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INDUSTRIAL NOTES
TAILOR SHOP NOTES
(Continued)
-But. he does not stop where we left him.
He has only started up the industrial
ladder, and at the endof the second
year he is still making six pr. trousers a
week but noHor $2.50 per pair. The
training he received at Chemawa mani
fests itself and this boy has sought and
found a higher class of trade and was
tried and found capable. Result: He
now receives under a bill of prices an
average of $3.30 per pair, netting him
$19.80 per week instead of $15.00.
In the meantime this boy has attract
ed the attention of his employer by cut
ting garments for his fellow shop mates,
as he found that he is the only man in
the shop who knows anything about the
cutting of a garment and his efforts in
that line are uniformly good. The
business of the house for which he is
working has increased to such an extent
that they need help in the cutting room
and he is questioned about his fitness
for the prospective vacancy Have you
ever been taught the art of cutting?
Can you lay out and cut and trim a suit?
If so, where did you learn this higher
branch of merchant tailoring, and who
taught you? How long did you serve?
and this Vung man from Chemawa
proudly displays a graduates diploma
from the training school.
Inquiry is made at the school con
cerning this young man's" character and
such being satisfactory, he obtains the
position at a salary of $18.00 per week.
This is an opportunity that seldom pre
sents itself to the ordinary young tailor
because he cannot cut, and if he can he
has only a theoretical knowledge of it.
The young man from Chemawa has the
practical knowledge. He has cut and
trimmed garments each day at his shop
at Chemawa, and as his ideas grew so did
his knowledge of cutting grow with them,
until the cutting of the garment was
and is as easy a task as making it.
He is in harmony with every technical
detail that is required. Pie knows how.
to la out, to save time, to save material
and to save trimmings. He was taught
that in his schooldays at Chemawa; it
was a part of his training and it now be
comes a part cf his success in life. When
a workman brings him a finished gar
ment he is' capable of judging it from the
standpoint of an experienced and trains
ed mechanic. He knows what he wants
and he is able to direct his workmen in
its production, hence bis work becomes
satisfactory to him, to his employer and
to his customer, and after the first sea
son when he becomes acquainted -with
the trade he is in line for an advance in
wages, for which work not less than $25
per week is paid.
"The bov who does his work so well
that it becomes to him a recreation and
a fine art, and to others a joy and a
blessing, finds his insurance in and
through his work." (
Mack Colby and Albert Garry are
ironing the -inch wagon that was made
by two of the blacksmith boys this week.
A recent letter received fiom Paschol
George reports that he has recovered
from his illness and will be back to at
tend school.