New-York tribune., 1908-08-16
VILLAGE FOR CRAFTSMEN
Gustau Stickley to Found Educa-
tiondl COIong an .Jerseg.

The first craftsman village be established in
this country with school where boys may learn
70 work viii be the Craftsman Farm School which
Gustav Stickley, magazine editor and publisher
announced yesterday he intends to build and en-
dow near Morristown, N J.
Ihe school will be incorporated ike any other
educational institution and what Mr. stickney
gives to it will be in the nature of an endow-
iheht The organization Will be PERPETUAL, as the
object of the school IS to put into effect course
OF pTactical training In the principles of self-sup-
port lie has purchased tract of land 800 feet
above sea level in one Of the healthest and pref
nest parts Of New Jersey. where he will establish
ms colony Speaking of his plans. Mr.. StickIey
said:
instead or being housed in one or more large
buildings the students VIII have quarters in small
cottages scattered the estate AS the school
grows other small tracts land will be added not
necessarily adjoining the parent estate, but here
and there, according to desirabllity of situation
ana surroundings. This is with the idea Of sep
arating the students into colonies for the purpose
OF developing the individuality of each separate
OoF py means of making him one of small
group Of workers instead OF a part of the daily
routine OF big organization
The cottages in which the boys to live will
De ouit by themselves the need arises the boys
working side by side with instructors and work
men, and learning the lesson of sound construction
In housebuiding by actually doing the work The
artistic side is also developed because the cottages
VIII be beautiful in line and proportion and will
De so finished as TO embody in a simple way the
oest principles OF architecture construction and
interior decoration. In this way each separate
cottage is made an object lesson and the fact that
the students at work upon It live in 1t and
are encouraged to give expression to their own
IDEAS, both in the design of the building itself and
IN the general scheme Of its arrangement and deco
ration, adds the incentive of personal interest
the work as nothing else could do When the boys
have helped TO build two or three of these houses
they viii be fitted to do skilled work in any kind
OF house building because the work they have done
will not have been theoretical experimental, but
as practical as that OF any regular carpenter or
stonemason.
This principle will prevail in the teaching of all
the trades that included in the school course.
II IS practically re-esablishment of the old ap-
prentice system, only in a much better and more
direct way. because the apprentices will not work
for the profit of the master but for the purpose of
their advancement and. therefore, all their
work viii be directed to the emo that Will make
for the greatest all round development.
The school differs from manual training schools
and other industrial institutions in that the under
lying principle Of il all is TO teach the boy how
TO maintain himself under all circumstances and
in whatever station Of life he is or may in future
find himself Whether a boy be the OF poor
mechanic or Of the wealthy president of railroad,
the fundamental knowledge of how to his
hands 10 make the things that he needs and how
TO get his living from the soil will give him
training that equips him to grasp any work that
may come TO him afterward and will give him
broader outlook than if he Were actually brought
up from childhood in the shop organizations
which is be the of his future work In
the latter case there might be much knowledge OF
technical detail but no breadth Of outlook and no
strong grasp Of forms that would enable the boy
10 meet an emergency. Specializing at the start
means the loss of perspective and a certain me-
chanical development that ends by leaving the boy
only a part Of the system instead Of the strong
individual worker