INFORMATION.

1. The purpose of this Institution is purely educational. The aim is to give a practical education to the young blind of both sexes residing in the State. All the common school branches are taught. An extensive course in music is available to all who have talent in this direction. A thorough course is given in several industrial trades, such as broom making, cane seating chairs and piano tuning. The girls learn sewing by hand and machine, knitting, crocheting, bead and fancy work. The purpose is to make the pupils useful, contented, self-supporting citizens. A gymnasium is equipped and a special teacher drills the pupils in systematic physical exercises. Pupils, when not in recitation, are in charge of a governess. Neatly furnished hospitals are provided for the sick.

2. The school year commences on the fourth Wednesday of September and closes the first Wednesday after the first Monday of June. There is no vacation during the session.

3. Applicants who are under eight or over twenty-one years of age are not admitted.

4. No person of imbecile or unsound mind, or of confirmed immoral character will be knowingly received into the Institution, and in case any pupils shall, after a fair trial, prove incompetent for useful instruction or disobedient to the regulations of the Institution, such pupils will be thereupon discharged.

5. The Institution is maintained by the State, and tuition, board and washing are furnished free of cost to all pupils residing in Indiana. The parents or friends of pupils must supply them with comfortable clothing, suitable for summer and winter wear, in such quantity as will admit of necessary changes. Each article of clothing should be distinctly marked with the owner's name, and must be sent in good condition. The traveling expenses of pupils must be defrayed by parents or friends.

6. It is positively required that every pupil shall be removed from the Institution during the annual vacation of the school, as well as at any other time when such removal may be deemed necessary by the proper officers thereof; and in case of failure of friends of any pupil to comply with this requisition, provision is made by the law for sending such pupil to the trustee of the township in which he resides, to be by him provided for at the expense of the county.

7. Parties desiring the admission of a pupil are required to fill up the required form of application and forward the same to the Superintendent of the Institution, giving truthful answers to the interrogatories therein contained, and procuring the signature of a justice of the peace to the certificate thereunto attached; and the pupil must in no case be sent until such application shall have been received and favorably responded to by the Superintendent.

8. The Superintendent will cheerfully give information in regard to

the Institution, and will thankfully receive any information concerning those who should be receiving its benefits.

9. Persons bringing pupils to the Institution or visiting them can not be accommodated with board and lodging.

10. That the work of the Institution may be done to the highest good of all it is necessary that every pupil shall be present at the opening of the term. Faithful work and prompt and regular attendance are essential to advancement and promotion. No pupil who is tardy at the beginning of the term, is irregular in attendance, or drops out before the close of the term, can hope to do acceptable work and receive promotion. Unless there is an excellent reason for doing otherwise, every pupil should be present on the first day and remain throughout the term.

11. Each pupil before entering the Institution should be supplied with the following clothing of good quality :

Boys Two hats, two suits of clothes, two extra pairs of pants, four pairs of socks or six pairs of stockings, four shirts, two suits of underwear, two pairs of shoes, six handkerchiefs, two pairs of suspenders, a toothbrush, a clothesbrush, and a comb and hairbrush. Small boys need no suspenders, but should be supplied with an extra suit of underwear.

Girls Two woolen and two cotton dresses, four aprons, three night dresses, two suits of summer and three of winter underwear, two dark and two light skirts, six pairs of stockings, six handkerchiefs, a wrap, a hat, rubbers, two pairs of shoes, a toothbrush, a clothesbrush, a comb and hairbrush.

This amount of clothing will be necessary within the year, that the children may be kept clean and comfortable. When parents are not able to furnish the required clothing they should not hesitate to call upon the Township Trustee, who will cheerfully provide for the needs of those who are worthy. All clothing should be marked with indelible ink.

12. It will be necessary for parents, guardians, etc., to provide for all incidental expenses of pupils. It will likewise be necessary for all

persons sending children to the Institution to furnish them transportation to their homes at the close of the term.

STATISTICAL FORM FOR STATE INSTITUTIONS.

Prepared in accordance with a resolution of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, adopted May 15, 1906.

Daily average attendance (i. e., number of in-
mates actually present) during the year... 59.93
Average number of officers and employes during

Extraordinary expenses

1. New buildings, land, etc....

2. Permanent improvements to existing buildings.

Total ..

Grand total

NOTES ON CURRENT EXPENSES.

1. Salaries and wages include salaries of trustees.

$36,655 67

$36,655 67

2. Clothing includes shoes and also materials for clothing and shoes made in the institution.

4. Ordinary repairs include all of those which simply maintain the buildings in condition without adding to them. Any repairs which are of the nature of additions are classed with "permanent improvements."

5. This item includes everything not otherwise provided for, e. g., furniture, bedding, laundry supplies, medicines, engineer's supplies, postage, freight, library, etc.

GEORGE S. WILSON, Supt.

There have been but few changes in teachers and officers. Miss Schellschmidt was granted a leave of absence at the close of the school year for the purpose of continuing the study of music in Berlin. Her place is filled during her absence by Mr. Adolph Schellschmidt. Miss Hunt resigned and was succeeded by Miss Barttlingck. During the past year the work has been harmonious and successful in every department.

It has been repeatedly advertised that this is a school and that its work is purely educational in character and designed to impart to the blind of the State, of school age, a practical literary education, and such skill in music, and dexterity in handicraft, as will enable them to live without burden to the State and with happiness and satisfaction to themselves. It is not a hospital for the treatment of diseases of the eye, nor a retreat for the indigent. This purpose has again been emphasized by the last legislature in the change of name from "Institution" to "School" and in withdrawing it completely from the benevolent classification and placing it with the public schools in the following plain and emphatic language: "And said Schools for the Deaf and for the Blind shall not be regarded nor classed as benevolent or charitable institutions but as educational institutions of the State, conducted wholly as such."- -Chapter 98, section 2, Acts of General Assembly of 1907. The purpose ought not now to be misunderstood.

Sincerely,

GEO. S. WILSON.

LIST OF INSTITUTIONS FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE BLIND IN THE UNITED STATES.

Alabama Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, Talladega, Ala.—J. H. Johnson, Principal.

Alabama School for the Blind, Talladega, Ala.-F. Manning, Superintendent.

Alabama School for Negro Deaf Mutes and Blind, Talladega, Ala.-J. S. Graves, Superintendent.

Arkansas School for the Blind, Little Rock, Ark.-T. A. Futrell, Superintendent.

California Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb and Blind, Berkeley, Cal.-W. Wilkinson, Principal.

Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind, Colorado Springs, Col.-W. K. Argo, Superintendent.

Connecticut School for the Blind, Hartford, Conn.-G. A. Marshall, Superintendent.

Florida School for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb, St. Augustine, Fla.-A. H. Walker, President.

*Georgia Academy for the Blind, Macon, Ga.-G. F. Oliphant, Principal. Idaho State School for the Blind, Boise City, Idaho.-J. Watson, Superintendent.

Illinois School for the Blind, Jacksonville, Ill.-G. W. Jones, Superintendent.

Indiana School for the Blind, Indianapolis, Ind.-Geo. S. Wilson, Superin

tendent.

International School for the Blind, Fort Gibson, Ind. Ter.-Mrs. Lura A. Lowrey, Superintendent.

Iowa College for the Blind, Vinton, Iowa.-J. E. Vance, Principal.

Kansas Institution for the Education of the Blind, Kansas City, Kan.

W. B. Ball, Superintendent.

*Kentucky Institution for the Education of the Blind, Louisville, Ky.-B. B. Huntoon, Superintendent.

Louisiana Institution for the Blind, Baton Rouge, La.-W. W. Bynum, Superintendent.

*Maryland School for the Blind, Baltimore, Md.-John F. Bledsoe, Superintendent.

Massachusetts School and Perkins Institution for the Blind, South Boston, Mass.-E. E. Allen, Director.

Michigan School for the Blind, Lansing, Mich.-Clarence E. Holmes, Superintendent.

Minnesota School for the Blind, Faribault, Minn.-J. J. Dow, Superin

tendent.

Mississippi Institution for the Blind, Jackson, Miss.-W. S. Sims, Superintendent.

Missouri School for the Blind, St. Louis, Mo.-S. M. Green, Superintendent. Montana School for the Deaf and Blind, Boulder, Mont.-L. E. Milligan, Superintendent.

*Has a department for the colored 'blind.