Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-18
WORK AND CULTURE
City Where Industry and In
quiry Go Hand in Hand.
EDUCATION IN WORCESTER
System Extends From kindergarten
Up to Clark University.
HOME FOR OLD RECORDS
Centenary of the American Anti
quarian Society Will Be OBJ
served Next Year.
EDUCATION IN WORCESTER
HOME FOR OLD RECORDS
BY WILLIAM f. CURTIS
Special Correspondence Of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.


Special Correspondence Of The Star and the
Chicago Record Herald.
! WORCESTER, Mass, July Ii, 1911
Worcester is famous for several rea-
sons. 1t is the second city in Massa-
chusetts and the third city in New Eng
land. 1t has the largest wire mill in the
world. Barbed wire was invented here,
and this was the largest source of sup
ply for many years. The mill still en-
ploys 5000 hands. The largest carpet
mills in the world controlled by single
individual are here and belong to NJ. ].
WhittaI
The largest corset mandatory in the
world is owned by the Royal Worcester
Company. Elm Park was the first play
ground ever purchased by a city for the
enjoyment of its population. The Wom-
ems Club house. on Salisbury street,
which was built in 1912, is said to be
! the finest in America, if not in the world.
and the organization has membership of
| 600 Nearby is the art museum founded
! in 1897 by the late Stephen Salisbury.
who left it many valuable paintings and
practically his entire fortune. When the
estate is settled it will have a permanent
! sion, adjoining. a fine old colonial house,
| is used rs a school for arts and crafts.
Mr.. Salisbury and his father were both
very liberal and enterprisfng patrons of
art and archaeology, and to them We owe
the excavations of the prehistoric cities
| in Yucatan; They spent a hundred thou
sand dollars or more to uncover and re-
store those most remarkable of all archie
| illogical remains in America, and the
work is still going on.
The Union Congregational Church is 4
reproduction i'm miniature of Notre Dame
in Paris and one of the finest temples
of worship in New England. The city hall
and the courthouse are both considered
! models OF official architecture. There Is
a monumental armory also. splendid
Y. NJ. c. A. building and other structures
of which the people of Worcester are
very proud. The New York Central Rail-
way Company has just completed union
/ station at q cost of 100000 which Is a
part of the improvements incident to
the abolition of grade crossings In the
city upon which S'.iOO,OOO has already
been spent and million and half more
will be needed.
George Bancroft. the historian, was
born in Worcester in 1900. and the family
mansion still stands. Worcester was the
home of the late Senator George Frisbie
Iioar and other members Of his family.
Clark University.
The people of Worcester have carried
technical education farther than any
not excepting Boston. The system which
is intended to train coming generations of
workmen for the Worcester manufacto-
ries begins in the kindergarten and con-
J tinues through the elementary and Sec
| ondary grades of the public schools I'D to
Clark University, founded by one of the
most successful and public spirited man
ufacturers in the country. The late DR..
Carroll d. Wright was the organizer, and
DR.. G.. Stanley Hall. the eminent psychol-
ogist. is now the president. Clark Uni
versity is a school of the highest standard
and machinists. and it is especially in
tended for original research and the de-
velopment of new processes in the lines
of manufacture for which Worcester is
famous. With this purpose always in
their minds, the men who made 1t have
provided the most complete and thorough
opportunities for the undergraduate, the
postgraduate and the research worker
in applied arts and sciences It's library
of about 10000 volumes is unsurpassed
in scientific literature and periodicals.
The books arc arranged in separate
rooms according to subjects and ayaila BILE
to all inquirers from the outside as we'll
as to the students. An admirable Gus
tom has grown up of inviting publishers
and booksellers to place volumes they
wish to dispose of for the inspection of
the partons of the library once a month
upon a table in the reference section and
any professor or student may recommend
the purchase of any volume that looks
good to him.
The library building. which was COM
pleted last fall, is one of the most COM
plete and perfect in the world. 1t Is
built of pink granite and red brick, the
frame work is of steel. the floors are
tiled and the roof Is of emerald green
slate. When Mr.. Clark founded the uni
versity in 1857 he endowed the library
with 100000. AT his death in 1900 he
provided $1JOOOO for buildings and $780,
60 as an additional endowment. The
main room. with accommodations for
$1,000 volumes. Is a reproduction of the
library of Trinity College, Cambridge,
England, which was designed by Sir
Christopher Wren in the time of Charles l.
Highly Educated EMPLOYEES.