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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN CARVER IN 1910.
Jan. 2. Salome Joseph and Annie Naomi.
May 9. Eugene Tetu and Delia Robidoux of Fall River.
June 11. George H. Westgate and Annie Wilson of Providence.
June 26. Harry E. Washburn and Virginia H. Tillson.
July 17. Neil D. Murray and Reba A. Griffith.
July 25. Felipe Texeira and Katherine Vandez.
July 31. Adelbert P. Robbins and Mary A. Reed of Pembroke.
Aug. 14. Roscoe C. Griffith and Viola V. Taber of Bourne.
Aug. 21. Ernest Kanganpaa and Tila Maki.
Aug. 29. Russell F. Shurtleff and Bertha J. Parker of Plymp- ton.
Sept. 2. Manuel Alves of Middleboro and Margaret R. Robin- son of Boston.
Sept. 28. August Halunen and Esther A. Wahlstedt.
Oct. 28. George H. Mahler and Lavara Stringer, both of Mid- dleboro.
Nov. 5. Elias Erickson and Ida J. Paavola.
Nov. 22. Lester W. Swift and Florence Cahoon.
Dec. 29. Victor Maki and Ida Kyytiainen.
DEATHS RECORDED IN CARVER FOR THE YEARENDING DECEMBER 31, 1910.
DATE
NAME
AGE Y. M. D.
BIRTHPLACE
CAUSE OF DEATH
PLACE OF BURIAL
PARENTS' NAMES
Jan.
2
Elisabeth JJ. Westgate
71
6
St. Peters I.
15
Henry Jimperg
--
1
19
Carver
17
Nathaniel C. Sampson
19
10
7
Plymouth
March April
·2
James W. Lee
1
8
17
Carver
2
Gustava A. Johnson
36
11 23
Norway
8
Harry Gonsalves
28
Cape Verde
May
29
July
24
Ellis HI. Cornish, M.D.
69
11
Halifax
Ang.
23
Eva Guertin
1
19
Carver
Sept.
27
Annie Machado
1
29
Carver
Oct.
8
Susan F. Atwood
79
6
16
Middleboro
9
Wilfred J. Mendez
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26
Carver
Gastro enteritis Carcinoma of bladder
17
Julia F. Vanghan
65
5
Brockton
Dec.
2
Samuel S. Atwood
77
6
5
Carver
26
Lavarah Mahler
17
9
22
Carver
1
Esther C. Hines
62
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Мавs.
Acute gastritis Marasmus Pulmonary tuberculosis Accidental drowning Gen. miliary tuberculosis Valvular heart disease Aente obstr'et'n of bowels Pulmonary ædema Cholera infantum
Union cemetery Union cemetery So. Poud, Plym'th Plymouth Mt. Hope Wareham Union Cemetery Carver cemetery St. Mary's Mid- dleboro
William Stringer and Elisabeth (Lardner)
Gustavus G. Sampson & Esther C.(Burgess) James G. Lee and Della (Jacques) Avan Byerknes and - - Unknown
John Bent and Mercy (McFarlin) Ellis Cornish and Sally (Holmes) Charles Guertin and Emma Massaeu
Joseph Machado and Cora Baptiste John Shaw and Hannah (Shurtleff) Frank Mendez and Delia (LeGesse) Daniel Nash and Nancy (Vanghan) Ebenzer Atwood and Waitstill (Lucas) Ephraim E.Stringer and Hattie A. (Atwood)
Daniel B. and Elisabeth M. (Reynolds)
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Carver cemetery Union cemetery Carver cemetery Carver cemetery N. Abington
Diabetes mellitiss
Post partem hemorrhage Arterio-Achlerosis
Union cemetery Carver cemetery
Gastro enteritis Nephritis
Hannah P. Richards
73 6 25
Carver
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BIRTHS RECORDED IN CARVER FOR 1910.
DATE
NAMES
PARENTS
BIRTHPLACE OF PARENTS
Jan. 5
Hilma Irene Carlson
Charles Carlson
Finland Finland
March 3
Arthur Benjamin Jefferson
Leon W. Jefferson
Brockton
April 26
Cyril Stetson Hall
Chas. P. Hall
Boston
May
18
Catherine Estelle Cahoon
Walter S. Cahoon
Harwich
Flora G. Bassett
Harwich
Johansed Halunen
Finland
Ida M. Piispanen
Finland
June
4
Leslie Leroy Howland
Frank Laine Lizzie Kaski
Finland
29
Louis Ellsworth Watson Dasteau
Roseario Dasteau
Canada Fall River
July
6
Wiino Dorothy Johnson
Huldah Johnson
Finland
29
Annie Machado
Joseph F. Machado Cora Baptiste
Cape Verde Is.
Aug.
4
Eva Guertin
Charles Guertin
Canada
Emma Mousseen
Canada
George H. Robinson
Dorchester
Jessie J. Garnett
New Brunswick
23
Andrew Robeson Eames
Embert H. Eames
Carver
Sept.
9
Joseph Arman April
Isadore April
Canada
Roselma Pineau
Fall River
13
Wilfred J. Mendez
Frank Mendez
Cape Verde Is.
27
John Winthrop Winberg
Nelson B. Winberg
Carver
Oct.
2
Ida Alita Halunen
Svante Halunen
Finland
8
Trivo Johannes Kallio
Finland
Nov.
3
John Nelson Parker
John L. Parker
New Brunswick
Lizzie Black
New Brunswick
Dec. 5
Phillip Thilvie
Cape Verde Is.
Katherine -
St. Helena
17
Kenneth Everett Atwood
John E. Atwood
Middleboro
24
Lillian M. Vaughan George H. Mahler
Plymouth
Aug. 10
Zimri Tobey Washburn
Lavara Stringer Geoge B. Washburn
Carver
Alice M. Robinson
Marion
21
Lila Sophia Halunen
Warren E. Howland
Brewster
Grace M. Weston
Maine
Finland
7
Dauna Alarik Laine
Dianna Messier
Alex. Johnson
Finland
Cape Verde Is.
Eliza G. Shurtleff
Carver
Delia LeGesse
Canada
Hattie D. Purdon
New Hampshire
Elsie Johnson
Finland
Charles Kallio Millie
Finland
Ida Rinteela
Edna F. Archer
Middleboro
Helen S. Griffith
Carver
2
Carver
Carver
Richard Henry Robinson
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RECEIVED FOR DOG LICENSES TO APRIL 1, 1911.
W. A. Tillson,
$2 00
Albert F. Atwood,
5 00
Lucius Atwood,
2 00
George L. Powers,
2 00
Charles C. Perkins,
2 00
N. N. S. Daudelin,
10 00
Arthur C. Atwood,
2 00
Geo. E. White,
2 00
Louis Letender,
2 00
Ed. J. Rowe,
2 00
Frank R. Rickard,
2 00
Jesse A. Holmes,
2 00
Z. W. Andrews,
2 00
John A. Winberg,
2 00
Fred A. Ward,
2 00
Mrs. Abbie Tucker,
2 00
Miss Susie K. Perry,
2 00
Geo. B. Washburn,
5 00
Charles Lomba,
2 00
George Mahler,
2 00
Clarence Thomas,
2 00
Charles Mclaughlin,
2 00
J. M. Bump,
2 00
Chas. S. Bassett,
2 00
Henry S. Pink,
2 00
H. R. Bailey,
2 00
Alfred Dube,
2 00
Joe Lavender,
2 00
W. N. Mace,
2 00
Ira Thomas,
2 00
Fred A. Dimond,
2 00
.J. A. Vaughan,
2 00
E. C. Shaw,
12 00
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O. L. Shurtleff,
2 00
Wm. Westgate,
2 00
Robert E. Dimond,
2 00
W. E. Holmes,
2 00
Katherine C. Thomas,
2 00
Felix Thibeault,
2 00
T. A. Tillson,
2 00
James S. McKay,
2 00
Wm. S. Johnson,
2 00
Paddy Gunn,
2 00
Albert F. Petty,
2 00
Samuel McHenry,
2 00
Bernard Burbank,
2 00
Nelson Garnett,
2 00
E. H. Murdock,
2 00
Charles Donolly,
2 00
Fred Messier,
2 00
Obed H. Shaw,
2 00
John D. Shaw,
2 00
Matt Jefferson,
2 00
Jesse M. Northern,
2 00
C. Theodore Anderson,
5 00
Isaac W. Shaw,
5 00
James Lee,
2 00
Stillman Pratt,
2 00
Joseph B. Rickard,
2 00
Wm. S. Dupuis,
5 00
Robert Nelson,
2 00
Andrew Palm,
2 00
John T. Blaker,
2 00
Fred Anderson,
2 00
R. C. Lewis,
2 00
A. W. Peterson,
2 00
Mrs. S. L. Savery,
2 00
Ira B. Bumpus,
2 00
Carver 5
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Eric Ericson,
2 00
Frank Mendez.
2 00
James W. Thomas,
5 00
Louis Letourneau,
2 00
H. P. Burgess,
2 00
F. S. Stewart,
2 00
Timothy Hartnett,
2 00
Charles O. Dunham,
2 00
Andrew Kaski, 2 00
Bert L. Thomas,
6 00
James P. Kennedy, 2 00
John Pouliot, 2 00
2 00
Dewitt C. Warren,
2 00
E. A. Richards, 2 00
Chas. C. Perkins,
2 00
T. M. Southworth,
2 00
A. W. Shurtleff,
2 00
Lewis J. Shaw,
2 00
T. T. Vaughan,
2 00
A. H. Wade,
2 00
Miss Lydia Agnes Gibbs,
2 00
James W. Lewis,
2 00
Edmund. Weston.
2 00
Sumner Braddock,
2 00
Michael Anthony.
2 00
W. T. Thomas,
4 00
John Coughlan,
7 00
Kenneth Shaw,
2 00
Percy Shurtleff,
5 00
John Kataha,
2 00
Eric Ericson,
2 00
Ellsworth Braddock,
2 00
Lawrence Atwood, 2 00
John Bourget,
2 00
Joseph Bolduc,
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George Judway,
2 00
P. E. Morris,
2 00
N. C. Swift, 2 00
M. J. Morrison,
2 00
Sette Hollander,
2 00
James H. Peckham,
2 00
Jennie Moreau,
2 00
W. H. Cassidy,
2 00
Chas. H. Holmes,
2 00
Benjamin Wrightington,
2 00
Silas Thomas,
2 00
John Bernier
2 00
A. P. Braddock,
2 00
P. J. Holmes,
2 00
N. B. Winberg,
2 00
Clato Zanetto,
2 00
Luke B. Harlow,
2 00
Mike McDonald,
2 00
No name,
2 00
Roy Atwood,
2 00
J. B. Braddock,
5 00
$303 00
Summary.
Births (incomplete),
23
Marriages,
16
Deaths,
16
Dogs licensed (males 119, females 13),
132
HENRY S. GRIFFITH,
Town Clerk.
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE
FINANCES, YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1910.
Receipts-
Surplus medical fund, 1908. $ 3 15
Surplus medical fund. 1909,
50 00
Surplus Mass. School fund, 1909,
6 40
General appropriation,
7,000 00
State school fund,
736 68
Superintendent from State,
300 00
Return on Superintendent acct.,
200 00
Ellis fund,
630 00
Pratt fund,
150 00
Overdraft,
762 65
$9,839 48
Expenditures-
Teaching,
$4,794 00
Janitor service,
303 25
Cleaning buildings,
34 29
Medical inspection.
62 50
Transportation,
1,155 66
Repairs,
200 74
Fuel,
300 70
Supplies and incidentals,
632 83
Superintendent's salary,
650 00
Truant officers,
27 50
Overdraft, 1909,
1,678 01
$9,839 48
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TEACHING.
A. 1. Studley,
$900 00
Florence Merry,
195 00
H. W. Delano,
200 00
Ida E. Torreson,
375 00
Irene Nichols,
399 00
Elsie Lawson,
236 00
Jessie M. Howland,
114 00
Lulu Pratt,
244 00
Eliza Kelley,
95 00
Adelaide Kenney,
40 00
Inez Allen,
200 00
Christina Pratt,
114 75
Annie Sandison,
135 00
Olga Merritt,
135 00
Mabel Freeman,
228 00
Bernice E. Barrows,
120 00
Marion Copeland,
270 00
Ethel Roy,
120 00
Dorothy Shaw,
375 00
Alice Studley,
28 25
Evelyn B. Pillsbury,
150 00
Marguerite Sanger,
120 00
$4,794 00
JANITORS.
George E. Blair,
$126 00
E. C. Churchill,
90 00
Lulu Pratt,
9 50
Elsie Lawson,
9 00
Irene Nichols,
12 00
Marion Copeland,
9 00
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Dorothy Shaw,
9 75
Mabel Freeman,
9 00
Eliza Kelley, 2 50
Jessie M. Howland,
3 00
Bernice E. Barrows,
3 00
Ethel Roy,
50
Ichabod Tillson,
20 00
$303 25
FUEL.
T. M. Cole,
$76 75
J. M. Bump,
69 50
Bryant & Soule,
14 75
J. E. Wrightington,
17 20
George B. Washburn,
1 50
Wm. E. Cornish,
82
Charles Cornell,
2 95
Gustavus Atwood,
1 53
E. E. Shaw,
6 55
I. W. Tillson,
7 05
P. J. Holmes,
51
E. H. Murdock,
22 95
O. K. Griffith,
2 50
E. G. Cornish,
29 27
James S. Hudson,
4 50
Charles H. Kennedy,
3 72
Lester Pratt,
2 65
William Weeden,
4 75
T. T. Vaughan,
5 00
Harry Washburn,
19 25
Harold Dunn,
1 00
C. H. Wilbur,
3 00
Isadore McFarlin,
3 00
$300 70
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REPAIRS.
J. K. & B. Sears,
$31 14
Isaac Shaw,
10 00
W. C. Richards,
£ 85
T. T. Vaughan,
2 47
E. C. Shaw,
50
Wm. M. Shaw,
31 60
J. W. Lewis,
4 25
A. W. Shurtleff,
15 00
John E. Jordan,
11 63
A. I. Studley,
1 25
E. G. Cornish,
33 50
George E. Blair,
23 40
George Adams,
10 00
T. E. Blanding,
18 40
Alton C. Chandler,
2 25
W. G. Swift,
1 50
Gooding Brothers,
1 00
$200 74
SUPPLIES AND INCIDENTALS.
C. W. Humphrey,
$15 17
A. W. Peterson,
9 82
Walker & Pratt Mfg. Co.,
140 00
A. D. Griffith,
35
Albert Humphrey,
11 00
E. E. Babb & Co.,
339 00
L. E. Knott & Co.,
30 19
Plymouth Hardware Co.,
6 60
Walworth Mfg. Co.,
13 28
W. C. Richards,
2 80
J. K. & B. Sears & Co.,
1 46
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Jones Brothers Co., 3 50
Samuel Ward Co.,
7 20
William Beverley Harrison, 2 08
George Adams,
1 00
E. G. Cornish,
12 23
C. C. Perkins,
60
Plymouth Co., Pub. Co.,
3 00
A. I. Studley,
1 95
Oliver Ditson Co.,
2 91
Bittinger Brothers,
2 50
Ginn & Company,
18 72
John E. Jordan,
2 12
T. W. Pierce,
5 35
$632 83
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SUPERINTENDENT'S ACCOUNT.
C. W. Humphrey, $650 00
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
L. M. Chase, M. D., $62 50
TRUANT OFFICERS.
H. A. Stanley, $15 00
J. W. Lewis, 12 50
$27 50
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TRANSPORTATION.
E. E. Gardner,
$112 73
J. S. McKay,
144 00
Roswell Shurtleff,
260 00
James Lees,
285 00
Deborah Tillson,
246 00
H. H. Gammons,
44 50
Webster Vaughan,
50 23
Frank Stuart,
13 20
$1,155 66
CLEANING.
S. Mary Shaw,
$2 00
Isadore Howland,
2 50
E. G. Cornish,
9 69
Mrs. Geo. H. Robinson,
6 00
George E. Blair,
10 10
Helen F. Petty,
4 00
$34 29
ELLIS FUND.
Received from fund, . Paid for Teaching-
$630 00
Marian Copeland,
$255 00
Dorothy Shaw,
295 00
Ethel Roy,
80 00
$630 00
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SUPERINTENDENT'S ACCOUNT.
Received from State, $300 00
From general appropriation,
350 00
$650 00
MEDICAL FUND.
Paid C. W. Humphrey,
$650 00
Surplus, 1909,
$53 15
From general appropriation,
62 50
$116 25
Paid L. M. Chase, M. D.,
$62 50
Surplus for 1911,
53 15
$116 25
MASSACHUSETTS STATE SCHOOL FUND.
Surplus, 1909,
$6 40
Received from State,
736 68
$743 08
Paid-
A. I. Studley, teaching,
$180 00
Evelyn B. Pillsbury, teaching,
100 00
Ida E. Torreson, teaching,
45 00
Irene Nichols, teaching,
18 00
Eliza Kelley, teaching,
26 00
Jessie M. Howland, teaching.
74 00
Marguerite Sanger, teaching,
40 00
Olga Merritt, teaching.
15 00
Bernice E. Barrows, teaching,
40 00
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E. E. Gardner, transportation, 34 73
Roswell Shurtleff, transportation,
60 00
A. D. Griffith, 35
$743 08
PRATT FUND.
Received from fund,
$150 00
Paid-
Elsie Lawson, teaching,
$36 00
Lulu Pratt, teaching,
36 00
Mabel Freeman, teaching,
38 00
Adelaide Kenney, teaching,
40 00
$150 00
Average Membership
Average Attendance
Per cent of Attendance
High School,
15.2
12.9
85
Centre Grammar,
14.8
12.2
84
· Certre Primary,
23.4
19
82
North Grammar,
22.7
20.4
90
North Primary,
25.9
21.7
83
South Grammar,
25.9
24.2
90
South Primary,
23.6
22
93
Pope's Point,
10.9
8
76
Bates Pond,
14.2
12.4
87
East Carver,
19.1
15.7
82
ROLL OF HONOR.
The following names are those of pupils who have had per- fect attendance for one or more terms.
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Three terms-Ruth Shaw, John Blaker, Dorris Jones, Al- bert Linton.
Two terms-Dorothy Linton, George Perkins, Aravesta Shaw, Clara Playze, Robert Washburn, Grace Gardner, Howard Gard- ner, Myrtle Gardner, Elizabeth Atwood, Eunice Atwood, Hazel Griffith, Ray Atwood, John Shaw, Julia Stanley.
One term - Russell Peterson, Everett Cassidy, Leonard Shurtleff, Eleanor Washburn, William Winberg, Louise De- Moranville, Maria Macy, Eleanor Atwood, Preston McKay, Myr- tle Perkins, Carrie Washburn, Everett Baker, Julia Cahoon, Alice Lees, Clyde Griffith, Otto Palm, Bernard Winberg, Wal- ter Greene, Rodney Griffith, Lizzie Harvey, Albert Thomas.
APPROPRIATION.
We recommend a general apropriation of $7,000 for the sup- port of schools for the present year.
Superintendent C. W. Humphrey merits praise for what he has done for the schools of Carver during his term of service.
Your committee wish to express their thanks for the hearty co-operation of all.
Respectfully yours, ALICE G. SHAW, C. C. PERKINS, E. G. CORNISH.
School Committee of Carver.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
To the School Committee and Citizens of Carver :
An annual school report is necessarily somewhat of a repeti- tion of former reports. Changes in school matters are usually few and slight from year to year, as educational changes are of slow growth, they are evolutional rather than revolutional. A short time ago there was great interest and activity in indus- trial education. It was predicted that soon there would be in- dustrial schools for teaching all kinds of vocations to all chil- dren and every one would be self supporting as soon as he left school. There is now even greater interest, but less activity. We are taking more time to think. Some one, more wise than the rest, said that some day we would erect a monument to the man who said go slow in industrial education. Most of us have
come to be deserving of that monument. We are learning to go slowly. He is equally worthy of consideration who goes slowly in making any change he hopes will be permanent. Ed- ucation, like government, is of exceedingly slow growth. We are apt to think of the makers of the Constitution as coming to- gether and originating that great instrument in a few weeks' time. Joseph Choate, in an address delivered a few years ago. said that it was the result of the study of the principles of free government by the colonists, and especially by the lawyers of the colonies, for more than twenty years. They were studied throughout the life of the Continental Congress, which Fiske says was practically a permanent institution for thirteen years. After the Declaration of Independence an epoch of constitution making by the individual states set in, and was the one great sub-
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ject of study of the whole country. Those who finally made the Constitution of the United States, he says. came to their great task as graduates of the best practical school of Constitu- tional Law the world has ever seen. The instrument they finally devised had little about it that was original with the makers. and as well as they did their work. it was amended ten times in the next two years. Its use has proved that it was not written for the present. only. He adds that it has been a source of frequent wonder to foreign observers that a written constitution, which was framed in the eighteenth century for thirteen feeble states. with three millions of people should be found to answer as well in the twentieth century for the needs of a nation of forty-five states and eighty millions of people. There are many able men and women seriously and laboriously working out the instrument of education : but. like the makers of the Constitution. they are not launching out on unknown wa- ters : they are studying the fundamental principles of education as those men studied the principles of government that the final results may be as enduring as theirs. though as subject to frequent amendments to meet changing needs.
While every form of education is being studied. industrial education is receiving the greatest attention. We have had general education so long that its present form is the result of a slow growth. That we cling to it so tenaciously is not an in- dication of unwillingness to change. but rather a proof that it gives us what we want. There is little in it that we could wise- ly give up. there is no call for a radical change. But it is be- cause we have no system of vocational education to supplement it. and it is known to be so necessary. that it is receiving so much attention. It may be of interest to know something of what has already been done in establishing industrial schools, There was held in Boston in November of this year a convention of The National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Edu- cation. This was not a gathering of school men exclusively. but also of manufacturers. commercial and railroad men, and
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representatives of organized labor. A is always the case in discussions of industrial education the German schools were cited as the best example of what has been done to provide vocational training. Such training is universal and compulsory in that country ; every child is taught to do something that will add to the wealth and prosperity of the nation. If a boy is to be no more than a chimneysweep, he yet goes to a school for scientific training in chimney sweeping. The same is true of all callings. - The industrial schools already etablished in this country may be divided into four classes : Philanthropie schools, those sup- ported wholly or in part by philanthropy ; business enterprise schools, those carried on by private individuals as a business en- terprise ; corporation schools, those supported by corporations to train men for their work; and publicly supported schools. All these classes of schools are doing good work, but only one is get- ting at the root of industrial education, the publicly supported schools. All these classes of schools are doing good work, but only one is getting at the root of industrial education, the pub- licly supported, publicly controlled, free industrial school. The Franklin Union School of Boston is an example of the philan- thropic school. It owes its foundation to Benjamin Franklin, who bequeathed one thousand pounds sterling to the town of Boston in 1791, which was placed at interest for one hundred years. At the end of that time a portion of the sum, amount- ing to $400,000, was available for public purposes, and was used in establishing an industrial school. The remaining por- tion continues at interest for another century. The $400,000 was used for a building and equipment, and a maintenance fund, yielding an annual income of $20,000 was given by Andrew Carnegie. It has evening sessions only, and is open to men, six- teen years old and over. There are six courses of two years' dura- tion : Mechanical Construction, Industrial Electricity, Steam Engines and Boilers, Structures, Architectural Working Draw- ing, and Industrial Chemistry. There are also other short courses. It is not entirely free. It is a typical school of
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this class. Schools of this class are always likely to be very limited in number, they are not entirely free, and it is claimed that they are often unwisely influenced by the donors or those having them in charge. The so-called business colleges and pri- vate trade schools are examples of the second class. They are private schools carried on as a business enterprise. Many of them do excellent work, but their small numbers and high cost put them beyond the reach of many who need them most. Ex- amples of the third class, the corporation schools, are those sup- ported by the railway companies, the school of the General Electricity Company of Lynn and the Ludlow Manufacturing Associates of Ludlow, Mass. These schools are maintained solely to train young men to do the work of the corporations, although they are free to work where they choose after. completing the course. It is conceded that these schools do the best work of any kind of industrial school. They teach to do a definite thing in the most direct way, and in the shortest time. Some have gone to the extent of training their apprentices so thoroughly and quickly, that at the end of two years they are able to do the work of journeymen, and have been used to supplant journeymen, each succeeding class crowding out those ahead of it until factories have been run almost entirely by apprentice labor, at apprentice wages. This is by no means true of all; many corporations are very liberal in the treatment of their apprentices. The objections to this class of schools are that they are very narrow in scope, they make good workmen, but do nothing to teach citizenship: also the temptation is great to exploit the workers. and the school gives an opportunity to do this. Yet it should be remembered that this kind of educa- tion is entirely free to the apprentices, and they are free to work where they choose after receiving it. The fourth class is the
publicly supported and controlled industrial school.
There are
at present nineteen such schools in Massachusetts. Those of the most interest to us on account of location are the Brockton Independent Evening Industrial School, The Taunton Inde-
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pendent Evening Industrial School, and the New Bedford In- dependent Industrial School. The Brockton school gives instruc- tion four evenings in the week in four school buildings. The Taunton school gives instruction two evenings in the week in the High School building. The New Bedford school has both day and evening courses, and occupies a building on Water street, near the corner of William street. The day sessions are from 8.30 to 4.15. and are open to any boy of good character, physical ability to do the work, and sufficient education to pur- sue the studies to advantage. . The course includes shop math- ematies, shop English, shop drawing, shop science, civies and citizenship, industrial history, wood and metal working. Eve- ning courses in the same building give instruction to men in house framing, architectural drawing, shop drafting, shop mathe- matics, motors, gas engines, steam practice, and machine shop work. Evening instruction is given to women in dressmaking and millinery at the Dennison Memorial Building on First street. Tuition in this school is $150 per year for non residents. One-half of this is paid by the State, and one-half by the town in which the student lives. There are two agricultural schools in the state, the Montagne Agricultural School, at Montague C'enter, and the Smith Agricultural School and Northampton School of Industries, at Northampton. There are two classes of publicly supported industrial schools, the Independent School, so called, like the three mentioned, which are not connected with any common public day school, although the instruction is often given in the regular school building, and the Part Time School, which is a part of the regular public day school. Under the part time plan boys on entering the high school are grouped in pairs. On Monday one boy of a pair goes into a shop or man- ufactory to work as an apprentice, and receives apprentice's wages. He works there until Friday night. While he is in
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the shop his mate is in the high school. Saturday forenoon both boys work in the shop together, that the one who was in school during the week may get the run of the work. Satur-
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day afternoon they are free. On the next. Monday morning they change places, the one who was in school goes to work in the shop, and the one who has been at work goes to school. This plan seems to be the most satisfactory of any vet tried. It some- what resembles the German Continuation school. The trades learned are necessarily only such as are required by the local in- dustries. The obstacles to success in teaching trades in a school not associated with an industry are lack of competent teachers, difficulty in getting suitable and sufficient work. the expense of materials, the impossibility of working under shop conditions, and the lack of a feeling of responsibility on the part of the students. well expressed by one who said. "We don't waste things and make mistakes in a shop because we would lose . our job if we did." These are the kinds of industrial schools
now in operation in this country. As yet hardly a beginning has been made in industrial education. Several important points relating to the matter were brought out in the conven- tion: There are very few teachers available for industrial teaching, and as yet there is little opportunity for properly training them. Few of the best workmen are good teachers. and few good teachers have any knowledge of trades or occu-
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