Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1911 — BUILD FREE SCHOOL [ARTICLE]

BUILD FREE SCHOOL

Technical Institution to Be Erected in Chicago. Money Left by George M. Pullman Fourteen Years. Ago Now Amounts to 32,400,000—T0 Be Done WlthMature Deliberation. < Chicago.—A campus of forty acres at the northeast corner of Indiana avenue and One Hundred and Eleventh street, in the tgwn of Pullman, has been selected for the building of a technical school with the 32,400,000 left by George M. Ppllman, over fourteen years ago, according to the official statement made by the board of directors. Mr. Pullman’s original bequest was 31,200,000, but the account has doubled In the years zincehis death. He stipulated in his will that nothing be done without mature de-

liberation, even if the carrying out of his. bequest took many years. The ■ founding of such a < school within what he foresaw was to become one of the greatest industrial ■centers in the world, was toe chief - wish of—Mr. Pullman’s heart He often spoke of his desire to found a free school for Instruction In the principles and practice of the mechanic arts, and thought no more fitting place cou|d be had than Pullman. “It is my purpose to found, erect and endow, at Pullman, Ill.» in- my lifetime, a free school of mahual training for the benefit of the children of persons living in or employed at Pullman, and. In the accomplishment of that purpose, to expend at least 3200,000 for lands and buildings and apparatus, and to* provide a fund of 31,000,000 for the maintenance, management and endowment of such school,”* and requests his executors— Norman B. Ream and Robert T. Lin-

coin, and his friends, John M. Clark, John S. Runnells, Frank O. Lowden, Charles E. Perkins and John J. Mitchell—to act as the first board of di* Actions of the Pullman Free School of Manual Training, at Pullman, DI. Three years ago the board, of which Frank O. Lowden, son-in-law of the donor, is president, purchased the se> leeted ground for the priee of 31W>000, and careful attention has been paid to the selection of a fitting principal. The resignation of Leanas GiffordWeld from the deanship of the collegiate faculty of the lowa State university a year ago made his services available, and he was appointed last May. ... Mr. Weld may' devote a year or more to the examination of and study of the ptiutipai technical -ini trade Institutions hi this country and Europe, it being the opinion of the board that by such investigation many mistakes may be avoided. The work of building and equipping probably will not be begun till Mr. Weld’s return, when he will furnish definite and tangible plans by which to proceed.