The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-07

new industries to America, never known here before. A perfumery house hitherto importing all its boxes from Europe gave the school an order. It made fourteen hundred of these fine fancy boxes, and the firm begged it to continue, but all the girls had learned
 to make the boxes, so the work was changed. One of the firms own workers was taught the trade at the firms expense. This department is not as popular with the students as the students as the millinery and dress
 making departments. This is due to | the poor pay in the lower grades of | the industry and the fact that the | girls do not know the possibilities of advance in the skilled grades to good l salaries and delightful occupations.
 Box making ahs risen to great in- l dustry. Thousands of articles of food, clothing and ornaments are now de- livered in boxes which were not in former years. The higher grade of these boxes, the daintiest, trifes of silk, velvet and fancy papers, are im- ported. Gum and glue may lead ex- pert girls to good pay and compara-
 tiely easy work in this line, and more are called for in it than can be SUD- | piled.
 In one thing the school furnishes a model for all public schools. The eyes, of the pupils are regularly examined, particularly if the girl is doing work l requiring eye and nerve strain, and glasses are provided If necessary Ears and threats are also watched, and constant instruction glen in the care | of health. The result is shown in the greatly decreased need of medical att tendance. In the great gymnasium the girls have daily games and gymnastics l under trained supervision. A splendid new deelopment has been the night | classes, opened last fall These are continuation classes for women al- reayd employed, teaching them more expert, difficult and highly paid work. This is the first work of this kind for
 women In New York, though London is full of it; and working girls have | fiocked to it in numbers that could not be accommodated, as the classes must be small and special teachers are required,
 The way in which the working girls of Manhattan have come to the sup port of this school is most interesting. There are now forty auxiliary so- | cieties of wage earners, and girls in the shops and stores of New York have contributed over $2,OOO to the school during the last year. The alumnae have formed an association. The first gift to the endowment fund was made by girl student in fashionable school She collected $1,O00 and sent it in Sge name of the principal of the school There are now about five hundred pupils in night and day classes. The school filled $6,593 worth of orders in 1906 for the regular trade at regular trade prices. This shows that the work is not amateur, but professional, and can compete in the open market. Two hundred certificates have been given to students, and as these certificates are neer given to girls till they have been employed seeral months satis- factorily to their employer, the certl- f1cate means economic efficiciency The graduates are earning form $S,50 week for beginners to $16 a week for some who began two or three years ago.
 The school needs a roof garden for summer exercise. It needs baths and swimming pool. It needs cooking classes. It needs library and an ade- quate supply of periodicals for it's reading room. It needs a museum of manufacture, showing manufacturing processes and the finished products. Much of this material would be con- tributed by manufacturers if the school has cases to keep it in. In wants to organize girls and mothers clubs and give receptions to students, alumnae and their friends. It wants to keep the school open every working day and night the year round It needs s5G,0O0 to pay a mortgauge and $40,000 year for running expenses. During 1906 110 persons did active, un- paid work for the school every week. The prime object of the school is to GuutHllO0di institutions to seize the two years of the working girls life from fourteen to sixteen. She is required by law to remain in the public schools till four teen. At fourteen she goes to work, ignorant, incompetent, irresponsible and at less than a Hing wage. Enl- ployers unite in saying that the girl is not of much value to them till she is sixteen, These two years could be employed in making the girl a skilled workwoman, so that she could enter a trad at al Wing wage and with a chance of an ambition to rise. Miss. Virginia Potter, the president, and Mrs. Woolman, the director, of this school, with their various helpers. are doing, perhaps, the most useful edu- cational work ever done for American working girls.-New York Tribune.
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