Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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muah Zlliurning Shop By E. Dudley Haskell. FTER passing through the preliminary drawing and wood-working, the tm student has the opportunity of studying the arts of wood-turning, pat- tern making and foundry practice in one of the best equipped shops in the Northwest. In the turning and pattern making shop there are twenty-four Q24j lathes, run by individual motors, and twenty-four C24Q workman's benches, each fur- nished with a full set of wood-working tools and every student has a complete set of edge tools locked in his private drawer. At one end of the room are tiers of seats where the students may assemble while the teacher demon- strates his lecture on a special lathe and bench. In convenient places are to be foundg a large patternmaker's lathe, on which pieces eight feet long or six feet in diameter may be turnedg a jointerg a band sawg a trimmer and a uni- versal guider, also a wax and glue heater, a wood kiln and a table for mixing stains, etc. Near at hand are several rooms much appreciated by the students: a tool room in which every special tool that could possibly aid him in his work may be foundg a gluing room with glue heaters, wood kilns and clampsg a Hnishing room with everything dust-proof and clean for varnishing piecesg a lecture room with tiers of seats and a demonstration lathe and benchg and a stock room with easy access to every kind of lumber. Here also are machinesg a jointer, a planer, a band saw and a universal circular saw, with which the rough lumber can be smoothed and cut down to size before it goes to the hands of the students.

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The Commercial Group contains six rooms, one for bookkeeping, one for typewriting, one for stenography, and three for commercial law, and arith- metic, the group also contains a special library. The Art Rooms, three in number, are located along the north front, and provided with studio lighting, while the rear corridor on this Hoor is arranged as a top lighted Exhibition Gallery. The Domestic Art Rooms consist of a Cooking Room and Housekeeping Suite, with connecting class room, store room, etc., two Sewing Rooms, with Fitting and store rooms, and a Laundry. The Auditorium is placed on the First Floor with gallery opening on the Second and Third Floor corridors, the room seats eighteen hundred persons, and has a stage of generous size. The Auditorium is supplemented by a Music and Lecture Room on the Third Floor, seating four hundred pupils. The Gymnasiums, each 4O'0 x 80'0 , are placed side by side to the rear, and on the same level as the Auditorium, and may be thrown together by means of the roller partitions, for a joint use, a running track serving the double purpose for athletics and spectator's gallery. The Administration Group consists of General Office, Private Ofhce, and Work Room, is placed on the First Floor near the Main Entrance, as is also a Rest Room, Emergency Room, or Clinic, and a Sales Oilice to serve the Auditorium. The Manual Training rooms are placed to the rear in a one story Annex, they consist of woodworking shops and metal working shops, with their Lec- ture Rooms, Store Rooms, Finishing and Preparation Rooms, all conven- iently arranged, there are also two Mechanical Drawing Rooms, they are placed upon the First Floor, and are reached from the shops by supplemen- tary stairways. The Locker Rooms are all placed upon the Ground Floor, are arranged lor general, as well as Gymnasium, uses by means of stairways leading di- rectly from the Locker Rooms to the Gymnasium. Shower baths for both boys and girls are placed in two of the Locker Rooms. A Lunch Room accommodating eight hundred pupils, with Serving Room and Kitchen, occupies a central position upon the Ground Floor. The Mechanical Equipment consists of a steam plenum system of heating and ventilating, with direct radiation in all rooms, and with air purification and temperature and humidity control. A Generating Plant, electric wiring and fixtures, a synchronizing clock and bell system, a house telephone system, and mechanical cleaning appara- tus, complete the mechanical equipment. The building is of fireproof construction throughout, contains 3,656,000 Cubic feet, and was erected complete at a cost of 14.2 cents per cubic foot.

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GE 1-l A few of the many articles the students make in a term are: chisel-han- dles, grips, potato mashers, sock and glove darners, rolling pins, dumbbells, Indian clubs, candle sticks, nut bowls, card trays, ink wells, napkin rings, etc., etc. These exercises are preliminary to the course in pattern making. Pattern making is preceded and illustrated both before and during the course by some dernonstrational and practical work in the foundry. Simple parted, segment, loose part, and built up patterns are studied in detail and samples of each are made, together with their core boxes. Castings are made, in soft metal or brass, of each pattern. The entire work is performed in the method gener- ally used in the best industrial shops, and gives the student a splendid idea of the trade aspects of these subjects. Patterns for a complete gas engine have been made and the brass parts cast in our own foundry. In the foundry, at one end of the large room, are to be found a blast cru- cibal furnace, which will melt any metal except irong a gas furnace, which is used for the softer metals and a core oven for baking cores. In the center is a large crane capable of transporting 2,500 pounds of molten metal. Beyond the crane is a large mound of moulding sand and lining the walls of the room are benches for moulding. The students have made shot, discus, hand wheels, anvils, block and tackle, etc. All this takes place in one semester and I am sure it is true that the stu- dent passing out of these shops is benefited in more ways than one. His hands have become extraordinarily useful, for he is now enabled to earn his living with them. He has learned the principles of two useful trades and last but not least he has augmented the power of his braing his perception is quicker and his intellectual powers broader.