Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-07-11
A moDEL-MAKER's VIEWS.
A Business Which Is Nearly at a stand-
 still-Patterns for Inventors.

INC" oFh Nal and ENnreSs1
 mere are not more than twenty sbons ID ihe city Of New York devoted to tbe making of patterns or the building of IhN ueis' said pattern maker to n re. PoI'ef, as he stood at his lathe turning a P'eOe ol wood The business ioes moi seeu To grow Ike other trades. and | must confess l am somewhat at A loss to ulscO'er ln reason. You certainly would uPPcsc s uiat lh great metropolis like tlis inventors would be 50 plenty that hundreds of pattern and modeI-r1ster. would be Kept busy all the time vorkiug out their 'ueas in wood. Inventor. ors however, not quite so plenty as that here are plenty of men who are always on the point of making a great invention Dut some ow they never reach the suc. cessiul issue
 have been in this shop thirteen years and during that time have employed a great m ny different wUrkmcn. My OK. peflence has convinced me that there las Oeen no improvement whatever in the machinery used in my business over that ol quarter of a century ago. We use exactly the same tools as we did then and do our work in the same manner l ms. suppose. sounds somewhat strange 10 you, but 1t Is nevertheless an und.s. puied fact
 Do you have any trouble in getting good apprenticesg7
 les. We do. The young men who come to learn the trade are usually ir- norant fellows who have receiyt l b1t ltle or Il, education They are faithful Tn their work and seem 10 want to learn. but their ignorance of the slightest me. chanlcal principles is serious drawback 10 their advancement l have often won. uered why Il Is that more of the bright boys who graduate from our public schools do not take uD the skilled trades. There IS good field he.e for such work men as they would make. Somehow the 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 un- limited. 4 workman is learuinr some. thing new all the time. There is no limit to the variety of work We are called upon to perform.
 "A man comes in here and explains 10 me what he desires To construct. He has. perhaps. made no drawings UT measure. ments. but be expects me. after listening 10 hls descriptions. 10 go to work and make the pattern. or model. whichever Il may be, without any further assistance from him If We were called upon 10 construct the same pattern quite often. why. then We might be ab c 10 improve our machines and tools. As it is now. We can never tell what we will make during the next twenty-fOur hours of course. great many of our orders come from manufacturers. These are accumpanicd by the drawings and measurements and are therefore more easily filled. Occasion. ally crank comes in with a queer machine which he desires me to model usually tell such individuals that have no time C. do their work. and recommend them to some one whom think will perhaps hUmor the crank whims. To We get good prices for our workg l have eceiyed as high a, SiOO for a model lt depends iI a great measure upon the intricacy of the machine 10 be constructed Mepay our workmen from S3 tO ;-J a day