Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-08-28

Some twenty thousand persons are
attracted usually to Hampton insti.
tute, the pioneer industrial and agri.
cultural training school for negro and
Indian youth, founded in 1868 by Gen.
Samuel c. Armstrong at Hampton,
va. These visitors from all parts of
the world, are attracted by the
unique and effective educational meth.
DDS which Hampton institute has been
successfully employing for over forty.
flve years In training negroes and In.
dams for unselfish and efficient serv.
Ice in the home, on the farm, in the
shop, and in the kitchen.
Hampton institute is an industrial;
village with some 1900 or 1900 stu
dents, 200 teachers and workers, 14v
buildings, and an instruction farm
OF some 600 acres. Whatever work
the Hampton school needs to have
done, the students are usually pre-
pared to do. Farming, home-making,
teaching and the common industries
form vital parts in the training of
Hampton institute boys and girls.
Blacksmithing, brick-laying and plas.
tering, carpentry and cabinetmaking,
machine work. painting, printing, shoe.
making, steamtitting and plumbing,
tailoring, tinsmithing, upholstering
and wheelwrighting, are the trades
which are offered by the Hampton
Institute Trade school.
In the busy shops, on the scaffold-
ings of new structures, in odd hooks
and corners of the Hampton grounds,
negro and Indian carpenters have for
many years been daily mastering the
building art and have been preparing
themselves for life's emergencies by
learning how to make the best posi-.
BILE use Of their resources time,
! tools, skill and moral qualities.
Today the construction Of tho
Hampton institute buildings and the
necessary repairs are being satisfac-
torily done by student tradesmen.
When it was necessary to remodel the
principals home. one Of the oldest
buildings on the Hampton campus,
negro and Indian tradesmen did the
necessary tearing down and building
up. These operations were no easy
tasks. The bulk of the work had to
be done in hot and trying weather.
The boys labored with q will. They
were happy to have an opportunity
of doing we'll what professional build
ers considered "a difficult piece Of
work.
The College of Missions, which is In
the charge of the Flanner House set
Element, has bought three adjoining
vacant lots in Cotton street, Indianapo-
lis, which will be converted into q
playground. The Flanner house owns
four pieces Of property and four lots.
Plans are being made for an extension
of the work. The free cooking school,
which is being conducted this summer
under the supervision Of Mrs. Marion
Colefisher, has met with the heartiest
response, especially from the mothers
in the neighborhood. The work Is IN
the charge Of two young women from
the College Of Missions, one Of whom
| is neigborhood nurse. The main build
ing has been remodeled and things
will be in readiness for resident
| worker this fall. Rev. H. G. Derthick,
| who has the supervision Of the social
settlement work being conducted IN
the city under the auspices of the Col
lege of Missions, is outlining plans to
create larger interest in the children's
department and to increase the force
of volunteer family visitors. The play
hour, which is conducted each Satur-
day during the school year, will be de-
veloped into larger feature this year.
An illustration of the value OF ef-
fectiye training in the industrial arts
is furnished in the graduates OF Tus"
kegee, Booker T. Washington's school.
There are more than one hundred
Of these trained young men and Wom'
en- in Chicago, according to Fannie
Barrier Williams. A recent investiga-
ton shows that none of them Is out OF
employment.
The following is a partial list Of tho
occupations in which they are engaged
IN this city: Two are pract1cing law
two are veterinary surgeons at tho
Union stock yards. three are under
takers. three are plumbers and steam
filters, five are merchant tailors, two
are shoemakers, three are dressmak-
ers, two are electricians. one an as
sistant meat inspector at the STOCK
wards. there are three trained nurses,
three carpenters, ten clerks IN the post
Office. one editor and publisher
Wireless telephoning between Paris
! and a suburb of Brussels recently was
accomplished.
Ont Of a total coinage Of So, 500, ooo
produced by the Paris mint last year,
e47 200, 900 was in gold.
TO encourage boring for oil the gov
eminent Of South Australia has Of
.fered large bonus to the first per.
son or corporation producing 100, 700
gallons Of crude 30 per cent petrol
cum from well. ,...,;,..r. -
George Sanford Of Bath, Me-, has an
o,d. fashioned mortar and pestle stand
ine ia inches in height, which has
been IN his family for $50 years. "
ax ThesU nked; States minis made lso,
e21 All coins, worth $s7,4s6,bso' last
year: ...'., -
Fo,Ioving an annual custom, : Phil