Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-11-04

: architect your boy can 60 to an .
architects office-Just how he
= will be advanced, the studies he :
will have to pursue, and why it .
= is necessary for him to go into .
business for himself at certain .
= staoe-The comparative ease 0
with which this can be done.
BY C. w. JENNINGS. .
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III . VI AVE you ever thought about
M architecture as your boys
lesfESE lifcs vocation?
,ssSsI%d If not, perhaps you would
~ ES do well to look little into
this line of human en-
deavor. especially If your boy has Civ
! en- you cause to believe that he takes
to subjects mathematical naturally, or
, is good at mastering this branch of
| learning. For there is today probably
not a more promising or cleaner fisld
iOf industry for a young man than
farcEitecture. And what makes the
opportunities I'm this professionals
profession It Exceptionally bright
lust now Is that the general aim in
building is to combine art with utility
and also the entire land is reverbera-
lting with the sound of hammers and
4riveting machines.
: Not few Of the country's leading
universities teach architecture in
schools especially organized for this
purpose Probably it would be we'll
for your boy, If he has architectural
ambitions. to attend a good school OF
this sort, provided the family finances
permit. But if they will not do not
be discouraged. for more than one sue
Gegsful architect has made himself
such ere now. by starting as an office
BOY In an architects Office. And as an
office boy. or minor clerk, your boy
would do well to start, if he cannot be
sent to q reliable school of architec-
ture.
or course, as an office boy, your boy
will get only four or five dollars g
week In actual money But all the
while he will have his eyes open, pick
ing up the very simplest rudiments Of
the profession; and pretty soon. as
some OF the mysteries of blue prints
and compass, and T square, and tri-
angle. an box wood scale, and thumb
lacks begin to clear up, his employer
will give him an eraser and tell him
10 clean an unfinished drawing Of its
pencil marks. This may be within
two or three months from the time
The yOungster starts to earn his first
weeks wage as Office boy.
Then, within about six months or
SO ne is put before a big table, given
to trace over the lines of a drawing
that have already been made In pen
ell. He Is also shown how to make
alue-prints, the sheets containing the
plans OF the structure to be erected
that are given to the carpenters and
other workmen on the job. by this
dime he has been told something
about water eoloring and is set to
make blue sky behind a finishe
drawing, paint the house pink. and to
splash a vivid green over the grass
in front. Within a year from the time
he entered the OfiCe-if he has got
on--he will be getting eight or ten
dollars a week.
Within another year he will be Civ
on a rough sketch of floor plan and
gOld to draw it out Ito scale" This
means that ne must make a detailed
picture OF the floor OF a house, allow
ing. say. quarter-inch OF space or
the drawing for each foot OF actua
dimensions the floor Is TO be.
It will not be long now till the boy
viii know a lot about drawing anC
begin to look forward to the time ht
viii be called a craftsman; for, inside
Of three years from the beginning, h
viii be earning from SIS to SIS weel
and can probably take the notes giveI
by the prospective owner of modes
dwelling and work out therefrom
Cairly complete set of plans-witl
numerous hints and helps from TIT
boss, of course.
Perhaps the boy by this time ha'
some original ideas of how n hous'
ought TO look, and is able to picture
MS iIeas on paper. This means tina
ne has the rudiments of designer ii
MIN. But, anyhow. he has acquired
the foundation on which a real archi
tect is erected. and goes on for thre-
or four years more, till he can draw
plans for any ordinary building ant
make very acceptable designs. HI
viii be getting, as craftsman, any
where up to $50 a week, and, If he ha
studied hard. he may be foreman owe
several other craftsmen. If the OffiC,
IS a large one. and earning double So
week.
This is apt to be the end of tht
architectural progress Of your boy W.
less he has utilized any opportunitie
that may show themselves. TO get int,
business for himself; for there ar
few high saIaried positions in the pro
fession, an in many cases these com
from political or other pull o
course. such a job as the supeTinten
dent of school buildings in large cit,