The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-02
4 wODEL-MAKER'S VIEWS.
,-.,oe.. which Is Nearly at Stand
s+i1-Patterns for Inventors

s.u-Patterns for Inventors.
Now York Mail and Express.l
There are not more than twenty shops
citv Of New York devoted to the
~ lin Of patterns or the building OF
madrIS said pattern maker to re-
M &C he stood at his lathe turning
l !ooo 81 wood The business does not
i p,oo1 - grow like other trades, and
80 confess am somewhat at a loss TO
Iiscover the reason You certainly would
e-Trnose that in a great metropolis like
+ii. inventors would be so plenty that
Tnndreds Of pattern and model-makers
would be kept busy all the time working
ONT their ideas in wood Inventors are,
however not quite so plenty as that
There are plenty of men who are always
on the point of making great in ntlon,
INIT somehow they never reach the sue
cessfuI issue
Il have been in this shop thirteen years
s and during that time have employed
great many different wOrkmen. My eX-
Herience has convinced me that there has
been no improvement whatever in the
machinery used III my business over that
Of quarter of a century ago. We use
exactly the same tools as we did then,
and do our work in the same manner.
4 This | suppose, sounds somewhat strange
YOU. but it is nevertheless an undis-
pujed fact
DO you have any trouble in getting
good APPRENTICES"
Yes we do. The young men who
come to learn the trade are usually ig-
norant fellows who have received but
& little or no education They are faithful
& in their work and seem to want to learn,
4 but their ignorance of the slightest me-
chanical principles is a serious drawback
to their advancement / have often won
dered why it is that more of the bright
boys who graduate from our public
schools do not take UP the skilled trades.
There is a good field here for such work
men as they would make. Somehow the
I boys all prefer to become clerks in dry
goods stores or horse car conductors in
stead The period of apprenticeship.
while nOminally three years, is really I'M
limited, \ workman is learning some
thing new all the time There is no limit
] 10 the variety of work we are called upon
+ to perform
"A man comes in here and explains to
me what he desires to construct. He has,
perhaps, made no drawings or measure
mentS, but he expects me, after listening
q " MS uCoCllpI4OAS, 10 go 10 WOIA anu
make the pattern, or model, whichever it
may be- without any further assistance
from him. If we were called upon to
construct the same pattern quite often,
j why, then we might be able to improve
our machines and tools. AS it is now, we
can never tell what we will make during
s the next twenty-four hours. OF course,
great many of our orders come from
manufacturers. These are accompanied
4 Oy the drawings aud measurements, and
are therefore more easily filled Occasion,
any crank comes in with a queer machine
q which he desires me to model ]
usually tell such individuals that !
nave no time to do their work,
ana recommend them to some one whom ]
tllnk will perhaps humor the crank
@hlms. Do we get good prices for oul
WORK? have received as high as 800 fol-
model 1t depends in great measure
upon the intricacy of the machine to bt
SsS9nssEucted:, Wepay our workmen from
3 80 to s. day.