The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-12-01

WAN on some half.hnished build.
TsvfHE ing, driving nails with
0NE numbed fingers and han
ding frozen, rough boards,
and you heard that he was getting
only about 81 a day and was car.
pcnter's helper there was every evil
donce to you that there was little
more to carpentry than driving nails
and putting boards together, Ell, what?
For you know that the plans of the
building we're prepared by an srchi-
tect, and therefore. supposed that all
the carpenter had to do was to follow
them, which anybody could do that
knew enough to handle hammer and
saw" AS for brain work being re.
quircd In carpentry. you never imag.
ined such thing II would DO ono
of the last occupations. possibly. that
you would choose for your boy.
But It is never safe to generalize. in
this instance particularly; for that
same carpenters helper, II he pos
scssed average intelligence and ambi-
ton would in all likelihood be fore
man OF carpenters within n very few
| years, and would have big career In
| front of him. II all would depend
| upon his application. Given grit and
| ambition, boy can work up through
/ the carpenters trade TO comparative
| emir.ance. as well as through most
better known lines Of work, It re-
| duires hard work: but what occupa-
ton does not require hard work to
| reach success?
After you have thought over It for
while and learned a few things
about IT, you might do worse than
start your boy ia this trade How to
go about Il and the requirements?
Well, there are few preliminary re-
| qulroments to speak OF further than
| that the applicant should be q reason.
ably healthy boy of about l6 or more,
| and have had some documentary
schooling. Go to a boss carpenter ut
| work somewhere and ask him for a
! job. II you are successful, as you
| will be after seeing n few bosses, your
boy will be put to work as helper at
| bpUlp"uolb lbhllu 90 WIN hio
work win not be carpentering. The
boy knows nothing about It yet. you
know, except that he can probably toll
a hammer from a square, and he has
TO learn before he can become one.
And so, for the first year, he will be
nothing more than the crudest kind Of
assistant to one OF the carpenters
carrying boards and running errands,
and after a while, probably saving on
the ends OF rough lumber and mailing
on joists and scantlIng, The work Will
be generally the same II the boy goes
into a factory and does what is gen
orally known as inside work, and In
the latter he will be advanced at the
end OF the first year to prababy 81
week, and be set at bench work,
mailing holdings, putting window
frames together. etc.
At the end of the second year there
will be another promotion to probably
$3.50 n day (pretty good pay for n
boy Of rs who Is learning trade),
when he will be a sort OF first assist
ant to one Of the master carpenters
and be doing pretty advanced things,
practically the same work, except tho
most particular, that master does,
though, of course, under the latter's
direct supervision. His pay will go
up q little, probably to $1.75 a day.
Having served these three years he
will be obliged to 60 into the carpen'
ters union. The union will be hold
ing out persuasions before this; but,
generally speaking, In most cities 1t
is not necessary to Join the union till
after three years preparatory work
Your boys standing in the union will
be that Of apprentice, which viii con
tinue for two years His pay will be
81 a day, and his work. II inside. viii
be making doors, sash and blinds
mantels, wainscoting, etc, and, out
side. the general work OF carpentry Oh
buildings.
After these nve years OF prepare
ton. your boy will have finished his
course of training and be known as q
full.fedged master carpenter, able te
, do any of the work that any carpen
ter OF that stage is capable of, ant
his pay will be around "a a day O.
eight hours for inside work, and =
more when employed on the outside
And all this by the time he comes O
. age at 81. There are few occupation
! that offer returns as large as this Il
young men.
; Advancement from here on to high
: err positions depends, as n rule, OF
: much more than has been learned II