Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-10-28
WHAT VOCATIONAL
EDUCATION DOES
FOR vERM0NTERS
Industrial Exposition by Boys
and Girls of the State
Opens Program at
Rutland.

Rutland. Oct. 2e.-With 500 exhibits rep.
rescnting So school systems or institutions
and many individual schools, the Vermont
Boys and Girls Agricultural and Indus
trial Exposition, designed to show what
vocational education is doing for the young
people of the State, opened at the fair
grounds in this city to-day with the bright
est of prospects. The splendid specimens
Of handiwork cannot fail to attract hum
dreds OF people. Every department is in
the hands of a boy or girl. and the young
people made entire ARRANGEMENTS for the
exposition the management paying the
expenses Of a committee representative Of
every county in Vermont
The exhibits are arranged in the
arts and crafts building with the ex-
ception of the poultry, which are To-
Gated on the lower floor of the agri-
cultural hail., the upper part having
been fitted UP with $50 seats for a
lecture room. The time to-day was
given up to judging. Tomorrow
Thursday and Friday there will be
music and lectures on practical sub
jects, The exposition will be open
evenings as we'll as in the day time
Every exhibit is vouched for as the
production of a Vermont boy or girl
by two persons not related to the
exhibitor. All exhibits are of prac-
teal nature. pets and articles. which
are merely the result of the further
ance of hobbies, being barred
A number of schools or institutions hav"
working demonstrations where various
things are produced in improvised work.
shops. These include: State Agricultural
school, Randolph butter making demon
stration blacksmith forge in operation,
bench work: st. Johnsbury public schools.
manual training exhibit. pupils to build gar.
age on grounds: Proctor schools. demon
stration in cooking baking and sewing
and agricultural display; Warner Home
for Orphan boys, SaXtons River, cooking
contests in competition with girls: Rut-
land city schools, manual training and do
inestic science demonstrations Essex
Junction schools, dressmaking; Orleans
agricultural high school, milking test and
display of bees: State Agricultural Col.
lege. Burlington, various vocational
courses: State Normal school. Castleton,
corn Judging contest. cooking and sewing;
Springfield public schools, machine shop
in operation using one machine worth
50 900 demonstration Of cooking and sew
ing; Windsor schools, canned fruit and
poultry.
Schools having exhibits but no working
demonstrations are: Brattleboro. Ben
nington, Burlington. West Rutland,
Castleton. Pittsford, St. Adams. Concord,
Lyndon Garden class, stowe, Chester,
Townshend, Irasburg, Bristol. Newfane,
Wallingford. Ludlow. Stamford Fair
Haven. Jencrsonvillo, Winooski, Col
chester SaXtons River
The judges include: Home furnishings
and household arts. Misses Bessie NJ.
Thayer If burlington and Mae Tyrrell
and Belle Hayward of Rutland; fruit and
vegetables James c. Otis. White River
Junction. and Prof. +. r. jerks, Bur-
lington; poultry. Prof. II. a. D. Leggctt,
Burlington; industrial arts and manual
training, yet to be appointed; school exhibits
as a whole DR. Alvin f. Dodd, New
York, secretary of National Society for
Promotion Of Industrial Education. and
c. II. Lane. specialist from United States
department of agriculture.