Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-12-16

OF business nowadays, and there arc
p enty OF moneyed men anxious 0 get
into it, so that your able son v GU d b
Just the n they needed to handle the
plumbing and sanitary departn ent OF
the firm. The writer knows two mem.
bers of one of the largest plumbing
contracting firms in New York. One
OF them, the head, is only thirty-lour
years old, and he began as a plumbers
helper in a small city when he was
eighteen. He is earning thousands OF
dollars a year; but he had 10 advance
In the way your boy will have to go II
he takes up plumbing. Also there are
various other openings, particularly
with municipalities, which require
plumbing and sanitary inspectors ano
superintendent.
The studies referred to, which have
to be accomplished before your son
could get very far toward being a SAM
tary engineer, include a wide range of
subjects. These may be shown, for
example, in the requirements of an
average examination for plumbers
license In n Of the country's large
cities. They run about as follows,
The selection of fixtures, including
knowledge of simplicity, efficiency,
cleanliness, durability and relative
cost; all about l%avatories; kitchen
sinks, strainers, waste pipes, grease
traps, etc; bathtuDs, merits of diff
ferent makes, advantages of shower
baths; laundry tubs, material type, and
position; slop sinks; water closets; re-
frigerators; flushing apparatus; water
service pipes, how to connect with
street mains, stop cocks, etc.; fixture
supply pipes, how to obtain a uniform
supply of water, how the height of a
column of water effects pressure;
storage tanks, material, supports, ca
pacity. connections, precautions; hot
water supply system, boilers, water
backs, piping; designs of pipe fixtures,
uses, material, etc., of drain, soil,
waste, vent, and water supply pipes,
testing, strength, fittings, etc.; main
drains, main traps; air inlets; traps;
ventilation pipes; effects of freezing;
principles and knowledge of the differ
ent parts Of pumps.
In addition to all the foregoing,
which are required down to the utter
most detail, your ambitious boy will
be wise to study the principles of me
chanics, hydromechanics, elementary
chemistry, gas making and distribution,
drainage and sewerage, sources of
water supply, water filtration, cold and
hot water supply, plumbing inspection,
plans and specifications for plumbing,
geometric drawing, reading architects
drawings, steam fitting and its access
series, radiators and coils, heating and
power boilers, principles of heating and
ventilation, steam generation, steam
heating pipe systems, exhaust and va
cuum systems, hot water heating VS.
TENS, central station heating, hot air
heating, blower systems, drying and
cooking by steam, engine room equip
ment.
This sounds like a tremendous course
from as the result of night study; but
others who have gone before him have
done it. 1t is necessary, If your boy
expects to reach the top of the trade
and make it a scientific p~rofession-to
be ANYTHING more than a master plum
Der Of the old-fashioned little shop
variety, whose days are largely spent
simply in repairing leaks, putting in
new faucet washers. and doing other
jobs of a more or less trifling nature.
AS in all businesses, a liking for the
work is essential for one to reach the
top, and this liking and the application
that the liking brings, should go a long
way towards bringing him there. The
day has gone by when he who learns a
trade must always remain a tradesman.
particularly in the much maligned n
little understood trade of plumbing
now sanitary engineering.
Copyright, 1910, by the Associated Lit
erary PreSs.)