Salt Lake Times | 1890-09-19 | Page 1 | Exiled Russian Jews

exiled mm Ei A Meeting of the Baron de Hirsch Trust to Make Plans for Their Education. WITH GOOD HARD "BRITISH GOLD. The Agent of an English Syndicate in Mexico Clarence and Avondalo to Visit Canada. New Yokk, Sept. 19. Special. The representatives of the llaron do Hirscli trust held a meeting today at tho Hoffman house to elaborate a plan for the education and industrial training train-ing of Russian Jews, exiled by the execution exe-cution of the Czar's ukase. Among tho members of the committee present were Prof. Felix Adlcr aud Oscar Strauss, ex-minister to Turkey. Tho plan approved ap-proved of embraces a scheme to teach the exiles sufficient English to enable them to converse easily and to receive instruction in that language, to train them in the use of tools, to make them carpenters, machinists, metal workers, mechanics of every trade; to instruct them in the morals aud habits of this land; in short, to Americanize them. Iu this work three fifths of the funds of the llaron do llirsch trust will bo used, amounting to about $75,000. Tho members mem-bers of the trust will, as far as possible, make use of tho Jewish schools already established. There are three of those schools in the country; one iu this city, another in Philadelphia and tho third in Chicago. After the training and education ed-ucation of its pupils are completed, the trust will supply them with tools and provide them with means for transportation transpor-tation to tho points whore work may he secured for them. The various members mem-bers of the committee thought there would be no difficulty in obtaining employment em-ployment for the mechanics trained by them.