covers, drawers, combination suits, petticoats,
kimonos, gymnasium bloomers, swimming suits, buttonholes,
hemstitching on silk skirts, dresses, waists; Bonnaz embroidery on
dresses, waists. Millinery: Veils hemstitched. Art: Pencil and
brush cases. Office: Coats and overalls for janitors employed in
school.

_Dressmaking Department Orders_: Aprons, petticoats, maids' dresses;
machine-made underwear; collars and neckwear; nurses' uniforms;
swimming, bathing, and gymnasium suits; children's and baby
clothes; fine handmade underwear; plain shirtwaists, fine waists,
afternoon gowns, street suits, evening gowns, cloth suits
tailored.

_Pasting and Novelty Orders_: Mounting suspender webbing, mounting
corset samples, pasting suspender tabs and sockets, case making.
Desk sets, lampshades, and candleshades.

_Art Department Orders_: 1. Trade Order Work: Stamping, perforating,
coloring fashion plates, stencil cutting.

2. Custom Work: Stenciling curtains, scarfs, table covers, sofa
pillows; designing patterns for embroidery for table covers,
doilies, bags, buttons, shirtwaists, skirts, parasols, and
chiffon scarfs.

3. Order Work for Other Departments: Decorating book covers, desk
sets, boxes, dress trimmings--panels, lapels, vests; collars and
cuffs, insertions for hand and machine; banding for hats, letters,
monograms: designs for doilies, scarfs, curtains, work-bags.

PLACEMENT BUREAU

From the first the school made some provision for placing its pupils
satisfactorily in the trades for which they are trained. Originally the
heads of departments attended to it, each for her own students, but as
the school grew and the department work increased this method ceased to
be practical. An arrangement was made, therefore, with the Alliance
Employment Bureau to place the girls of the Manhattan Trade School when
they were ready to leave the school or whenever they applied for help
thereafter. This was a most helpful connection when the work was
beginning, but it was understood that when the school reached the point
in its development where the volume of business was great enough, and
other conditions warranted it, a Placement Bureau should be opened in
the school itself. This long-cherished idea went into operation in
October, 1908, when a Placement Secretary was engaged and the school
bureau was opened.