New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-09
TRAISING OF APPRENTICES.
HOW THEY SHOULD BE rAUGHT-NEED Of INDUS
TEAL SCHOOLS.
icy rELFGRAPH 10 THE TRIBCNE.l

lBY TELEGRAPH To THE TK BCNE.l
PHILADELPHIA, sept. o.-AmOnS the papers
~ popular interest read before tue section or Economic
Science and statistics to-day was one by Thomas lamp
con the apprenticeship questonand industrial schools
After concise statement respecting the origin OF APP
premiership and the present legal character OF te re
t.ou In England and tue United states th" speaker
aycrred that the system IN vogue IN the latter country
upon which almost exclusive reliance f. placed IL utterly
inadequate TO supply trained and skiul mechanics de-
manded by the growing Industrial wants OF the country
This proposition endeavOred 20 establish not oy the
u-erauces % recognized authorities on the poh N'h
are not altogether harmonious, but by reference 90
certain general considerations tending 10 sho" the rapd
decay OF apprenticeship that he deemed OF conclusive
character Chief among these Is the unprecedented sub
division Of labor and the increasing OF machinery In
modern industrial enterprises. An illustration OF tAIs
was afforded IN the watches from swiss apprenticeship
schools, almost entirely hand made snow" al Tue ans
Exposition OF 1873 and the machine Work uone ~
Waltham, where nearly thousand dsuhcI "P'I'''""'
contribute TO the manufacture OF q single ""''H' rs
tending 10 the same direction the present ndispoSloh
OF boys to be part OF their masters househod anu oi
the masters 10 receive taem IA that capacity was men
toned In contracts between boys and their masters
having view work and pay and not instruction., SUM
exceptionally that boys apprenucod To T~"e nave q"
opportunity Of really learning It. Inc 'aNy OF 'lo
relations Of master and apprentice moreover permits
they may work jourueymen in another SHOP an s'A
which some employers, notably the carriage MAKERS
have combined 10 check.
Mr HamI then inquired whether the - stem OF ap
prentlceship admits OF practicable modh'".lo"' NNoN
will adopt It to industrial needs ana
Notwithstanding few exceptional cases IN ~hich the
experiment has been successfully made such a. 'he
Altoona shops OF the Pehnsylv Eafoad' tA4' theie
we're great obstacles In the way OF such moaihcauoh
Turning TO consider finally with what apprenticeship
nigh. be most adyantageousy replaced the speaker a.
first step advocated the establishment ~ az NM tane
manufacturing cities % the evening courses or scehho
instruction OF a Iractlc4l character suon courses
whether consisting OF lectures only, es IA the famous
Couservatore Rationale Arts ~ Meters NJ fatn
or Of individual instruction In manual WORK n IN INC
night trade schools Of Belgium or germany 70 be Aus
tanned by the municipality ADD 20 be Tree or nearly so 10
the public. urged that such cities should pro-
vide one or more manual labor schools well equipped
with Laboratories and apparatus TO when oi
volunteer Glasses from the public schools might report
for two or three hours Of daily Instruction puPs uhaet
taking this work be allowed 10 drop some Of the ner
srV uofF IN the regular school course The possible OBJ
econs of the cost OF the innoy atOn recommended was