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ent for their successful operation and development upon intelligent 

 direction and skilled labor, individually organized scientific schools and 

 training-classes in connection with their works. Some of these private 

 schools are equal to or excel in particular features the government 

 and municipal institutions. The conductors of many of them claim 

 that the best results are obtained where intimate relationship between 

 the school and the actual workshop is maintained ; thereby facilitating 

 the adaptation of theoretical training to the needs of the pupils and 

 the character of the work on which they are engaged. 



The leading merchants and manufacturers of Crefeld, Prussia, 

 affirm that its silk industries largely depend for success on the influ- 

 ence of their technical school, which, among other things, raises the 

 tone and increases the knowledge of rising manufacturers and foremen, 

 and, by spreading technical education broadcast among industrious 

 and ambitious artisans, very materially widens the field from which 

 successful manufacturers and specialists may be chosen. At Miilhausen, 

 Germany, manufacturers go so far as to say that their trade could not 

 prosper without the influence of the textile museum ; and citizens look 

 upon the prosperity of the town as a result of what is learned at the 

 technological institutions, whose action has exerted a marked influence 

 in suppressing trade jealousies, which had almost entirely disappeared 

 from the community. The chief hope of Verviers, Belgium, in main- 

 taining pre-eminence in its textile industries, has been publicly ac- 

 knowledged to rest upon the superiority and not on the cheapness of 

 its productions. " This community has felt none of the evils of the 

 late labor troubles in Belgium." The variety and excellence of the 

 textile manufactures of Chemnitz, Saxony, are accredited by the Brit- 

 ish Royal Commissioners to the weaving-school ; and the appreciation 

 had by the citizens of the place for technical education is attested by 

 the fact that, up to 1883, they had contributed over $440,000 for the 

 support of their industrial schools. So, among the results that have 

 accrued from the operation of the weaving and dyeing schools of Rou- 

 baix, France, are less need of supervision, economy in production, 

 fewer mistakes, and more reliable and efficient work. 



Of the same order with these facts is the acknowledgment said to 

 be commonly made by the proprietors and managers of mines that 

 young men who have been educated in technological schools heat 

 their boilers better and with less coal than do the other workmen, and 

 that their scientific knowledge enables them to escape many accidents 

 and to avoid stoppage of machinery and repairs. In short, Dr. Bar- 

 nard observes, " it is the testimony of all who have studied the subject 

 that technical schools, when rightly directed, give wonderful impulses 

 to industrial pursuits, by promoting scientific investigation and meth- 

 ods. Although at first this influence affects only those who attend the 

 classes, it soon makes itself felt throughout the entire body of work- 

 men of the community to which the school belongs, and the increased 



