Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers

Table 142 shows that in 1894 this Bureau received reports from 15 independent manual training schools. These had 3,362 students in manual training-2,403 males and 959 females-all of secondary or high school grade. The next year, with the same number of schools reporting, there were 4,892 students-3,621 males and 1,271 females. In 1897 the number of schools had increased to 40, with 13,890 students-9,224 males and 4,666 females. Industrial training schools, or schools in which certain trades were taught, were included with the manual training schools proper in and from 1898, the statistics given being for "manual and industrial training." In 1898 there were 58 manual and industrial training schools, with 18,977 students-12,975 males and 6,002 females. All these were reported as students of secondary or high school grade. Those not actually pursuing secondary studies had been required to master certain secondary branches before entering. In 1899 the number of schools had increased to 66, with 20,701 students-13,903 males and 6,798 females. In 1900 there were 69 schools, with 24,716 students-15,819 males and 8,897 females. In 1901 the number of schools reporting was 78, with 28,981 students-18,928 males and 10,053 females. In 1902 the number had increased to 85 schools, with 29,507 students-18,771 males and 10,736 females. In 1903 there were 95 schools, with 33,062 students— 20,170 males and 12,892 females; and in 1904 there were 98 schools, with 36,680 students-20,701 males and 15,979 females. In 1905 there were 106 schools, with 43,197 students-25,571 males and 7,626 females; and in 1906 there were 113 schools, with 48,610 students-31,153 males and 17,457 females. Tables 142, 143, 144, and 145 give the statistics for the ten years mentioned, showing the growth of manual and industrial training schools since 1894. Every effort has been made to exclude from these tables the enumeration of all students below secondary or high school grade.

Table 146 gives in detail the number of students and teachers in the 148 manual and industrial training schools, exclusive of Indian schools. Table 147 is a statistical showing for the 66 schools for Indian children.

Industrial training is offered in most of the negro schools, reform schools, and schools for defectives, statistics of which will be found in the chapters devoted to these classes of institutions.

Certain schools which could not be classified or fully reported as manual or industrial training schools and others giving incomplete statistics are mentioned below:

Cooper Union, New York, N. Y.; School of Industrial Art and Technical Design for Women, New York, N. Y.; New York School of Art, New York, N. Y.; Eric Pape School of Art, Boston, Mass.; The School of Industrial Art of the Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, Pa.; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.; The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R. I.; Pittsburg School of

Mass.; The Young Women's Christian Association, Boston, Mass.; Bliss Electrical School, Washington, D. C.; School of Messrs. R. Hoe & Co., New York, N. Y.; Illinois College of Photography, Effingham, Ill.; Waltham Horological School, Waltham, Mass.; Omaha Watch Repairing, Engraving, and Optical Institute, Omaha, Nebr.; St. Louis Watchmaking School, St. Louis, Mo.; The Industrial Chemical Institute, Milwaukee, Wis.; Wahl-Henius Institute of Fermentology, Chicago, Ill.; National Brewers' Academy, New York, N. Y.; United States Brewers' Academy, New York, N. Y.

TABLE 135.-Number of cities of 4,000 population and over in each State in which manual training was given in the years indicated.

State or Territory.

United States...

1890. 1894. 1896. 1898. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. 1906. 1907.