Show FRANKLIN TRADE SCHOOL Made Possible by Gift to Boston a Hundred Years Ago Boston Contracts were recently let for the erection of a splendid trado school building in this city to bo paid for with tho 5000 which Benjamin Franklin bequeathed to Boston at his death The contract prlco Is almost 320000 yet the trustees of tho fund havo 100100 additional to bo used for equipment Franklin Intended that his original bequest should be lent in small sums at five per cent Interest to young married mechanics who had served their apprenticeship In Boston Ho directed that at tho end of a hundred years or In 1891 500000 dollars of the accumulated fund should bo spent by the trustees In public works which might be of most general use to the Inhabitants The remaining 155000 dollars of the fundhe computed that It would havo amounted to 055000was to be lot r FRANKLIN TRADE SCHOOL To Be Erected With 5000 Left by Benjamin Franklin a Century Ago out at interest for another hundred years when tho accumulations should be similarly expended It was not found practicable to lend tho money to young mechanics as they could not give the security which tho will demanded de-manded but the money has bean kept at Interest and there is now after allowing for tho new building and rs equipment a balnnnce of moro than a hundred and fifty thousand dollars which Is to accumulate till tho latter part of tho present century |