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The programme of Masic will include a Solo by Washington’s favorite Prima Dona, Miss Lena Mc.Kinney followed by a cornet so’o by M. Jaeger of the Marine Band. ADMISSION : With friendship, John Lemos, L. Petersen, W. A. Stewart, John Jordon, M. L. Jones, Brnee Bell, juss, Jr, H. D. Williams, Harry is, c. F, Brown, C. F. Co! J. H. Merriwether, Hon. Richard Gleaves, J. E. Mason, INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. HOW IT WAS STARTED, THE WORK OF LADIES. EX-TRUSTEE SMITH AND TRUSTEE DR. FRANCIS’ AID IN THE WORK. TIE MINER FUND. WHAT THE INTENTION CF MRS, MINER WAS, &C., &C. It has been a question of much conjecture as to who first started industrial education in the Public Schools of this city. After a careful investigation the Bre has ascertained that it was first start- ed by a committee of ladies con- sisting of Mesdames Senator B. K. Bruce, Sella Martin, L Chase, Miss Briggs and others. Several appeals were marie to the school board by these ladies for room ac commodations which, it is believed was granted and when the Board ‘ was about to designate teachers to ‘ these schools without any compen- sation, it created some disatistac- tion. These ladies finding that they | were without funds, invited ex- Trustee Smith to attend their mecting wich he did and when he found that they were muking an effort to give the colored youth an industrial education, at a meet- ing of the board, held in Franklin hnilding Tuesday, November 25, 1884, Mr. J. Harry Smith, then | a member of the Board of school | trustees, cfferrea the following resolution : Resolved, That this Boa'd re quest the Commissioners to re- commend to Congress the appro- priation of $10,000 for the purpose of establishing an industrial school tem of this District. This resolu- tion was laid over for further consideration. | Notwithstanding the delay of the school Board, these noble ladies were still cary- ing on their industrial work 10: {ihe colored youth. At another ‘meeting of the school Board held Tuesday January 20, 1885, by unavimous couseut, Mr. Benj. J. Lovejoy, then u member of the trustee Board of public schools, offered the following: Wuereas, The matter of indus- trial education is one of the great | and growing interest, and has been so recognized by the Board, which, on the motion of Mr. Jas. IL. Smith, chairman of the com- mittee on Ruiks, recommend: d the appropriation of $15,000 for the special purpose of promoting | this olj e: im the public schools, | and suvsequently, at a meeting} without a quorum, a committee | 25 Cente. we remain yours truly, Rosco Douglass, B. 8. Fisher, G. D. Johnson, {Robt. Franklin, D, W. Heuery, ‘Chas, Washington, leman. Howard Pinn, E. T. Forrester. Wm. Jennings, Fred. Bruce, Jas. Wright, Sumner Wor aley, Trustees of the Junior Excelsiors. R. W. Tompkins, C. A. Stewart, Sr., T, J. Minton, R. C. Douglass, Sr., J, T. Gaskins. W. H. Bruce. Smith from the Special Committee was appointed to investigute the subject of Industrial Eduea- tion presented a report as follows: To the Bourd of Trustees of Public Schools of the District of Columbia: GuNTLeMeN: Your cowmittee, to whom was referred the matter of Maovual or Industrial training in the Public Schools of the District beg leave to submit the following report: {n this county, at present, the subject of technical education is very earnestly aud widely discuss- ed. Employers are beginning to feel that the supply of trained worked will not remain inexhaust- ible if nothing is done to replent- ish it. Parents are beginning to feel that their sons might do better than become book-keepers or clerks, brietless barristers, su- perfluous clergymen, or unemploy physicians. Young men are be- ginning to feel that the generous wages earned by skiltul fureigners would be as pleasant to receive as the meagte salaries paid by shopkeepe's, or the meagre in- come received by the great major- ity of professional men. * * * * * And when William Mather who visited this county is the Rep- resenative of the Royal Commis- sion, appointed by the Evglish Government to report upon tech- nical ediication, delivered an ad dress in Boston, his audience was graced by the presence of the leading educators, economists, and thinkers of the State ot Mas- sachusetts. The report coucludes, Ist, That we must recognize the asa part of the public school sys | fact that the great majority, of at | Public? least the boys, in the Schools must become skilled or unskilled workmen whether they Wish it or not 2nd. That we have no system of apprenticeship in this country by which trades can be learned. 8rd. That by the rules anid regulations of the various Trades union the number of apprentice- ship are limited, and only a few are admitted through this system of training. 4th. That the demand for skill ed labor is greater than the supply, and necessity forces the importa- tion of foreign labor, at the cost of the youth or this county. * * * * * ‘Your committee wouid further recommend that industrial train- ing, sv far as practicable, be at one introduced into the Public Schools, by voluntary effort. Very respectfully, was appointed, consisting of the | president of the Board, the Com-| mittee on Ru'es, and the two| superin‘endents, to inquire into} aud report how and at what cost | the object «f the Board could be} best attained. * * * * * Resolved, That the Commie | beretofore appuinted tor this por | pose be and ure iereby reapp -int-| ed with instructions to proceed with their investigatiots and re- port its conclusious to this Board at the earliest date practicable This was edcpted. Subsequent to) James H. Smith, B. G. Lovejoy, J. Ormand Wilson, John H. Brooks, Wm H. Baum. The above report was laid over for discussion, Mr. Smith subse- quently retired from the Board of ‘Trastees and the matter of indus- trial education was not put in practical operation until the ap- pointment of Dr. Francis, a young man of ability, who has the respect and confidence ot the Commission- ers aud the people in this city. It was through the influence cf this the adoption of the above, Mr. young trustee that the Miller building was selected for industrial school purposes. This is the building that had been recom- mended by Mr. Cornish of the 7th school division and rejected by the school Board, i. e., the white members, who are in the majority, because a protest was sent to the Commissioners by the white neigh- bors in the vicinity of the Miller building and in which the colored people took an active part. The white trustees desiring to satisfy a! few prejudice whites decided to rent the Mary Hall building form- erly known asa notorious house of prostitution. The colored trustees, as well as the colored citizens, pro- tested against the renting of the Mary Hall building because its surroundings were obnoxious to young ladies who would be com- pelled to attend the industrial school that would be established, under the supervision of the Miner fund trustees, At a meeting of the school Board a few months ago, Dr. Francis, offerred a resolution to the effect that no pupils above the | third grade should be allowed to attend the Mary Hall building. This resolution was adopted, so now that building is set apart for children in the immediate neigh- borhood and colored schools in| that : ection of the city tor children below the third grade. The real aim has been accomplished by the selection of the Miller building where all branches of industrial education will be taught The Miner school fuud bas been a great draw back to the colored public school system and in the opinion of many, it should bo separated from the Colored Public Schools. ‘The money of the Miner fund was devoted by a Mprtilla Miner, who was born March 4, 1815, in Brookfield, Madisnn Co., New York She went to Missis- sippi to teach in an institution for the education of planter’s daugh- ters, situated in Whitensville, Wiikinson County, and called the Newton Institution. ‘ A threat was made sometime ago, by some one connected with the fund, to the effect that if the opposition of the colored people continued, the Miner faud would | be removed from the city. It} would mpke but very little deffer- | ence to the people ifthe whol business would leave the city for the good it 18 doing now, and it should be understood that this} fund is fur the benefit ot a few white | people. | —_————_tao———— | THE TABLE. | about them. (From Woman.) | | SILVERWARE For Tue Tasie.— | There are agood many new things | in silver this year. One of the} novelties is the use of rough pearls | tor silver decorations. Many of} these are Western riyer pearls, but others are extremely valuable. They are taken without polishing, and chosen according to the shape of the article they are to adourv, longish, pear-shaped pearls a third of an inch iu length, for a slender, upright vase; shorter and round ones for different articles. Tae pearls are set plainly in the metal, | held by rims oi the silver, and) make a showy decoration for peo- | ple whose tastes are not of tou se- vere an order. They are employed on bonbon spoons, ou tea services aud on silver brushes and toilet articles. Another of the newer methods of silver decoration is the claussonel | enameling in colors, in which some} of the most decorative vases, fancy | pieces, tea sets and Coff-e spoons | are designed. Some of the duller reds, two or three deep blues, brown | and cream are the colors most fre-} quently chosen, and the patteras | are geometrical as a rule, though | some beautifal flower sprays have! been done. One of the most ap-' proved methods of producing a col- | or effect ou silver is to inlay it with | a Cesign iu gold, or som: other metal, as copper; but newer than than this, and borrowed from the) Japanese workers in amalgams, is | the fashion of introducing color | bands, color cloud effects or even | well-defived color patterns by mix-|J. O. HOLMES, the metals cold, and so preserving | the tints of each in the manutact- ured article. Jags vases and coffee | pots of this sort are very chaste in design and artistically beautiful. | anyone whowants tobe! The silver is warmed and euriched by the brighter color, to which, making as they do an intregal part of the substause of the article, it seems to have a more undisputed right than when laid on for decora- tion’s sake afterward, Enameled silver is expensive as yet. a bowl or a vase frequently costing some- where iu the nundreds. Of forks and spoons, the newest thing to say is that they show this winter a marked tendeney toward individuality. Sets recently made for a wealthy New York lady shaw- ed vo two of the same design. The bowls of the spoons preserved the same oval, but the handles, as well as those of the forks, were in every case differently decorated. One showed a long-legged grasshopper on a spray of oats; another fielt flowers; a third a frog; a fourth shrimps; and others’ butterflies, roses, valley lilies, and so on through the animal and vegetable creation. There is some progress toward differentiating silver spoons accord- ing to their decorations for differnt cour-es in china and porcelain so generally used. Soup ladles indi- cate their purpose by designs of round, nodding tomatoes, or turtles crawl up and down the handle, and silver for the fish cours: is fairly well marked off. Fancy has full swing in elaborating desigus for the very dainty znd lavishly costly aft- er dinner coffee spoons, which make so prominent a teatare of modern sidebourd plenishings. The coffee spoou is this winter smaller than ever, and it basa bow! lined with gold, or is ail in some antique silver design. Tue fad of the season is bonbon spoous. Ladies afflicted wite Anglo- mania are paying off their bets on the Tuistle in then yet. A bonbon spoon affects the antique,» It hasa large round bowl, and a large, ex- panded and quaintly fashioned top, with a ring in the handle, after the style of the daye when the mistress of the house wore her spoon hang- ing at her girdle, to taste the soup for the family meal while it was cooking. Many of themig, y reproductions ot old English®, Wrought in antique silver, and with the wealth of curious detail work expended of them, the bonbor Spoons cost a modern lady of the brownstone front anywhere from $10 to $50 or $100. Of the smaller novelties of table ware, the grape fingers, much talk- ed of three months ago, were a notion that did not last. Nobody ever used them, and a silversmith laughs in your fice if you speak People bought a few for a curiosities and to give away, but n-.body ever saw or heard of a person who does not to this day take his own flesh-and-blood fingers to eat grapes with. Grape scissors are a difierent thing, and usefal articles hal. 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