The requirements for admission to the evening classes are similar to those for the day. Graduates of other schools are received on presentation of proper credentials; for all others, examinations are required. The candidates must be familiar with the English language and the principles of arithmetic. For the first part, a short composition must be written on a given theme, and a certain amount must be written from dictation; while in the latter are included addition, decimals, fractions, percentage, ratio, and proportion.

The evening courses are free to graduates of the evening high and drawing schools, operatives of the mills and machine shops, and other residents of Lowell, to such numbers as may be accommodated in the various classes. Applications are considered in the order in which received.

The fees in the evening classes are much lower than in the day classes, and are as follows: Cotton, woollen, or worsted spinning, fee for all except residents of Lowell, $2.50 per term or $5 per year; designing, or chemistry and dyeing, fee for all except residents of Lowell, $2.50 per term or $5 per year; warp preparation, weaving, or mechanical engineering, fee for all except residents of Lowell, $2.50 per term.

Lectures are given during the school year upon leather belting, general information on oils, electric driving in textile mills, fire protection in mills, cotton, cultivation of cotton, common uses of steam, water power, humidity in cotton mills, sizing compounds and their effect, method of cost finding in mills, patent law, and economy in steam plants.

The annual cost of maintaining the school is about $26,000, and the funds for building, equipping, maintaining, etc., are raised by State and city appropriations, tuition and other fees, and contributions from a friend of the school.

New Bedford Textile School, New Bedford.

This school was incorporated in 1895, the erection of the building was begun in 1898, and it was opened for instruction October 16, 1899. Money appropriated by the State and city built and equipped the school building. Much of the machinery was given or loaned to the school by the manufacturers. The annual cost of maintaining the school is about $18,000, which is met by State and city appropriations, together with fees. The building is the first erected in the United States exclusively for the purposes of a textile technical school.

The steam plant gives the students an exceptionally good opportunity of putting into practice their instruction on steam engineering, including as it does a feed water heater, oil separator, two feed pumps, and other accessories to a complete steam plant. The heating of the building illustrates both the direct and indirect systems, and arrangements are made by which the building can be heated by live or exhaust steam, and condensation water returned automatically to the boiler or otherwise. The building is equipped throughout with a system of Swedish mill telephones.

The school has a wide variety of cotton-mill machinery, and this feature of the school is considered as being almost perfect for the purpose of a technical school that is devoted exclusively to the teaching of cotton manufacturing. Almost every maker of cotton machinery in the United States is represented in the school, together with several English builders, giving the student an opportunity of becoming acquainted with machines varied in construction, although utilized for performing the same work.

The courses of instruction are divided into day and evening classes, and the courses are shown below:

Day classes: The principal course of instruction in the school is the general cotton manufacturing course, which is intended to give a student a general knowledge of all the cotton manufacturing processes, and sufficiently specific and complete information to qualify him to hold a position as superintendent of a cotton spinning or weaving mill, or other responsible position. The course covers three years. There are also five alternate courses: Yarn mill superintendent's course, one year; plain weave mill superintendent's course, one year; designer's course, two years; mill engineer's course, two years; dry goods commission house course, one year; chemistry and dyeing course, three years; and yarn preparation and knitting, two years. Students must be at least 14 years of age, and may be of either sex or any nationality. Those who have been students of other technical institutions, colleges, or universities, and graduates of high schools are admitted on certificates. Other applicants for admission to the school must either pass an entrance examination in arithmetic and English, or present satisfactory evidence of necessary qualifications in elementary education. The fee for tuition in the day classes is $50 per term of approximately four months, making $100 for the school year, for residents of Massachusetts. The fee for others is $75 per term, or $150 per year, in accordance with an act of the legislature. Diplomas are given on the satisfactory completion of a course of study.

The courses of study for day classes are as follows: The regular cotton manufacturing course is intended for the training of men aspiring to the position of agent, superintendent, overseer, or other responsible position in a cotton mill or a cotton machinery works, or to give an opportunity to a man holding a responsible position to perfect his knowledge of the cotton mill business. It includes: First year — plain weaving, fancy weaving, designing, hand-loom work, mechanism and machine drawing, warp preparation, and calculations; second yearcotton picking, carding, combing, and spinning, steam engineering, advanced designing, and mechanism and machine drawing; third year— advanced weaving, manufacture of combed yarn, designing for pile and Jacquard fabrics, mill engineering, and knitting or dyeing. Facilities are given in the third year for the students to carry on experimental work,

and each student graduating is expected to write a thesis, or perform some special work in connection with some matter of general interest to a cotton manufacturer.

The yarn mill superintendent's course is intended to qualify a man to hold a position as superintendent of a cotton yarn mill, boss spinner or boss carder, or other responsible position in connection with a cotton carded yarn mill or cotton machinery works. It includes cotton picking, carding, and spinning, machine drawing and mechanism, and steam engineering.

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The weave mill superintendent's course is intended for men who desire to become superintendents of weaving mills, boss weavers fixers, or to hold other positions requiring expert knowledge of plain weaving. It includes warp preparation, weaving, designing, hand-loom work, machine drawing, mechanism, and steam engineering.

The designer's course is intended to qualify a man to hold a position as a designer in any textile mill, whether cotton, woollen, worsted, or silk. This, in the first year, follows the lines of the general cotton manufacturing course. The second year of this course, however, is different, almost exclusive attention being given to designing and practice on hand and power looms.

The mill engineer's course is intended for those men who desire to follow the occupation of a textile mill architect or engineer. This follows the lines of the general cotton manufacturing course, excepting that especial attention will be given to instruction with regard to power plants, mill designing, and engineering and transmission of power.

Evening classes: The school is in session four evenings per week for the benefit of those students who are engaged in the mills and workshops during the day. Practically free education in any or all branches of cotton manufacturing is offered to those who cannot defray the whole cost of their textile education. No difference is made between the courses of instruction of the evening and those of the day. The same machinery and, same instructors are retained for the evening classes, and, in order to accommodate the larger number of students found in the evening technical schools, additional instructors have also been engaged for the benefit of the evening students alone.

A special feature of the evening instruction is in the minute subdivision of subjects, so that any one employed in the mill will find in the plan of studies something that will assist him or her, and which will apply to the department in which he or she is daily engaged, and yet will not necessitate an entry for a long course of study in order to get such instruction as is desired. Satisfactory evidence of ability to read and write English and a knowledge of elementary arithmetic are required. The fees for the evening classes are uniformly $2.50 per term of three months in each subject. Students taking two subjects and attending four evenings per week pay $5 per term. In a few subjects instruction is given free to

residents of New Bedford. The staff of instructors numbers 17, principally mill overseers and superintendents, or those formerly holding such positions.

For evening classes the course in carding covers picking and card-room machinery, including combing, to be completed in a two-years course, two evenings a week. Mule spinning is a one-year course, two evenings per week. Ring spinning is a one-term course, two evenings per week. Cotton sampling is a one-term course, one evening per week. Spooling, warping, and slashing is a one-term course, two evenings. Weaving and fixing course covers plain and fancy weaving and loom fixing on all the different makes of American looms. It is a two-years course, two evenings per week. The second year of this course is devoted to fancy weaving, including dobby and drop-box looms, both weaving and fixing. The Jacquard weaving course covers one year, two evenings per week.

In the designing department, a course in cloth dissection is intended to be a primary designing study sufficient to meet the requirements of those connected with the weaving departments of the New Bedford mills without qualifying them to hold positions as designers. It is a one-year course, two evenings per week. Hand-loom work is given a two-year course of one evening per week. The full course in designing covers designing of all kinds of cotton fabrics, including both cloth dissection, cloth construction, and hand-loom work. It is a two-years course. This class is taken in two sections, as follows: Elementary -three evenings per week; advanced-three evenings per week.

A course in mill arithmetic is of one year, two evenings per week. A course in yarn-mill arithmetic covers one year, two evenings per week.

Bradford Durfee Textile School, Fall River.

This school was organized in 1899, and it is expected that the building which it will occupy will be completed during the summer of 1903. The total cost of the plant when ready for operation will be in the neighborhood of $150,000, not including the cost of the land, which was a gift from the heirs of Bradford Durfee, after whom the school has been named. The establishment of this school was the result of the efforts of the Fall River Loom Fixers' Association, its members being fully alive to the fact that a proper course of training was necessary to make an expert operative. Upon approaching Mr. Leontine Lincoln, of the firm of Kilburn & Lincoln, in August, 1897, and explaining their wishes and the results they desired to obtain, he entered into the plan and heartily supported the idea. He gave the first loom for the association's use, and so enthusiastic were the members that they voted to place it on a float on Labor Day, take it apart, rebuild it, put in a plain warp, and weave as much cloth as possible during the parade. With the aid of four expert fixers all this was done. The first yard woven was presented to Mr. Lincoln, and the remainder was cut into small pieces and given away

as souvenirs. Other men came forward and gave looms and other equipment, and the association's school progressed until it reached its ultimate development in the present incorporated textile school, with Mr. Lincoln as president.

American Correspondence School of Textiles, New Bedford.

This school has been in existence for several years, having been first. established in Lowell. Its purposes and methods are similar to those of all correspondence schools, and the courses cover substantially the same details as the textile schools, so far as is possible by correspondence.

Students of the school who complete the course and have graduated are entitled thereafter to the benefits of the school by the payment of a small fee to cover cost of printing, mailing, and answering their inquiries. This applies only to students who have completed a full course in any subject. The primary knowledge required for enrollment in the school is only that of reading and writing.

This school is divided into the following departments: Department of cotton manufacture, department of fabric designing, and department of woollen manufacture. The courses in the department of cotton manufacture are intended for treasurers, agents, superintendents, overseers, second hands, third hands, mechanics, spinners, loom fixers, weavers, and other workers in cotton mills and machine shops, salesmen in commission houses, jobbers, converters, dry goods merchants, mill engineers and draftsmen, machinery salesmen, and others. The courses are the following: Complete cotton mill superintendent's course; cotton mill arithmetic course; cotton carding and spinning course; cotton spinning and warp preparation course; cotton warp preparation and plain weaving course; fancy cotton weaving course; cotton carding, spinning, and plain weaving course.

The courses in the department of textile designing are intended for designers and assistant designers, agents, superintendents, overseers, and second hands in weave rooms; section hands, loom fixers, weavers in cotton, woollen, worsted, or silk mills; dry goods merchants, salesmen in commission houses, jobbers, and all persons interested in textile designing. The following courses are laid out: Complete designing course; designer's calculations course; textile coloring course; theory of designing course; cotton designing course; woollen and worsted designing course; silk designing course.

The courses in the department of woollen manufacture are intended. for treasurers, agents, or superintendents of woollen mills; also boss carders, boss spinners, and other overseers, section hands, and those who desire to qualify for such positions. They are also recommended to mill engineers and draftsmen, woollen machinery builders, erecters, salesmen, dry goods merchants or salesmen in commission houses. They are as follows: Complete woollen course; woollen arithmetic course; woollen