. Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year .. . ilding. These are in charge of the engineer who is an expe-rienced fireman. The students form a fire brigade and are drilled withthe engine. There are, usually, a number of carpenters, blacksmiths, painters,shoe-makers and other tradesmen among the students who are as-signed to their trades in suitable quarters, and thus pay their work under the general direction of the engineer, In theseshops agricultural machinery and steam heating apparatus are re-paired, and damaged artic
. Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year .. . ilding. These are in charge of the engineer who is an expe-rienced fireman. The students form a fire brigade and are drilled withthe engine. There are, usually, a number of carpenters, blacksmiths, painters,shoe-makers and other tradesmen among the students who are as-signed to their trades in suitable quarters, and thus pay their work under the general direction of the engineer, In theseshops agricultural machinery and steam heating apparatus are re-paired, and damaged articles, such as broken chairs, benches andbedsteads, are made good. 48 Serviceable and durable iron bedsteads and washstands are manu-factured of gas pipe; wooden tables and other plain furniture is madefor students rooms. The engineer superintends the agricultural engine, and in summer,with the engine and thresher, travels about the country, earningabout four hundred dollars a year by threshing wheat. He also is the school Commissary, buying supplies for the school;and families on the place at lowest PRINTING OFFICE. M. B. CROWELL, MANAGER. The town of Hampton and the National Soldiers Home supplyprofitable work, which, in addition to that of the school, and theprinting of the Southern Workman, an illustrated monthly, em-ploys a foreman and three or four assistants chosen from the paper is published at one dollar per year, and circulates nearlyequally North and South; the monthly edition is about 1,500. There is also a Sunday-school edition, edited by one of the teachers,which supplies many children with Sunday papers at a low price. 49 The Workmans excuse for being is that it represents and advo-cates a system of combined labor and study which is the objectivepoint of many of the most thoughtful educators, that it has, scatteredthrough the South, a valuable and rapidly increasing corps of observa-tion and report, in the one hundred and fifty graduates of the
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