Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1894, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR SNERING PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1201 Pennsylvania Avence, Cor. 11th Street by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 8s. A UFFMANN, Prest. Now York Oiice, 49 Potter Building. = quintuply Sheet lem peataze xhde Entered at the Post Oty " mr $1.00 per year; 2, ¢ Washington, D. C. The Foening Slaxe.r-o Bs second ft matzes ) C7 Au o tone must be paid In advarce. Rates of advertisiag wade known on application. WASHINGTON, D. 0, SATURDAY, O Show that public opinion is with us. Like the Father of our Great Country— We are First in the Hearts of the People. Our Monday Bargains As spicy and catchy as any yet offered by us. 3.000 yards best “Light Shirting Irint’ Remnants, 2ic. 1,000 yards Fast-color Dark Dress Print Remnants, 2ic. 2.000 yards Heavy Unbleached Muslin ‘muaants, 2ic. 1,800 yards Plain Colored Chambray Reinants, 5c. 1,700 yards Best Quality Dress Gingham Remnants, Gic. 2,000 yards Neat Striped Percale Remnants, 7c. 960 yards Dark Outing Flannel Remuants, 1,200 yards Teaziedown, imitation of goods in Iemnants., Cc. 1,600 yards Plain Black Sateen Remnants, ie 80 yards All-wool White Flannel Remnants, gc. 600 yards All-wool Red Twill Flannel Remnants, Dress Goods, *~ Dress Goods, This department is keeping ten salespeople on a continued go. There isn’t an idle moment for any one. The low prices, the immense assortment, and the many pretty styles do it—all. ‘ to age Meces SH inch Changeable Wool Dress Goods and Knickerbocker Sultings. Worth from 19 2}¢. 15 pieces 36-inch All-wool Cloth, good styles. Worth 39¢. 25¢. Good Quality Dress Goods, all this season's styles, including Covert Suiting, Fancy Henriettas, Serges, &e., in ail the prevailing shades. Worth 50 and G0c, 5c. 10 pleces All-wool Storm Serges, navy amd black 4% inches Worth 6e. 39¢. h in full line of colors, 100 pieces Groth, AI woot BO pieces 50-inch 20 pieces St-inch Extra-fine Cloth, complete iime of plain shades and mixtures igreat bargain), 3 pleces “Pierce's” Broadcloth, good line of shades, esol 25, $1.50, $2 laeuln, roadeloth, good line of shades, that he sold at $1.25, $1.50, $: At 69, 79 and 8p9c. in novelty efects, “very pretiy,” eo f aud one-third Pierce's prices, ack Dress Goods. 15 pieces Half-wool 36-inch Viaia and Fancy Weaves. Worth 19 to 35c, Igc. jettas and Serges (special bargain), OC. ard Wool Black Dress Goods, newest French designs. ind $2.50, 10 pleces New Eiderdown, 8 pieces Heavy Fancy Cloaking at on {© pleces 40-inch All-wool jack 1 te pieces Jacy Regular value 65 {¢ Te. Dd pieces 46-inch Black fenricita, silk finish, $1 grade, 6 pieces 46-1nch Extra-Gne All-wool Black Serge, imported to sell at 79., 59¢. 8B pieces St-ineh All-wool Serge. $1.50 qualiig. . $1.00. 10 pieces 26-inch Black Storm Serge, strictly al) wool, 35¢. 29¢c. 54-inch All-wool Black Cloth, 4), 5, 69, S¥c. and upward, just the <2 well known fact that Black is the proper thing for thi ACK SILKS we feel certain tha Rite t ite ~S plecés 3¢-Inch “All-wool Black’ Cloth, thing for the new Golf Capes. Silks, season, and with our line —_ Figured Silks. ‘Wartt Gal (htt Se are able to fill all wants and desires, We start at: At '. Black Figured Taffetas. Worth 9c. 49¢ At 69c. Black Striped Novelty for sleeves or skirts. Worth $1.25, At 95¢. Black Figured Gros Grain. Worth $1.19. 95 At 95c. Black Satin Figured Duchesse. Worth Gt. At 49¢. Black Novelties, with colored figures. Worth @S8e. At 79¢. Black Noveliy, with colored Stripes ond figure Worth $1.19. Black and White Strip~d Sutin Gros Grain and Taffetas. Worth § Ce Plain Black Goos Geain (good wearing quality), Worth Sta Plain Black Gros Grain. Best $1 om the market At 75¢. ; At 39c. At 49¢. At 69c. Worth $1.25. 89gc. and colored. Worth $1, t 69c. Biack Satin Rhadame. Worth Ge. Black Satin Rhedame. Worth 75e. Mourning Silk. Worth 9c, Black Armure, guazame-d quality. Silk for Skirts, im cream, white, black Evening A Street Shades tn Silk Bengaline. Worth Te. 50c. SNK Selecia for wrap Maing. Worth 50. At 25¢. “2 We claim the largest and best assortment of popular-priced Silks in the efty. ’ ; Linon and Art Department. 23 pieces 1Sinch wide Exira-welght Barnsles Crash. Regular price, 12%ge. mly 83c. Extra Heavy German Cream Damask. Regular price, 5c. Only 43¢c. Bleached Damask Fringed Doylies. Regular price, $1.50 dozen. Only $1.05. 200 dozen Extra Size and Weight Hemstitehed Muck Towels. Regular price, 20e. Only 20c. 200 4-4 Chenille Table Covers, new colorings and designs. Regular price, 50. Only 39¢. Lace and Trimming Department. Pinch Black Bourdon Lacs. Real value 0c. a yard. 10 pleces 60-Ine 109 dozen 19-fs i T-inch Real Pinuen Vandyke Lace. Real value $1.00 a yard. On ® s aud » Bleck and Read oo ESE aL Ae cle narrow, ‘White Laces and At one-third and one-half of his former Contin ed.) S. KANN, SONS & GO., - Continued. Pierce’s Fine Muslin Underwear and Infants’ ‘Ladies’ Muslin Drawers, made of Masonville cotton. Outfits. PIERCE'S PRICE, 30e. Our Price, 19¢c. Ladies’ V,shaped Gowns, tucked bosom, Hamburg embroidery; best muslin, PIERCE'S PRICE, Our Price, 39c. Ladies’ Gowns, cambric cr muslin, lace $1.75 and $2.00. or embroidery trimming. PIERCE’'S PRICES, $1.50, Our Price, g8c. Ladies’ Short Muslin Skirts, with cainbric_ ruffle. Our Pri PIBRCE'S PRICE, 50c. ice, 25c. Jadies’ Chemise. cambric or muslin, 20 different styles, lace or embrotders trimmed. PIERCE'S Our Price, 98c. PRICES, $1.50, $1.75 and $2.00. Ladies’ Corset Covers, all styles, brokea sizes. Our Price, Ladies’. French Gowns, made of the finest silk mull, finest quality of imported’ lace, embrotdery and_ ribbon. PIERCE'S PRICES, $1.00 to $2.50, hainsook and cambric, trimmed with the PIERCE'S PRICES, $8.00, $10.09 and $12.00. Our Price Just One-half. Children’s Short Cambrie Dresses, ayes 1, 2 and 3 years. PIERCE'S PRICE, Boe, Our Price, 25c. Misses" PQ and 7 years. PIER children’s Muslin Night Robes, made of best muslin, handsomely trimmed, sizes 4 to E'S PRICE, $1.00. - Our Price, 49¢. soo Long Dresses, made of finest nainsook, hewstitched and embroidered. PIERCE’S FRICE, Our Price, 98c. Children’s All-silk Caps, white and_colored, Infants’ Suede and Kid Shoes, ia $12.00 and $15. trifamed wi Our Price, 89c. Infants’ Cashmere and Silk “Gai all_ handsomel; ur Price, ink, blue and tan. ur Price, 59 Infants’ Finest Christening Robes, tn silk, silk mull and nainsook. fur, PIERCE'S PIQCES, $1.75 and §2. PIERCE'S PRIC trimmed, 1.98. PIERCE'S PRICE, $1.25, iC. » $4.00, é PIERCHS PRICES, $10.00, Our Price Just One-Half. Infants’ Outfitting Ba: » Very elaborate. PIERCE'S PRICES, $18.00 and $20.00, Our Price Just One-half. Blankets and Chenille Hangings. and co nille Portleres, deep dado, le Portieres, extra heavy 8% yards long, 52 inches wide Big yards long, G0 inohes wide > Full-size Down Comforts, covered with x Full-size All-weol Red ots. fringed toy Queen Isabella White Wool Blankets, partment . ae 11-4 Wil . fen-y Jacquard border. We sre elving values tn this department that trate. Hemstitched Sheets. 100 dozen Extra Quality Hemstitched Sheets, size 81x90. 100 dozen Pillow Holland Window good iuslin, extra ‘si mountings nel Ay ER P BO AT THESE PRICES i THE EARLIER YOU COME THE Bi LATER IN THE DAY width and lengti les, on patent rollers. eT! OUR Fiaoks ARE ALWAYS bottos heavy x3 ‘on patent rollers YOU WILL* RECEIVE, FOR ED. : S. Kann, Sons & Co., 8th and Market Space, MANUAL TRAINING _— Development of the System in the Public Schools Here. YHISTORY OF THE PAST TEN YEARS Training the Eye and Hand as Well as the Mind. TECHNICAL COURSES ASHINGTON HAS heard with pride,from a national authority, that hers is “prob- ably the most com- plete system of man- ual training in the public schools” In this country, espe- cially as the latter i leads the world in | l the excellence of thts WS, most recent move- te ment. And it is not yet a decade since the humble beginning was made in the base- ment of the Central High School buflding, on © street between 6th and 7th streets northwest. This course of mind-building and training, by the hand, begins with the first day the little child enters the public schools and ceases only when he or she leaves them. The history of the introduction and devel- opment of manual training in the public schools of the District of Columbia is full 4 yi yg. z Pierce’s Old Stand. Metal Workers. of interest. During the school year of 1884- "85, Professor Koyle, the then head of the physics department of the High School, reported or wrote to the District Com- missioners advising the establishment of a shop for wood work at the High School. After a year’s delay a few tools were pro- cured, together with two benches, a cir- cular saw and the large wood lathe now in the wood turning room of the O street man- ual training school. This equipment was set up in the southwest room of the base- ment, and power connections were made with the fan engine. The beneficiaries of this system were boys from the advanced class in physics. As there was no one else to take charge Professor Koyle himself was the instruct- or, although he made no claim to practical knowledge. The boys insisted, and the pro- fessor no doubt agreed with them, that the sum of his knowledge and experience in the matter was contained: in a certain little ted book, his constant shop ton. This statement may be more be- Meved by the man boy of a Sherman, then janitor of the High School, saved from destruction: foundations of the building and prese for future use- fulness the lives of the instructor and his class. The First Apprepriation, The school year ending June 80, 1887, was a notable one in thé history of the public schools of the District of Columbia as that in which manual training was regularly begun. The appropriation for the purpose, though sufficlent perhaps for a beginning, ht The Jig Saw. Was too small to admit of the introduction of the system upon an¥ extended scale. The establishment and Gue equipment of a successful school of woodwork in the High School building was the utmost that could be effected with the means at the com- mand of the board of trustees. An appro- priation of $5,000 for the purpose of Indus- trial education for the following years ren- dered possible a considerable enlargement of the facilities of manual training. Schools of woodwork were established in several localities for instruction of male pupils in the seventh and eighth grades, while at the High® School building a school of metal working, including tron and steel forging, molding and turning, wag put in succ« ful operation. Superintendent Powell in his annual report for the year ISS6-87 devoted considerable space to the subject of manual training. strongly advocating its value. At the beglaning of this school year a trained teacher was secured, and a shop fitted up with benches and wceod-working tools, in which 225 boys of the High School received instruction and practice one hour each week. The work was successful. It Was not difficult to marage it with the other regular courses ef-etudy of the school. The boys seemed to Mike the work and showed no disposition to withdraw from the class. Although but one hour's instruction per week was given each pupil a marked improvement in the use of tools was notic- ed, and it is known that many boys did corresponding work at home for practical and useful purposes, which was furthered at least, if not induced, by the training and Suggestions received im the school shop. The indications of the interest in and profit by the training of hand amd eye in con- nection with other school duties, it was be- Meved,augured the success of manual train- ing in the school more convincingly than pages of philosophy and@ argument on the subject. In anticipation of the establishment of more schools, five trained teachers, gradu- ates of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, = Poi kd members of a normal ining class of that year, having special adaptability, it wes, believed, and having had much ‘experience by home training in the arts of cookery, were induced early in the spring to enter a class for special train- ing in cookery, in anticipation of being em- ployed as teachers of cooking the succeed- ing year. = The colored schools were not overlooked so far as manual training was concerned. In the month of April, 1887, a school of carpentry, in which to teach the use of tools, was organized in ‘a small basement room of the Miner building. ment in this school embracéd all the of the High School and boys selected the eighth, seyenth and sixth The whole number Each class received struction. No unfavorable, ceived upon the character work of the school room. Growth of the System. ‘There were no schools for manual boys from grade schools. OTOBER 13, 1894—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ee Scientific ee ea] —_ Lace _ YALE Washing! Todern Methods. zoth Century Machinery. Unlimited Capacity. Experienced Helpers. Responsible for all Losses. Col’d Goods Washed Separate. ? Fine Work Hand- Prompt on-time Delivery. Curtains a specialty. Steam Laundry, F. H. WALKER & CO. Main Branch, 514 1oth St. Plant, 43 G St. N. W. wy TN aa Sanitary System. jaundered. 1887-'88, though an opportunity was given to send classes to the sbops on O street for work in wood. The reports of the princi- pals of the schools sending such classes was to the effect that the book work did not suffer in the least from the time given to hand work. At the opening of the school year a two-story building at 626 O street, opposite the High School, was rented, and the first floor fitted with boiler, engine and shafting, lathes, molding benches and forges. The second floor was furnished with twenty-four benches and sets of tools. Nearly coincident with the opening of the school year, all the boys in the High School were given an opportunity to elect the manual training branch. Two hours per week were devoted to the work. An exhi- bition of manual training work was held in the old E street skating rink in May, 1888, and a large perventage of the work sent from the O street shops was made by the High School classes. The school for colored pupils, located in At the Lathes, the latter part of the preceding school year in the Miner building, was, about January 1, removed to Bethel Hall, on M street between 16th and 17th streets north- west. At the beginning of the school year a second class of this kind was organized and located temporarily in a basement room of the Banneker building. It wi later removed to the Miller building, on street between 6th and 7th streets north- west. As the buildings to which these schools were transferred afforded suitable accommodation, and were provided with ample facilities, in work benches, tools, other essentials to successful training of this character, the classes were increas- ed from six to twelve pupils. In each school there were fifteen classes, which em- braced in the aggregate 360 pupils. Each pupil received weekly two consecutive hours of instruction. A Steady Development. A number of new schcols sprang into ex- istenve during the year 1888-'8). An exten- sion in manual training in the colored schools wes made in the partial fitting up of a shop for working in fron. The appro- priation was too inadequate to allow other than a very small beginning. As the school year was quite far advanced before the reparation was sufficiently complete to al- it to begin, it was necessarily restricted to the first step of the prescribed course. Sewing in a fitted up with benches and the necessary tools for colored pupils. It was located at the Randall building, and in instruction re- stricted to the first year work in wood. This location served well the convenience of many boys attending the schools in South- east and Southwest Washington, and saved much time formerly lost in going to and from the shop located in the Miller building. A feature of the manual training work of the school year 1891-'92 was the introduc- tion of teachers’ meetings, held at inter- vals, determined by the progress of the work. One of the changes made during the year was the increasing of the time given to the work in the country schools. The in- crease enabled a very creditable showing of special work to be made. Three large and well-lighted rooms were added to the Miller building for the use of colored pupils. The one on the first floor was used by the metal shop for the forge room; the one on the second floor was used by the shop in wood, and the one on the third floor was used as a kitchen. An ex- hibition of the year’s work, both in wood and metal, was held June 17 and 18, each day from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m., at the Miller building. There were not only many ex- hibits, but in such variety and improvement in workmanship over previous exhibitions as to reflect great credit upon the teachers, The opportunity to see the work of the schools in this department was availed of by hundreds of parents and citizens of all classes. There was no increase in the num- Ler of schools of cookery, but an additional teacher of sewing was appointed at the be- ginning of the school year. The work of the year 1892-'03 was charac- terized by steady, straightforward progress, Although until late in the year the hope of sending an exhibit to the world’s fair inspired both teachers and pupils, no extra- ordinary work for that purpose was made. ‘The effort was merely to turn out the best possible results of the regular courses. The results attained in the county schools far exceeded in value those of any year pre- ceding. _ ‘The last year drawing for shop exercises of the seventh and eighth grade pupils was incorporated into the regular work in draw- ing in those grades. Now drawings are made from models in the school room, taken to the manual training shops, and there models are made from the drawings. Direc- tor Chamberlain also conceived the idea of N Learning to Cook. supplying the grade teachers with working drawings, in order to from which to i give samples the pupils in tse 1 room. # two-fold object in view. It has been so Planned that a boy may get Very neerly as broad an education in the technical os in any cther course, in addition manual training. It is also designed boys intending to enter polytechnic schools, or to pursue the mechenical or engineering courses in the colleges. In expectation of increased numbers, by reason of the establishment of the technical for the purpose of ex- panding the various courses by the incor- Poration of more advanced work for thore who elect the new course, several addi- tions were made this year to the shops at 26 O street. A large number of pupile have begun work in the technical course. The manual training branch of the colored schools is also in a most flourishing condi- tion, and everything points to a t suce cessful and prosperous year. In the spring of ISK! a permanent exhibit of manual training work was established in the hall on the top floor of the Franklin building, at 13th and K stregts northwest. It is kept up to date and shows in a small space just what work is belng done in all branches of manual training by the pupils in the District. The Schools and tustractors. . J. A. Chamberlain ts the director of man- wal training, and his headquarters are at 623 O street northwest. The following is @ list of the shops and teachers: 626 © street, machine shop, instructor, A. I. Gardner and assistant, F. E. Skinner; @26 O street. for- ing shop, instructor, A. I. Gardner and as- sistant, F. E. Skinner; €26 © street, wood- turning shop, instructor, R. B. Hayes; 626 At the Bench—Miller School. © street, draughting room, instructors, A, 1. Gardn: 5 er and R. B. Hayes. Bench shops-44 and 626 0 street, in- structors, P. L. O'Brien and R. T. Pum- phrey; Blair School, W. H. Cromeline; Gales Schooi, J. A. Montgomery; Peabody annex, J. K. Potter, 7th and G streets southeast, J. A. Degges; Jefferson School, E. J. Dakin: Thom School, W. R. Shield: Force School, F. Schweinhaut, 1380 42d street, T. W. Fuller, County schools—Van Buren annex. Ana- costia, E. Baldwin; Benning School, EB. Baldwin; Benning Road School, K. Baldwin: Mott School, E. Baldwin; Monroe School, B. Baldwin, and Hillsdale School, W. H, Cromeline. Cooking schools are located in the Force, Thompson, Seaton, Gales, Peabody annex, Wallach, Jefferson and Addison buildings, 9 O street northwest and in the county, Miss B.S. Jacobs 1s directress, In the sewing tment, cutting and fitting schools are located at 7th and G streets southeast, and 44 Maryland avenue southwest, while classes are taught in all the school build The directress of sew- a is Mrs. M. ‘ate. he colored manual training schools In the city proper are located in the Miller, Seaton, Stevens and Randall buildings. The director is J. H. Hill. Cooking schools are in the Miller, Stevens and Randall build- ings, under the direction of Miss y B. Cook, and the sewing schools n the Cook and Stevens buildings, in charge of Miss Corrie E. Syphax. The boys who avail themselves of the op- portunities which manual training offers are those who rightly appreciate x good thing when they see it. ed, than those who do not take it. It is the rule that those who excel at the bench, lathe and forge are those who stand high in their academic work. They are those who are bound to excel anywhere and at all times, for they are skilled in carving out, and pounding out, success from un- formed and obstinate matter. Commissioner of Labor Carroll D. in his annual report for 12, said plans in operation in schools provide fo 2 most complete of th work in the public eee PIPE SMOKING. Wright “The w It is Pash ble and So ix a Collece tion of Pipe: From the Philadelphia Press, The latest extravagant mania {x collecting habit, This is a recent {porta tion from London, where pipes hay. been in high favor ever since the Prince of Wales took to a bulldog. Very expensive arti- cles in that line have been Introd d into the metropolis this season, and $2) ix not @ high price to pay for some creations. The Turkish pipe is being bought with eager. ness, and some of them are in reality xreat vases, up to which a party of clube draw their chairs end puff away communion and a circumscribed George W. Vanderbilt, while he «oes not smoke pipes, has becom pipe Sth avenue is adorned imaginable in that wa Any man who walks itself can see the gilded jong Sth aveque ‘outh of the city perambulating the thoroughfare wiih « pipe stuck between a set of clinched teeth. In one respect this craze is beneficial, since it develops an industry in which thousan of men find subsistence. It ts not to be # posed for a moment that the tons of pl displayed im store windows all over the country are imported, as they are claimed to be. There is alrea: large concern if the metropolis devoted to the manufacture of so-called German and Turkish pipes, and these are sold to purchasers im ported articles. In the same w bouf one-half of the French briar pipes now are manufactured in Pennsylvania. One pipes of $3,000 annually by, man in New York who makes fantastic design clears his skilled manual labor. eenmacinedplipiprene HE KNEW A TENDBRFOOT. A Jerseyman' Exciting Experience With a Pennsylvania Mine ie. From the New York Post. Patrick Murray of Perth Amboy, pen |