The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-05-15
RECORD CROWD
SEES EXHIBIT
AT HIGH SCHOOL
Three Thousand People Visit
Technical Last Night; Every
body Pleased.
MANY VISITORS FROM
OTHER RANGE TOWNS

Three thousand people visited the
Technical high school last night to
view the exhibits of the school work,
the best and most elaborate that has
ever been shown in Virginia. The
great crowd was for the most part
made up of parents and patrons of the
Virginia schools, but also numbered
many people from other range towns
and number of range superintend-
ents and teachers.
The high school was open to visitors
|all afternoon and evening, and while
"a number availed themselves of the
opportunity to examine the work dis
played to better advantage in the af-
ternoon the evening attendance was
record breaker. There was never a
moment from the time the work
started at 7:3O till it ceased at 9:3O
that the corridors on the three floors
were not crowded.
A number of students were detailed
! as guides and visitors were escorted
from the basement floor on up to the
third floor.
Manual Training Exhibit.
On the basement floor, which is oc-
cupied by the manual training depart
ment, the first room entered was the
drawing room. Here a~class was al
work in mechanical drawing. In the
next room, the bench room, classes Of
pupils from the Sixth, Seventh anc
Eighth grades were employed ir
grinding, furniture work, and lathe
work. In the wood-turning room the
, boys were working at hand-sawing
pattern making, and turning. Some
were grinding a large knife for :
Virginia printing company. In the
forge shop the boys were busy weld
ing, filing, bending and shaping
There was an exhibition here Of al
types Of work done during the yea
and all classes who take the manua
training work were represented
Messrs. Sharr and Wieland were il
charge.
In the gymnasium, which is on tn
same floor, the grade students uset
the apparatus until o'clock when al
indoor baseball game was called, be
tween Seventh and Eighth grade boys
Matched games between boys AM
girls teams of high school classe
have been played in the gymnasium
every Friday evening. On these even
ings there has been an average at
tendance of ITS spectators. Sixty
eight matched games have been playe
in the gymnasium this season with Al
aggregate attendance of 13,600 spec
tators. Admission was charged TO
10 of these 68 contests. The tota
number of students who have use
the gymnasium evenings since DC
tober / is $4,000. An average Of 10
students have used the playroom i
the North Side building each weel
First Floor Display.
On the first floor there was re
markable display of the work don
by students during the year. On tn
: first table was an exhibit of patter
work done by high school and nigh
scvhool students. Next was the Sixt
grade woodwork, and the Seventh an
Eighth grade woodwork. There we1
, number Of pieces of furniture wor
: such as tabouretts, pedestals, bool
cases, writing desks, etc., and at tn
] farther end of the corridor mod'
: living room was fitted up entirel
, with furniture, lamps and decoration
) all done by the students. The man
2 lamps of unusual design and attra'
2 tiveness are deserving of special mel
, ton. Farther down the corridor the1
: was a display Of some excellent wo,
. in joinery and in forge work. II
l large picture Of justice, memoirs
a of the class of 1911, was hung (
). students and the pedestal made ar
a set for it. The fine-looking dog hous'
at the upper end of the hall were MAJ