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Established 1867

 

Closed 1888

 

Annual Report of the Superintendent of Soldiers' Orphans, of Pennsylvania for the Year 1880

DAYTON - HUGH MCCANDLASS, PRINCIPAL.

During the last year the children, with few exceptions. have made commendable progress in all their studies. Our higher grades are not so well filled as in former years, but it must be remembered that our school is now almost entirely filled with a new class of children, and those who have been in school but a few years, and all young children. Our highest grade is the eighth, as it has been for some time past. During the year now ending we have employed but four teachers; and by dividing the school into two equal divisions, we find them sufficient, as each teacher will have but from twenty to twenty-five scholars.

INDUSTRY. - - In this department no change has been made, except in one or two instances, and we refer you to our last report. In the shoe-shop, started last year, we have made all the boots and shoes (except girls' dress shoes) for our own use, and quite a lot for sale. Since the advance in leather, we have not been aiming to keep much stock ahead for sale. Many of the boys on leaving school are able to make a very neat and substantial boot or shoe.
In the hosiery department we have not only knit all the hosiery used by the school, but have knit, in addition to this, several hundred dozen for other parties and for sale.
This year we have employed a skilled gardener, thus giving many of the boys an opportunity to learn the best methods of cultivating garden vegetables; and at the same time affording a greater quantity and variety of these articles for the use of the school.

The increased amount of work done at the school will at once tend to form habits of industry in the children and secure to them a good degree of skill in the different branches of industry carried on in the institution.

CLOTHING. - - The children are all supplied with abundant and seasonable clothing.

MORAL RELIGIOUS. - - The children attend neighboring churches on Sabbath mornings, and we have Sunday school every Sabbath afternoon. The morale of the school could scarcely he better.

SANITARY. - - The health of the school during the year has been all that could be desired. No deaths have occurred, and there have been no cases of severe protracted illness.

MISCELLANEOUS. - - Our buildings have all been repaired during the year -painted, papered, &c.

Annual Report of the Superintendent of Soldiers' Orphans of Pennsylvania for the Year 1880, pages 33-34

 
 

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