The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-17
A HUMAN PUBLIC DOCUMENT
VITALITY INTERESTING STATEMENTS IN THE RE
POET OF THE TRUSTEES OF TIE INDUS
TRIAL SCHOOL OF THE CITY
OF BEVERLY. MASS

Reports of trustees generally of
terest public at large are city documents usually
suggested for summer reading There said be n
exception rule however, and the fourth annual
report Of the trustees the Industrial the City
Beverly Mass, for the year 1912 is certainly in
The notable achievement of the year the gradu-
alton schools first class of fourteen boys and of
these first graduates the report
The wage-earning capacity of these boys when they
entered the school is consvatvey estimated at 5000 per
week.
A capitalization of the boys economic value to the
community his wage,earnng power the time Of
entering may be Approximately $6O00
$4,000.
a The earning M 90 Of II hss IS boys at the time
A similar capitalization of the boys economic value,
based on the experience Of the ouFteen boys
$500 per week for so weeks equals $3.50, or pc,
$500 PsST week for so weeks equals 5000, per
When these boys vent into the factory full time
81 200 mantaiP the school The to the city of
amounted to a little, over $4,000;
sys Of the and BOYS As G
Skilled worknen @ the cost shown to be $500 pen boy
sen hs Of Ri $500 value o G S sd S 5 ap or
$4,000; l3 cent Investment in two and onehalf
left an active stock in 5S boys in stages
of preparedness for the rade) and the prospects of very
aes become more sked During the Two O and % oneRsf years
the by wages
IN the world OF finance an Investment of this kind
problem deferred dividends
The work of the coming year will be that of working
out in detail the academic Of study should
the school side of the work parts
functions definitely in the making Of achins and men
Three rooms reading and Office at the
disposal of the teachers and pupils in the Mckay.
building presented the city Of Beverly by the United
Shoe Machinery company.
With regard to the factory instruction which the pupils
IN the factory Of the United Shoe Machinery company
the boys are put at work on parts of machines as com
stimulation of factory; it a factory the bows
actual women There is distinction in shop coud
ons and practice between this department and other
so true IS this that visitors notice only the youth of the
the boys work pecework. The job for each boy is
chosen both with regard to his ability and for his further
department, and if satisfactory is for other opera
tions to the stockroom exactly the product of
any other workman If unsatisfactory, the work is either
returned to be made right is the scrap heap
The boy not left for instruction his
(who are paid for turning out work not for acting
structo but directed and taught by trained instructors
as an exercise, neither is the boy exploited for the
eft of the factory Thoroughnes in workmanship is pro
large number of similar pieces, each requiring his
efors lesson driven home by practice
pieces is likely to be well learned.
Students are paid onehal the piece price paid in
factory for that particular operation The
to the factory part for the used
the overhead Of light heat power investment in
stuctors while doing shop work The at the factory
of the United Shoe Machinery company is complete and Is
From the preceding excerpts from the report of the
trustees the splendid the Beverly In
dustral School during its four years existence may
judged There is nothing quite like it the world over and
its progress and development being studied by
and students far and