The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-03
MANUAL TRAINING WORK
AN INTERESTING ExHIBIT BEING SHOWN 1T BO1RDMAN SCHOOL.

A Splendid Course of Instruction Being
 Given at the sohool-Practical in Every Feature-High Class of Work Turned
 Out by the Students-An Efficient Corps
 of Instructors-Talk of Special Pre-
 paratory Course for Shelf.
 There are probably comparatively
 few residents of New Haven who real
 ize the great value of the instruction
 being given at the Boardman manual
 training school at the corner of Broad
 way and York square. Many people
 have obtained the idea that the pupils
 there were given manual training
 education in a general sort of way and
 that in the course of the instruction
 given the students were taught to make
 few fancy but useless articles. Many
 have thought the school to be a sort of
 kindergarten, where fancy little things
 were cut out of colored paper These are but a few of the misconceptions
 concerning the school which have gotten
 abroad. Perhaps one reason for this
 was the fact that at the opening of the
 school two years ago the work was of
 necessity oe an elementary character,
 and hardly suggested to the mind of the
 average person who was looking for
 immediate results to the end to which
 the full course of instruction led.
 Now, at the end Of the second year
 of the school course the results of the ipc Co oixy fo cJtr the best hopes of the friends of the
 school when it was first built. The~a ticles turned out by the pupils in the
 various departments of the school. the forging department, the wood turning, cooking, dressmaking, chemical, draw
 ing, clay modelling, etc., are at present on exhibition, the exhibit having be- gun yesterday. It will continue to-day, being open to visitors between the hours of o'clock and o'clock in the afternoon and o'clock and 9 o'clock in the evening.
 The exhibit is we'll worth a visit from all friends of education, and also from those who delight in seeing truly artistic work of any kind It is safe to say that nine-tenths of the visitors will be more than surprised at what is revealed by the exhibit. To them the fact will be at once evident that right here in New Haven is one of the best schools for giving practical edu- cation to be found in New England, and perhaps in the country. It is an institution of which the city may well be proud.
 Among the visitors at the exhibit yesterday was c. D. Larkins, principal of the Brooklyn (N Y.) manual train ing school, and well known over the country as an authority in matters per- taining to manual training. He has ! visited all the largest manual training schools i'll the east, and says that the pupils of Boardman school are doing . work which in many lines not only eX- 4 cells that done in other schools of the \ kind but compares favorably with that S done the first year in many technical 4 schools and colleges. He speaks in es- pecially high terms of certain clements s shown in the designing and drafting, 8 in which the pupils work out actual N problems in mechanical design. This \ is something unusual in a school of 4 this kind, and especially for the second A year class. Mr.Larkins says that if 4 this work is carried out to the logical end the boys ought to be able on the completion os the course to design a 4 steam engine or an electric motor with ! out any trouble. They are, in fact, be- 8 ing taught the clements of mechanical engineering.
 4 The exhibition is being held in the large front room looking out upon Broadway, on the third floor of the building. The work of each depart ment is exhibited on different table. One of the most interesting of the ex- hibits is that of the work of twenty VI five. boys in the forging department. This work consists of all sorts of small
 wrought iron articles. such as chains of various sizes, hinges, door hooks, T staples, etc. In the chains and other 5 articles in which welding was necessary 3 the welds have been made so neatly that they can hardly be found. The boys first start at drawing out to a
 taper, special attention being given to s accurate measurement. Then as they \ progress they are taught more difficult B work. Some of them are now able to < do artistic iron working, and among the articles shown which they have K made and designed themselves without
 assistance from anyone are beautiful
 piano lamp stands, andirons, shovels, | and tongs. They are finally given a | course in steel tool making, that being | the work on which they are engaged ! at present. The tools made are to be used in the course next year. Some of these tools already made are now on E exhibition and would do credit to a \ skilled workman. This department of | the school is under the instruction of N A. H. Morse. The average age of the l boys in the course is seventeen years. ! Tine exhibit of free hand drawing is a large one and very creditable. Free hand drawing in most schools is studied from casts and taken from color work, but here the training goes beyond that and the result is the distinct cultivation . of the imagination. Of twelve pupils in . certain division, eleven made draw | ings which were in every way meritori-
 ous and were placed in the exhibit. The
 drawings are peculiar in their kind, in
 being not copies, but pure creations of
 the imagination of the pupil, requiring
 exactly the same power on the part of
 the pupil that the artist must exercise
 in Illustrating a book. The course is
 conducted in such way as to give to
 the pupil power of expression and at
 tention is paid to the principles Of per