The suburban citizen., 1900-07-07
COTTON TRADE SCHOOLS.
THE soUTH's METHOD OF DEVEL-
oPlNc TRAINED CRAFTSMEN

Equipments Is Complete.
The progress which tho South has
been making in cotton manufacturing
augurs well for the future prosperity
and advancement of the Southern sec
tion. While there were 100000 cot
ton spindlcs in Massachusetts at the
beginning Of 1895, there was no State
south of Mason and DiXon's line with
a million Now there are two, North
and South Carolina, with over that
number, thus exceeding all the New
England States excepting Massachu-
setts, Rhode Island and New Hamp-
shire.
The value of the cotton goods man
ufactured in the eight Southern States
I in 1880 was $16,173,2t2, and in 1899
the returns showed a value of cotton
manufactures reaching $40,165,074, or
a gain of nearly $50 per cent
This splendid growth is bringing the
South into prominence through the en-
hancement thus given to national
American industries. Its progress is
also bringing it into closer relation and
a clearer understanding of the devel-
opment of the manufacturing inter-
ests which comprise so large por-
tion of the life and prosperity of the
nation. furthermore, this grasp of
conditions is shown by the growing
] realization in the South of the need of
trained craftsmen and educated work
men to conduct it's colossal manufact-
uring interests.
Like textile manufacturers in foreign
countries, manufacturers in the South
are recognizing that the system of
training workmen in the mill is in
effective, for the textile mill is an es-
tablishment whose chief purpose Is
production and not instruction. Con
sequently they have been awake to
| the necessity of establishing textile
| schools, from which are to come
trained workmen ard educated en-
gineers for the carrying on Of their
large and growing textile industrial
enterprises.
The first cotton trade school in the
South is that started in 1S0S-1S90 in
connection with the Georgia School Of
Technology at Atlanta, Lyman Hall,
president. Clemson College, s. c., has
also recently opened a textile depart
ment in a building especially erected
for it's use under the direction Of j..
| II. NJ Beatty. BY the establishment
of these two trade teaching institu-
tions the South has justified its claim
to textile educational enterprise.
The Atlanta institution Is very COM
plete. 1t was designed by a Boston
architect, and as it stands it embodes
the very latest ideas of mill cOnstruc-
! ton, as we'll as a convenient school
department.
The school is the outcome Of the
legislative act of December, 1897,
which appropriated $4,000 for the es-
tablishment of the Textile School on
condition tAat its friends contribute
$4,000 additional in money and ma
chnery A wealthy philanthropist,
Mr.. Aaron French of Plttsburg, be-
came the chief benefactor of the insti-
tuition. In his honor it has been
named "The A. French Textile
School," In December, 1898, the leg
islature appropriated $4,000 for two
consecutive years for the support of
the school. The building is of brick,
$50 by 20 feet and three stories in
height. The basement floor contains
the laboratory, dye house, receiving
and finishing rooms, store and wash
rooms, the engine room, glnery and
a lecture room. On the first floor one
finds the department devoted to pre-
pairing the warps and weaving. Here
are also the designing loom, room
| for jacquard designing, an exhibition
department besides tho principals Of
flee. The top floor is occupied by the
carding and spinning department,
where the cotton is brought from its
crude state up to finished yarn
ready for weaving.
The equipment of the school is com
plete. In app-c citation of the advan-
tage of having the future mill men
of the South familiar with the ma
chlnery. the machine manufacturers
have donated whatever was required
by way of equipment to a valuation
of $4,000. The shatting makers, the
betting company, the automatic sprlnk-
ling company, the ventilating and heat
ing company followed in line as did
the makers of the Drosophore humidi-
fiers-machines very essential to the
cotton manufacturing industry in the
hot, dry South, where natural atmos-
pheric conditions would otherwise be
too unfavorable. Every machine OF
consequence known to the cotton man
ufacturing industry is to be found
here, and in most cases in considerable
variety of makes Of manufacture.
The student who has mastered the
technicalitles of the plant in n school
of this sort will have no trouble II
manipulating or caring for any ma
chine he may find in any up-to-date
mill in actual business. There are
four types of cards; "A Winshlp sixty
saw cotton gin, gin feeder and con
denser; two kinds Of drawing frames,
railway head, a ribbon lapper,
comber FIVE processes of fly frames,
three types of ring spinning frames,