The sun., 1903-02-08
COLLEGE MEN IN OVERALLS.
4 WORKSHOP UNIVERSITY FOR
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.


students From Al over the World At Wori
In the Electric Shops In the Mohawl
vaiiey-Pay. sI.aS . Day-Neari,
Twenty Foreign Countries Represcntet
The young American who is ambitioui
to be captain Of industry nowadays mus
undergo Spartan apprenticeship before ht
10 fitted to take his place as specialist In the
industrial organization. Even aft r he has
spent three or four years In academic WORN
al the university, and has followed this ur
up with two or three years OF professional
work In an engineering school. the future
shipbuilder, or ironmaster, or electrica!
three or four more years In practical az
prentice work before he Ia qualified TO step
on the lowest rung Of the indust, tal ladder
Organized workshop instruction for col
lege graduates 10 Of very recent origin. Tor
II was only lately that the self-made cap
that a college graduate was Of much &C
count "a \ practical man Of affairs. But
since the great universities have founded
scientific schools Of professional engineer
Ing. the college graduate is becoming
respected person In workshops. Some
Of the leading engineering works have
organized student depal tmsnts, and they
tena nts Of industry:
Out in Altoona, for instance, where the
Pennsylvania Railroad has sort OF hos
pital for injured and broken down rolling
stock. you will find among the 1900 smoke
begrimed workmen little colony OF young
men from the universities-sons OF mil
lionaire captains Of industry-working Tor
81 a day. Young fellows Just out of Har-
ward and Yale and Cornell who are am
bilious to AL their fathers shoes when the
time comcs work from A. NJ. until T. M:
building locomotives and freight cars and
passenger coaches.
There is a regular course of work for
them. AZ carefully planned as a college
curriculum, beg inning with repair work
in the locomotive erecting shop, and taking
them through all the shops and offices.
This apprentice course covers four years.
Anoln., llS9,9us , railway ya ssho9i Is tsn tna,
Rsi,wsyv Ih Wy mr and h. mo,s on ,han one Wall Street
fina meier has sent his boy just from college
out To the Northwest to learn railrosding
in Jim Hills School" The Great North
orn's master has a rema rkible record Is
railway teacher. for he has trained more
railway piesidenis and high operating
The most notable workshop university
in this country il that IN the great electl ic
manufacturing works al Schenectady, In the
Mohawk Valley. New York. Among its
800 -tudeD,s-all college graduates-are
Young men from Eng land Scotland, France,
Germany, Swi zerland Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, Holland, Spain. Italy, Russia.
Brazil. Me xico, Canada. siam and Japan.
Nearly all The leading engineering schoo Is
of the world are rep! esented there.
Prob b nowhere in the world Is there to
I've found such a Cosmopolitan colony OF
university men. Two young men VIII be
testing n motor. intended, perhape. for a
London underground railway or fer
South African gold mine, and one Of the
men will be from the University of Toxic,
Japan, and The other from the Ecole Poly
technique in Paris
from London University will be q student
from the famous German technical school
at Charlottenberg Every well-known
American university has sent its graduates
to Schenectady. The Cornell colony alone
numbers In the eighborhood OF nifty, and
he Maasac chusetts Institute Of Technology
is not far behind
The Renssr laer Polvt echnic Institute.
rurd,ie University, the University Of
WISCONSIN the University Of Pennsylvania.
I he Sheffield Scientific School OF Yale,
the University Of Michigan. the Columbia
school of Mines, IRhigh University, the
stevens Institute OF Technology. the
of Minnesota engineering grad
yates Of these institutions are always to
be found In Schcnectady's workshop uni
versi,y.
The student appre n, ICES who have gone
through the rigorous Schenectady course
are to be found in electrical engineering
work in the four corners of the earth. Many
of them TAX. places with he General Electric
Company, hlr many more either strike
out FOR themselves or become associated
with electric works and electric plants
abroad
You will find Young university men
from thesa shops engineering underground