A Carnegie school has lone pupil : only one Pittsburg youth seeks instruction in the bricklaying art : no books for children

              box00007_fld00031_bdl0013_doc0001_04000001.txt; A CARNEGIE SCHOOL HAS A LONE PUPIL
Only One Pittsburg Youth Seeks
Instruction in the Bricklaying Art. 
NO   BOOKS  FOR  CHILDREN
Their Department of the Big Carnegie Library Is Closed for Lack of Funds.
Special to The New York Times. "PITTSBURGH. May 5.�A discovery was made to-day that the School of Bricklaying, intended to be one of the most important departments of the great ten-milllon-dollar technical institution which Andrew Carnegie founded here, has exactly one pupi1. He goes through, a daily routine under instructors who give him their whole time.
When Mr, Carnegie founded the technical schools he insisted that the departments first opened must be those for the purpose of teaching young men how to become expert artisans, and the School Of Bricklaying was one of the first, to go into commission. "While the other departments were quickly filled up with scholars bricklaying did not: seem to appeal to Pittsburg's young men. -
Finally one student applied. After passing the necessary examination Daniel Chisholm was enrolled and began hjji studies. lie paid his initiation fee of'$20 a year, which is about 10 cents a day for 1 his instruction.
) To teach the prospective bricklayers i there had been engaged an instructor at a  and gt; salary of $15 a day and an expert jour-Ineyman bricklayer at $(3 a day, the union i wage. In the school there are accommb-(hi lions for 100 students and different tools for each student.
every morning     ijsholm reports, and, after gohrg through the morning prelimt-, nary exercises, starts to learn his tratjs. Being the entire class, he has the active 'in^rm tion of both the instructor and the �� expert -journeyman at all times.     He. is .r'porKvi to be learning fast.    After the 'class builds up a brick wall the teacheri help him tear it down again.
Meanwhile the children's departmental" tiie  Carnegie  library is  closed  because there are not sufficient funds to pay for-'its opi'iotion.    Each day the place is be* .sieged  by  children  who  demand  admittance.    When the City Councils made the' last   appropriation   for   maintaining   the ; Carnegie libraries a fund of $230,(300 was set aside for this year's expenses.    Mayors GrhC-   lopped   off   $50,000   from   this | I amount, and the library Trustees at once 'dflupJ that they would have to take the iinniKu- from some of the appropriations -from tne Carnegie endowment fund if the ) children s library is to be maintained.
11. is reported that the Trustees in an � effort lo embarrass the Mayor have de-leiried to close the children'.? library fpr some time. This is being done in the fece of the fact that Andrew Carnegie Oinv n few weeks ago gave an additional endowment of $4,000,000 to the Carnegie Institute and Library.
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