Third prize, $3.00. Carving design. Awarded to Alfred Blak

eney.

Fourth prize, $3.00. Improvement on the electric bell system in the Academy. Awarded to Edward T. Moore.

Fifth prize, $2.00. Spindle design. Awarded to Joseph Taylor. Sixth prize, $2.00. Paper cutter, to be used in the drawing room. Awarded to Joseph Taylor.

The Manual Training School does not teach trades. Its aim is more comprehensive. It lays the foundation for many trades and at the same time recognizes the value of intellectual discipline. It is not assumed that every student who enters the school will be a mechanic. Some will find that they have no taste for manual work, and will turn to other pursuits more congenial to them. Some who develop both natural skill and strong intellectual powers will work their way up through some of the Polytechnic Institutes of the country into higher branches of professional work. Others will find that they are fitted for some branch of mechanical work, upon which they will enter when they leave the school. The general result will be an increasing interest in manual pursuits, more skillful workmen and more intelligent mechanics. The conditions for intelligently choosing the vocation which will yield the greatest happiness and success to the individual, will also be an outcome of this department of the public schools of Newburgh.

The boys in the A Grammar classes, numbering 105, are divided into five classes. They have two and one-half hours each week.

The C Academy boys, numbering 63, are divided into four classes. They have two hours each week.

The B Academy classes number 53, are divided into three classes; they have two hours each week.

The A Academy classes, numbering 32, have two hours each week.

A synopsis of the courses follows, which is intended to cover all the ground, but which may be slightly changed, or perhaps added to, as the time may allow.

FIRST YEAR-CARPENTRY AND JOINERY.

TWO HOURS PER WEEK.

First Series-Carpentry.

Care and use of tools, learning divisions of two-foot rule, to measure accurately, judge relative sizes and distances by eye from blackboard, and learn name and uses of different tools.

. Knife box.

Second Series-Joinery.

I....Halved lap square joint.
2.... Halved lap beveled joint.

3....Halved lap mitred corner joints.
4....Enlarging.

5....Halved dovetail, square.
6....Halved dovetail, oblique.

7....End dovetail, single.

8....End dovetail, several tongues.

9....Half blind, dovetail joint.

10.... Blind mortise.

II....Trough mortise.

12....Angular mortise.

16....Application of above exercises in making a small

panel door, knife box, foot stool or paper rack, tabouret, medicine

chest or blacking box.

SECOND YEAR-CARVING AND TURNING.

TWO HOURS PER WEEK FOR FIVE MONTHS.

Carving-First Series-Engraving.

Exercise I....Grooving across grain with reiner.

2....Grooving with grain with reiner.

3....Carved grooves with reiner.

4....Semi-circular grooves with reiner.

5.... Mechanical curves, with parting tool, ornamenting

with two gouges.

6.... Diamond cross grooves, 3-16 reiner center, panel ornamented with gouges.

7....Free hand curves with reiner and gouges

8....Tendril with buds and berries, with various gouges, drawn free hand.

Carving-Second Series-Relief Work.

Exercise I....Plain Greek border, flat chisels and carvers' punches.

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2....Interlaced Greek border.

4....Conventional clover leaf, moulded.

5....Square panel, quodrofolium.

6....Square panel, maple leaf.

7....Square panel, oak leaf.

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8....Adaptation of foregoing exercises in carving sprays

of vines, etc., on frames and other small pieces.