The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-31
TRADE SCHOOL ARGUMENT HEARD
 BY STATE BOARD
Fairfield County Cities Join In Plea to Bring One
 School to Bridgeport.
CIVIC SOCIETIES APPEAR

In an effort to induce the State
 Board of Education to locate one of
 the two trade schools recently estab-
 lished by the General Assembly in
 Bridgeport representatives of the | Board of Trade. of the Business Mems | Association, of the Manufacturers As sociation and of the Y. M c. A. met
 the members of the State Board. of
 Education at the Stratf1e1d Hotel. yes terday afternoon. It is generally con
 ceded that Hartford will get one Of the two schools The cities of Dan
 bury, Norwalk, South Norwalk and Stamford were represented at the meeting and were in favor of this city
 as location for the other.
 Frank J. Mulcahy, president of the Crane Valve Co. represented the Board
 of Trade. MT. Mulcahy had exact fig
 ures on the growth of the city, and
 manufactures. and was familiar with
 the work trade schools have accom- plished. He said in part: 'The pres ence oe a trade school in this city will be of ineSt1mable value to our manu-5 facturers. Speaking from personal ex- perience and as the representative of a company employing 2.300 men with. an annual pay roll of s1, 300. 600, I am in position to lay great stress upon the difficulty we experience at times in securing desirable employees.
 Tine gradual development of trade school in our midst, even though it's eventually assist in overcoming this trouble, by supplying the community with bright and capable young men and women whose services will be eagerly sought.
 '"The manufacturers will accept this with grateful satisfaction and the municipality will add to it's standard of rugged, honest, and 1audable citi- zenship.''
 In the course Of his remarks MT. Mu1cahy said: The restoration of bus mess confidence is even now being felt. We are constantly adding to- our pay rolls.'
 w. R. Webster of the Bridgeport Brass Go, said: Because of the. finn itations imposed by lack of skill and of knowledge of English the wage rates of a large portion of our popl1-
 lation are at minimum. The condition
 of things places upon a family an irresistible pressure to send the chi1-
 dren into the factories the instant the
 school age is passed. Further con t1nuation of attendance in the existing results in any way commensurate with the sacrifice involved. This is the prime cause of child labor, an evil which sooner or later must be borne
 by the community The establishment of such an industrial school as the one contemplated and the higher wages
 directly obtainable as a result of the
 education which the institution will afford. will help to keep such children out of the factory during that period
 when the evil effects of factory labor
 are liable to occur.''
 r E. F. Bullard,ss. Jr.,. of the sBulIard Machine Tool Co. and representing the Manufacturers Association, was en-
 Enthusiastically in favor of having the school in this city. In his plant, he said. boys were being given education in the apprentice school of the Y M | c. A. It had been found that the in creased efficiency of the youths aftex their education had more than offset | the cost.
 Jeremiah Holmes, of the Y M C. A., George M. Flames of the Singer Manu- featuring Co, and Charles Davis of the Business Mems Association spoke l on the advantages of a trade school 1 and of the peculiar location of this | city as an inducement to have it built there.