PASSED CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION 



H. W THORNE, 1379 E. Fifty-Third St., Los Angeles, 

 Cal., enrolled for the Architectural Course while employed 

 as a carpenter, earning $3.50 a day. After studying, he 

 gradually advanced to a high class of work and was able to 

 do his own calculating. Later he took the civil service 

 examination for deputy building inspector and received the 

 highest average ever given in Los Angeles. He was able to 

 answer the technical questions in the examination by means 

 of the knowledge acquired from his Course. 



.HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENT BECOMES DRAFTSMAN 

 OSCAR GEORGE KNECHT, 1245 E. 5th St., Kansas City, Mo., 

 enrolled for the Architectural Drawing Course in December, 

 1905, when 21 years of age, while attending high school and 

 working as a baker's helper in the afternoons and evenings. 

 He was then earning $6 a week. After completing a small 

 part of the Course he secured a position with an architect 

 by showing some of his drawings, and was steadily advanced 

 until he received $15 a week. He was then offered a position 

 as architectural draftsman with Clark-Williams Company, 

 contractors and builders, at a salary of $20 a week, which 

 position he now holds. In a letter dated December 6, 1907, 

 Mr. Knecht says: "My opinion of your method of instruc- 

 tion is that it is a very good one. I prefer it to a college 

 course because, if I were under a personal instructor I would 

 have him help solve every difficult problem and would not 

 be studying them out for myself." 



BECAME DESIGNER AND BUILDER 



L. W. EDDY, 1801 Sunnyside Ave., Fruitvale, Cal., had 

 been out of the United States Navy but a short time, and 

 was working as a carpenter's helper at $2 a day, when he 

 enrolled in the I. C. S. Building Contractors' Course. Mr. 

 Eddy is now a designer and builder, earning $6 a day. He 

 says this was through the help of the Course, especially in 

 concrete and stair-building work. 



INCOME INCREASED $500 A YEAR 

 CHARLES E. WERKING, Hagerstown, Ind., a foreman car- 

 penter, enrolled for the I. C. S. Complete Architectural 

 Course. He says, "I never entered into anything I enjoyed 

 more and gained so much." Mr. Werking is now an archi- 

 tect, with income increased from $750 a year to $1,250 

 a year. 



FROM $8 A WEEK TO $25 A WEEK 

 HARRY CROSBY, Hyde Park, Cincinnati, Ohio, was earn- 

 ing but $6 a week when he enrolled for the Complete Archi- 

 tectural Course. It was hard for him to persevere because 

 of his circumstances. But he has studied until now he is 

 an architectural draftsman earning $25 a week. 



