Evening journal., 1915-04-05


the school from its present quarters,
corner Twenty-fitth and Market
streets to Claymont. where. on a tract
of land comprising 75 acres two hand
some buildings have been erected at
an approximate cost of $4,000.
The completion of these buildings
will mark the formal beginning on a
large scale OF what will undoubtedly
be one of the most efficient and best
systematized schools OF It's kind In the
East In view of the fact that the
scope of the school has been widened
and that the moving from city TO
county will mark what might be term
ed new era in the work OF the school
Il would be just as well, perhaps, TO
review briefly the history or this most
important educational and moral in
stitution.
twenty-five years ago Mrs. Eliza
beth c. Marks. wife of the Rev. Lalay-
cite c. Marks. at that time minister
of Hanover Presbyterian Church. be-
came interested in the problem Of the
incorrigible girl, so many OF whom
she saw brought into court and re-
leased by the judge simply because
there was no place TO send them. Re-
alizing the indiscriminate turning out
into the streets again of SO many girls
who were mentally and morally ab-
normal was not only menace to
society in general but that the girls
themselves were not being given a
flair chance. Mrs. Marks saw the need
| for a school TO meet such cases. So
i'm the year 1898 what is now known as
the Delaware Industrial School for
Girls was informally and unohlcially
started by woman vitally interested
In the future womanhOod of the State.
In that same year such was the
acknowledge influence of the school
that an act incorporating II and
naming Il the Delaware Industrial
School for Girls was passed by the
Legislature. with Mrs Elizabeth c.
Marks. Frances A. Mather. Frances s.
/ Garrett, Emma |. Weldin, Emalea p.
I Warner. Josie =. FOgg, Mary Smith
ers, Mary B. Donnell, Tillie +. Sud
Ter. Hannah Tunnel. Margaret $.
= Hilles and Helen Porter constltut-
ing the corporate body.
In May of last year the property
owned by the school and known as the
Pfromm estate was sOid Tor $1,000
and on July 30. 1918. tract of land
situated on the Darby road at Clay
mont, and known as the George Boyd
property, was purchased for $3.50.
This property has proved 10 be an
idea situation for the school with its
seyenty-ive acres of rolling land. an
abundant supply of excellent water
shade trees and stone enough for all
the buildings. The contract for the
two cottages was awarded to the A
S. Reed and Brothers Company fol
$4,000 and ground was broken lasi
May.
In January, 1914, arrangement
we're made TO take out tie stone OF
the place with which 10 build the
two cottages called FOR m the con
tract. The buildings are beautifully
located on a slight elevation several
hundred feet back from the road
They are both painted a glisteninl
white with Bay State cement while
the roofs are painted a reseda green
| Altogether they create a most pleas
! ing impression and are beautiful.
The two cottages are built exact
ly alike. with the exception that one
has the laundry while In the other
Is the gymnasium. Each cottage has
35 dormitorios which will allow each
girl to have separate rooms and each
has it's own kitchen. dining room
storage plant, filtration plant Offices
teachers rooms. etc. In building the
cottages the colonial Idea has beer
carried out in simple and harmoni
Gus manner. The entrances to eacl
building are colonial porticoes. will
high white benches on either side o.
the doors. while the reception hallI
and other rooms are wide. many win
dowcd and attractive.
All the floors are of hard wood, thu
doors are made of birch. while thu
casing Is OF North Carolina pine. Eacl
cottage has an up-tO-date filtration
system, Are escapes and automatic
fireighting apparatus. A feature o
one of the cottages is the gymnasium
which is SO feet long. 80 rect wide ant
has a cement floor. The laundry
also IS complete in every detail will
stationary tubs. etc. An interestin'
feature is an arrangement of a bel
system in the teachers rooms. II
each bell is attached the number o
each room and the moment that
door is opened the bell corresponding
to that room Immediately rings II
the teachers room, thus allowing M
girl to either come in or go out o
her room without being duly regis
tered.
with only 2S sleeping rooms in th
4 old building II will easily be see
4 how inadequate that was to meet th
4 present needs of the school. whic
4 now has 61 girls. Each cottage q
Claymont. will have its cottage man
A ager. to be appointed later, and
q Is thought that each cottage will b
3 named. though the latter matter wi
4 come up before the next meeting Z
Z the board before anything can be an
81 nounced concerning il. II is probabl
3 however. that one of the cottages wi
B be named after Mrs. Elizabeth
n Marks, the founder and first presider
Il of the school
Twenty-three of the rooms in th
q new cottages have been furnished b
Woman's Christian Temperance
n Unions while seven have been ful
nished by various persons.
\ And now just a word conccrnin
the school work itself, as 10 give til
reader an idea of the splendid syi
= TEN that is being employed ther
In the first place all the work of th
! institution is done by the girls then
selves, who are divided into corr
/ OF workers. each corps being appoln
ed for two weeks to do certain worl