The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-26
TO TRAIN YOUNG HANDS,
The New Courses Established
in the Commercial High
School.
GIRLS LEARNING TO CARVE.
Two Lines Of Practical STUDY Laid
Out for Next Years Gram
mar Graduates.

The apparatus for the new course in
manual training, which has been added to
the Commercial High School, is now all in
place, and the incoming pupils from the
grammar school will find waiting for them
next July as complete course of its kind
as can be found anywhere in the West.
Beginning with July, the manual train
ing course will be made department to
itself. In future there will be two courses
in the school-the commercial, a course of
two years, and the manual training, course
of three years duration.
In the girls course in manual train
ing classes in freehand drawing, clay
modelling, wood-carying, sewing and cook
ing are included. Also a course In the
sciences, including biology the first year,
physics the second year, and chemistry
the third year. For the boys, the course
includes constructive drawing, carpenter
work, blacksmithing and machine work,
besides the course in science.
For the study of biology there has been
fitted up an excellent equipment, includ-
ing sixteen of the best microscopes and
all the necessary apparatus for making
slides for specimens. For the physical
laboratory the usual apparatus has been
PiOCureu. IHe CnemlcaI laboratory IS
fully equipped, and is capable of accom-
modating thirty-six pupils at time.
The courses in manual training are
under the direction of Professor Frank A.
Gardener, recent graduate of the Wor-
cester Institute of Technology, who has
been for. three years in the shops of
the Union Iron Works. He looks
after the boys himself. In the girls
course, however, there are teachers in
each department.
Miss Maria Van Black has charge of the
clay-modeling and the wood-carving de-
partments, and she has a great deal of
very pretty work to show as the handi-
since last March. La the free-hand draw
ing department Mrs. E. P. Bradley has
charge. The pupils have decorated the
room according to their own designs.
The cooking and sewing departments are
ready for the July, pupils. Hand and
machine sewing in all forms and plain and
fancy, cooking will be taught in these
branches.
The boys course in manual training be-
gins with mechanical and constructive
drawing. Then the boys are put to work
in the carpenter-shops, and the course ends
in the forgeroom and the machine-shops.
1t is IN the apparatus for the boys
spent, for the equipm ent includes every
thing in the way of milling, blacksmith
ing and machine work. In the carpenter
shop there are scroll, band and circular
saws, machine planes, turning-lathes and
shapers, with bench room for large class.
The girls wood-carving class is in the
same room, and one of the duties of the
boys will be to put together the work of
the girls. In the blacksmithing depart
ment there are twelve forges. In the ma
chine-shops there are FIVE lathes of differ
ent sizes, drill press, plane, screw
cutter. a metal saw, besides Numbers of
smaller machines.
In the way of tools the students will be
well provided for. Each boy in the carpen-
ter-shop will receive all the common car
pentering tools and will be loaned the
special tools as his work requires them.
In the mechanical drawing department
forty sets of instruments have been pro-
vided for the use of the pupils. Each girl
will be given a full set of wood-carving
tools, and the girls in the art department.
will be given great deal of the equipment
needed