The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-08-21
TALKS WITH THE BOYS.
SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE TRADES
what Is Required Of Apprentices in Order
to B~ Proficient la >undry Csllings--
wages and Chances OF Pre-.
ferment.

not more tuhn Two Nnull ma themselves
fixed for it. In the manufacturing shops
of Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland aud other
cities of the sizo, AN apprentice has to
learn everything. In the large shops in
New York he will learn only one branch.
The boy who makes successful jewcler
must have some knowledge of chemistry,
US acids, powders and various liquids are
constantly in use. He must have "a true
eye, because nothing is done hv pattern,
or rule, as with the timer, tailor and car
penter. \ lrst.clasS workman designs his
work, or is able to. IL, eye must answer
for the correctness of his work. Nuu cant
take AN earring and measure il a you
would box or shelf, nor can YOU get
pattern OF it except 10y the eve Much Of
the work is So fine that masniiying glass
is used. The hand must Toe stea ly and pa.
ti,nt. 1t is IA trade in which nothing can
be sighted, and any mistake is II costly
one. An apprentice receives from II to
- per week the first year, without board.
When he has finished his trade his sery.
ices are worth all the way from 81 to -
per week.
The term of apprenticeship to glider is
three years, and The wages uu--iirst year,
- per week second year, ,i; third year,
- This is without board When the
trade i, finished the glider can com.
mand twenty-five cents per hour for his
services. lie works entirely 10y the piece,
and IA frs, -cla>, man is never out OF work.
Tie trade Is lish, and clean, not at all uu-
healthy, and would be IA good one for
girls 10 take W. While it i, in one sense
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citi,s tin. ,ynrl, H.. LiviI,.I into ,hre, de.
partments. win an artist to each. The
pny OF any one of them i, at least fifteen
| dollars per week, while a goul retouchrl'
! often makes from twoutv-five to tltv dol
/ lars. Young ladie, seldom become opera
| tors, but do fairly at r-tuuchimg aud print
| in. On account % the chemicals used
! tue work is unhealthiul, or, at least, has
! dliven photnEia piers int" other business.
In these DAYS the term ''uphol,tercrr
| means u great deil. In "A large factory he
would simply cover cha rs aud sofa, and
| lounges. Ia carpet house lac designs and
! makes lambrcuuIns ami curtains, and turns
his hand to almost anything artistic in
house drapery. An apprentice would
/ have ~ serve three years, RECEIVING lor
/ the first year from two t. three dollars
per week, without board The second
| year he would get from four to five dol
! lars, and when hi, time was out lie would
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sand dollars per year to any carpet house.
| 1t is an art which no boy should attempt
t. learn unless he has great natural taste
that way. The upholstrrrr must dies ign
muIch of his work. no must study for
ha munv. He must meet and satisfy all
the different tastes In designing aud
making house decorations he has as much
at stake IA, the actor before AN au lience.
The boy With hl, boot heel, run down aud
buttons mis,im! from hi, clothes might
LEAN to tack the cover ON n chnir, but lac
would never have tine taste to drape u cur
tuiu.
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yn,r ond a haIf ~ nearly all hi, work i
thrown away and he sundrr instruction,
The apprentice. t. the artist must serv
for t,yn venr. without nav for the sam
reason. Tie nav would then be about ,
per week for a year, aud would be stead
nv increased To- the end of the fifth yeai
En.rayer, in lithosraph establishment srt
ceiye from IA to 80 per week, artist
receive from US to So per week Tn
. trnl.fer men receive from so 10 ~, AN,
. the pr,,,mpn about the SAM. / ask yul
IA TAX, particular no ice of the wide dill
f.r.n,. between the price, paid to me
F. doiu.. the same Gins, of work. The leu,
ru, r.ur.s.nt. the man who doe, tolera
d ,lv ,yau H.. can yet hi, work ont after
fashion. and i, satisfied with that. II
m.Is that h. is HANGING To his lob by hi