Art

APRIL AND MAY: Industries: Different industries represented in Chicago. I. Numbers following them; 2. Comparative wages; 3. Upon what do wages depend? 4. Length of hours; 5. Overcrowded occupations; 6. Value of occupation to other people; 7. Danger and nervous strain of work; 8. Pleasure in work; 9. Division of labor--cause, effect; Io. Interrelation of different occupations; II. Report on sweat-shops; 12. Building--light, ventilation, exits, fire-protection, precautions against accident, company's care for injured, space per worker; 13. Residence district-distance from business, relation between rent and wages; 14. Trades unions-organization, purpose, expense, effectiveness; I5. Study of William Morris. JUNE: Relation between Chicago and the country: i. Telegraph and cable lines; 2. Telephone lines-visit telephone exchange; 3. Newspapers-visit an office; 4. Railroads and steamer lines--points of communication, cost of transportation, number of passengers in per day, number of passengers out per day, kinds and amount of imports per day, kinds and amount of exports per day; how are goods received? how are goods distributed? number of hands through which goods pass, number of profits on goods. Visit commission houses in South Water Street. During the whole year carefully tabulated reports of all visits and readings and plans should be made and filed for record. Also art studies and photographs of people, places, and things should be made and filed. A blank map of Chicago should be gradually filled in until at the end of the year it will show factories, churches, schools, parks, theaters, libraries, art galleries, museums, prisons, reformatories, asylums, hospitals, police-stations, fire-stations, carlines, railroads.