CITY DOCUMENT
No, 230, 1913
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF THE BEVERLY INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE BEVERLY INDEPENDENT INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL 1912
To the Trustees of the Beverly Independent Industrial School:
GENTLEMEN I submit herewith the fourth annual report of the work of the school
maintained under your direction. Accompanying this report of the Secretary
is the report of the Director of the School, to which I refer you for detailed
information.
Our school has reached the stage of assured success from the factory point
of view, and substantial improvement and visible strength from the school
standpoint.
Since early in October the school has been independent of its former High
School associations. Mr. Riggs, instructor in Science, up to this time, severed
his connection with the school. An instructor on full time will take his place
early in the year. I feel that we owe a word of appreciation to Mr. Riggs
for his
sturdy attachment to the school and his earnest toil in its behalf.
In its new quarters at the McKay building, where three rooms, office, and
reading room is at their service, the teachers and pupils feel that they have
a domicile and an equipment for their own service.
The noticeable achievement of the year was the graduation of our first class
(14 boys). The exercises took place Wednesday, December 18, 1912. The attention
received from the public upon this occasion demonstrated the place, which
the school has taken in the community. It has been accepted and endorsed as
an institution worthy of support.
The wage-earning capacity of these boys when they entered the school is conservatively
estimated at $6.00 per week. A capitalization of the boy's economic value
to the community based on his wage-earning power at the time of entering the
school may be placed approximately at $6,000. $6.00 per week for 50 weeks=$300,
or 5 percent on $6,000. The wage-earning capacity of these boys at the time
of graduation ranged from $15.00 to $18.00 per week. A similar capitalization
of the boy's economic value, based on the wage-earning experience of the fourteen
boys graduated, gives a figure between $15,000 and $18,000; it varies with
the individual. $15.00 per week for 50 weeks=$750, or 5 percent on
$15,000. $18.00 per week for 50 weeks=$900, or 5 percent on $18,000.
When we sent these boys out into the factory on full time, it had cost the
municipality and the State a little over $11,200 to maintain the school. The
net cost to the city of Beverly was $5,600. The wages paid back to all the
boys and returned to the community during the same period had amounted to
a little over $10,000.