet.
ana thece fain would wander now
ana i've again dear bOyhOOd's role
But. blame the luck what is the use7-
Inc place amt got no ''swimmin' hole"
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Successful Factory school.
Some excellent trade schools have
Deen built up in this country during
recent years, each ministering to the
special needs Of its own constituency.
put II IS clearly impossible for most of
tnem to adapt their training CLOSELY to
me requirements of the modern fac
tory. Ihe best fitting school for fac
tory positions. in the opinion of MANY
! Factory managers, Is the factory itself.
Some of the leading manufacturing
1 corporations of the country have I'M
S-oi r,dken 10 provide schooling for their
youthful employees. To this end a
modified apprenticeship system has
| been evolved, under which all labor is
pald and definite amount Of instruc-
4 ton Is given.
! one Of the Oldest systems of this
kind In that in force at the works of
K hoe Co., the printing press
! manufacturers of New York city In
tnat establishment from two hundred
/ 10 three hundred youths between fhe
ages of sixteen and twenty-one are
/ regularly employed. These appren-
/ LceS all enter into a legal agreemen
! with the firm to serve a full term of
/ flVe years, and this agreement is sign
ca Dy the lad's parents in each case.
All those who show enough proficiency
1 IN their work to give promise of fur
/ tnef Improvement are admitted to the
school maintained by the firm. from
/ flHT0hnT I n To- .
p. m. on each working day Most of
! the apprentices, having come from the
| grammar grade in the public schools
are at first drilled in the three RS
ana English grammar supplemented
/ by mechanical drawing Gradually the
ability to draw up specifications for
machinery is acquired. Practical in
! struction in the details of factory or
ganlzation Is impaired. and the pupils
are equipped for managerial positions.
/ The apprentices are stimulated to ask
questions about their daily work and
those who show special aptitude are
permitted and encouraged to pursue
/ their studies further, availing them
selves, for instance, of the technical
courses offered at Cooper Institute.
The individual members of the firm
i OF hoe & Go. are personally interested
/ in the work of the school. which is
I directed by a head master and four
! teachers. Prizes are awarded each
year to the boys making the best
grades The school history of every
| apprentice is methodically recorded
from the beginning of his work, all in
/ dlcauons OF progress being specifically
noted. Every opportunity is given the
4 boy to prove his own abilities The
management keeps up systematic cor
/ respOndence with parents and guar
| dams, very much as the head of a pri-
vate sch DOL would do Many foremen,
! engineers, and high class machinists
4 now employed throughout the country
n -
which was the first institution Of its
kind tor be established by a manufac-
turning coneern.-Fsrom "A Successful
Factory school, in the American
/ Monthly Review of Reviews.
a Private Estate of a Million Acres
By the recent acquisition OF a tract
of 10000 acres Santa Gertrudes Ranch.
/ in southwest Texas, already reputed 10
be the largest estate in the world own
/ ed by a private individual, was in
creased to the immense proportions of
1000 square miles or 1880, 900 acres. As
an aid to the comprehension of these d.
| mansions some comparisons may be
found useful The area of Rhode Island
exclusive of the waters of Marriage nsett
| Bay, comprises 673, 800 acres, or just
! trifie more than one-half the area of
Santa Gertrudes ranch. The area of
/ Delaware, exclusive of water, is ], 254, 900
! acres, or 2e, 500 acres smaller than San
eleventh of the area Of the United States;
yet If the Lone Star state were to De
cut up into ranches the size of Santa
Gertrudes there would only be land
| enough to make 1872.
Santa Gertrudes Ranch was founded
| in 1858 by Captain Richard King. a
form Mississippi river pilot who,
with his friend Captain Mihin Kennedy,
had charge of the transport service on
the Rio Grande which supplied General
Taylors army during the Mexican war.
1 Captain Kings ambition was to possess
the largest and best-conducted ranch in
| Texas; but he died twenty years ago,
| after accommodating soc, 900 acres The
property was left to his widow, Mrs H.
| NJ King, who turned the entire man
| agement over to her son-in-law, r. ].
Kleberg, q lawyer, who was born and
brought up within $50 miles of the
ranch. Under Mr. KIeberg's manage
ment the acreage has been Increased
more than fifty per cent-C. F. Carter,
| in Harper's Weekly.
Composite.
An unpopular man, who was recently
refused membership in a West End
club, had the audacity to write to the
club secretary, demanding the name of