New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-23
TRAINING SCHOOL
AIDS OTHER CITIES
Graduates Called Upon to
Help Solve Complex
Municipal Problems.
INSTITUTION NOW
IN SECOND YEAR
Started by Research Bureau with
Fund Raised by Mrs. Har.
riman and Others.

The second annual report OF th.
Training School for Public Service has
been issued and shows that the school,
which was started by the Bureau OF Mu-
nicipal Research with the aid Of fund
raised by Mrs Z. II. Hartman and
others. is not only standing alone. but is
also lending assistance TO various city
departments and to other cities. The
method OF training for public places Is
TO assign the students to real public
work-not to have them listen 10 lectures
on the subject The course consists OF
field training for every conceivable kind
Of service. The students are selected
with care, and only after the school is
satisfied OF their ability TO make good.
No salaries are paid 10 the students,
though to those unable TO pay their own
expenses during the course a stipend
ranging from 500 10 $1,000 may be paid.
The graduates are competent to put mu-
nicipal corporations on business basis
and run them along business lines. They
are able 70 take up and solve various
complex municipal problems, either for
the municipalities themselves or for local
orga nizations.
Two years ago the school was started
from fund given by Mrs. Hartman, and
increased to $4,000 year by thirty men.
Including Andrew Carnegie, Charles A..
Coffin, John d. Rockefeller, Henry
Phipps. Jacob r. schif. Samuel A.
Lewisohn and George F. Baker.
Graduates OF the school are distributed
as follows: One is IN charge of codn-
try-wide study Of schools and libraries
in Newark: another is secretary Of the
Robert L. Stevens Fund for Municipal
Research. in HoboAen: another recently
directed a statewide school survey for
Ohio, and Is now organizing bureau Of
municipal research in Toronto another
is director of the Bureau Of Municipal
Research in Springfield, Mass; one 10
auditor of Montclair; one is secretary 10
Commissioner Goldwater. and another
Edgar Y. O'Daniel. is Fourth Deputy Po-
lice Commissioner.
In two years there have been S7 appli-
cants from l3s cities IN thirty-fve states.
There were ninety-two enrolled for train
ing. They included civil electrical, sani-
tary and consulting engineers, physicians,
college presidents. school superntend-
ents, an ex-iudse and members OF other
professions.
While in training the men are assigned
to some work that needs to be. done,
either in New York or in other cities.
If the assignment is 10 another city, that
city bears the expenses. No two men
are likely 10 follow tho same course.
though at the end Of tho course they will
all have covered the same ground, which
includes budget making. methods Of pur-
chase and control of supplies, prepare
ton Of payrolls. chartng. organization Of
cities and departments. etc.
The Governor Of Ohio sent his BUDGET
Commissioner, who worked on the New
York CITY budget and the New Jersey
budget, under the direction Of the school
lie was not only Of assistance to the
local officials, but went back 10 Ohio
with information which resulted in the
saving Of $685.. 600 for his own state. Miss
Dilks, of Dayton, Ohio, did a few weeks
field work, and upon her statement Of
what might he done for Dayton John II.
Patterson founded the Dayton Bureau OF
Municipal Research.
New York saved $4,000 in the Water
Department budget on the basis OF work
done by two training school engineers.
working under bureau staff member
and Tiden Addmson. Of the Finance De-
partment. The time given by training
school men 10 working for Controller
Prendergast and Borough President Nc |
Ancny amounted 10 3.39 hours.
Training school men, under super
vision have helped make surveys in At
lanta. Dayton, Pittsburgh, Pine Bluff, !
Ark: Portland. Ore; Revere, Mass. Mil /
waukee. Montclair, Schenectady and !
Doobs Ferry.