Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
FINE MANUAL SCHOOL WORK
First Industrial Exhibit at High
School is Distinct Success.
PATRONS THRoNG THE CORRIDORS
Large variety of Samples of Boys
and Girls skin Displayed
Young women Are Good
Cooks.

Remarkable examples in wood carving
and iron modelling, beautiful copies OF
masterpieces in oil and water color paint
ings and delicious foods and dishes were
shown at the first industrial exhibit Of the
Omaha High school at the school Tuesday.
The corridors and the rooms in which tho
exhibits were shown were thronged most
Of the day with interested patrons Of the
school, and IL those who visited the ex-
hibit had the power to order a new build.
ing would soon be erected for the housing
Of the departments Of manual training.
Visitors and members OF the Board OF
Education alike told Prof. wigman. head
OF the department, that a new building
with more room is a positive necessity, and
II the exposition will result in getting a
building Prof. Wigman believes the efforts
OF himself and his pupils to put on a good
exhibit will not have been in vain.
The exhibits of the manual training de.
partment proper took up the most room
and brought forward more expressions Of
surprise and delight. though the other In.
dustrial departments were not sighted by
the visitors. Prof. Wigman has two as.
slstants in his department. with an enroll.
ment Of 300 students, all there is room for
Many more made application for work in
the>department, but they could not be &C.
commodated.
Some Exhibits.
In this department were shown example:
Of wood, inlaid work in checker boards
card tables, cribbage boards, taborets
clocks, library tables. Indian clubs, dumt
bells and almost every conceivable article
Of small dimension that could be made Of
wood. Different kinds Of wood are used
by the students and large tables contain.
ing several hundred pieces Of wood glued
together and planed off perfectly smooth
have been made since February. Jack.
screws and other metal appliances were
placed on exhibit as examples of the
work of the boys in the foundry. Only
ninety minutes every other day is giver
over to instruction OF manual training, but
the boys become so enthusiastic that they
work before and after school.
Boy graduates of the manual train.
ing department will be given employment
by Paxton & Vierling and the Union Pacific
shops advance these graduates when en-,
ployed there.
Miss Neva Turner, head of the depart
ment of domestic science, which was in.
stalled the first of the year, has 40 girls
in her classes, and these girls served lemon
ice and little cakes to the callers during
the afternoon, ices and cakes made by
themselves. The girls in the domestic sci
ence department not only learn how t
cook, but they are being taught how t.
select foods when they go marketing
what lind Of CTS of meat to buy and wha
vegetables should go with certain meats
The girls do all the work even TO wash
ing the utensils used and the towels anC
aprons. So proficient have they becom'
that on the morning of the exhibit the!
washed over 100 pieces in less than fiv,
minutes, using a washing machine and
mangle.
In the Art Department..
In Miss May Harting's art department
are about 125 students, boys and girls, wit
are taught free-haEding drawing and paint
ing in oils and water colors. The walls o
the exhibit room were lined with paintings
most Of them being copies of famous work
by famous authors Q
While the Industrial exhibition was a
first intended to be open only one day, /
has been decided TO keep the department
open again Wednesday for the accommoda
ton of those unable to visit 1t the frs
day.
THE work accomplished in the manua
training department by the first and sec
ond year students speaks for itself and W
came away from the school marveling a
the display Of so much skill and mechanics
ability on the part of those students" sal,
Boiler Inspector Robert U, Wolfe, VIII,
visited the exhibition in company wit
Judge John Walsh Of Washington, D.. C,
and John Wise of Lead, s. D.. These de
partments, in my mind, should c~ertainl,
be enlarged and perpetuated and thos
who fail to visit the exhibition have some
thing to regret"