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Show 346 REPORT OF SUP~RINTENDENT OF F ~ I A NSC HOOLS. ' Work in a m d and iron has been done almost entirely from models. Our intention is to havo pupils make drawings from models in the schoolrooms md make tllemod-el8 in the shcnps from these drawings. Conventional dosips cltn bereproduced in needlework, fancy designs, and patterns. Wood carving will also claim attsntion this year. I n woodwork p ~ ~ p islhso nld learn the growth, structure, and kinds of wood. In ironwork he should learn how iron is obtained the different kinds of iron, proper-ties of steel, etc. Those working in oloth shouid learn the different kinds of mate-rid in cloth, how cloth is made, etc. Those working in leather should lee~rn the source and manufacture of different kinds of leather. Teachers and pupils har,e a more vital intereat in their work when they take a connected work than wllen ihe different lines of work are made antagopintie. Teachers are working for s common interest when one's success ismaking easler the st~ccesso f othera. Teachars and pupils am to a certain oxtent, indeed to a great extent, making a common growth. Courses of work are made out by the different industrial workers, not to be slav-ishlsfollowed, but for the purpose of better organiaing the work. It makes the work definite, ilnd makas it easy to follow up the progress eaoh pupilia making. These courses of work are not intended to include a11 t,hat is done, but simply to inrlicate the lnnin featnrrs snd general plan. Twent7-one buys received instruction the past year in the hlsoksmith aho and one hundred in the carpenter shop. We expect l a start s, olsas of girls in woo&ork this year, i n o l~~d inr i~ggh t work in wood carving. Work ia oavyenter shol,.-The school is divided into four sections, two for boys nttending school in afternoon, and t,wo for boys attending school in forenoon. In addition, there are eighteen regular apprentices, nine in the morning and nine in the evenin . On hfondays and Saturday8 tho regular apprentices do whet repairing may he neccasary nnd prepare material far class work. Esch of the four sections report at tho shop for two half days during the reek, on Tuesday, Wedueallay, Thursday, and E'ridw, for three hours each halfday, from 8.30 to 11.30 a.m. and from 1 to 4 p.m. Esch section is divided into two divisions, one for knife work and one for bench work. The firet hour of eaoh session is devoted to blackboard exerrtisea and general language vork, using objects to be seen in the shop. The whole olsss takes part in this. The second and third hours are devoted to actual work. The division in knife work has a low table large enough for all; they can sit or stand, as they choose. Converastian concerning the work is encouraged. At first they out small stickstoan even length; thesesticksrepreeentlines. With glue they fasten them to apanel in a variety of arrangements. Snbseqnently they split thin strips of any soft wood and shape themin triangles,aqnsres, and other forms. These can be laid away and later on glued together 20 as to form solids. Still Inter on they oanstruet such things as they can see or have aeen. Sometimes s, model is shown them. This eaoh boy examines care full^. Then the mods1 ia removed snd they reproduce it from memory. . Eseh boy has a regular plaoe at the bench. A regular oonrse of woodwork is fol-loverl out. Oberlieuce, pnnctuality, and oleilnliness are striatly exaoted, and a feel-in of fellowship among the workers is enoouraged. %ovk in the blnoksnitb shop.-(I) Workin iron.-Nmes of tools, their uses and places. Iron as a, metal; how obtaiined. propertiesand their difference in oaatlron, wroaght iron, and steel; granular and dbrous stato steel for edge tools. (2) Forge work.-Making fire; heat as applied at forge; mobijity of metal though heat. Exereiaes: (1) Forge rectangular prism from rountliron ta given size and length. (2) Forge n quadrangular pyramid from round iron to given size an11 length. (3) Make a lwok aud staple use atook from former exercises for the hook, and for the staple use 2-iuoh round iron. (4) Bend circles from Q-inch round iron, single and ooujplex. (5) Make links; use Q-inoh round iron; this iualndes bending and weld iug, and is the simplest form of a weld. (6) Make a riug from 3-iuoh rounrl iron iuolncling bandina and weld. Make an eyebolt from +-inch round iron. Make a neak-yoke center?ron; this embraces three of the former exercises. Make 8ttaight welds anvarious shaped iron, round, flat, and square. Make ra wagon wrench; in this exercise a, T weld is made Ily jomping rs piece of +-inch rounrl iron into n pisoe 4 inch square and shaped into B wrench. Benil lhinch iron to a right angle on the flat an,lbuildn the outor corner, havingtheinnereornerrounded. Bendlh-inch iran t o e right t!na?e on the edge and baild up theouter corner, hrwing theinneroor-nerround. Cnt and weld la-inch by +inch iron to right angle on the edge,the outer corner full and the inner corner round. Bend~in~~hroundirontoarigl~taogle a ~ bduil d up outer corner. Forge a clevis from 1-inchb y +-inch irou; this exercise takes u p tho pnnohinx of holea in iron while hot and Llla s l i~~pinofg clrc111ar disks. Make an 8 wrench from 1-inch by +-inch iron. Make a pair of blnekamith'a tongs; the jaws are forged from +-inch ronncl iiron, and the hand holes are ,$inoh round; ' this exercise combines uearly all the former exeroises. Make aa alligator wrench out of steel. |
