The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-07-18
TO TEACH WOMEN
BUILDING TRADE
School viii Be the First Of Its
Kind In This Country.
WILL Be OPENED IN THE FALL
staff Of Six Teachers and Room For
$50 Pupils-Thirty-s Women Al
ready Enrolled For the Course That
Will Cover Two Years.

1oO Pupils hirty-sS women Al
ready Enrolled For the Course That
Will Cover Two Years.
Women may now be plumbers, they
may be carpenters. builders and brick
layers, and. what is more. they are go.
ing to be taught how to be these
things effectively. A school for wom'
en- to learn these trades will be start
ed on Oct. IL. according to the state
ment of Thomas j. Buckley, president
of the Master Builders Association of
Greater New York. and already thirty
six women have engaged to take the
two year course that will be given at
the new school. Ground for the school
building has been broken at Winfield
Station, n. Y, aud Mayor Gaynor will
be asked to lay the cornerstone in
July,
The school Will have room for 100
pupils and will begin with staff of
six teachers. The money needed for
the new building has been raised from
private subscriptions, and already the
necessary $4,000 needed for the
school has been promised. The Mas
ter Builders association. which is an
organization of eighty contractors OF
Greater New York. has been moved TO
take up the matter OF womans train
ing for these trades by the receipt of
over sixty communications in 1911
from women that they desired to enter
them. 1t found on investigation that
there was no way for women to fit
themselves for work in these supPos-
eddy masculine vOcations in this city
school is in Berlin.
Got the Idea From Europe.
Mr.. Buckley said that while be was
travelling in Europe last February he
came across a trade school for women
in Berlin that had over 300 pupils. He
was surprised to learn that in Berlin
there were fOrty-six women engaged in
erecting buildings as building bosses.
He made careful study of the con-
ditions. he said. and on returning put
the matter of a trade school before the
association. AS soon as it was found
that such venture would be profitable
a trade school on the associations
ground at Winfield. n. T.. was decid-
ed on.
In the the last year sixty applied TO
the association for information about
how they might tit themselves for such
work, Mr. Buckley stated. and thirty
six have already signitied their inten-
ton of joining the school The build
ing will be equipped to teach them
bricklaying plastering. carpentry,
steamfittiug and steel construction. and
they will also be taught how to esti
mate the value of work The course
will last two years.
A Day School.
According TO the associations state |
ment. there are now in New York three |
women builders. OF whom Miss Dur |
kin, who recently obtained the con- /
tract. for the new school building on |
Longfellow avenue, the Bronx. Is the
best known. There are also three wo-
man architects and six female civil en-
gineers.
The new school. according TO Mr.,
Buckley, will aim not so much to fit
the women for the manual part of the
trades that will be taught them. but
for employing others and doing the
needed head work. II will be within
easy reach of New York and is intend
ed chiefly as day school. no plans
having been made in the proposed
building for dormitory.
Edward l.. Middleton. architectural
engineer. will have charge of the
staff.