and are so well patronized that Mr. Wood is seriously considering the desirability of establishing a permanent restaurant in connection with the plant. In the yard are twelve watchmen, six for night duty and six for days. These are in charge of Capt. Tom Jones, who became famous for his work as lifesaver at Cuttyhunk.

This article would not be complete without mention of some of the men who made such a gigantic enterprise possible. Of course the moving spirit -the one to whom the most credit is due is Mr. William M. Wood, president of the American Woolen Co., and for whom the new concern is named. He is a resident of Andover, and has always been greatly interested in the

the company. He is assistant treasurer the yard will be sufficient room to erect
of the American Woolen Co. and a a duplicate of the main building.
young man of marked business ability. With its front doors in Lawrence,
Mr. Frank A. Sherman is cashier. The and its back yard in North Andover,
latter has already established his head- this immense plant will contain 1,300,-
quarters in the temporary office build- 000 square feet of floor space, or twenty-
ing, where he is able to attend to a eight acres-more than the area of the
multitude of details in connection with Boston Public Garden, and considerably
the work of construction. In Mr. Sher- more than half the area of Boston Com-
man, the visitor finds a man of large mon.
calibre. His open countenance and
frank manner impress one with the fact
that he is a whole-souled man, who has
the interests of both employer and em-
ployee at heart, at the same time giv-
ing deep thought and careful study to
the great work of which he is an im-
portant factor. Some men with half as
many cares would be upset and practi-

Knitting Mill Burned. Cleveland, Ohio.-Fire which started Feb. 2 in the knitting factory of N. J. Rich & Co., destroyed the plant, spread to and destroyed dwelling houses and left 100 persons homeless. The loss will reach $250,000.

The knitting factory was a six-story brick building. The fire started on the fifth floor. A girl and a man were scuffling in fun. The girl stepped on a match and her skirt became ignited. In her fright she tore off the blazing skirt and threw it into a pile of yarn, and in a moment the room was ablaze.

The flames spread very fast and the wind drove them upon the roofs of the nearby homes. The factory was like a huge furnace and 21 other buildings were destroyed. Some of the fire hose burst from the heat and more was buried by falling walls. Several firemen were hurt by falling brick. The knitting mill with contents was valued at $200,000.

Dinner to Mr. Lowe.

Fitchburg, Mass.-About 40 overseers, second hands, and members of the office force of the Parkhill Mfg. Co. gave a dinner at the "Johnsonia" Feb. 1, to Mr. Arthur H. Lowe, treasurer of the company. Mr. and Mrs. Lowe have since gone to New York, where they sailed on the "Deutchsland" for a four months' trip, stopping at Mediterranean ports, Egypt, the Holy Land, Constantinople and Venice. They will also motor through southern France and the chateau district, ending this part of their tour at Paris. Such time as may remain on their schedule they will spend in England. Mr. and Mrs. William B. Plunkett of Adams will be fellow travelers with them on the entire trip. The dinner was given as a farewell receptior to Mr. Lowe. Frank Fisher was toastmaster. In addition to the mill employees Mr. John Parkhill, president of the company was present; also directors David M. Dillon and Herbert I. Wallace. Addresses were delivered by Mr. Lowe, toast-master Fisher and others, and Mr. Lowe was made to feel the esteem and good wishes of all present. A musical Mrs. Lowe was a handsome bouquet of

flowers.

prosperity of the city of Lawrence. cally inaccessible from morning to program was enjoyed.
The remarkable success of the Ameri- night. It is such calm, thoughtful dis- presented
can Woolen Co. under his administra- positions of men, combined with execu-
tion is a guarantee that the prosperity tive ability that make possible such
of the Wood Worsted Mills is assured. great enterprises as the Wood Worsted
The plans for the buildings were drawn Mills.
by Dean & Main, the well known Bos-

It is expected that when the plant

For "Truth."

I notice in Fibre and Fabric of Feb.

ton firm of architects and engineers, has been completed it will have cost 3, an inquiry addressed to "Boss Wooland Mr. Main is to be found each day about $3,500,000. Its importance to the en Spinner," signed "Truth." As I have on the grounds directing the work. E. city of Lawrence can hardly be esti- decided not to write for textile papers W. Pitman is the general contractor. mated. The street railway company except over my own signature I cannot Geo. H. Diman, consulting engineer for has already started a new line with answer him through the columns of the American Woolen Co. has rendered cars marked "Wood Mills." It is too Fibre and Fabric, but if "Truth" will valuable service in laying out the new early yet to give a description of the send me his address, I will give him the engine and boiler rooms. Mr. B. F. machinery equipment of the plant, but desired information. Smith, Jr., of Andover is treasurer of this will be published in due time. In BOSS WOOLEN SPINNER.

BOSSON & LANE

MANUFACTURERS OF

B & L ANTI-CHLORINE

ULTRA BLEACHING PROCESS FOR COTTON-RAW, YARN OR WARPS.
Strength and Softness of Fibre Maintained.
Works and Main Office, ATLANTIC, MASS.

A. G. THURSTON & SON,

Manufacturers of

Fluted Rolls, Pressers for Flyers and General Machinery.
Specialties made of Renecking, Refluting, Filing
and. Honing all Kinds of Rolls.
Flyers repaired and fitted with any desired style of presser.
Spindles straightened. restepped and restopped. Fall River, Mass.

for the new weave shed to be added to CROSBY & GREGORY

later on to extend it to 300 feet in Old South Building, Foot of School Street length.

New Bedford, Mass.-A dinner was recently given at the Mansion House by the employees of the Butler Mill to celebrate the installation of new maSilk chinery. The committee in charge of with the affair were Samuel Smethurst New (chairman), Ernest Spence, Enoch ShepDris-ply, George Hinchcliffe and William Seward Clarke. About 60 employees of the mill

Pittston, Pa.-The Luzerne Knitting attended, and after dinner they enjoyed Mill, will build an addition to be used a short musical program, rendered by as a warehouse. The new structure annual the following: Ralph Wolfenden, Fred will be two stories high, with a baseTextile Webster, James Platt, Frank Libsey and ment, and will adjoin the present plant. evening, Samuel Smethurst. Charles Dion and Danielson, Conn.-Workmen have February 16, at the Kensington Labor Dias Barker played accompaniments on

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ders ahead to keep the looms busy for several months.

Baltimore, Md. The Consolidated Cotton Duck Co. has purchased the J. Spencer Turner Co., one of the largest .141-140% selling houses in the cotton goods trade. 2650 The acquisition will give the duck firm of time and money an outlet for its products, at less cost than if it had attempted to develop its own outlet.

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The price of cotton dropped 25 points 10 Pepperell Mfg. Co.-ex div... 278% net on the New York Exchange last 2 Manchester Mills, com.... 141-1404 week, the closing quotation for middling 10 Pepperell Mfg. Co.-ex div....2784 upland being 11.45 cents. The market 1 Amory Mfg. Co. showed continued weakness on Monday,

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4 Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co. .. 70 with selling orders coming from all direc-17 Waltham Bleachery & Dye Wks 964 tions. Prices fell rapidly and at the close spot cotton was selling at 11.25. Theo. H. Price issued a report claiming N. Y. City.-Ashley & Bailey Co. is273,000 bales to have been ginned dur- sued a circular announcing the sale ing the last two weeks in January. This Feb. 8 of 6,782 pieces of silk goods at together with unfavorable Liverpool re- auction. The sale took place too late ports, etc., worked prices down. Bear to be reported in this issue of Fibre traders have the upper hand, and are and Fabric. aiming for ten cent cotton. Tuesday brought no strength to the market Prices were off again 5 to 6 points and the quotation on middling upland, spot sale is now 11.15 cents.

Wool.

Deliveries of wool from the Boston market were about 5,000,000 lbs. last week, but business is quiet and some dealers feel even a depression. Low stocks help to keep sales down. However quite a satisfactory total is reported by some houses, especially those who have a wide variety for buyers to select from. Worsted manufacturers are the most extensive purchasers. Woolen manufacturers are waiting the opening of sample goods. If woolens are generally opened and maintained at the same advance as worsteds last week manufacturers will have confidence to cover themselves with raw stock at the market prices.

Chicago, Ill.-At the annual meeting of the American Felt Co., held Jan. 31, a resolution was passed increasing the number of directors from seven to nine, the directors to be stockholders, each class of directors to consist of three: that one additional director shall be elected to serve for one year and one additional director shall be elected to serve for two years.

Fall River, Mass.-The Laurel Lake Mills have declared and are paying a quarterly dividend of 2 per cent.

Augusta, Me.-At a meeting of the city government last week the offer of the Edwards Mfg. Co. was refused This was that the company pay at once to the city on account of 1905 tax a sum of $20,000 or not more than $22,000, to be fixed by the city, provided the city would not bring suit for the remainder of the 1905 tax until further decision upon the petition for the abatement of the tax.

Fall River, Mass.-Patterns and designs are being made at the textile school for the new towel loom which it is proposed to have built. The machine will be of jacquard construction and will be capable of weaving any kind of fancy Uxbridge, Mass.-The Calumet Wool- bath mat. The school will soon have en Co. has presented a petition to the two or three more jacquard looms. The Superior Court for dissolution of the amount of instruction that is being corporation. All debts have been paid sought in this branch of weaving shows and the property has been sold. the increasing demand for it by practiLondon, Feb. 1.-The first series of cal mill men, as well as by employees 1906 wool auction sales closed today. who wish to fit themselves for higher During the sales 164,000 bales were grade work. available, of which 162,367 were listed. Home buyers secured 77,000 bales, the continent 78,000, America 5,000, and about 4,000 were held over for the second series.

Dunlap,

Ashland, Pa.-There is a movement on foot for the erection of a silk mill at Centralia that will give employment to Phtiladelphia, Pa. James There has been a strong decrease in about a hundred women and girls, for wool importations. During the week president of the Philadelphia carpet whom there is no employment of any ending Jan. 31 slightly over 3,000,000 company bearing his name, asks stock- kind at the present time. J. M. Tifferet, pounds of foreign wool were received holders to approve his purchase of the of Bloomsburg, was here talking the in Boston. In the corresponding period Bromley Axminster plant, one of the matter over with several representative last year nearly 7,000,000 pounds were largest in that city, and to exchange men, and indications are very favorable. imported. In January, 1905, nearly two shares of Dunlap stock for two new Mr. Tifferet owns a silk mill at Bloom19,000,000 pounds of foreign wool came preferred and common, with a burg. An option has been secured on a bonus of one common for every in. This year the amount is only two tract of land west of the Lehigh Valley little over 9,300,000 pounds. In London purchased at $100 per share, upon which Railroad station. values advanced as the auction sales Mr. Dunlap believes the 12 per cent. may be mainprogressed and closing figures showed per annum dividends a strong situation. English and conti- tained and an Axminster business nental buyers have been aggressive all $5,000,000 done in 1907. through, demonstrating that supplies in European markets have not yet caught up with demand.

a

one

of

Phoenix, Ariz.-The first sales of wool of the clip of 1906 were made here Feb. 1, and the day's transactions point to a Boston dealers are closely in touch very successful season with present with wool growers and a few contracts values fully sustained. About 150,000 for next season's wool are being placed. pounds were bought by Boston and Some large clips would be taken pro- Hartford dealers at grease prices rangvided the dealers were sure the situa-ing from 20% to 22 cents, the clean and tion warranted the high prices asked landed cost in the Eastern market being by growers. 66 cents, which is higher than last year's opening sale prices. The wools are better than last year's product.

Print Cloth.

G. A. MCINTOSH

Fluted Steel Rolls of All Kinds on Cotten,
Woolen and Worsted Machinery.
Hardened Steel Bearings.
Repairing promptly attend. d to
and quality guaranteed.

No. 8 Western Avenue, Lowell, Mass.

Overseer of Finishing

FOR A LARGE MILL,

RUNNING ON
MUST BE

Newark, N. J.-The Argentine Wool & Sheep Skin Co. has been incorporated to LOW GRADE WOOLENS. deal in hides, skins, wool and hair, tan- FULLY CAPABLE FOR LARGE PLANT ners, etc.; capital, $125,000. IncorporaW. Jones, A. Preston AND PARTICULARLY SUCCESSFUL tors: Benjamin Jones, Frank H. Sharts, New York city; IN FULLING AND SCOURING. WAGES Frederick W. Baldwin, Newark. $30.00 to $40.00 PER WEEK. ADDRESS, IF INTERESTED, WADE'S OVERSEERS' BUREAU, 146 FRANKLIN

Fall River, Mass.-The cloth market
continues firm and although sales are
moderate there is no weakening of
prices. Representatives of Mr. Borden
purchased about 25,000 pieces last week,
bringing the total sales up to about 150,
000 pieces. Regular goods are still
quoted at 34 cents. The wage margin Fall River, Mass.-The Barnaby Mfg.
for the week was 79.40, the drop in the
price of cotton giving employees a
bonus of seven per cent., the largest
since the present plan was adopted.

Co. is reported to be doing the largest
business it has done in many years. The
large stock of goods it held a year ago
has been disposed of and there are or- STREET, BOSTON.

MULE FIXER.

DESIGNER-ASST. SUPT.

WANTED-A designer for woolen mill on fancy suitings and dress goods. Also a young man for assistant superintendent. State experience, wages wanted and mills worked in. Address P. O. Box 442, Knoxville, Tenn.

MACHINE FIXER.

WANTED-Sewing machine fixer on men's underwear. State wages expected, experience and references, to F. L. CADY, 500 Harrison Ave., Boston.

WANTED

work. Will

The French River Textile Co., MechanOVERSEER OF SEAMING DEPART-icsville, Conn., want some good weavers MENT on fashioned engage for both day and night work; Knowles who has had charge of looping and looms; good work. seaming or finishing in knitting mill. Wages at start. $3.00 a day.

man

SECTION HAND COTTON RING SPIN-
NING. Small mill, $9.00 a week.
OVERSEER RAG PICKING; 15 rag ma-
chines; $2.00 a day. Mill in Middle West.
CARD ROOM SECOND HAND for woolen
mill in Maine. $2.00 a day.
SECTION HAND CAP
WORSTED SPINNING.

AND FLYER $13.50 per week.

SECTION HAND WORSTED DRAWING.

Massachusetts mill.

$16.00 week.

SECOND HAND
spindle room in New England. $10.00 week.
WOOLEN MILL MACHINISTS.
SECOND HAND for weaving. Large New
England cotton mill. All 2, 3 and 4 harness

for 8,000 cotton ring

work.

Wanted-A few weavers and family help for woolen mill. Address P. O. Box 2, North Hartland, Vt.

Wanted at once, two first-class woolen spinners on D. & F. mules. Apply to F. F. Robinson, Allen Woolen Mills, Rochester, N. Y.

carpet weaver

Brussels and Wilton wants position; 32 years of age; 18 "J. J. H.," care James Carey, 273 Main years in mill work; can come at once. street, Cambridgeport, Mass.

The Saxton's River Woolen Mill, Saxton's River, Vt., wants two good weavers on fancy cassimeres.

Wanted-a drawing-in girl who can draw in without a hanger-in, on plain work; piece work, good wages and steady employment. Mill town New York. Winnipauk, Conn. Address P. O. Box

near

POSITION WANTED by second hand in cotton card room. Understand all makes of machinery in the room; 15 years' experience as fixer, grinder and second hand; combed OVERSEER DRAWING, New England yarn, white and colored goods. mill. At present Two sets of drawing. Must underworking. but would like to change; firststand thoroughly ccne drawing. class reference. Address P. 317, BOSS FINISHER. care of New England woolen Fibre and Fabric. mill. $3.00 to $3 50 a day. Must be especially fitted for face finished goods, such as broadcloths, also worsteds and fancy cassimeres. Only a young, married man of experience will be considered. MASTER MECHANIC. New England cotmill. Must be familiar with waterwheels, be a good manager of help, and not afraid to work himself. $3.00 a day. OVERSEER ASSORTING DEPARTMENT. A few weavers are wanted Must be experienced in grading cotton waste Appleton Woolen Mills, Reedsburg, Wis. at the and in picking and assorting of same. in Massachusetts. Mill grinder for 50 new BOSS SPINNER for ten-set woolen mill. Lowell revolving flat cards. $1.50 a day. D. & F. mules. $3.00 a day. Mill in Rhode Apply to T. C. Gore, Bibb Mfg. Co.'s No. Island. SECOND HAND machine shop. Must be 1 Mill, East Macon, Ga. experienced in cotton mill work.

BLEACHER, FINISHER, ETC. POSITION WANTED as general manager or assistant manager of bleaching and finishing plant. Eighteen years' thoroughly FELT HARDENER, ETC. practical experience in England and for many WANTED-A man to take charge years manager of large plant near Manches-hardening department in a felt mill. ter. Seven years on this Continent, in sim- young man who understands the handling ilar capacity. Highest references. Address of a shear, both grinding and setting up. Address P. 322, care of Fibre and Fabric.

P. 25, care of Fibre and Fabric.

BOARDING HOUSE KEEPER. SITUATION WANTED by experienced American family as keeper of corporation boarding house. Have kept boarding house for both cotton and woolen mill operatives. Address "BOARDING HOUSE KEEPER," care of Fibre and Fabric.

FIRST-CLASS DYER

OF CHARACTER, experience and ability, wants situation, especially where skill, good judgment, efficiency and good management are wanted. No better experienced man any: where. Address A. 503, care of Fibre and Fabric.

ASSISTANT DYER OPEN FOR ENGAGEMENT March 1, with a large mill, or would take position as dyer. At present with one of the largest mills. Have had four years' experience as assistant and dyer. Good references in regard to ability and character. Address P. 328, care of Fibre and Fabric.

HELP WANTED.

WANTED

BOSS SPINNERS AND SUPTS. SEND for one of our Safety Faller Legs on 30 days' approval. Put it on your mule and it will positively prevent the yarn from "winding down under bottom of bobbins" when tension wire is allowed to run too are afraid to weave the yarn all off, fearing slack. When it is run under, the weavers it will break, and so pull out the shuttle and make hundreds of dollars' worth of waste in a year, and no manufacturer can afford this. Try one and you will put them on all your mules. Mention make of mules. GOODHARDT & BOYCE, Rensselaer, N. Y.

FOR SALE.

ONE 60-ft. Butterworth Tenter. 60 inches wide; vibratory motion; cost $2,100; will sell for $1,400; is in perfect condition. Also a Tillinghast Power Sewing Machine. Address P. 327, care of Fibre and Fabric.

HOSIERY MACHINERY.

FOR SALE OR RENT, at Laconia, N. H., machinery to make 300 dozen stockings per day. Has been in operation up to about two weeks ago. Address ROWE & CO., Laconia, N. H.

Greensboro, N. C.-It is expected that WANTED-A man to take charge of hard- ready to start its new cotton mill about the Pomona Cotton Mfg. Co. will be ening department in felt mill. Address P. 326, care of Fibre and Fabric.

Finishing Room Percher on WANTED-A woolens for mill in New Hampshire. Address to P. 329, care Fibre and Fabric, Boston.

WEAVERS.

good woolen on Knowles looms. MILLS, Marcellus, N. Y.

few

weavers CROWN

weave

April 1. It will operate 10,750 spindles
and 330 looms. The main building is
308x117 feet, two stories;
the weave
shed one story 222x136 feet. L.
H.
Battle is president and treasurer and A.
L. Bain is secretary.

す

(Continued from Page 11.) possess in common fall into three classes; viz.: physical, moral and mental.

Those

belonging to one or another of these classes may predominate in men following different pursuits in life, but in any manufacturing enterprise it is evident that the physical attributes are the most important. No matter how moral or intellectual a man may be, if he is a weakling, if he has not health, he cannot be an efficient part of an active organization. First of all, therefore, the members of the organization must have health, they must be strong and vigorous.

Next he must be of high character, for no matter how healthy or intelligent a man may be if he is immoral, i. e., if he is dissipated, if his time outside of his working hours is given over to intemperance, gaming, or other forms of vice, his condition physically and mentally while at work cannot be such as to qualify him as an efficient member of a high grade organization. His physical and mental powers are gradually affected, his sense becomes of responsibility weakens, he irregular in attendance, careless in attention to his duties and cannot be depended upon.

em

Human nature is human nature without any exception. A man will do more for his friend who is doing all he can to help him than he will for one who shows openly he cares nothing for his interests. Employers who sustain relations of the first kind with their workmen testify that without such co-operation they could not have attained their present success. They testify that a minimum of friction exists, that the machine moves smoothly and rapidly, and the desire on the part of the worker, to subserve the interest of the ployer implies good workmanship, increased production, and therefore greater surety to the enterprise. In other words co-operation pays. This is only common sense. We have known it always but we have waited for the twentieth century to come before practising it. Intelligent provision for the best conditions of comfort and best facilities for producing work results in attracting the best grade of workers, who are capable of the best service, a mutual uplift is accomplished, an environment is secured in which the And finally, it is evident that given a man of good physique and strong characantagonist, the idler the incompetent, become eliminated by their own initiative.. ter, the higher his intelligence and skill in the direction of his duties the In other words, the more capable the inbetter qualified he will be to accomplish his ducts a business as consulting industrial dividual and superior his facilities, the better will be the accomplishment, as daily tasks, but it is also evident from engineer. He gives advice on general Walt the preceding considerations that impor-manufacturing and mechanical engineer- people, the rest will take care of itself." Whitman said "Produce great tant as are these latter qualifications ing questions tending toward industrial they must be subordinate to the other betterment and including welfare work. two and considered last in relative imporexceptionally qualified to render service along these lines, having had a great deal of experience in estabiishing modern methods of organization and management. He was born in New York city in 1858. After graduating at Lehigh University, in 1878, he spent four years in the shops of the Delamater Ircn Works, of New York. For two years he

tance.

There are various devices for improv ing the conditions of our shops and methods of treating employees to carry out the ethical method of management, all of which are recognized as safe of application provided they are appropriate to existing conditions. These devices

MR. H. F. J. PORTER, M. E.
Mr. H. F. J. Porter, M. E., with an
office in the Metropolitan building, 1
Madison avenue, New York city, con-

Mr. Porter is

These ideas are not new. They are old as the human race, and yet they have been practiced rarely and only when employers have realized their civic and moral responsibilities and knew how to meet them. The intrtia of selfishness is great. Men wish to keep all they have

and grasp for more and it is only competition and intensified self-interest which awakens them to adppt means other than those they are accustomed to to protect

their interests.

their

that they are not sufficient unto
Those employers who have come to see
them-
selves, but need the assistance of
follows and through co-operation have at-
tained success, have opened the eyes of
others more conservative to a realization

race they must adopt a more enlightened

found their beginnings in Germany to- was assistant engineer of Cooper Hewitt wards the latter part of the last century.& Co.'s rolling mills at. Trenton, N. J. They were given the designation Wohl- Next, he installed the power plant and fahrts-Einrichtungen or Welfare Instilighting, heating and ventilating systems tutions. This phrase has been badly of Columbia College, at Forty-ninth street translated into English as "Welfare and Madison avenue, New York, and beWork" and gives to those to whom they came superintendent of the building and are applied a feeling that they are objects grounds. In 1890 he was appointed needing special treatment which is an un-engineer and superintendent of Cary & of the fact that if they desire to win the fortunate interpretation of their object. It Moen's steel spring and wire mil. New policy of action. And yet there are many requires a person who has made a special York. In 1891 he became assistant study of industrial betterment to recog-mechanical engineer of the World's Fair, have been told of the success which folwho have been incredulous of what they nize the features appropriate to the Chicago, where he also had charge of lows the application of common sense But all welfare work fails utterly unless Exposition Mr. Porter opened an office the evidence which has been presented to After the close of the principles. They have hesitated to accept the spirit of co-operation infuses the in Chicago as consulting and contracting them. Now to accept theories without to the least paid employee. It is the in-engineer, and at the same time repre- practical results is manifestly unscientroduction of this spirit that requires the Sented the Bethlehem Iron Company in tific and dangerous, but to reject facts the West. He introduced hollow-forged when the evidence is plain is equally unsteel engine shafts into power plants, and scientific and dangerous. Science and he also introduced nickel steel in steam-wisdom lie respectively in the detection railway work. In 1892 Mr. Porter was and acceptance of the truth, not in the made manager of the American branch rejection of it. and it is possible to eir

situation and to establish them effectively.

whole organization from employer down

highest intelligence and a thorough understanding of human nature. It is hard to realize the attitude of mind necessary to successfully introduce welfare work

into a shop where nothing of the kind has

ever been installed.

All preconceived ideas as to how shops must be organized and managed have to be reversed.

Our systems of preparation for service have grown so fast that they have not

harmonized and have never gotten into

Machinery Hall.

of the Westinghouse Companies' Publish-
second vice-president of the Nernst Lamp
ing Department, and a year later became
Co., of Pittsburg, Pa. He is a member
of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, The American Society of Test-

ing Materials, of the American Institute
of Social Service, the Franklin Institute,
Engineers' Club, and other societies.

joint. We try first in the public schools to educate our people to think and when they are old enough to work we put them into factories and industrial enterprises of all kinds and then we do not take ad- man feels that his employer cares nothing vantage of the instruction we have paid so for him or his interests, he is very apt to much to give them. There they are with return that sentiment, and so the two intheir powers of thought more or less de- stead of co-operating in a common inveloped and we do not make an effort to terest become antagonistic, each working encourage their originality. On the con- for his individual interests only. The with his workmen. But how is the other trary, we say to them "Do as you are workman has come to regard his employ-man to make the change? How is he gotold." "Do as someone else has planneder, whom he never sees, as an oppressor ing to alter his attitude of aggression to for you," and so we do not reap the har- who is trying to get from him all he can one of persuasion and co-operation? Will vest that we have spent so much effort in for the least money. The employer feels he frankly acknowledge his mistake? Will sowing. The trouble with most of us is that his workmen are trying to do the he not at once excite suspicion that he that we do not think independently. We least they can for the wages he gives think as someone eles thinks, or as we them. That is the feeling they actually think smeone else thinks we ought to possess although each knows that their think. And so as the employer makes no interests are really common. effort to direct the thoughts of his em- The mere increase in number. from the ployees it is left for the demagogue or single capitalist who becomes a partner the yellow press to do it and then the with a man who supplies skill to develop employer wonders why his organization a project, does not alter the relations thinks differently from the way he wants which exist between the employer and his it to and is so disinterested in his welfare. many employees. The employer and the But human nature in the employee is the employed are still partners. The interest same as in the employer. And when a of the employee in any enterprise must

has some new scheme to work? Can he hope to gain confidence by acknowledging that he has not heretofore been deserving

of it?

Of course it is impossible nowadays in their number most cases on account of employer to come in personal for the touch with all of his employees. The details of this duty must, like all his others, he delegated to the head of a department. But the importance of that department must now be recognized by securing for