The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-12
INSTRUCTOR FOR MACHINE DEPT,
 TRADE SCHOOL
A. L. Graffam, Who Has a Wide
 Experience, is Selected.
LARGE EQUIPMENT PURCHASED
Course Will Run Nine Hours a Day, Three at Study, Six at
 Machines.

The new State trade school on
 John street, has at last secured the
 man they have been looking for to l take charge of the instruction in the machine department of the school MT. A. l.. Graffam of Natick, Mass,
 has been chosen and has accepted the position.
 MT. Graffam was born in Bangor,
 Maine, and is fl years of age. He attended the public schools in Ban gor. Later he completed four years evening course at the School
 of Design in Providence while work Ing for Browne & Sharpe. In addi- t1on to this, he has taken correspond ence school courses and attended summer schools.
 His practical experienced in the world of work began with the Mason Machine Works of Bangor, where he worked for six months. He then went to Providence and enlisted for three years of training with Browne & Sharpe, during which time he studied drawing and mathematics at the School of Design. He also had apout three years experience with the American Screw Co. in general machine work, part of the time be- ing spent in the experimental depart ment. Other positions of this kind were with Fay & Scott of Dexter, Me, The Waterville Iron Works, Hol- HngsWorth & Whitney and Cutchin & Johnson. As a draftsman, Mir. Graf fam was with the United Shoe Ma chlnery Co.,, then located at Win chester, Mass, for three years, during which time he came to know inti- mately the important part drafting and designing plays in manufacture This was followed by three years of special work as associate editor for the well known publication "Machin- cry" during which time he travelled widely over this country, visited many manufacturing plants and devoted much time to various investigations along mechanical lines.
 Finally deciding to take up teach ing as his permanent work, he spent five successful years as teacher of drawing, and head of the Depart n,ent of Manual Training ln the Pennsylvania Normal School, Indiana Ia, building up the department to the limit of the means of the school. This was followed by two years at the Hampton Normal and Agricu1- tural Institute at Hampton, Va, where he taught the classes in me- chanical drawing in connection with the Trade School. MT. Graffam left Hampton to take charge of the work in manual training in the public schools of Natick, Mass He will take up the work here as soon as possible after his school year closes at Natick, which will be about July 1.
 The course here will consist of a nine hour school day, about two- thirds of which will be spent in a machine shop, with much the same discipline and standard of quality and speed which are required in the fac- tory machine department The rest of the day will be spent in class room, where the same high standard will be required in the study of me- chanical drawings and mathematics.
 The instruction in drawing and Mathematics will probably be given by Mr. l. R. O'Neill.
 The machine equipment for the third floor where the machine course will be given is to be the finest which money can buy. The complete list W hich has now been ordered and is coming forward rapidly follows:
 One 13x6 Whftcomb lathe, one 22x 22x5 Whitcomb planer, one IA inch G. 6 &E. shaper, one No. 0 Cincin- nati milling machine, one Springfield grinder, one Blout speed lathe, one 1Sx8 F. B. Reed lathe, one 14x6 Hen dey lathe, one Sensitive drill, one 21 back geared vertical drill, one 22x22x 5 Gray planer, che 15 P. & J. shaper, one No. 2 B. & s. universal milling machine, one B. & s. plain milling machine, one Wells cutter and ream- CT grinder, one Il 7a inch Higley cold saw.
 The power and light for the school will be supplied by the United Illumi- rating Co. The machine department will be run by a 20 h. D. General Electric motor of the most approved type which will be hung from the ceiling. Instruction will be free of charge to the students.
 It is now hoped that the school can beopened for instruction in both the machine and carpentry departments for the day sessions at least, about the time the public schools close, al- though the exact date cannot be giv- en as yet. It is not improbable that some preference will be given in the selection of students to those who secure the largest amount of public school training before they apply for Q admission.