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Show STATE INSTITUTIONS OTEM SOLOi Legislators Inspect Deaf and Blind Home and Industrial In-dustrial School. WANTS MADE KNOWN Visitors Wind Up Day as Guests of the Weber Club at Ogden. Legislators and the blind and dcaC children of the state mingled yesterday when members of tlie legislature paid an official visit to the state school at 0;den. While one portion of the legislators ate luncheon at the industrial school another portion dined at the school for the deaf and blind. Later in the day the party "which was entertained enter-tained at a noonday meal at the deaf and blind school went to the industrial school, and the party which first went to the latter institution inspected the former, Superintendent l M. Driggs of the deaf and blind school appeared before the joint committee members and ex plained the needs of the institution as briefly and as forcefully as possible. Later' Superintendent hi.' S. Hinckley of the industrial school appeared and urged that the legislature tie as liberal as possible with the institution in the matter of appropriations. Ask Fund Increases. The school for the deaf and blind is asking a totaJ appropriation of .$42,000 or an increase of $87.U0O over the appropriation ap-propriation for the past biennium. The industrial school is asking for $170,000. or an increase of $46,500 over the amount allowed for the last biennium. Of this increased amount $1000 is for new band instruments, the need of which was illustrated by the superintendent superin-tendent of the institution. Tho school band played several selections and after it had finished entertaining the legislators the battered, worn and defective de-fective instruments which have clone service for a dozen years or more and which are ail of too high a pitch to be used in connection with other musical organizations were exhibited, with an appeal that money enough be allowed to provide new instruments. At the school for the deaf and Wind the legislators and their wives were divided di-vided into four parties and under the guidance of teachers of the institution were escorted over the place. G3'mnasium Inspected. First, all were shown into the gymnasium, gym-nasium, where they were treated to a most, remarkable demonstration of the wouderful work of training being done in the institution among the totally deaf and blind students of tho school. Little tots o and 6 to mature boys and girls of 16 and 17 years of age were seen in some most surprising demonstrations demonstra-tions of the ability or tho blind to see by sound and feeling and the deaf to hear by sight and feeling. The most intricate of dances and rhythmical rhyth-mical exercises were performed with more precision and grace than is usually seen among students possessed of all their faculties. The manner in which totally deaf students, from tots to big boys and girls, kept perfect time in the dancing of the Virginia reel, the modern mod-ern foxtrot, waltz and two-step was a marvel to those who had not seen demonstrations dem-onstrations of work of the institution before. After this general demonstration the legislators were taken through the classrooms class-rooms and were given visual demonstrations demonstra-tions of the methods by which the blind are taught to read by the American Braille system of raised letters, how they are taught to interpret musical classics, to do wood carving and like manual training work that is taught in schools wiiere tne pupils possess an their faculties. Teachers Are Patient. The deaf children were shown at work in the machine shops, wood-work shops, wearing shops, shoe 6hops and oven barber bar-ber shops, where the deaf boys do their own barbering. The methods of teaching teach-ing children born deaf to speak was illustrated il-lustrated by the patient and smiling teach ers. The spectacle of the sightless and Iiearingless little children going about their tasks of learning to battle against the world caused lumps to rise in a good many throats, and if expressions count for anything the legislature will take good care of this institution iu the matter of providing funds for the continuation and broadening of its Work. When the lunch hour came the legislators legis-lators and the children of the institution institu-tion went into the big dining hall. A splendid meal was prepared and it was nerved most elegantly, some of the little lit-tle deaf girls and eveu sotno of those in the blind department who were not entirely en-tirely sightless assisting in the serving. Snperintendent Driggs announced that the custom had been adopted of having the ehildren eat with the instructors in-structors and others of the institution to eliminate that feeling of restraint end self-consciousness oi the afflicted little folk. Music for Visitors. While one portion of the visitors was dining with the little deaf and blind children at one school, tho other was dining with the inmates of the industrial indus-trial school on the other side of the city. At the latter institution the school band greeted the visitors with programmes pro-grammes of music, after which the visitors vis-itors were conducted over the institution. institu-tion. It was pointed oot to tho legislators that the tiling work in the swimming pool is very defective and that the original origi-nal portion of the main building is badly bad-ly in need of replacement. Comment was made by some of the legislators that the new' boys ' building at the industrial school is constructed to look like a prison, which was declared to be an undesirable feature of it. At 6 o'clock in the evening the legislators legis-lators and their wives went to the Weber We-ber club, where they were guests of that organization at an informal banquet. The club joined the state schools of the city in inviting the legislature to come to Ogden and it did its part toward giving the visitors a royal entertainment en-tertainment during the evening. There 'waa no fiied programme in connection w-ith the banquet, but some informal talks were made by members of the legislature and members of the club. That tlie legislature should show liberality lib-erality in its appropriations for the state deaf and blind schools and the industrial school was the sentiment expressed ex-pressed by W. H. Wattis, president of the Weber club, at the banquet. Mayor A. R. Heywood talked about the coal situation. He objected to the increase in the coal rate to Ogden and denounced it as unjust discrimination. He said that it w-aa not a square deal to the four counties north of Salt Lake. He expressed surprise that the legislator" legisla-tor" had not yet made such discrimination discrimina-tion unlawful, as coal was one of the absolute necessities of life and the people peo-ple should get a square deal in the prices and the rate of coal. President J. W. Funk of the senate expressed his thanks for the invitation extended by members of the Weber club and the royal manner in which the legislators leg-islators hail been treated. John F. Tolton. speaker of the house, commended the Ogdenites as jolly good fellows, and spoke of them as thrifty and businesslike citizens. Senator W. W. Armstrong of Salt Lake commented ou the excellent work accomplished by the Martha society, the Child Aid society and the Florence Crittenden home. |