. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . The Home for the Training in Speech of Deaf Children before they are of School Age, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 1892-1893. By MARY S. and EMMA GARRETT, Secretarj and Principal of the Home. THE HOME FOR THE TRAINING IN SPEECH OF^DEAF CHILDREN BEFORE THEY ARE OPSCHOOL AGE. In May, 1891, Senator J. B. Showalter, at the request of MissEmma Garrett, then principal of the Pennsylvania Oral Schoolfor the Deaf at Scranton, introduced a bill into the Pennsyl-vania legislature asking for an appropriation of $15,000 for thebuilding of a Home for t
. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . The Home for the Training in Speech of Deaf Children before they are of School Age, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 1892-1893. By MARY S. and EMMA GARRETT, Secretarj and Principal of the Home. THE HOME FOR THE TRAINING IN SPEECH OF^DEAF CHILDREN BEFORE THEY ARE OPSCHOOL AGE. In May, 1891, Senator J. B. Showalter, at the request of MissEmma Garrett, then principal of the Pennsylvania Oral Schoolfor the Deaf at Scranton, introduced a bill into the Pennsyl-vania legislature asking for an appropriation of $15,000 for thebuilding of a Home for the training in speech of deaf chil-dren before they are of school age. Dr. Thomas May Pierce,of the Business College of Philadelphia, had strongly urgedthis as the best way of obtaining the pecuniary suj^port Miss. MISS EMMA GAKEETT. Garrett desired. The bill received hearty support from allover the State, and was passed. The sum being found insuffi-cient to purchase desirable land, some delays , Col. Joseph M. Bennett generously presented theCommission, consisting of Governor Pattison, , Auditor-General Gregg, S. Edwin Megargee, and 4 Pennsylvania Hoine for Training in Speech. Mary S. Garrett, with a valuable tract on Belmont and Monu-ment avenues, just beyond the Philadelphia Park, where a finebuilding on the cottage plan is in process of erection. A number of little ones were awaiting admission into theHome, and Col. Bennett loaned the old buildings of theMethodist Orphanage as temporary quarters. The work of the Home began there on February 1, 1892, and has been car-ried on with great success with funds raised by the MissesGarrett. The enterprise has been aided in various ways by the StateBoard of Charities, the management of the Pennsylvania OralSchool f
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