The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-25

row. aany Of the boys pay their owl
tuition when entering the institute. 50
there are many Of these scholarships
untaken and are open TO the first boys
who apply for them.
The institute since 1t opened five
years ago has had 1900 students, and
it's graduates are now employed all
over the United States. The institute
cannot produce graduates as rapidly
as employers desire to give them work.
With their all-'round knowledge Of a
trade, which they acquire in an insti-
tute workshop, many OF them have
quickly advanced to places as foremen
and superintendent and other posi-
lions of responsibility.
There have been many striking in
stances in the institute OF boys who
are determined to get on in the world.
They have gone to the institute with.
out any money, worked their way
through a trade school, and gone at
once into permanent employment at
good wages. One of these boys is a
native of Porto Rico. He sailed from
his island home with only enough
money to carry him to Indianapolis,
and when he entered the Institutes
School OF TYPOGRAPHY he had two dol
lars in his pocket and had borrowed
500 from the scholarship fund to pay
his tuition. He could hardly speak
English. but employment as houseboy
was found for him in an Indianapolis
home, where he earned his bed and
board, going to school through the day.
He finished his schooling and is now
employed at good wages with an Indi.
annapolis concern as a full-hedged
photographer.
In the School for Iron Moulders
there is boy who was too ambitious
to continue living in an Indiana or
phans' home. He entered the School
for Moulding without a cent in his
pocket. He is paying his way with
money he earns taking care OF fur
naces through the winter and with
odd jobs about private homes through
the summer, and he will make one Of
the best moulders this school has pro-
duced. A dozen jobs will be open to
him as soon as he finishes his school
ing
Boys who enter the institute without
means resort to many ways Of earning
money for incidental expenses. They
take care of furnaces, NOW lawns,
drive delivery wagons, carry newspa-
per routes-anything that will give
them an honest livelihood while they
are learning a practical trade at the
institute. They room and board in
the private homes around the institute
grounds.
Many fathers who are employers of
skilled workmen send their sons to
the institute to learn a trade in which
the father is engaged, rather than
teach the son in his own workshop,
the boy going home to help the father
carry on the business. Many employ
ers, too, have taken alert boys out OF
their shops and sent them to the insti.
tute to get better understanding of
trade. and such a boy usually goes
back to his employer to become fore
man or a superintendent.
Scores OF boys who have finished a
trade at the institute have gone home
to fire their companions with an am
bition to become skilled workman
with his hands. and 1t is through this
medium that the institute has in part
seen its enrolment grow from year
to year.
That the national associations Of en-
ployers are realizing handsomely on
their scholarship funds and gifts to
the institute is strongly indicated by
ployers yi:e employment to the grad.
yates as RAPIDLY as boy can get his
schooling.