The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-02-13
IN a MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL
A Place Where Young Hands and Brains
Are Well Developed simultaneously.
IIhIladaIrnhia Pr.

Are Well developed simultaneously.
Philadelphia Pressl
The building is threestor high, and
on the second and third floor glass par
htlons are so placed that the hooI may
be one large room or divided into three
class rooms at will. ON the third floor
arc the rooms for mechanical drawing.
the laboratories and the luncheon, and
on the next the rooms for English liter
allure, mathematics and physical geog-
raphy. The first floor is devoted to
wood and metal working departments,
principals Office and lavatories. There
are two flights OF stairs, one used by
ascending and the other by descending
classes as they move from floor to floor.
The 132 boys are divided into three
classes, A, b and Q, and these again
into divisions called A %, B 1-2, 1-2,
so that in each division there are twenty
two boys. In moving from room to
room, the boys fall into line in places
assigned them, and, instead of the
usual noise of a moving class, there is
no sound save the measured tread of
disciplined column of two. The time is
so arranged that each boy has two houTs
a day in each mechanical department.
visitor to the school, as he enters
the metal working room on the first
floor, may well imagine himself in some
ideal workshop Placed at convenient
distances and supplied with proper tools
are the work benches, each occupied by
a bright-iooking lad, busily engaged
Last week the boys were learning cut
ting and fitting to line.
All the instruction is by measure
ment. Each pupil has to learn to work
by line. A blue print pattern of the
piece of work to be made is hung in
front of each boys bench, and the work
finished must be exactly like the pat
tern. First the boy is taught how to
stand at his bench. Then he is shown
iust how the tool required for any piece
Of work is to be held. He is shown how,
In any mechanical undertaking, an easy,
free use Of the hands, arms and body il
possible, and constant oversight ensures
his carrying out the instructions given.
Not word is spoken in the workrooms.
save what the teacher says as he moves
from one boy to another, with the
necessary explanation. On the day
which the writer called, the lads were
cutting and fling piece OF cast iron,
about four inches by four aud two
inches thick, down to certain size. 1t |
was particularly noticeable how well |
each boy managed his tools, and the !
easy attitude in which he stood.
In the wood working department. the
DIVISION Just then at work were being |
instructed IN planning and saving. EaSSgI
the same order, the -saafeaa interest and
he, Same See oversight were noticea-
dc. Cne lad was being taught how to
lold his plane when he adjusted the
blade, while another was carefully fol-
owing out the most approved method of
aWing. he benches here, as in the
METAL room, are models of convenience
md compactness. When a division is
through work in either room, each mem
ler must not only return mis- tools to
heir places, but must put away the
iece of material he has been at work
pom in cupboard arranged for the
urpOse.
On the second floor a class was re-
lewinG the arithmetic in one room, 90.
lg througl % course of English classics
another, and in third mastering
hyslcal geography. On the third floor
Tere found the drawing room and
lboratory. In the latter is large 1
rough, from each end of which run
ables. Within the trough is the par
cular animal or part of animal under
issection. The teacher stands behind
le trough and deals ont to tho bows =
anding around the tables such por-
ons of lung, liver or limb as he desires
lem TO inquire into. After awhile the
ner workings of a giblet will be a
after of no mystery to any of the 1879
'ys. They viii all be able to pass a
Try credita6e examination IS physiOlo-
SITS, and, aided by their knowledge Of 4
lie saw, may be able to turn Their
lnds to bit of simple surgery.
The entrance examination is Of the
andard of the high. school, but any
sltor will be struck with the bright, {
telligent faces Of almost every bow in =
e school-honse. When graduation is
complished the recipient of diploma
III be on his way towards being a com n
etely trained carpenter, maohinist or
etal worker. He Will have learned un- -.
II themost careful guidance lesson that ~
9 apprentices of the past, and even of
q present generation, have worked early 81
ID late for years to acquire in crowded
ops. He will have much play with
) work, instead Of going through the -,
ual long hours of the embryo me- nf
anlc. He will, probably, be as com
tent after three years, under the sys- wi
N OF the training school, as he would mr.
after six of workshop discipline. He :
IL, at the same tina, take in a good
erary education that is denied the
binary apprentice, unless the latter
tend the night class of some school
q labor diligently therein. T..
the CoOkIady's Daughters.
All Lacies-Ah Mrs. GepteeI. how 6o