The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-08
ARTISAN SCHOOL
SYRACUSE PRIZE
PLACE WHERE YOUNG MEN MAY
LEARN THE VARIOUS CRAFTS.
Syracuse Metal Trades Put Up $4,000
for q School in Which Workmen May
Learn How to Work-School Will Be
on a Commercial Basis and It's Out
put Will Be Sold.
C1eveland Plain Dealer.

The Syracuse IN. W Metal Trades
association has taken step that will
no doubt attract no small degree of
attention in cities that have tens OF
thousands of men engaged in various
forms Of manufacture. This is the
foundation Of an artisan school.
A working fund of $4,000 has been
raised in the shape of capital stock,
and number of prominent members
of the association are not only COM
pleting arrangements for the man
agement Of the school, but are also
seeking site so that building opera
tions can, be commenced soon. The
school will have a number of shops as
q part of its practical educational ar
are turned out will be sold for the
good Of the school. The chief purposes
in the minds Of the founders are to
teach industrial arts on a working ba-
sis and to furnish skilled mechanics to
employers. AS one Of its opponents
explains. cit will be a shop with
school attachment and not school
with a shop attachment. /"
Handicraft and Art. y.
The object of the movement, as set
forth by those who have it in charge,
Is to provide shop, In which young
men may learn the art and acquire the
handicraft necessary to meet, the re-
uuirements Of the employers en-
gagged in the various industries Of Sy-
racuse. In addition to experience in
practical work, it is proposed to give
instruction in such studies as will be
chosen employment, and such train
ing in the duties Of life as will make
them useful and desirable citizens.
On a Commercial Basis,
rr carrying this purpose into practical
operation it is proposed to first organize
school shop fully equipped with ma
study and lecture rooms attached, and
thus to furnish the opportunity for in
struction in all its necessary branches
for young men who will thus be enabled
to become accomplished artizans along
the lines which they have chosen.
cit Is proposed,'', the founders de-
clare, "to operate the shop school on
the shop shall make articles which
may be readily sold in the open market;
that 1t shall do work for other shops,
and shall actually make large part Of
the eqP s bee 0f ps th Wtf he
enterprise can thus be made practically
self sustaining after it has been put in
operation. @,$=
The Daily Work of Students.
The plan Of practical work. as ex-
planned bp Professor John E. Sweet who
speaks with authority for the: shop
school, is as follows: II%l==.
1--WE intend to start with a machine
shop, and if that, which is the most diff
fcult of all. is successful, the others
will come. In connection with the ma
chine shop we will teach drafting and
patternmaking- 81 =. ! s,...s, -.
1.-THE next step will be a foundry
where all students will be put, thru
Bs@s IT b ast n5 q Al co 1Fsw e bo5R
drawings. Every student every night
shall write. what he has done and what
he has learned during the day. By this
they will not only learn to observe, but
to. remember and describe things, and
the, use of the English language:
These written statements will be
and handed back to the students. We
propose to have competent instructors
who are themselves practical workmen.
We, propose to start on the simple
things, and change to better and better
as the student progresses. The in
centive to every student is to be pro-
ting to the end, because there is al
ways more and better work .wanted.'
: No Money In It for Stockholders.
''The stockholders Professor Sweet
adds, twill receive no benefit excepting
from the workmen they get in their
work, and the consolation it is likely
to give them to see the thing made
success. The stock will be taken @by
people who want workmen, and those
who want to build up the city. We will
fill the school shop with men who are
running in the street - - s.--.-.
. It will be interesting to learn what
the labor unions Of Syracuse have to
say about this movement,
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