Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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MIND AND HAND. 21 difficult until it can be done accurately and rapidly. The boys then make more useful articles, such as mallets and stands. The work in turning is completed with a few simple exercises in pattern making. It is not the intention to make trades- men of the boys. They are in the shop ninety minutes every clay, five days in the week. In one term this amounts to one hundred and fifty hours, or fifteen working days. Some allowance should be made for loss of time in changing classes and by the exercises in the school hall. It would be impossible to take a boy sixteen or seven- teen years old and make a tradesman of him in so short a time. That is not the purpose. It is intended to teach the boys how to use and care for tools, to give them general information, and teach them how to combine mental and manual labor. Every student has to carry work in English and mathematics along with his shop work. Thus it is that the man of the future will both be an educated man and under- stand the use of tools. Ed Haines. SCARLET AND WHITE. They ' re scarlet and white, Who says they ' re not right? These colors of I. T. S. Let him who would Term them no good, He ' s a traitor to I. T. S. But loyal is he On whom the colors you see, The colors of I. T. S. Three cheers for the white, And the scarlet ' s all right; They ' re the colors of T. T. S. Long may they be worn, And the students adorn, The students of I. T. P. L. E. WOOD-WORKING SHOP.

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TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT. THE WOODWORKING SHOP. I 1ST order to enable the hoys of this city to train both the mind and the hand, the citizens of Indianapolis have erected the Industrial Training School on South Me- ridian Street. On the second floor of the north build- ing is a room fifty by ninety feet, known as the woodworking shop. It is heated by steam and lighted by windows on four sides. About one half of the wall space is given to windows. The windows are provided with shades. The shop is equipped with thirteen double joinery benches, twenty pattern- maker ' s benches, twenty lathes, four pat- tern-maker ' s chuck lathes, one large pat- tern-maker ' s lathe, two circular saws, one band saw, one jig saw, two planing ma- chines, two grinding machines and a uni- versal trimmer. On the southwest corner of the shop is a tool room. It is parti- tioned off from the rest, and contains a collection of special tools. The shop is also provided with an assortment of tools used in carpentry and turning, for the use of the bench work, turning, and pattern- making boys. Upon entering the shop we see forty-five boys, working with might and main at the exercises which the instructors have given them. Each day one of the boys of the class is detailed to this department. It is his duty to become familiar with the names of the tools and to furnish them to the other boys on checks. The forty-five stu- dents are in two classes — twenty-five in the bench class and twenty in the turn- ing or pattern-making class. At present there are three classes a day in bench work, three in turning and one in pattern- making and foundry work. The pattern- making boys are in the woodworking shop only a part of the time. We can accom- modate one more class in bench work, though another year will probably see the limit reached. In the bench class two boys work at each bench. Each boy has, on his side of the bench, a vise for holding work which he may be fitting, and a stop for holding stock which he may be dressing. He has, also, a drawer in which to keep his indi- vidual tools. On each side of the bench is a press in which are kept the general tools ; i. e., the tools which are used by all the classes. They consist of a hammer, mallet, saw, square, gauge, level, dividers, rule, screw-driver, oil stone, brace and box of bits. The first work this class has to do is in squaring up stock and laying off work. This is followed by exercises in boring and chiseling, and this by work in making joints. From this on the work is more of the nature of individual work. Cabinets, brackets and newel posts are constructed, each boy making one or more parts. All the work is such as tends to make the boy think what he is doing. He must know how and why he makes each cut. The second half year ' s work is in turn- ing Each boy is assigned to a lathe at which he is to work. He is given four tools and shown how to use them. Later on he is given two more tools. With the six tools he can make all the cuts used iu turning. The hoys are warned of the peril in careless movements about ma- chinery and then set to work. The first exercise is in turning a straight cylinder. The work then becomes more and more

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22 MIND AND HAND. FORGING. ¥ ORGING as taught in the Industrial Training School is one of the most interesting subjects, both to pupils and visitors, that is found in the mechanical course. Any work which requires thought and constant attention becomes pleasant, and forging undoubtedly requires both. This is illustrated by the three-pronged barbed steel fork which the boys have just been making. Steel burns very easily, and when once in the fire must be constantly watched ; it will not do to leave it a moment, for in just that moment it may burn. Or if a boy thoughtlessly dips his steel into water while hot he might as well try to work glass as that steel. Another feature of forcing; which srives a boy good training is the great need of care from the first. The first step in any exercise must be as careful as the last, for each step depends upon the one previous. If a mistake is made early in the work it is almost impossible to rectify it by careful work afterward. If a chisel slips, if a fuller is set in the wrong place, if the helper strikes too quick, or if the material becomes too hot, the work is spoiled. After a mistake of this kind has been made it is sometimes possible to partially correct the error, but the benefit of the work has been lost. For the benefit of any who do not know the method of teaching such a subject as this, it may be well to say a few words in explanation. For this purpose let us take the making of a hook — apparently a very simple thing to make. Before the boys begin work the teacher carefully explains to them the points to be considered in making a hook. He explains where the point of greatest strain is, where the weakest and strongest points are, and all facts of this kind. Next he makes a hook before them, carefully explaining at each step the reason for everything. At the same time he inspires the boys with confi- dence in themselves, and when they go to their forges each boy feels confident that he can do the work. When a boy has confidence in himself nothing is impossible to him. This all goes to show the reason why every boy should take forging, if possible. It not only teaches the use of the black- smith ' s tools but it develops and quickens the mind and hand at the same time that it relaxes the mathematical and literary part of the brain. A boy who takes forg- ing will undoubtedly be able to do more and better work than if he did not take it. F. F. Ballard. FOUNDRY CLASS. A I All E foundry class is the object of great I interest at present. This department of the Industrial Training School began op- eration January 27, 1896. There are twen- ty-four of us, every one willing to help make the class a success. Mr. Cox, our in- structor, is very enthusiastic in his work, it being his object to have our class make its best possible showing. Briefly speaking, molding is the art of making forms in sand. Into these forms or molds, molten iron is poured. Some of the difficulties that a beginner in foundry work has to contend with, is his awkwardness in handling the tools nec- essary to do good work. The sand that we use for making molds must be tem- pered, that is, made damp and well mixed before it is fit for use. The mixing is ac- complished by means of shovels and boys behind them who like exercise and get it by throwing the sand around promiscu- ously. This part of the foundry work comes about as near being labor as any. One