The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-07-04

trade Is done Oy Trying. w nen 500
boy that can try, L feel like giving him a
chance"
Ifa young man proves capable OF doing the
easy work OF q carpenter, such as mailing the
rough boards on the side of q house, he can
earn at once one dollar and twenty five cents
q day, which he can increase TO one dollar
and fifty cents by the time he has been at
work six months. / am speaking now of
average country places. not of large cities
like New York and Boston.
In the course of two or three years, q wide
awake young man, handy with tools, and al
ways trying his best, can earn the highest
wages ordinarily paid to journeyman car
penter, two dollars and fifty cents day.
When he is competent to be foreman, and
take entire charge of an important piece of
work requiring several hands, he may re-
ceive from three to four dollars q day,
though the latter rate is n It common except
in cities.
What does carpentry lead to? This is
very interesting question to ambitious youth,
who naturally and properly look forward to
8 fair advancement in life, and wish to spend
tie evening OF their days in peace and dig
nifty. In country towns the most natural
issue of carpentry is building and architec-
ture. l knew myself = boy who was DELHI.
erately placed in q carpenters shop by his
parents as a step towards the profession of
architecture, and after working three or four
years at plain carpentry with lessons in
dIswing) he established himself as an archi-
tect in southwestern city He there formed
q partnership with builder, and hey soon
had their hands full of business.
Many carpenters have invented new tools,
new methods, new devices, and thus made
their way to large business. Others invest
their savings (eliDg them out with come
credit in set of machinery for making
blinds, sash, doors, slsds, stsir-rsils, or mould
irgs, and SEND The product Of the same oil
over the country.
In New York, Boston and Philadelphia,
there are men who began life at the work
mans bench. and now have shops in which
all such articles are manufactured on the
greatest scsle and with wonderful economy
both of material and power. There ia such
q shop in Boston, in which enc hundred
ment rided by stesm-engine of sixty-horse
power, manufacture ss much carpenter
work as five thousand men could accom-
plish by the labor of their hands alone. 1t
is museum of wonders. On walking over
it l was reminded of remark made by
john Quincy Adams upon returning from q
mandatory in Russia.
Il ought" said he, ''to visit manufsc
tory once week inorder to learn my own
ignorance"
1t really takes your breath away to see
the rspidity and certainty with which such
operations as saving, mortising, dOve.tsil-
ing, growing and polishing are done by the
machines in this establishment, which / sup
pose Carlyle would call an explosion of all
the oarpenteries.
There are not many men in the world
who can create, or even conduct an estsb-
lishment like this, because il requires COM
binstion OF faculties and talents such as are
seldom found in the same individual.
But in many quiet country place there
are carpenters who take pleasure and pride
in their work; who have built for them
selves nice little houses, filed them with
beautifully -made furniture, and established
q limited but sufficient business. These are
among the most fortuue Of mechanics and
men. They do not reckon their income in
thousands, but their wan Is are few and mod
crate; they take holiday when they need
one. They bring up their children to be
good citizens, and they have an inexhsusti-
bic satisfaction il doing their work in the
best manner.