The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-10-28
WHAT VOCATIONAL EDUCA-
TI0N DOES FOR VERM0NTERS

Industrial Exposition by Boys ans
Girls of the State Opens Program Al
Rutland.
Rutland Oct. 26-With 500 exhibits
representing 35 school systems or in
stitutions and many individual schools
the Vermont Boys and Girls Agri
cultural and Industrial Exposition
designed TO show what vocational edu.
cation is doing for the young people OF
the State, opened at the fair grounds
in this city to-day with the brightest
Of prospects. The splendid specimens
Of handiwork cannot fail to attract
hundreds Of people. Every depart
ment is in the hands Of a boy or girl,
and the young people made entire ar
rangements 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 hall, 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 well 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 ex-
hibitor. All exhibits are of prac-
tical nature, pets and articles, which
are merely the result of the further
ance of hobbies, being barred.
A number of schools or institutions
have working demonstrations in inn
provised workshops. These include
State Agricultural School, Randolph,
buttermaking demonstration, black
smith forge in operation, bench work;
st .Jchnsbury public schools, manual
training exhibit pupils to build gar
age on grounds; Proctor schools dem
onstration in cooking, baking and
sewing and agricultural display;
Warner Home for Orphan Boys, Sax
tons River, cooking contests in compe-
tiion with girls; Rutland city schools,
manual training and domestic science
demonstrations; Essex Junction
schools, dressmaking; Orleans agri-
cultural high school, milking test and
display of bees; State Agricultural
College, Burlington, various vocation
al courses; State Normal School, Cas-
tleton, corn judging contest, cooking
and sewing; Springfield public schools,
machine shop in operation using one
machine worth $4,000, demonstration
of cooking and sewing; Windsor
schools, canned fruit, and poultry.
Schools having exhibits but no
working demonstrations are: Brattle-
boro, Bennington, Burlington West
Rutland, Castleton, Pittsford, st. AL
bans, Concord, Lyndon (garden class,
Stowe, Chester, Townshend, Irasburg,
Bristol, Newfane, Wallingford, Lud-
low, Stamford, Fair Haven, jefferson
vile, Winooski, Colchester, Saxtons
River.
The judges include: Home furnish
ings and household arts, Misses Bes-
sic M. Thayer Of Burlington and Mac
Tyrrell and Belle Hayward Of Rut-
land; fruit and vegetables, James C.
Otis, White River Junction and Prof.
F. B. jerks, Burlington; poultry, Prof.
H. A. d. Leggett, Burlington; indus
trial arts and manual training, yet to
be appointed; school exhibits as
whole, DR.. Alvin Z. Dodd, New York,
secretary Of National Society for
Promotion Of Industrial Education,
and c. Fl. Lane, specialist from United
States department of agriculture.