The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-28
ELEVEN GIRLS At WORK.
Are Taking the Course at the Manual
Training School
WHAT THEY ARE NOW STUDYING
The Total Number In the School is Now
146-They Are Divided Into Three
tIasses-The Girls Are Taking tho
Regular First Years Course.

just below Summer street on Pond Is
the Manual Training school. which was
started two years ago for the training OF
young men OF n eshanicsl turn of mind.
The experiment 10 now a pronouuc ced sue
cess and this year the courses have been
offered to girls as well AS boys. The
building is elegantly equipped and fur
nished with all the conveniehces and lux
uries OF n m odern school. Sessions are he Id
tive days in the week from nine until
four in the afternoon, with half AN hours
intermission for lunch. There are LAG
students, including II girls. viz: IA in
first class, A IN the second and 81 in the
| last class.
The increase in numbers attests the
popularity of this course of training Nor
are all the pupils boys who come from
poor families, most of them are from rich
or well to do families and here they have
| chance to find out just what mechanical
line they are fitted for, IL any. Regular
courses OF studies are pursued as in the
| Euglish department., but in addition the
boys are taught carpentering and wood
iurninR the first year. acksmith h.
| ing. and clay moulding. the second
| year and working In metals the last year.
The course In drawing, both mechanical
and free hand, are next in direct line
with the work done in the shop. The
boys draw and give measurements of
what they work oon in the carp suter
shop or machine shop. All work is done
from blue prints with the measure nents
given.
In the Shops.
The carpenter shop Is lar ye room with
tables accom- M odating twenty-four schol-
ars at IA time. Each boy Ii provided with
set Of tools and all sorts of light car
| pentering work is done from blue prints.
The wood-turning shop Is fully
| equipped with latbss aud the boys were
busily engaged In turning out their pat
terms from blue prints, while the chips
| few right aud left, the busy hum of the
machinery and the quiet attention OF
each boy to his work making . model
workshop. The boys sharpen their own
tools and take care OF them. being re-
sponsible for. everything placed in their
hands.
The room for clay modelling contained
twenty-four modelling tables, upon one
Of which rested the pattern from which
| heclass work. A large cupb ,ard holds
| the glass plates with the clay upon it. IN
one corner Ii a large chest containing the
clay and on the other side of the room are
sinks and plentiful supply of water as
is necessary for the boys after they finish
their play at mud pies
The forge room contains fifteen forgas,
fifteen anvls. aud six vices Tho boys
here forge and temper the tools which
they use. Part are blacksmiths and part
oh In
made. the blacksmiths becoming
helpers and vice versa. In the
same room are the moulding pits, and
here were specimens OF Hires root
beer bottles and other designs moulded in
lead. TIE sand pit has q capacity OF
twenty-five barrels and near b. Is a coal
pit. Iwo large gas furnaces are here for
melting metals and twenty dve pounds OF
iron eau be melted at time In one Of
these furnaces.
Drawing Room and Machine Stop.
The drawing rooms are two well-lighted
rooms, accommodating twenty our
scholars each. The drawing nstrum ents
are Of the best description, being i'm
ported from Germany. aid are furnished
by the city. Each boy has his box which
Is numbered. In the corners are the closets
to hold the drawing boards. Here are
drawn the plates which are used In the
workshops.
The machine shop is the most interest
ing place of ail. The machines are Of the
latest designs and most approved pat.
terms. Drilling machines, Brown &
Sharpe milling machine, which was not
upon the market before July last, aud
others attract the attention. The boys
pared by themselves the year
before in the blacksmith shop
The stock room is at one end Of the shop,
and every boy is charged for the iron he
draws. The money is refunded when thu
iron is again returne !, worked up. Each
pupil has his own set Of tools from the
city and IL his tools are dulled. the boy
himself Is to blame.
A fine chemical laboratory and physi-
cal laboratory occupy one of the upper
floors tog 'ther with recitation rooms.
Here are apparatus aud hoods for conduct
ing all the simpler experiments and ex-
planning by actual demonstration what
the students read OF in the text book.
The girls course con sists OF light car
penter work. clay modelling aud wood
carving the first year. The second an
third year, courses have not ct been de-
cded upon, but probably dress making,
millinery aud cooking will he tau sht
Lunch is provided for the students at
n nominal price. A cook Is engaged who
has a kitchen and here prepares soup.
cocoa. and such food. obtaining his pie
and bread out side. A sandwich aud cup
| of cocoa can he bought for three cents and
bowl OF soup and piece Of pie for Eve
cents.
Everything throughout the building Is
provided by the city aud the work OF the
| boys is tending to make the institution
| self-sustaining rs they manufacture the
articles needed themselves.
II is not tbs purpose Of the school to