The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-08-23
SHORT TALKS WITH THE BOYS
M. Quad. in Detroit Free Press.i

SHORT TALKS WITH THE BOYS.
 IN. Quad, in Detroit Free Press.i
 An apprentice to a brass-6nisher must serve four years, but to begin with he must have natural skill. For the first six mooehs he win be paid about S2 SO per week for the second $. On the second year he will receive & per week, on the third $ or S6, and on the fourth g or s. His wages viii then run from S2.so to B per day. IL is not clean trade, but the work is light and the pay good.
 The electro-plafer does not take ap- prentices for any definite term. A smart boy will learn burnishing in two months, and polishing at the end of four. It will take him about year and half to learn to mix his solutions and do silver plating. He will get from & to s per week the first year, and when his trade is finished he can command from SIo to SIS per week. The boys will notice that shis trade pays the largest wages of any to an apprentice, and that he serves only two- thirds of the average time before Teceiv- ing journeyman's wages. ls is a trade. however, which can't be rushed. Two establishments will do all the business offering in city of I5o, 1000 people.
 The electrotyper and stereotyper binds his apprentice for four years. The first year he is paid 8 per week: the second year s; the third year S7; the fourth year So. The wages of joumeyman are from $ to s 50 per day. It is a business only to be found in the larger sized cities
 Of late years the tailor has called him. self an artist. The fashionable tailor aims to fit his patrons in every dekail, and by harmony of colors and excellence of it to make almost anybody resemble a gentleman. Men do not dispute tke price if they get good fit. The tailor's cutter used to be almost anybody who could use a pair of shears, a tape-line and a marker. In these days in a fash- ionable establishment he draws a salary of from S3s to $50 per week. The ap- prenticeship is for three years For the first six months the boy receives no pay :; for the second six about $, per week While tailor may not be a cutter, an apprentice would be taught both branches. As jourueyman tailor his wages would be from SIo to SIs per week. The made a hit as a cutter his services would be m demand at the fat figures fra mentioned. As . good boot-maker studies the an- atony of the fopt, % does . good cutter stsdy the contour of the human form. Sloping shoulders are brought up square, bow-backed men are made straight, and bow-legs have the bend disguised by the cut and set of the trousers.
 To &~vm~k should begin work at an early period. A boy of s will sand better ch snce than young man of 20. There is no regular apprenticeship. Around large ofSces the messenger boys pick up this and that until they suddenly astonish themselves by being able to operate. A smart boy can lealn to transmit a message in few months, but the term operator has . double meaning. As fast thinker can write faster than a slog enc, % can a dextrous operator transmit faste1 than a clumsy one. Some learn the work and can never command any but the lowest salaries, while others, who had the same show at the start, soon receive the very highest The best salazies paid good operators in a general of6ce ass not over $50 per moash S7o pa month would strike nearer. Plenty of operators break down under the work, and it is not a business which boys should rush into under the idea that t is easy vosk.
 The book-bindeT and ruler binds his apprentices (no pun) to three years' ser vices. A boy will receive from g to & per week fos the 6rst year, and about $ per week for the second. When his trade is 6nished his wages will be from So to SI4 per week. A rule. there is work the year round.
 WiTe-wcsing is divided in many de- partment& h large shops boys are taken as apprentices in jail-vork, bank work, builders' work, bird cage2 r1t traps, screens, roller skates. etc. Each work is a separate thing, and t is seldom thas . boy learns an. The appreatiesship h any department is for three years, and the pay for the first year about Si. 50 per week. A journeyman's wages run 6om SIo to SIS per week. While they have the help of a great deal of ingenious machinezy in wire shop4 . boy havieg no natural mechanical ski1 cannue hope to make good workman in any depart ment.
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