Annual report of the Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania for the year 1884 . y the value of the schools, and also show such confidence in theirpresent management. Should we be able, as we hope to be, to enlarge thework as already suggested, so as to organize, in conjunction with our pre-sent system, thorough industrial schools, holding the children for at leasttwo more years, so that from the ages of fourteen to eighteen they may gainmastery of useful trades and mechanical employments, then the Grand Armyof the Republic can give us most valuable and effective aid in securing
Annual report of the Commission of Soldiers' Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania for the year 1884 . y the value of the schools, and also show such confidence in theirpresent management. Should we be able, as we hope to be, to enlarge thework as already suggested, so as to organize, in conjunction with our pre-sent system, thorough industrial schools, holding the children for at leasttwo more years, so that from the ages of fourteen to eighteen they may gainmastery of useful trades and mechanical employments, then the Grand Armyof the Republic can give us most valuable and effective aid in securing forour graduates places of profitable trust where their acquired skill may be ofthe most service to the various industries of this great Commonwealth. Thanking you for your kind interest manifested in every way during thepast 3rear in this as well as the other philanthropic interests of the State,and always asking God, who is the Father of the fatherless, to guaid thewhole work, and to crown it with His benediction, I remain, Yours to serve, E. E. HIGBEE,Superintendent of Soldiers Executive Document, No. 6. TABULA i; STATEMENTS. The following are the usual tabular statements, giving the statistics ofthe system and showing its working during the past year: « oni |ir< In 11 »l \ i Summary. Number of institutions in which there are soldiers orphans, 17 Reduction in the number since the beginning, . 27 Number of orphans in schools and homes May 31, 1884, . 2,306 Number admitted on order from June 1, 1883, to June I, 1884, . 455 Number of discharges from June 1, 1883, to June 1, 1884, 496 Number of orders of admission issued since system wentinto operation, 13,465 Number of orphans admitted since sjstem went into opera-tion, Number of applications on file June 1, 1884, Number of these approved, Cost of system for the past year, . Whole ordinary cost of the system since going into opera-tion, as shown by the several annual reports to May 31,1884, Extraordinary expendi
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