The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-20
Twenty-six States Represented.

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8 room for ten years or more of steady
growth.
Twenty-six States Represented.
There is no more broadly representative
school in New York than the Applied
Design" for its girls include recruits from
26 states, the extreme east being repre-
scented by delegation from Maine, the ex-
treme west by representatives from Wash
ington and the extreme south by students
from Florida. There is 10 more practical
school, for those who attend are not only |
instructed with direct reference TO the |
winning of livelihood, but are helped and
encouraged to earn money while In train
ing More tEan So, 900 has been earned In |
this way in the ~ months just drawing TO |
a close in spite of the obvious TACT that
only the more advanced students can turn
their talents to pccuniary advantage ana
that no work is allowed to leave the school
unless it is of sufficiently high standard as
to artistic design and thoroughness to be
"a credit TO the institution.
1t may be that this latter provision less
ems the output somewhat temporarily, buU
in the long run it is extremely beneficial,
since it insures first quality, and the effect
has been such that there are always more
orders on the books than can possibly be
filed. When these orders come in, they
are assigned to the students thought most
competent to ill them, and time and facil-
tiles arc afforded for the performance OF
the work Advice is given by the instruct
org as TO the methods and materials to be
employed, and so on, but the compensation
goes to the student without deduction
This compensation, by the way. must be
equal to what would be paid to n man for
| similar work. For silk designs the girls
| receive from SEQ to $25 each; for wall paper
designs. $50 to SO u set; for book cover
designs, $40 to S25; for rugs, $50 to $50.
| There is q sliding scale of prices for Illus
! trations. ranging from So up, perhaps the
| average is not far from $50, while for archi-
| tectural designs the regulation per cent
| ON the cost of the building Is exacted-
| The Star "AppIied Designers"
The Misses Cannon and Hands, archi-
! tects and star Applied Designers" have
| done SO well that they have recently been
| enabled to take two students of the school
| into their employment as assistants, ana
| their novel tenement house is now actually
nearing completion on an uptown street,
bcing i'm construction under their personal
sunervision. 1t will be finished in the
course of two or three months.
| Tho Cannon and Hands tenement house
| nlon came into existence through the ofter
made some years ago by the New YORK
| tenement house commission of consider
able money prize for plans to secure Ger
| tain amount of floor space in buildings pun
up on single city lots without resorting &c
the expcdient of dark rooms. Many mer
| architects, some of them well known ano
highly successful, competed for the prize
but most of their plans were rejected a.
not meeting the requirements ut all, an'
a. ,ros feared that none suitable would b'
offered This fear was dispelled at once OF
examination of the Cannon ana Hanu
nlans. however Their successful treat
ment of the problem was apparent al
single glance. ., 4.
some who have given most attention q
| the tenement house problem declare ina
those plans eliminate several of Its mos
r | difYicuit features, and much wonder ma
l heen expressed that no building has as We
: been constructed i'm accordance therewith
|, The trouble has been that tenement nous
= builders generally have hitherto fougn
Z sby of adopting the innovation, some o'
\ claring frankly that they do not appro,
: of taking up a new thing, others that On
!, tenants themselves would not "stana Ior
:, the proposed way of building their hous'
y and Others that the plans cannot be pra'
!, teal because they were drawn py, girls.
;, Mrs Dunlap Hopkins believes the SUI
Z cess of the first building put up acco,u,ll
!. 20 the Cannon and Hands plans Will prln
g about general revolution IN .che .as.
house designing, and so do many otner
Including Richard Watson Glider, edit
Of The Century Magazine, who was pres
\ ,,ort of the tenement house commlssie
:. and ,s greatly interested in tenement hou
5. reform. .,,., a.
:, The new tenement house plan Is
s. course only one of the achievements
s. the star "Applied Designers. Ihey ma
S, MANNED and built hospitals, cottag.
DC stores. warehouses and city residences
w anpearance these girls are not In the ie'
w. ike conventional "new women In Ia'
nine in ten would declare both to be Oh I
uclinring IVY variety. Their connuen
In their ability to do good architectu'
a. work Is not a whit less pronounced, no
v. over than that of the most successful IN
D. architect, and they have strong aihpi,i
d; to put up some great building on''U sn
W. no n monument to woman's construct
r.. ability. ..,o,,,o, ~
~ TO-, oor,;er I'm this letter. Its work
"a divided into two general departments
m elementary and advanced. There are n,
courses ia tho elementary Department.
ginning with "object drawing for all
windine up with casting shadows,
nd architectural students and "element'
'@ antioue, for illustration students,
~ Srnts foYthe advanced department. IN
'4s mass examination In the elemen.'
, courses Practical designing OF al sor.
included In the advance Department., :
! there are besides special course IN we
lsn color painting under PAU de LONG, q,
ny, animal drawing under Dan bearu' s'ai
&c. glass painting, etc. , MARSHAL,