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Show I BREAK RECORDS HTBUNDJML 8iennial Report Shows That Majority of Graduates Self-Supporting With ttudtnta In attendance, the records of all former years have been broken it th.- local slnte school for the dwf and blind; according to the bin- Dial report of the trustees of the In -1 sLItution filed in the office of Governor Gov-ernor Bamberger eterday. The report fIios that 90 per eont of the deaf graduates from the school nre Kelf-supportlm; arid r per eint of the blind graduates are !:e lf-3Upporl- Nineteen now students, fly "i 1 blind, were admitted during thi t and It Is the belief of Superintendent Frank M 1 'riKKs that the number of students will reach about 1T0 before the present aesoion ends. A report from the superintendent and one from Murrav n Allen, travel-ing travel-ing teacher for the blind, are included In the biennial. Mr. Allen's report oajrrloi a st.-onp; appeal. It tells of the work of the traveling teacher, which la still on an experimental basis in T'tah although It hna been In this Initial stage for several years. Attendance ' the achool fa restrict.,' bj the T'Z-nlaUons T'Z-nlaUons to young person- In ihelr formative n;c when they can be bone-flted bone-flted by the Instruction given Thru of the traveling teacher et mis beyond this and Includes tho.ic who have bi 1 fl stricken with blindness In htir ma-ture ma-ture years by accident or otherwise :lon BLIND in st AT 1 . Mr Allen states that the census will probably show that, there nr.- 300 blind persons In the state. H tn.s. some 100 have been round with the limited lim-ited appropriation! available for this WOrk And of those found some fifty-three, fifty-three, or about One-algth of the total number of blind In Utah have been visited by the traveling teacher. Mr. Aihn triis of an aged woman who had become blind nnd who iraa spending her time In brooding de-Bpondohcy, de-Bpondohcy, until ahe way pi rauaded to lake up her knltllng. at vvhl.-h sin had been quite clever before she became be-came blind This simple act ,, u-eompllshed u-eompllshed wonders with her disposition disposi-tion and happiness, in another cast a man, with the aid of a simple d - 1 vice, was able to resume pencil writing with good effect other man who has been despondent since an act Idi nl fifteen years ago Is now devoting his time to hia garden and his ehlcl with benefit and profit to himself The report tells of teaching the blind to play cards with the Braille system, of Ime use 01 typewriters by the blind and of the comfort brought to them b Introducing them to watches Which enaUed them to tell for themselves the time of day. A large appropriation appropria-tion for such work is urged. Superintendent Drigga' report tella of some of the occupations ,,t Kr.iin-fcs. Kr.iin-fcs. One graduate from the achool for the deaf took his maatt r's decree at the University ..r rtah last vcar and two others graduated from I to-Salt to-Salt Lake high school. Several have been students at the I tali Agricultural Agricultur-al college ; one is taking mining engineering en-gineering at the state university Many aro successful In lurming or In business. busi-ness. Three graduates from the achooj for t)i0 blind are successful! stenographers, two are attorneys, one is a chiropractor, three .-ire high huol students and auothi 1 la a "very, successful business man.' while ev-' eral own nnd operate ifrocer stores' and kindred businesses. The appropriation from the state for the present biennium w.u 513 4,-900. 4,-900. having been made at a time when it was thought that prices would fall. For general malntenace for the com-ling com-ling two ears Jlfio.OOu Is naked. 111- stead of the $1 20.000 appropriated two years ago. j The total asked for the oomiiiK biennium is 1272,4110, the Increase beting be-ting largely uccouiucd for by a request j for $76,000 for a cottage for blind) iglrl8. and another of $25,000 for a fire-! fire-! proof unit to be added to the shop building. The institution desires also I to purchase a linotype for its printing print-ing department at $4500. The need of the cottage for bllndl girls is specially emphasised In the report, as it was in that of two yeara ago ft is contended by the trustees, of whom Mayor C Clarence Ncslen of Salt Lake is president that the appropriations ap-propriations asked :.iv ; minimum if line institution is to -maintain the standard of progress and efficiency iwhlch the people of the slate should aiuJ would demand. If they were familiar fam-iliar with the institution and the work done there. |