Calcite Screenings Number Four
March 1927
Men Are Men Business is business, but men are men, Working, loving and dreaming; Toiling with hammer, brush or pen, Roistering, planning, scheming. Business is business, but he's a fool Whose business has grown to smother His faith in men and the Golden Rule, His love for friend and brother. Business is business, but life is life, Though we're all in the game to win it; Let's rest sometimes from the heat and strife And try to be friends a minute. Let's seek to be comrades, now and then, And slip from our golden tether; Business is business, but men are men, And we're all good pals together. Anonymous
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CALCITE SCREENINGS Published monthly for the employes of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company, Rogers City, Michigan, in the interest of Safety and Welfare. The columns of "Calcite Screenings" are open to receive items of plant news, photographs, cartoons, safety suggestions and other items of general plant interest. Contributions will be welcomed from all employes. All such contributions should be received before the first of each month and should bear the name of the department and the sender and should be addressed to the editor.
Editor O. F. FERDELMAN DON'T SPOIL THE FINISH Have you ever been the proud owner of a new car? If you have, it's a safe bet you were mighty careful of it for the first few hundred miles. It hurt you more than it did the car every time you splashed mud on the shiny enamel and whenever another automobile came within an ace of sideswiping you it almost gave you heart failure. But what a difference after driving a few months. After the brilliant finish became dimmed and it collected a few dents and scratches, you weren't so particular. Many a safety record ends the same way. A campaign starts off with a hang" and everyone does h i s p a r t . T h e n s o m e o n e sl i ps a nd t h er e is a l ost -t i me accident . Fr om t hat time on it is hard to keep up interest and the safety record too often becomes battered like a 1916 flivver. On January first a brand new safety record was delivered to us. It is easy to make a good start but—don't spoil the finish. AMERICAN EFFICIENCY An American worker produces on an average over four times as much as a British worker. An American miner produces about five times as much coal per day as the British miner. An American bricklayer lays about five times as many bricks as a bricklayer in England. An American weaver looks after from twenty to thirty looms, compared with four in England. An American train carries an average of 650 tons of goods against 130 in Great Britain. These facts are taken from official labor reports. Is it any wonder that American efficiency is giving England serious concern in world commerce ? 99 per cent of good luck begins about seven inches above your shoulders.
PUBLICATIONS AGAIN RESUMED After a vacation of several months we have deemed it advisable to resume the publication of "CALCITE SCREENINGS" again and hope we will be able to continue without further interruptions at least until the close of operations next fall. This is in accordance with our plan as outlined in our December issue when we decided it was advisable to withhold publications of this magazine for several months during the winter when the plant was closed down and only a few men were at work. In order to encourage all employes to send in their articles of plant news, photographs, cartoons, suggestion s and other items of general plant interest, we are h a v ing' Suggestion Boxes p l a c e d at various intervals about t h e p l a n t w h e r e y o u w i l l be able to write down your dope and drop it in. All we ask is that you sign your name to any articles you wish to contribute in order that we can give you credit for it and that they be sent in before the 25th of each month as all material received after that date may have to be held over for the next issue. We trust we may again have your cooperation and assistance in editing this magazine in order that it might continue to grow not only in size but in the quality of material that will be of most interest and benefit to all our readers. "I am not much of a mathematician," said CARELESSNESS, "but I can add to your troubles, I can subtract form your earnings, I can multiply your aches and pains, I can divide your attention. I can take interest from your work and discount your chances for safety." Many a man has cheated his creditors by having property in his wife's name but no one ever escaped accidents by having safty that way. Many a man who hollers for a sanitarydrinking cup would drink out of any old flask.
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Department Accident Prevention Records TRACKS: This department had a total of seven lost time accidents which resulted in 72 days lost time. In four of these accidents the time lost was less than seven days and in three the time lost was over seven days. Their best record was made from September 14, to December 18th when they went a period of 95 days without a single lost time accident. TRANSPT. KELLY: This department had only two lost time accidents resulting in 16 days lost time. One of these was for two days and one for fourteen days. They went from May 26th to September 9th, a total of 105 days, and again from September 9th to December 10th a total of 92 days, without a single lost time accident. TRANSPT. LAFFIN: This department had four lost time accidents resulting in 190 days lost time and only one of these being for less than seven days. Their best record was made between March 13th and July 19th when they went a period of 127 days without a single lost time accident. SHOVELS KELLEY: This department ha J four lost time accidents which resulted in 46 days lost time, two of which were less than seven days and two for more than seven days off. Their best record was made from July 25th to December 10th when they went a period of 138 days without a single lost time accident. SHOVELS LAFFIN: This department had a total of three lost time accidents all of which were for less than seven days lost time. They went from April 27th to August 2nd, a total of 96 days and again from August 3rd to December 18th, a total of 127 days without a single lost time accident. DRILLS BEEBE: This department had only one lost time accident and that was for only one day. They went from May 13th to December 10th, a period of 211 days without a single lost time accident. DRILLS KELLEY: This department had only one lost time accident and that was for only three days. They went from July 1st to December 10th, a total of 162 days without a lost time accident. BLASTERS: This department had only one lost time accident and that was for only eight days. They went from April 1st to August 2nd, a period of 122 days and again from August 2nd to December 10th, a period of 120 days without a single lost time accident. MILL HAGEN: This department had a total of six lost time accidents resulting in 161 days lost time. Three of these accidents were for less than seven days and three for more than seven days lost time. Their best record was from July 12th to December 10th when they went a period of 151 days without a lost time accident.
MILL BELMORE: This department had three lost time accidents all of which resulted only in seven days lost time. Their best record was made between January 12th and October 13th when they went a period of 273 days without a lost time accident. MACHINE SHOP: This department had a total of eight lost time accidents resulting in 185 days lost time. Three of these were for less than seven days and five' for over seven days lost time. Their best record was made from February 10th to May 22nd when they went a period of 100 days without a lost time accident. CARPENTER SHOP: This department had a total of three lost time accidents which resulted in 25 days lost time and only one of which was for more than seven days off. They went from March 16th to December 10th (and incidently the entire operating season) a period of 269 days without a single lost time accident. ELECTRICAL: This department went through the entire year, 365 days, without a single lost time accident. POWER HOUSE: This department also went the entire year, 365 days, without a single lost time accident. YARD MACHINERY: This department had a total of six lost time accidents which resulted in 90 days lost time. Two of these accidents were for less and four for more than seven days lost time. Their best record was made between March 26th and July 7th when they went a period of 102 days without a lost time accident. YARD LABOR: This department had a total of 12 lost time accidents resulting in 118 days lost time. Five of these accidents were for less and seven for more than seven days lost time. Their best record was made between August 18th and November 2nd when they went a period of 75 days without a lost time accident. . 'TUGS: This department had only one lost time accident which resulted in 12 days off. They went from June 30th to December 1st a total of 153 days without a single lost time accident. A CAUSE FOR EVERYTHING
There's a cause for everything—even accidents, although some people still regard them as due to chance or hard luck. It is pure luck when you draw three aces or roll a seven or an eleven. It is luck and nothing else BUT if you dodge through heavy traffic and land safely on the opposite side of the street. When some thoughtless fellow drops a plank or a monkey wrench off a scaffold, it is largely a matter of chance whether it crowns some one or falls harmlessly to the ground. But whether some one is hurt or if it is just a "near accident," it doesn't HAPPEN, it i caused. Look out for the near accidents. Prevent them and there will be no hospital cases to worry about.
Calcite Screening's WINTER WORK AT PLANT PROGRESSING
Thus far weather conditions have been most favorable for carrying on the winter work at the plant and everything is coming along in fine shape. The old crusher house is almost a thing of the past and the new crusher house is rapidly assuming shape and the work along this line is just about up to the schedule as planned. The loading slip is practically dredged to its new depth and the Fines loading dock on the West side of the slip is being reconstructed and when finished will match up well with the Flux loading side. The Mill proper is undergoing the usual winter overhauling in addition to slight changes tending to ward better operations. In the Quarry, Joseph Penglase tells us the stripping operations are progressing favorably and, the bowels of the earth are considerably exposed in this part of the Quarry. Joseph Klingle of the Marion Steam Shovel Company, is helping us do some of the heavy work this winter. Numbers nine and ten electric shovels are up high and dry in the process of changing the lower frames. Be careful Joe and don't let them drop on someone's toes as we understand they weigh several pounds. The Quarry equipment is being thoroughly overhauled in the Carpenter and Machine shops and will be all dressed up in new paint jobs by the time operations begin next spring. They say No. 5 shovel en tered the shop last week and several days later had entirely disappeared except for the caterpillars. It would not do to stop here without mentioning something about the comfortable quarters the new machine shop provides. What with the splendid heating and lighting it sure is an ideal place for those husky shovel guys, the machinists, electricians, pipe fitters and what not, to do their stuff, and from all indications they are sure doing it too. In the line of new equipment, two new locomo tives similar in type to Nos. 25 and 26, together with 20 air dump cars will be added. This will make two completely new stone trains ready for service this spring. There will also be a new small electric caterpillar shovel similar in size to the No. 37 for use on stripping operations and miscellaneous Quarry work. With this splendid equipment it would seem that we should be "all set" for a good season of operations and experience no difficulty in obtaining the tonnage •required. WHY COLDS CATCH US IN WiNTER
1. Overheated homes and offices. 2. Closed bedroom windows. Lack of outdoor exercise.
Page Five WHERE THE ACCIDENT STARTED A public utility company recently made an analysis of 200 typical accidents and found out that "inattentiveness" was at the bottem of 48 per cent of them. Reports of automobile accidents collected by the National Safety Council show that inattentiveness is also involved in a large proportion of highway smash-ups. That word "inattentiveness" covers a lot of ground and may be due to any one of a number of causes. One of them is making up sleep lost the night before while on the job next morning.
There is no set rule for the amount of sleep that any individual requires. Most of us need eight hours; some may even be better off with nine; others can worry along with seven. There may be a few who can get by with less but it is not a safe rule for the average person. How many accidents have had their origin the night before will never be known, but in many a case the investigation has shown that the injured man "didn't seem to be himself that morning." It's hard to be yourself after three or four hours sleep, particularly if morning brings a head that feels the size of an overgrown pumpkin and parched tissues set up an insistent demand for ice water. Many a man who hit the hay at 3 a. m. has re sumed his rest in a hospital cot before noon. Better pick the night before a holiday for your "night out." Accidents are the static of production. Don't go up in the air; let the aviator do it. Some birds are always broadcasting from station I C K. Put fourK wheel brakes on your temper. —Al Kroes.
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Overeating. 5. Constipation. 6. Crowds in poorly ventilated buildings. 7. The thoughtless sneezer, cougher and spitter. 8. Eating without first washing the hands thoroughly. 9. The public drinking cup. 10.The roller towel.
Recklessness is not an indication of courage. Brave men are always careful. Speaking of signs, they say: A crack in the chimney is a sure sign that you are going to move.
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MARRIAGES
Miss Frieda Schultz, telephone operator at the main office for the past seven months is leaving March first to enter the Business Institute of Detroit. We shall miss her smiling face and pleasant "Hello" and wish her every success.
Since our last issue, Cupid seems to have been exceptionally busy and Wedding Bells rang for the following: James Sicinski of the Transportation department (Laffin's shift). James Breney, of the electrical department. Arnold Nagel of the drilling department. Henry Keihn of the yard department. Alvin Raymond of the transportation department (Laffin's shift). Otto Wenzel of the Power House. "Calcite Screenings" joins with the many friends of the above in extending congratulations and best wishes.
We understand Jimmy Denton of the engineering Department has a host of friends who are providing entertainment for him every evening since the. wife went home on a visit. Jimmy says he expects to go on his vacation soon and get a much needed rest. Steeplejack Cherette has been up to his old tricks again shinning up the Power House smoke stacks and giving them the once over. Mr. A. N. Patriarche has recently accepted a position in our main office. Mr. Patriarche was at one time connected with the Dow Chemical Company, of Midland, Michigan, but lately has resided in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Carl D. Bradley together with Mrs. Bradley are again spending their winter at Pasedena, California. We are glad to report that they are both in goo d health and enjoying their vacation very much. Erhardt Schulwitz is now permanently situated at the main office and Lester Raymond has been added to the Time Keeping staff at the Plant. We understand Hilary O'Toole is taking his vacation camping on the new Crusher House job and that he enjoys it move than if he were playing golf at some Southern resort. The Misses Rutenbeck and Claire Heller, office stenogs are vacationing in Cleveland and Detroit. Oh yes Bergie Platz is back from Florida looking just as chic and prim as ever but not very talkative. Guess we'll have to wait until our good friend Capt. Pearse gets home to give us the real inside dope of this trip. We regret very much to learn that Mr. William Hoch of the purchasing department is leaving us the first of March and wish him every success in any new enterprise that he may enter. They tell us that Luke Lee has been riding a gnat in the vicinity of Saginaw recently and that he had a great time especially after his friends there received a telegram from Roy Laffin and Frank MacArthur. Mr. John G. Munson together with Mrs. Munson and family are enjoying their vacation at Miami Beach, Florida. Mr. Munson expects to return here some time the fore part of this month and while we were glad he could enjoy a much needed rest, we will also be glad to have him here with us again.
BIRTHS
During the past several months the Stork visited at the homes of the following and left baby boys: Reginald Elliott, Machine Shop; Max Belmore, Mill Foreman; Otto Maerz, Shovels (Kelley shift); Adolph Lescinski, Radio; Frank Modrynski, Tracks; Fred Lalonde, Machine Shop; Clarence Blair, Drills (Kelley); Carlos Cole, Carpenter Shop, (Twins). Baby .girls were also left at the homes of Angus Mayes, Shovels (Kelley); Frank Wetkowski, Yard Machinery and Fred Leidtke, Shovels (Laffin). "Calcite Screenings" joins in extending congratulations to the above parents. OUR ACCIDENT RECORD
We regret very much to report lost-time accidents for the following departments during the month of January and February, viz: TRACKS_ _ _ _ _ 3 MACHINE SHOP _ _ _ _ 3 MILL—HAGEN 1 MILL—BELMORE 1 YARD LABOR _ . 2 YARD MACHINERY 1 TRANSPORTATION—KELLEY 1 Total _ 12 It is our plan not to publish the standings of all departments until our May issue or until after working operations begin at the Plant as some departments have very few men working and some not any, at least not at their regular work. We hope the departments listed above who have had lost-time accidents this year will not be discouraged but will put forth greater efforts than ever in preventing further lost-time accidents. You still have a long way to go before the close of operations next December in which enviable records can be made in this work. It is also our hope that all those depart ments who still have a clean slate will continue their good record. You've done it in January and February so let's do it again in March. You can if every man In the department will watch his step. TRAFFIC NOTE
Under a recent ruling cows may walk the highways of Panama without "head or tail light, bells, or other warning devices."
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SAFETY
COMMITTEES
The first meeting of the Construction department Safety Committee was held at the Carpenter Shop on February 5th at which time the Committee organized for the year with Frank MacArthur as chairman and Charles Hoffman as secretary. This group of men did remarkable work in their Safety Campaign last year and have taken up this work with renewed energy this year and we feel confident that they will again make a record in their accident prevention program. Members of this committee are: Charles Schram, Gust Seelbinder, Alfred Basel, Victor Klee, Arthur W'enzel, William Haselhuhn, William Peetz, Martin Lewandowski and Frank Gordon. Meetings are held every Saturday noon. The Machine Shop have organized a Safety Committee and held their first meeting on February 7th. Members of this committee are: William Heller, John Leveck, A. L. Kowalske, John Heller, Dave Larson, Charles Baker, Richard Haman, Harry Wing and Ben Lounds. These men are taking an active interest in the work of preventing accidents in this department this year. They hold their meetings every Monday noon. In the Electrical and Power House departments they also organized a Safety Committee that meets every Tuesday noon. This committee is composed of George C. Wing, Adolph Dullack, Emil Dehnke, Richard Lamb, A. P. Boehmer, Herman Wagner, John Noble, Frank Reinke, Robert Patzer, one Power House Engineer and one Quarry Electrician. It will be remem bered that these two departments went through the entire year of 1926 without a single lost-time accident. A most commendable record and one which they hope to duplicate this year. Judging from the enthusiasm being shown by each member of the above committee in accident prevention work, we have no doubt but what the boys will make a real showing again this year. It is our earnest hope that Safety Committees will be organized and in working order, in all departments by the time operations begin at the plant this spring, as we firmly believe that a great amount of good work can be done in accident prevention by such committees. If you are chosen to serve on any of these committees, we sincerely trust you will make every effort to be present at all their meetings and be ready to lend your assistance in carrying out their plans. If you are not a member of any committee, we hope you will cooperate in every way that you can with those who are. Let us all stand ready to do all we can in boosting Safety and make 1927 a banner year in accident prevention work. NEW TIME CLOCKS HAVE ARRIVED
The long heralded electric Time Clocks have finally arrived and as this is written, those at the main offce and engineer's office have been operating several days and those at the Time Office are being installed and will be ready for operation March 1st. We are advised that close study will be given this method of time recording in practical operation, and as it is new to us here, watch the bulletin boards for
any change of instructions about ringing these clocks. Please remember that you must ring your card in when you start on the job, and ring it out when you leave the job or in other words you are now your own timekeeper. We feel confident that this system will prove to be a great improvement over the old check system previously used, in simplifying the work for the time keeping department as well as furnishing the employe with an accurate account of the time worked. THE MAN WHO COUNTS
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deed could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again bocause there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.—Theodore Roosevplt.
Here's one from the Electrical Gang. In their crew they say they have: "Porous Knit" Reinke, "Klosed Krotch" Chrzan, "B. V. D. Nobles, "Spring Needle" Stott. In fact they are all Underwear (Ware) FOR ANTISEPTICS, TOO
"Big future for razor company—the European field has only been scratched," says a Boston financial paper. A city boy who had never seen a windmill before exclaimed, "Gee, Mister, that's some electric fan you've got out there cooling the hogs."
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With the Boats of the Bradley Transportation Company Captain William J. MacLean is in Detroit and we hear he has taken out a card in the Painters' Union, by which authority he exercises about his house— when not looking after our interests. Chief H. B. Moore of Cleveland is interested in fleet repairs and our new Boat. Harry has visited us at the main office several times this winter and we will be glad when he is again a regular caller.
Captain M. R. MacLean of Rocky River, Ohio— his brothers and sisters put on about the finest party we know of this winter, in celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of their parents, Captain and Mrs. William MacLean. The party was held January 17th at the Detroit Yacht Club. We wish to extend our heartiest congratulations and best wishes to Captain and Mrs. MacLean Sr. Chief Leif Urdal is wintering in Lakewood, Ohio.
Chief John S. Sparre of Lakewood, Ohio, is spending most of his time on the Robinson this winter. One nice thing John hasn't far to go and come from work. Reports on construction of our new self unloader steamer show that this work is progressing rapidly and this steamer should be ready for delivery on or before July 1st. The name of this steamer will be "CARL D. BRADLEY" and the name of the steamer previously called the "CARL. D. BRADLEY" will be changed to the "JOHN G. MUNSON. Chief Arthur Urdal of Lakewood, Ohio—there it goes again. That town should have a pennant with a B. T. Co. crest in the design. Captain F. P. Pearse of Rogers City, where the snow begins and the tall drifts grow, spent most of February in Florida. Due to lack of space in this issue we will publish the fish stories next month. Watch for them as we are sure they will be quite fishy. We are gl ad to hear the Captain could spend at least a part of his vacation in the Southland but we will be pleased to see him come sailing into the home port again. Chief Thomas Suttle of Rocky River, Ohio, has been over to Detroit several times looking after work on the Str. White.
Chief Guy LaBounty of Fairhaven, Michigan, in addition to making extensive repairs to his home, has been looking after our interests in Detroit. Now this is scandalous—we hear (of course we only heard it) that the treasury of the traffic court was enriched by $40.00 this winter. We understand the Detroit rate is one dollar per mile over the speed limit. Didn't know the old bus had it in 'er, Guy. WAIT A MINUTE
Captain Theo. Dahlburg of Lakewood, Ohio—Ted moved from Pittsburg a year ago to the "Sailor's Garden Spot." Did you ever hear of a town with so many boatmen—ought to be a good town with the boats out eight months of the year. Captain Crossley McQuinn of Detroit spent several days in Bermuda with Charles Platz during February. Owing to the high principles on which this publication is founded, we find it necessary to refrain from any lengthy description of the trip. Suffice to say the boys enjoyed their trip immensely and seem to agree that Bermuda (which does not come under the jurisdiction of the eighteenth amendment) is "the place" to spend a vacation. Contract has been let to the American Ship Building Company for the construction of a new Steel Tug at their Lorain Plant. Work is still progressing favorably and it is expected the tug will be ready for delivery about May 1st.
At a meeting to discuss the safety of pedestrians, one witness remarked: "In the old days, if anybody missed a stage coach, he was contented to wait two or three days for the next. Now he lets out a squa wk if he misses one section of a revolving door." It's the truth. We are in such a hurry that half the time we don't know where we are going. We hardly take the time necessary to pick up our feet. We dodge through the traffic in the middle of the block rather than spend thirty seconds in reaching a street crossing. We go from Chicago to San Francisco, and write back that we made the trip in three hours less than last time. We jump on and off moving trains. We even marry in haste—about all we do at leisure is repent. , We eat fast, walk fast, dance fast, sleep fast and die fast. What's the hurry? There are still 24 hours in a day. A straight line is the shortest distance between two points, according to the mathematicians, but why confuse life with geometry? Wait a minute!
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April 1927
PEACE So soft, st) tender, and so small,
N> encompasslngly my all, .So wondrous that God should give me, Life moulded ><> exquisitely. My baby—all my own to love, Sent just to mc, from heav'n above. My spirit, heart, all glorified, Now in a baby's soul abide. Angels smile and o'er us hover, Smile again, as she says ".Mother." PITY
A wandering of little feet, Adventuring across a street.
The shriek of siren, grinding brake— The cry a broken heart will make. A wail of hopeless agony. The moaning of a man—his plea. The silence of the one who kneels, And little heart, stilled, gently feels. Am! oh the stillness of a babe. In arms of childless mother laid. PRAYPR
Please, God, let some voting mother meet. This sweet new angel, guide her feet. That she may never miss or know, The loss of mother-love below.
Please. God. send to the Mother hen-.
Xew courage and new vision clear. Again with love her heart imbue. This mother of an angel new.
And after while, somehow, someway,
Bring to tin- driver peace, T pray. —Grady, Dl I.I'll I.
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Published monthly for the employes of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company, Honors Citv,
Michigan, m the interest of Safety ami Welfare.
The columns of "Calcite Screenings" are open to receive items of plant news, photographs cartoons.
safety suggestions and other items of general plant interest.
employes
Contributions will
be welcomed from all
All such contributions should be received before the first of each month and should hear the
name m the department and tin- sender and should be addressed to the editor. Editor
O. F. FERDELMAN
IN THE SPRING A YOUNG MAN'S FANCY—
X'o driver in his right mind would deliber
Lightly turns .to thoughts of love, sang the ately kill or injure a child, yet many drive reck
poet. But it may also turn to thoughts of base lessly through school /.ones and residential dis
ball, motoring, pitching horse shoes, fishing,
golf, or anything else he may he interested in.
His fancy may even turn toward nothing in par
tricts where children are playing on the side walks. Even those driving at legal speeds have been involved in accidents that were legally ••un
ticular hut away From work. All of Ehese come
avoidable."
under the symptoms of "spring fever." a disease For which the germ has not yet been isolated. There are no definite statistics to prove
But no exoneration
in court can
remove the remorse at having killed a child.
Protecting the children requires a greater caution than
the law demands.
Traffic ordi
nances can only set a maximum speed; von
that production falls oil' in the Spring, or that accidents are more frequent. Day dreaming as
must determine the safe speed. Nor can 'tin-
job in the Spring when the outdoor world is most attractive. Recreation is great stuff to
as you would if that child playing on the curb
a cause of accidents is busy all the year round. law define ••inattention." the principal cause of hut it is much harder to keep the mind on the accidents. Responsibility can not be shirked by
keep feeling lit hut it won't mix with a job thai
following merely the letter of the law. were
your ei\vu.
requires close attention to avoid accident. Another spring fancy, most noticeable in the
younger workers, is the desire to play practical jokes which reaches the peak April 1st. If the jokes are harmless and confined to the lunch
hour, they are not objectionable, but horseplay
around machinery shows a decided lack of horse
sense, and fooling with ele'-tric'ty 01 compressed
air is inexcusable.
Even a good story may take
a man's attention from his work witli disastrous
consequences. One thing that spring inspires— in addition to poetry of all grades--is housecleaning. When nature freshens things up out doors we are moved to do the same inside and
many accident hazards disappear in the housecleaning. Clean-up week may have been start
ed by paint manufacturers,
hut everybody
profits by fewer fires and fewer accidents.
Drive
NEXT ISSUE OUT MAY 10TH
Beginning with the next issue, CAI.CITP
SCREENINGS will be published on the tenth of each month in place of the first as has heen the
custom. We have deemed this change neces sary lor two reasons ;
1st:
It provides sufficient time to tabulate
our accident records for the full month before
publishing same. 2nd: Distribution of the magazine will no
doubt be facilitated by having them available at the Time Office on the tenth of each month, This magazine is published for all the em ployes of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical
Company and we want to make sure that every one gets a Copy. If your foreman cannot sup ply you. ask for a copy at the Time Office on the tenth of every month beginning with the Mav
IF IT WERE YOUR CHILD
If it were your child playing on the curb, ready to dash thoughlessly into the street after a rolling ball, you would consider no sacrifice too great to save her life. A delay of a few seconds Or minutes would seem trivial: you would he ready to stop your car on a dime If you are a parent you can understand. Only those who have been through the dark In.urs of wailing and known the indescribabhjoy when mother and child are safe, can realize
"what the child means to the home, lint even the father can not fully comprehend its place in the mother's heart.
issue.
Take your copy home with you and let
your wife and family read it. We feel sure that they will be as interested in it as you are. All the rules and regulations that can lie
adopted, all the safety devices that can tached to machines, all the guards which erected, and all the warning signs that posted are useless unless every man is
he at can be can he careful to see that they are maintained and every man
is careful to warn others of danger.
Time spent in looking for faults in others could best be used in correcting our own.
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Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days Without A Lost Time Accident Last Year Electrical Department Attains a Perfect Score
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The above electricians, pipe litters, power house and pump house men who compose the Electrical De partment are responsible for the enviable No-Accident record they made last year in going 366 days without a single lost time accident, Ineidently, this is the only department in the entire plant that attained a perfect score in Accident Prevention last year, and is an achievement that every member of this department can be justly proud of. Records of this kind are only attained when each and every man is on the job, alert, ready to co-operate and to do just a little more than his share in perform ing his duties in a safe manner and preventing injuries to himself
and
his
fellow
workmen;
when
unsafe
places, tools or equipment are promptly reported to the foreman or the safety committee so they can be immediately rectified, and when every injury no mai ler how slight is immediately reported in order that first aid can be given and possible infection prevent -1. Mr. Harry FJ. Ware, general foreman (we regret very much that on account of illness Mr. Ware was unable to be in the above picture), Mr. George C. Wing, assistant general foreman, and all associate foremen, Safely Committeemen and individuals are to be highly
congratulated on attaining such a distinctive accomp
lishment in Accident Prevention. We might add that no lost time accidents were recorded in this depart ment for the first three months this year and with the fine spirit of co-operation for Safety being manifested by every man connected with the department, we feel confident that they will duplicate their record in 1927.
DAD
He may wear a
last year's straw hat, his finger
nails may need manicuring; his vest may hang a little loose, and his pants may bag at the knee; his face may
show signs of a second day's growth, but don't you call him "the old man." He's your father. For years he has been rushing around to get I lungs together.
Never once has he failed
right thing for you.
to do the
He thinks you are the greatest
boy on earth, bar none, even though you plaster your hair back, wear smart clothes and smoke cigarettes and fail to bring home a cent. He is the man who won the love and life partnership of the greatesl woman on earth, your mother.
He is "some" man, and not "the old man." If you win as good a wife as In; did, you will have to go some, hoy.
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Pa<re Five
ACCIDENT
the distillation.
RECORD
Dept.
No. Accident? 2
. . . .
4
assures you his stuff is all right because "he made it
. . . .
4
himself."
TRACKS
f.
MILL—BELMORE MILL—HAGEN
. . . .
MACHINE SHOP YARD—LABOR
These "head and tail" products which
were discarded in making the best commercial liquor, are kept in most of the "Moon" peddled today. Remember these facts when a hospitable friend
. . . .
YARD—MACHINERY
4
. . .
TRANSPORTATION—LAFFIN
-
Total
1 -
-
1
-
22
.Of the total of twenty-two lost time accidents in the above departments for the first three months this year it is at least encouragiug to note that in only six of these was the lost time greater than seven days. However, it is very evident that there is a great oppor tunity for improvement in this line of work.
Quite often lost time accidents are the result of slightly injured employes laying off from work when ii is unnecessary. All foremen and employees should bear in mind that an accident is classed as a lost time accident when the injured employe is absent from work beyond the day or shift on which it occurs. 'Of the seventeen departments at the Plant, ten
of these have not had a single accident this year, which clearly demonstrates the fact that accidents are pre ventable in nearly all cases especially when every em
A
MYTH EXPLODED
For more than half a century people have devoutly
believed that Mrs. O'Leary's cow started the great Chi cago fire of 1871 by kicking over a lighted lantern. Few subjects have inspired more cartoons. Skeptics sometimes questioned the tradition and attributed the blaze to a "stew party" in the loft of the barn but their theories never gained a very wide acceptance.
Now, however, it seems that the cow was guiltless. Michael Ahern. a veteran Chicago newspaper man who died recently, confessed some time ago that he was one of the three reporters who invented the famous
yarn for a sensation loving public. The truth probably was that spontaneous combustion of green timothy hay in the O'Leary hay mow caused the conflagration. This story bears all the earmarks of truth but. the fiction concocted by facetious reporters will long con tinue.
A tradition banded down to the second genera
tion does not die easily.
ploye is careful in his work, not only as regards him self but his fellow workmen as well.
IN MEMORIAM
Here lies the body of Samuel Crane Who ran a race with a speeding train. He reached the track, got near across.
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HOME BREW AND ITS DANGERS
It has long been believed by many people that "natural" products are wholesome. This argument is particularly applied to alcoholic beverages. Fermantation is natural process, they say, consequently the product may be drunk without danger. Decay is also a natural process, but no one has ever advanced that argument for eating rotten fruit. Nature is not always a benefactor. As an example, she produces both the palatable mushroom and the
But Sam and his car were a total loss.
The sexton softly tolled his knell. Speeding Sam on his way to—well, If he'd only stopped to look and listen, He'd be livin' now instead of missin'.
HOW
I GOT A
RAISE
I got to work and forgot the clock. I gave my employer the benefit of
dealy toadstool, as well as many varieties of harmful
brains, even though I knew I was only being paid for the work of
bacteria.
my hands.
It is also believed that beer or wine made at home
I got ready for my promotion long before I saw the
is less injurious than the products of commercial es tablishments. Dr. Raoul Blondel, a noted French phy
remotest possibility of being promoted.
sician, knocks this notion in an article in L'ECHO DE
yours?
PARIS, translated by THE LITERARY DIGEST. Equal doses of alcohol are equally harmful, regardloss of its source. Dr. Blondel points out. It i* incorrect to claim that homemade stuff will cause less drunkenness than the commercial article of the same
strength.
In home-brew there is the additional danger
of harmful bacteria if the amateur brewer does not observe sanitary precautions.
I fell in love with my job.
Are you in love with
If not, my advise to you is—Fire yourself and
get a job that you can fall in love with. —Bookan Wrap.
The fellow who is always on his tip toes seems to climb the ladder of success easily.
"The old gray hair ain't what it used to be," said
Home distilling suffers because the amateur wants to get as much hooch as he can from the mash. (This is a rather free interpretation of Dr. Blondel's re marks). The first products that come from the still
the old lady as she finished pouring on the dye.
also the last, contain the alcohols with the fancy names that are much more injurious than ordinary ethyl al
smile.
cohol which passes over during the middle period of
It's easier to smile than to frown. To frown <>o muscles are necessary, while only J.3 are required to
Fools rush in where angels later tread.
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Calcite Screenings PLANT
PERSONALS
Harry Ellison claims he saw a brown butterfly at the Power House on March 8th.
That ought to be a
sure sign of an early spring.
Machine Shop; Steve Weism-wski. Tracks; and John j'elarski, Tracks. Baby girls were also left at the homes Of Henry Keihn. Yard; and Louis Mertz. Ma chine Shop.
"Calcite Screenings" joins In extending congral iThe boys in iin- Storehouse have installed a swim ming pool since the flood of several weeks ago. They even removed the steam beating plain that previously occupied this hole in order fee make more room to ae commodate the crowd. Ed. Glasicr says the dressing
lations io ihe above parents.
rooms are upstairs where Doe.
Horn of the Transportation department, and of John Gapshynzski, Sr.. father of Cash Gapshynzski of ;h:Drilling department and of John Gapshynzski, Jr.. of the Mill department. Mr. Gapshynzski was employed in the Mill department tor several years but retired
Furtaw has ass?mlil -d
all the lectric healers in the plain to keep the temper ature
above
freezing.
For
further
information
see
Erwin .loppie'i.
Apparently .Ins. Penglase wasn't just satisfied wim this arrangement as we understand
he tried to do a
jack-knife dive in a puddle near Nos. U and 10 electric Shovels recently and If ii hadn't been for the prom.)i action on the pari of Mr. Munson in rescuing him. the lirsi aid erew might have had a chance to demonstrate their knowledge of artificial resusitation.
Better carry
a
the Quarry.
life preserver next time you go out iu
.Joe.
George Zenz says he walked four thousand mil-so far ihis winter while out on the dump.
If you want your chicken coop white-washed or your dog cured of fleas, see Dave Baker, the paint sprayer al the Carpenter shop. Lunch hour stories are going strong on the Aja-. these days. They say Art Grambau holds I he record so Mose Basel a
close second.
From present indications Block will be the first
boat
the
Steamer
loading
al
Joseph
Calcite this
year, being due to arrive at the Plant Friday. April 8th. This strainer will be followed by the N. F. Leopold ar riving Sunday, April 10th. Both steamers will load Flux and Open Hearth for Inland Steel Company at Indiana
Harbor,
The tug Kellers will leave Detroit Tuesday, April fith. arriving at Calcite sometime the following night, weather permitting. SEND ITEMS
IN
ANT)
Io Ihe Great Beyond of Charles Horn, father of l-~i«- I
last summer on account of ill health.
"Calcite Screenings" joins in extending our sinci QSl sympathy to the immediate relatives in this, thei." hour of bereavement,
INDEPENDENT BASKET BALL TEAM MAKES FINE RECORD
Safety First.
far Willi
OBITUARY
We are very sorry in having to record the passing
YOUR KODAK PICTURES HELP THIS
AND
The ind.pcndeni baskei hall team of Rogers Sin clair Oils have had a very successful year and claim to lie one of the
The former as file clerk and the latter as telephone operator. Duncan Gray, of the I'uion Switch and Signal Com
pany, was here several days last
month supervising
the work of installing several electric and mechanical track switches.
BIRTHS
During Ihe pasi month the stork visited al he homes of the following and left baby boys: John Leve,_'.<,
basket-ball
learns
is composed
i;i
almost
their games litis winter:
Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec.
12-Cheboygan. It!: Rogers City, 19. 21—Cheboygan, lit; Rogers City, .">:!. 25—Onaway. 24; Rogers City. 34. 28—Saginaw. 20; Rogers City, 22.
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Jan. I—Onaway. 15; Rogers City. :il.
Jan. Feb. Feb. Feb.
25—Tawas Gits, 17; Rogers City, 46. 4—Muskegon, 21; Rogers City, 16. 7—Muskegon, 17; Rogers City. 27. 12—Soo. 13; Rogers City, L6.
Feb. Feb. Mar. The
19- Grayling. 2(1; Rogers City, 34. 20—Tawas City. 2:!; Rogers City. 53. 15—Fort Brady, 27: Rogers City. 48. following players compose this team:
Thomas Rose, manager; Karl Dueltgen. captain; Lester Raymond. Clayton Hamilton. Dan Rose, Karl Plalz.
Claude Morrison,
Byron
Peuglase, and
R.y
Dueltgen.
NEWS
accepted positions in our main office.
senior
This team
entirely of Plant boys and the following is a record of
LEST WE FORGET
MAGAZINE GROW.
Misses Ella Reinke and Gisela Mann have recently
best
Northern Michigan.
The prevention of Accidents and Injuries i>\ all possible means, is a personal duty which every,me owes, not to himself alone, but also to his fellow workmen.
Jsemcniher, it is Letter to cause a delay than an accident.
Don't expect your helper to be as good a mechanic as yon are.
He isn't or he wouldn't
be a helper. A little explanation as to the w,i> the wurk is to be done may save injury to one
of both ol' you. Let every employe make himself a commit tee of one. to prevent some one accident.
—The .Mixer. August I'LV
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Page Seven More than 200 people are killed every month in the
WOES OF A "BOOMCAT"
There are two perfect men in the world: my wife's first husband and the craner who was on this job be fore I came.
The throttles are opposite on some mnehines. bur
the rope always pulls the same way.
Did yon ever
meet the runner who puts in a half-day fixing his seat and won't stop a minute to let you take a rock out of the latch-plate? A good way to tell which valve has slipped is to
coal mines.
Accidents of all kinds are responsible for 89,000 deaths a year. Io every hour, one every six minutes. During the
soldiers
weie
engaged in peaceful endeavor.
We are a careless people, and we pay heavily for
remove both covers and look.
Funny how little a runner thinks of your ability and how much work he trusts you with on Sunday while he Is at the ball game. He's never afraid of the jack-
our carelessness.
HONOR AMONG HUSBANDS
arm breaking on the craner's side.
Talking about Scotchmen, I worked for a "gyppo" who narrowed up the cut to save buying new trip-rope. Another one used a chain to dump the dipper and the boomeat furnished
war 49,000 American
killed on the battlefields, killed in a conflict where kill ing was the purpose of millions of men. But during the same time 132,000 persons were killed at home, or more than twice as many, who were supposed to be
the chain-oil.
It was their first separation and he promised faithfully, when he started in the morning on a twenty mile automobile trip to another town, that he would return in time for dinner at seven o'clock. But. seven
o'clock found him still absent, and the clock kept, steadily on until the hour of ten was registered, and still no husband.
At last the now frantic bride sent telegrams to five
of his friends living in towns that he might pass thru asking: "Is John spending the night, with you?" The husband reached home at midnight with a broken automobile trailing behind the wagon that brought him home.
A few minutes later one after another the answers
to the five telegrams arrived. Each one said: "Yes, John is spending Ihe night with me." The age of loyalty has not yet passed. —Patten's Monthly.
Little Johnny, a City boy in the country for the first time, saw the milking of a cow.
"Now you know where the milk comes from, don':
No Discoi'd in the
you?" he was asked.
Safety Band
"Sure." replied Johnny, "you give her some break fast food and water and then you drain her crank case. '
get in tune/
You can't hope for success—You've got to "hop" Somebody dies from accident every six minutes every day in the year in the United States. That was among the startling statements by Sec retary of Labor Davis in a recent address, made on lb1
authority of statistics gathered by the department of
An education is something like the flu—all those having chances, don't get it.
You will never amount to much so long as you wor ry about the amouni you are paid.
labor. Here are others:
There are 2,52:1.000
To be happy, appreciate more Ihe things you hav • industrial
accidents
every
year, of which 23,000 are fatal. Time lost due to industrial accidents amounts to 227,000,000 days a
for it.
year.
There are 63 deaths daily from industrial accidents. From midnight to midnight there are 6,900 indus trial accidents, or five every time the second hand of a watch makes a revolution.
There is an automobile accident every minute in
" every day of the year. About three people die in every hour of Ihe day from automobile accidents.
and worry less about the things you have not.
Every man lives in hopes that his ideas w II some day work—so he won't have to.
Have you ever tried making friends of people who were not your friends just by treating them as though
they were your friends? They say a growling dog seldom bites, but a growl ing employee has. usually, bit off more than he can chew,
John Barleycorn is dead but he left a boot legacy. •—Ashville
Times.
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With the Boats of the Bradley Transportation Company
Following are Captain and Chief Engineer appoint ments for the Bradley Transportation Company steam ei s for the season of 1927:
Str. Carl D. Bradley—Captalft, Wm. J. Chief Engineer, II. B. Moore. Str. T.
VV.
Robinson- Captain,
M.
It.
MacLean: MacLean:
Chief Engineer. John S. Sparre.
Sir. It. H. Taylor -Captain. F. F. Pearse; Chief Engineer, (iuy LaRoumy. Sir. John G. Munson —Captain. Crossley McQuinir Chief Engineer. Loif t'rdal
Str. W.
P. While
Captain. Theo. Dahlburg; Chief
Engineer. Thcs. Suttle.
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The new strainer Carl D. Rradley will be launched
al Lorain. Ohio, al 1:2:00 o'clock noon on April !Uii. Mis. Carl D. Rradley will act as sponsor using Calcite water obtained from the Plan! here. TO HOLD YOUR JOB,
KEEP YOUR TEMPER
Back in the days when chivalry was blooming and men wore lace trimmed pants and jackets no gentle man was properly dressed without a sword. And this cutlery wasn'i carried for ornament, if we can believe Rafael Sabatini's colorful yarns, slicing each other was
as common as pig sticking at the Chicago Stock yards.
Martin; Chief
In o.ir own frontier days men wore buckskin shirts and carried a pair Of hip-pocket cannons which went
The following are First Man- and First Assistant
into action on Ihe slightest provocation when the rodeye llowed freely. Nowadays fighting is out of style, except in the
Sir. Calcite—Captain,
Clayton
A.
Engineer. An bur I'rdal.
Engineer appoint menis
for our steamers for this sea
son:
sir. T. Wl Robinsoa—1st Mate, it. r. MacLean; Lai \ssi. Engineer. Anker Berg.
Str. I'.. II. Taylor
lsi
Mate,
Chris
Swart z;
1st
ring.
Swords are worn only on lodg:< parades and car
rying six-shooting hardware is contrary to law in most localities. Nature's weapons are the only ones avail able and there is nothing romaniic about a list light. Time was when man used to fight to show his de
Asst. Engineer. Kay Buohlcr.
votion tO his lady love.
Sir. John G. Munson—1st Mate, Uoht. Eekburg; 1st Asst. Engineer, John Anderson. Str. W. F. White -1st Mate. Jas. Skelley; 1st Asst Engineer. Harry Sloan. Str. Calcite- 1st Mate. Al. Tyrell; 1st Asst. Engi neer. Fred Hayileii.
showing the marks of combat she js likely to regard
The above appointments are for the beginning of the season.
When the new Steamer CAUL D. BRAD
LEY goes in commission, R. C. MacLean will then go
Rut ni.w if he ('alls on
her
him as a common brawler and give him the air. One man with a scrappy disposition can ilo a !oi
of damage is the morale Of a plant. The tough bird with a foul mouth is disturbing to harmonious rela tions but sooner or later he meets his match. Anoth r
disturbing influence is the fellow who carries a chip on his shoulder.
Perhaps there are times when
putting
up
y rill
on thai steamer as Firsl Mate and Charles Fredericks as First Assistant Engineer; Jas. Skelley will move up
dukes is more effective than turning the other cheele. Bui that time is not on company time. An angry m in
Io the Steamer ROBINSON as Mate.
is not a safe worker.
One way Io keep safe and keep
your job is to keep your temper. Steamboat
inspectors Larson and
Kolley were at
the Plant March Bfitfo Inspecting the tug Central.
MISTAKES
A man struck a
Frank
Lamp. James Gardner, Arthur Quads and
William Raker left
recently for
Detroit
where they
will (it out the tug Kellers which has been in wini
quarters there,
preparatory to
bringing her up
r
here
for operation this season.
match to sic if ihe gas tank was
empty it wasn'i. A man petted a strange bulldog to see if it
wa-
affeetlonate- it wasn't. A man speeded up to see if In- could heal the train to the crossing- he couldn't. A
We now expect thai the Brst one of our steamers
man
charged
ii
touched an electric win- to see
if
it
was
was.
10 arrive al Calcite this season will be Ihe Steamer R.
-—National Safety News.
H. TAYLOR, wilh a cargo of coal about April 11•li. She will be followed by llie steamer JOHN (!. MUN
SON about April IStli, also with a cargo of coal.
The
balance of our boats will leave lay-up port about April 15th and arrive al Calcite early morning of the 17th.
•'What is the name of the specie
1
just
shot:" f
asked the amateur hunter.
"I've just asked
him. sir." said
.-ays his nam.- is Smith."
ihe guide.
"He
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N7k
May 1927
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I
A
DAY for your mother—an' mine, as well, Though she has gone on to th' better land;
But folks 'at's had mothers can always tell You youngsters a lot you should understand.
You get to my age, an your mother's day Will corne to mean more than th' rest to you. You'll think o' your mother, an' smile, an' say It's Thanksgivin' Day, an' it's Christmas, too. YOU'LL think o' your mother—o' how she dreamed
That you would be all that she prayed you'd be: Her patience, her kindness!—she never seemed Too weary for you to climb on her knee!
She bore with your failin's, joyed in your stren'th,
Th' whole o' her world was wrapped up in you. You'll think o' her day, an you'll know at len'th, It's Thanksgivin' Day, an' it's Christmas, too.
A
DAY for all mothers-from Mary down, Ail' from Mary back to th' start o' time!
In country, an' city, an' little town, The thought is enough to make man sublime.
So, think o' your mother! Think long an' deep Of all that she hoped an' believed o' you,
An' then you will know that th' day you keep Is Thanksgivin' Day, an' is Christmas, too. — ChiciQo Tribune
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CALCITE
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SCREENINGS
Published monthly for the employes of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company, Rogers City, Michigan, in the interest of Safely and Welfare. The columns of "Calcite Screenings" are ojien to receive items of plain news, photographs, cartoons, safety suggestions and other items of general plant interest. Contributions will he welcomed from all
employes.
All such contributions should be received before the first of each month and should bear the
name of the department and the sender and should he addressed to the editor. Editor
P. 1-. FLRPKLMAX EDITORIALS PRIZES OFFERED FOR BEST KEPT HOME
in England and Dr. Oliver Wendell Homes in America, however, believed that the sources of
GROUNDS THIS SEASON
During the past few week- a small crew ol men have been busy cleaning up the yards around the Company houses, trimming the
shrubbery and beautifying the premises in gen
era] as inneh as possible. As an incentive for employee- occupying Company houses to con tinue keeping their home grounds looking clean
and orderly, the management is offering a prize of $50.00 to the house wife who keeps tile best
looking yard around her home throughout this season.
Inspections will no dotibt be made periodi cally by a committee composed of non-interest-/ed parties ami the award made about the ch.se ol the plant operating season next fall or at Mich, a date as the management might wish to set at the latter part of the season.
A similar prize will also be offered to all employes of this company who own their own homes or are living in houses not owned by this
infection were from outside the body. In 1886 the great French scientist. Louis Pasteur, prov ed that bacteria were the cause of infection. I )r.
Lister was the first surgeon to follow up this dis covery with the use of antiseptics and has been called the "father of modern surgery."' But best of all. antiseptic treatment has made amputation unnecessary in thousands of cases where it would formerly have been im perative; Prompt first aid treatment is the best protection against infection.
The Exchange Club of Rogers City which was organized last fall has. at its meeting May 3rd. organized a plan of installing, operating and financing four Junior Athletic Fields to be locat ed in various parts of the town. These fields will be equipped for tennis, basket ball, and with swings and see-saws for the younger children. This will provide con venient playgrounds for a large number of
Company., oi which inspections will also be made
children, and we understand, will be under the
as above slated.
This should create a great deal of enthus iasm among' our plant employe families and we
We feel that the Exchange Club is to be con gratulated upon selecting this particular activ ity, as it will fill a nevd made apparent by var ious improvised ball and playgrounds now being
ever.We feel Mire they will be broad minded and
used bv the children.
anticipate that the judges will have a little dif ficulty in deciding just which is the best, how
give credit where such is rightfully due. We hope all our employes will enter into this con test with a friendly spirit and that "clean up week*' will he every week for us this year. TRIUMPHS OF SURGERY
Before the discovery of antisept ics. the death toll of surgical operations was teriffic. In
supervision of a competent athletic instructor.
Those of our employees who belong to the Automobile Club of Northern Michigan will be interested to know that Mr. (). I). Weidon has
been selected as manager of the Rogers City Division, and that he is making plans rapidly to be oi service to the Club with headquarters for the present time at the Kitchen Mouse.
those days it was estimated that 99 per cent of all abdominal operations were fatal.
Sixty per
IMPORTANT NOTICE
All applications for
rental of Company
cent <>f all other major operations, such as ".he
houses must, on and after this date and un
amputation of an arm or leg. resulted in death.
til further notice, be made in writing on a
Without realizing it the surgeons infected the wounds they dressed.
forms are available at the Main Office and
This terrible death rate was duv to â&#x20AC;˘"hos-
-'pital gangrene."*
It was believed that a wound
had lo grow- worse liefore it could grow bet letto rid the body of poisons. Dr. Joseph Lister
form
prepared
for that purpose.
These
should be turned in. when properly filled out, to i). b. FERDLEMAN, or in his ab seuce to R. n. HENLEY.
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Mr. John White, superintendent of the Union Cars'
PLANT PERSONALS
BIRTHS
During the past month the stork visited at the homes of Henry Smith, Jr., of the drilling department, and Otto Dehring of the construction department and left baby girls; also at the home of Steve Partyka of
the construction department where he left a baby boy. "Calcite Screenings" joins in extending congratula tions to the above parents. Now that the fishing season is open again, the so-
called fish stories are beginning to be the main topic of conversation.
Charles Schram of the construction department claims he landed a 20 inch rainbow trout the first day of the season. He has such notables as Art Wenzel,
bide Company at Sault Ste. Marie, paid a visit to our plant recently. He informed us that his Company add ed another year to their enviable no accident record on January 9, 1927. They have not had a lost time acci dent at their plant since January 9, 1925, with a pre vious record of eleven months in 1924. This certainly is a record to be proud of and substantiates the state ment that "Accidents in practically all cases are avoid able."
We understand that Fred Heythaler of the Trans portation Department nearly shot a large white owl recently. It appears Fred spied the bird on the beach while on his way home from the night shift. Fred im
mediately ran home for his trusty shot gun and a pock et full of rock salt and arriving near the scene began
Charles Hoffman and F. W. MacArthur to vouch for
creeping up on the owl.
the truth of his claim. Inasmuch as all these gentle men are of the same department and all capable of
what Fred's intentions were, whether to sneak up closa
telling good stories we'll leave it to you to use your
eye out. At any rate the owl being a wise old bird, seemed to sense danger near by and flew before Fred could bring the old gun into action. The last seen of
own good judgement as to the truth of the tale.
Victor Koch and Claude
Hamon
together
with
Now we haven't the least idea
enough to put salt on the bird's tail or to shoot his left
Fred he was still watching for the owl to alight again.
their families enjoyed a perch fishing trip to Cheboy gan recently.
Vic says they were pulling them in so
fast that he lost all count of how many they actually
Hjalmer Neilsen of the Engineering Department is spending his vacation in Chicago.
caught.
Lloyd Conley, engineer at the Power House, says Charles.Hoffman, construction department foreman enjoyed a visit from his mother last month.
Mrs. Hoff
man, Sr., lives at East Tawas, Michigan.
he doesn't believe in having pet cats around especially ^ when you run on to them staring at you in a dark cor- ( ncr somewhere with their eyes looking for all the world like two balls of fire.
Now that the Suggestion Boxes have finally been installed about the Plant, we're looking for a lot of good dope for this column besides a lot of Safety sug
would like to fill this page with personal doings at the plant every month. Will you help us?
The Blue and White Orchestra are again on the warpath sending forth harmonious strains of synco pated jazz for those who wish to trip the light fantas tic. Except for the pianist (Miss Edna Bonnard) the personnel is composed entirely of Plant boys with Ed ward Glazer as manager and trap drummer; Rhoud
Didja hear about the new car that Sinclair Jamie-
Benson, cornet; Dave Baker, saxophone and clarinet; Howard Warwick, banjo; and Walter Stephen as slip
gestions. Come on fellows, get the old bean in action and send us your stuff. The more the merrier as we
son and Clement Hibbard bought recently? It's a part nership affair, one week it belongs to Jamie and the next week it's Clem's. Notwithstanding the fact that it sometimes runs" out of gas and that the lights have a peculiar habit of going out when most needed, it is a really and truly automobile.
WANTEDâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Will some kind
soul p'.ease
give
a
formal party so Luke Lee can wear his dress suit?
pery hank on the slide trombone. OBITUARY
We are very sorry in having to record the passing to the great beyond of William Schlager, father of August Schlager of the electrical department, also the infant son of Paul Curtis of the construction depart ment, and Mrs. John Danbert, mother of John Danbert of the drilling department and Fred Danbert of the Quarry department.
Hilary O'Toole is in the limelight again.
He acci-
dently discovered a method by which the sixty crusher can be started when filled with stone. Owing to the fact that the whole thing is more or less secretive we are unable to publish details, however, further infor mation might be gained from Bill Hagen or Emil
Dehnke, who we understand are in snooks with Hilary. Our congenial friend W. J. McHenry of the E. I. DuPont de NeMours Company paid the office a visit a few weeks ago.
"Calcite Screening" joins in extending our sincarest sympathy to the immediate relatives in this, their hour of bereavement.
Tennis players will be interested in the announce ment that courts of limestone are much more resilient
than clay courts and enables players to attain a much faster game. /""
The man who puts safety last may go to the hos pital first.
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Page Five nary individual some very simple precautions will hold
OUR ACCIDENT RECORD
•
Department
No. Accidents 1926
TRACKS
-
-
-
-
TRANSPORTATION—KELLEY TRANSPORTATION—LAFFIN
-
.0
0
0
0
sugary and fatty foods and disinclined to eat the bulk
1
SHOVELS—KELLEY
-
0
0
SHOVELS—LAFFIN
-
1
0
ier foods in the vegetable and fruit class.
DRILLS—MEYERS'
-
0
0
er hand, the undernourished, anemic lightweight may have no taste for green vegetables or fruits and may be attracted by a meat and potato diet. The fundamental principles of a healthful dietary are very simple and, making due allowance for type, easily applied. Anyone who includes a fair amount of milk, gre^n vegetables, whole cereals and fruit, in his
DRILLS—KELLEY
BLASTING CREWS MILL—HAGEN
. . . . . . .
MILL—BELMORE
ELECTRICAL
. . .
CREWS
MACHINE SHOP
. . .
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
On the oth
CARPENTER SHOP
-
-
0
0
dietary every day or every other day is on, the safe
YARD—MACHINERY
-
-
0
0
side. No specific dietary deficiency can occur under such conditions. Barring soms particular form of dis ease where a very narrow and carefully studied diet is required, it is simply necessary to watch the scales and note whether the weight is at a favorable figure. If the weight is too lew, then an increase in the con sumption of bread and butter, cereals and cream is desirable, but the green vegetables and fruits should
YARD—LABOR
TUGS
. . .
. . . . TOTALS
. . .
30
o
0
5
3
The above list represents the number of lost time accidents that have occurred in the different depart
ments during the month of April for both years 1926 and 1927. As has been customary in the past, we have began tabulating our accident records for the operat ing season or rather beginning with the first of April This is done for the reason that some of the depart
ments do not operate during the winter months or at least the men in those departments, if working, are not J doing their regular work and therefore it places all de-
be included as they improve the assimilative powers of the individual. If the weight is creeping up there should be a little more caution in the use of the very foods we have named as important for the lightweight. Both the lightweight and the heavyweight, however, need green vegetables, fruit and some milk in the diet. Milk is a food not high in calories, hence it can be
partments on a more even basis to begin with.
taken by the heavyweight
(Of the three lost time accidents recorded, two of these were very serious finger injuries, which in both
Meat is not necessary in the diet. In moderation there is no reason to believe that it is harmful to the
cases resulted in the partial loss of a finger, and were the result of extreme carelessness of the part of the
average individual,
injured men. They DIDN'T THINK.) If every man employe would give more thought as to the Safest way of doing their particular work, we * would have very few if any accidents, and after all the Safest way is the Best way although it might take a little longer sometimes. Let us all do just a little more THINKING and thereby help in reducing acci dents and incidently help ourselves. A BOTTLE OF MILK AND A CAN OF TOMATOES Professor Mary Swartz Rose of Teachers College, author of that excellent book on diet—"Feeding the
Family"-—recently stated in an «address before the Neighborhood Clubs of New York City that she would like to travel around the city, preceded by a
brass
band, carrying in one hand a bottle of milk and in the
J
Probably the greatest risk that people run is that
of some specific diet deficiency such as lack of vitamins or minerals. In other cases the diet is badly adapted to the type, the heavyweight being fond of starchy,
0
- -
1927
him safe.
other a can of tomatoes proclaiming the protective quality of these foods. If these simple facts were understood in every family and these foods, which are within the reach of all, made a part of the daily dietary, a vast amount of illness and subnutrition would be prevented. All this goes to show the simplicity of dietetic principles. * A great deal of mystery surrounds the matter of diet and various special forms of diet are advocated by cults and diet quacks. In some cases the regulation of the diet may be a complex matter, but for the ordi
in
moderate
quantities.
but there are other foods
about
which there is no possible doubt that take the place of meat and one of these is
milk.
Skimmed
milk is a
perfect substitute for meat. Speaking of tomatoes, there was a time not so far
distant when canned tomatoes were described by die tetic experts as merely colored water having no food value.
It is true that tomatoes have almost no fuel
value, but they are valuable sources of vitamins even when canned. Specialists in children's diseases differ
as to the advisability of giving canned tomato juice to very young infants, although carefully controlled experiments in hospitals and laboratories have shown
that tomato juice can take the place of orange juice in the infant dietary- It is probably better to administer orange juice to the very young infant, but older child ren can certainly take the canned tomatoes
without
any difficulty or risk of stomach disturbance. They are a valuable source of vitamins especially for pro tection against scurvy.
If we know ourselves we are pretty well inform.'*}. Safety brings compensations not included on the state compensation law.
Don't run the milk of human kindness through a cream separator.
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Calcite Screening's
With the Boats of the Bradley Transportation Company
NEW STEAMER CARL D. BRADLEY LAUNCHED AT
LORAIN
The new steamer Carl I). Bradley, under construc tion al the yards of tlic American Ship Building Comp any el' Lorain, Ohio, during I he pasi winter, was suc cessfully launched at twelve o'clock noon on April !)th. The Launching was witnessed hy approximately two
hundred guests, mostly officials of the Bradley Trans portation Company and the American Ship Building
Lean and Chief Engineer Marry B Moore who will be
in charge of the new boat. From present indications the Bradley will arrive at Calcite for her lirst cargo of stone about the first of July. BOAT PERSONALS
The new tug "Rogers City' now being built al. the
American Shi]) Building Company at delivered here .sometime this month.
Lorain, will he Captain Walter
Company who arrived by special cars from Cleveland.
Peppier and Chief Engineer, Frank Lamp, will bring
They were taken liy special train from the yard Offices
her up on her first trip.
of the ship building company to the launching dock where the huge ship, largest and finest on the Great Lakes, awaited her initial plunge. hine ribboned bottle of Calcite water over its bow just,
Harry B. Moore, chief engineer of the new st'amer tail D, Bradley now under construction at Lorain, was here recently on business. Harry says the work is progressing on schedule and that she sure will he
as the restraining lines were severed jind the hig ship
"some boat" when finished.
.Mrs. Carl
I).
Bradley smashed a
red- white and
slid down the greased ways. The Immense size of the steamer caused it to roll tip a huge wave as it .slid into beam
We understand that some of the boys on the boats were so busy renewing acquaintances in town recently that they did not get back to the dock until after their
of (15 feet and is 38 feet deep. It is estimated she will carry approximately 14,000 tones of limestone with a
to say good-bye to her, boys, as it makes it rather hard
the
Black river.
The new steamer is 638 feet over all. has a
draft of about 20 feet fi inches. She will be completely electrically equipped being driven by a -ISOil II. I'. Gen eral Electric motor, the main power supply being furn ished hy a
5600 K. W. Turbo Generator.
Boilers will
ho Babcock and Wilcox marine water tube carrying a si. am pressure of 325 pounds at. 700 degrees Fahren heit and stoker tired with automatic ash ejection ma chinery. Coal will he fed to stokers by short feeder
belt conveyors.
Other
special
Benson automatic constant,
equipment
tension
electrical
will
Belter not wait until the last minute
on the rest of the crew to make a trip short-handed. Guy LaBounty. chief engineer on tin- steamer John G. Munson. recently missed a nip to Buffalo on account
of the serious illness of his daughter. We are glad to note that the young lady is much improved and on the road to Pi eovery again.
be
The lirst cargo of stone to be shipped to the new
winches
harbor at Buffington will in all probability be delivered by the Steamer Robinson the week of May Sth. This harbor has been recently constructed and is supposed to be cue of the Quest on the Lakes. The average depth of water is 25 feet. They also have a. pier ilia. is ISOii leet lent: and 600 feet wide and storage capacity
and a boom swinging device, a Sperry Gyro compass and Gyro pilot, and a new developed Simon Radio direction finder. The galleys will also have complete electrical equipment. A battery of six motion picture cameras under the direction of F. V. X. Bradley obtained n very line movie reel of about one thousand feet, which was made tip hy the Alpha Motion Picture Studio and shown at the IIM-
landen quests shown whre it
boat had gone.
Motel in Cleveland four hours later where the returned for a banquet. The reel was also ai the local theater |lt.re the following week was enjoyed by many of tin- plant employees as
well as local people.
Numbered among the guests were the following plant men: Carl I). Bradley, president: .John C. Munson. Vice-president and general manager; Fred V. X. Brad ley. R. B. Henley. J. P. Kinville, Charles F. Plalz. C. K. Fischer, ami II. F. Schultz, also Captain William Mc
for 1,000,000 tons of Limstone.
The Steamer B. 11. Taylor made ten trips during the month of April. Ai this rate Cap!. Pearse says he is good lor a hundred trips iliis season. Thomas Suttle. chief engineer of the Steamer Cal
cite is rejoicing in the arrival of a baby girl at his home recently. ""
The Steamer Robinson returned May 2nd from .an
eighty-three
hour
round trip to Buffalo,
.McLean and Harry Moore, please note).
(('apt. n:n
Calcite Screenings
he above scenes were taken at the launching of the new steamer Carl I). Bradley at the yard
of the American Ship Building Co.. Lorain. Ohio. on April 9th. (1) Mrs. Carl 1). Bradley, who act ed as sponsor at the launching of the new steam
er: (2) The Bradley leaving the ways: (3) The
Bradley as she appeared just prior to the launch
ing;: (4) A stern view showing huge rudder and propeller.
Paore Seven
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Page Eight STEAMER CALCITE SAFETY
MEETING
Meeting held April ISth, 11)27, with the Eollowtttfi members present: A. Hoy, chairman; F. L. Bacon, sec retary; Finery Derby. R. Oliver. Win. Hudson and D.
there will be no danger of the men being struck by cables when heaving out or taking in same. These
suggestions having been made and the topics discus jed in detail the meeting adjourned.
Everett.
Captain C. A. Martin and Chief Engineer Arthur Urdal gave short talks to the committee on training new
SAFETY MEETING—STEAMER B. H. TAYLOR
men in their duties aboard ship in order that they might carry out. their different details in the Safest, possible method. "Every accident that occurs can
The first Safety Meeeting was held March 30th, 1927. with the following members present: Captain F. F. Pearse; Chief Engineer Guy LaBounty: First Male. Chris Swartz; Second Mate. Leo Moll; Third Asst.
usually be prevented if the proper precautious are tak
Engineer; Alex Feldman, Boatswain; One Seaman, One
en at the proper time."
Oibr and One Fireman.
The following items were diseased: 1. In working around flu caps be sure to use a block and tackle. This not only insures safety but
Suggestions were made in regard to dangers of fitling-out ship and the crew were warned against such conditions, the old hands as well as the new ones.
makes it much easier than trying lo handle them by
staging and
hand.
Kim; buoys were on fleck al all limes and stagings kept clean of spilled paint, etc., to prevent slipping.
2.
We
have
done
away
with
wrenches
on
the
Stairways
Forecastle head and have installed a speaking tube to the windlass room
in order to make sure
no one
is
lines
in
were examined
boiler
room
before
were
well
put
All
to use.
lighted
and
other [daces where such conditions existed. It was also
standing near the chain when anchor is let go. A bell leading from the pilot house and with a system of bells
decided
or code insures everyone of the proper thing being done
the injury lieniselves as all licensed men have had First
in a
Aid training.
safe manner.
.'{.
Be sure beckets are in all mooring lines and in
good condition, also make sure that the men use them
for the purpose that they are intended. •t.
The oilers should be cautioned
when
working
tluit
if
anyone was ever injured they should
receive treatment
from licensed
men rather than treat
Ai the next meeting the crew will be warned against other conditions where there is a possibility of being injured and "Takinng Chances" and precautions taken lo sic that there will be no accidents during the season of 1927.
around engine, especially the steering engine.
Leo Moll, Chairman
5. If you are in a hurry, slow down when you come near moving machinery. It may get you to your
f
Stanley Dauscher, Secretary.
destination sooner.
The meeting adjourned with every committee mem
ber being advised to keep an eye for Safely Improve
Capt. Ted Dahlburg says it's fine to be on the Steamer White and not have any trips to Fairvicw
ments.
dock.
SAFETY MEETING—STR. JOHN G. MUNSON
Meeting held April 15th, 1027. with the following
members present: ("apt. Grosley Mcquiun. Chief Engi neer Lief Urdal. Clarence Thorsen, Melvin Keyse. Clar ence Hoy, Orville Murch, H.
K.
I'earsen
and
Geo.
George Welsh has been appointed steward of the Steamer Calcite. All the ladies who attended the
.Mother and Daughter banquet given by the Fellowship Club here last winter can vouch for George's ability as a
hash slingcr.
Loughry. THE
Meeting called to order by chairman at six thirty
IRISH
DIVIDEND
P. M. and continued for one hour.
"How much are yer fish. Mr. Goldstein?"
The valuable little book entitled "The Prevention of Accidents" by the Lakes Carrier's Association was
"Fight
distributed to each member with instructions to read it carefully. Then followed a general lalk concerning
"Let's see.
eighty-eight.
Safety.
O'Brien."
Each member of the committee was cautioned to instruct all new men how to perform their duties while
ways good to the Irish—I'll say that for ye."
working aboard ship with the least possible danger. It was suggested that whenever work was to be done on or around the whistles, to first notify the Mate and
Engineer on watch so that there would be no danger from blowing the whistle and causing live steam to escape. One man should be appointed to give all sig nals when putting on or removing hatch-covers. it was also suggested that when taking on or put-
•Til
cents a
pound. Mrs. O'Brien."
take two of thim.
Fight
How much will that be?"
pounds—eight times eight are
Take 'em
for seventy-five cents,
"Thank ye, Mr. Goldstein. I'll do that.
Mrs.
Ye're al
And Ihe trade was closed.
A Scotchman crossing a street spied a ha'penny and slopped to pick it up. As he did. he was stri—t by a motor car and injured so that he died in a few
hours. After carefully weighing ihe facts, the coro ner's jury reached the verdicl that the deceased came to his death from natural causes.
ling off supplies through the after gangway by the way of a gang plank, thai the Male on watch and the man handling the deck engines should be notified so that
A man is as young as he feels, but he is seldom as important.
Calcite Screenings Number Seven
June 1927
Our Flag BY CHARLES G. CRKLL1N
Stars of the early dawning, set in a field <>f blue; Stripes of the sunrise splendor, crimson and white of
hue;
Flan of our father's fathers, born on the field of strife, Phoenix of fiery battle, risen from human life; Given for God and freedom, sacred, indeed, the trust Left by the countless thousands returned lo the silent
dust.
Flag of a mighty nation waving aloft unfurled;
Kissed by the sun of heaven caressed by the winds of the world; Greater than kingly power, greater than all mankind; Conceived in the need of the hour, inspired by the Master Mind;
Over the living children, over the laureled grave, Streaming on high in the cloudless sky. banner our fathers gave.
Flan of a new-born era, token of every right
Wrung from a tyrant power, unawed by a tyrant's might: Facing again the menace out flung from a foreign shore, Meeting again the challenge as met in the years before;
Under thy spangled folds thy children await to give All that they have or are that the flag they love shall live.
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Calcilc Screenings
CALCITE
SCREENINGS
Published monthly for the employes of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company,
Rogers City,
Michigan, in the interest of Safety and Welfare. The columns of "Calcite Screenings" are open to receive items of plant news, photographs, cartoons,
safety suggestions and other items of general plant interest.
employes.
Contributions will
be welcomed from all
All such contributions should be received before the first of each month and should bear the
name Of the department and the sender and should be addressed to the editor.
Editor
O. F. FKKDI-I.MAX EDITORIALS MAGAZINE AGAIN ENLARGED
OUR FLAG
Beginning with this issue we have again fotmd it necessafy to enlarge our magazine by adding four more papg.es. This is being done
ble tributes to the flag," says Colorado's Book
with the desire to make it of more interest am!
benefit to all our employes, their families and friends.
The articles entitled "Modes
of
the
Mo
ment" by Marcia Meadows (published by cour tesy of Marshall Field & Company), the first of
which appears <>n page nine of this issue, should prove of special interest to the women. These articles will continue to appear in
CALCITIC
SCREENINGS as will such others as we think will be ol" interest to our wives and families.
The articles mi Mow lo Live (published by the courtesy of the Life Extension Institute), the
"The heart of every patriot responds to no of Holidays, and adds, "On Flag Day. June 14th. 1917, a signal tribue was paid to the national em blem. The House of Representatives at Wash ington. 1). C. on thai day suspended all legisla
tive proceedings t<> listen to an address by Rep resentative Hicks of New York State on "The
American Flag."
The speaker quoted from ele
gant tributes by the late Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court and by Henry Ward licechcr. When al last he read the poem which appears
on the opposite page, by Charles (i. Crcllin. every member of the House, arose, cheering the flag. As a mark of profound respect, the House
of Representatives adjourned for the day."
the first of which appeared in our May issue, Containing the latest and most scientific infor mation on healthful living and the prevention oi
THE HUMAN AUTOMOBILE
disease, should be of vital interest to all con
cerned.
Also the- page of cartoons. "The Do
ings of the Browns/' furnished by the- National Safety News, should be a welcomed feature. The doings of this family at work and at home
arc interesting ami amusing and each cartoon carries a safety message. We cannot help but feel that CALCITE SCREENINGS is a large contributing factor in the promotion of our Safety First program and incidentally in the marked reduction of accidents
this year over previous years: also, in promotion of understanding and good feeling among all employes. We appreciate the co-operation we are receiving and trust you will continue to give it only in a larger measure and that our maga zine will continue to grow and serve its purpose. IT'S UP TO YOU
If you are one of those who believe that you will get it when your time comes, the chance are that you r time will come much sooner than necessary.
Don'1 tempt fate with careless acts.
You
may gel it "when your time comes.*' but you can put that time a long way in the distance by not taking chances. —X. C. R. Xews.
Someone has figured out that there is a striking
Similarity between a man and an automobile, says Old Hickory Smoker and adds: It is therefore suggested that after equipping yourself with a good starter ilniiative) you should follow these instructions: I'se the brake of Patience and Self Control.
Put large quantities of Hope in the grease cups. !"*<• the Perseverance brand of gasoline as motive
power instead of hot air. Have the timer properly set—Early. Have the carburetor properly adjusted, admit tint; a mixture of equal parts of Earnestness and Will Pow er.
I'se the primer of Enthusiasm. Besl
results can
be obtained
by using the Four
Cylinders of knowledge: The knowledge of yourself; the knowledge of your company; the knowledge of your product; the knowledge of men. Advance the spark of Ambition for more speed. Open wide the throttle of Faith in yourself, your
company, and your calling to secure more power. Polish with powder of Courtesy. Use Stick-toit tires »n Non-Discouragement rims. Put on the searchlights of Character.
With the foregoing equipment the human automo bile will take every hill of disappointment and dis couragement in high gear.
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Page Four PLANT
HARVEY PENGLASE SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS
Miss Elsie Nagle has recently accepted
It is with a feeling of deep regret that we
record the passing to the Great Beyond of Har vey I'englase. eldest son of Joseph Penglase, master mechanic.
23rd,
night,
after
an
tion
in
Gisela
our main
office as
a
telephone operator.
Mann, former operator, has
posi Miss
been promoted to
stenographer at the Engineering office.
1 1<
passed away quietly on Monday
PERSONALS
Harry Wing says the first lesson in driving a car
should he tn always keep the doors of the car closed when entering or leaving the garage.
May illness
dating hack some L2 months, and by which
John
H.
Fielding,
Jr..
purchasing agent
for
the
he was confined to his
McKiuney Steel Company, was a plant visitor on May
home for the past four
10th.
months.
he was
Jack
generally known to all
recent ly.
Harvey, as his
friends,
came
and
a
week at
our Buffalo plant
to Mr.
our city with his par ents
Kinville spent
Clarence
It.
Randall, assistant
vice-president
of the Inland Steel Company arrived on the Steamer
I) r o t lit.- r s
Hutchinson with a party of friends on May 22nd and
about 12 years ago. at tended the local high
enjoyed a trip through our plant.
school and was quite prominent in athletics especially basket hall and later as a member of the base hall team.
lie first entered the employ of our Company on November 5th. PdS, us a car checker.
The
following year he was a clerk in the store room for a short time and then worked ahout a year as a hraketnan on one of the stone trains.
In
Joseph A. Valentin, Chemist returned recently from a visit to the Diamond Alkali plant at Fairport. Ohio, and the Central Alloy Steel Company's plant at Massillon. Ohio.
Mr. F. 0. Kennedy,
manager
of
the
Steamship Company, visited our plant on
Rockport
May 20th,
September of 1920 he entered the Machine Shop as an apprentice where he worked his way up to lathe operator which position he held at Un close of operations last year. Ill health pre
coining up on the Steamer Kling.
vented him from resuming his work this year, and he gradually grew weaker until the time >>\
con lined to his bed on account of sickness for several
We are glad to note that Morris Richards, Milt Dept.. is ahle to he out and around again after being
weeks.
Morris had a severe attack of pneumonia.
hi- death. lie was married to Miss F.lsie Teeters last
October and the young wife is left to mourn his loss, together with his father and brother Byron. The employees of the entire plant mourn the death of
Mr.
I'englase and extend their
sympathy to his family in this, their hour of be reavement.
OBITUARY
We are very sorry in having to record the death of Fred
Dagner. father of Fred and George Dagner of
the Transport at ion
Dept.;
Mrs. Alex Zeniple. wife of
We understand Emil Dehnke. Electrical Dept.. ad vocates having a log rolling contest on July 4th. It seems Emil has been doing some practicing at Swan Lake while trying out his motor boat. One of the tonsorial artists in town has been giving him a few lessons on how to stick on a slippery log without cork boots. Is the water very wet down there, Emil7 We wonder what's the matter with the hoys in the Quarry Dept. they don't send us any news. How about it. fellowsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;let's have something for the next issue. We'll phomiso not lo mention any names if you say so.
Alex Zeniple and mother of Otto, Bruno and John Zem))!>â&#x20AC;˘ all of the Yard Dept.;
Fred
William Meredith, father of
Meredith of the Quarry
Dept.;
Mrs.
Anolia
Mc
Donald, grandmother of Harry Meharg of the Time keeping Dept. and Everett Mehiirg of the Mill Dept.; Mrs. Hay W'ilkius, wife of Ray Wilkins of the Quarry Dept.; and Harvey Penglase, sou of Joseph Penglase of the Machine Shop. "Calcite
Screenings'*
joins
in
extending our
et-rest Sympathy to the immediate relatives in
sin-
this,
Your body is a big part of your capital. in the Hand of Careless Habit.
Steamer Robinson for the past few weeks. like the life of a sailor, boys?
How do you
Don't forget to keep the grounds around your house slicked up if you want to compete for that $50 prize. The judges are on the job and no doubt have given your place the once over, but its not too late yet
to make a showing.
their hour of hereavoment.
vest it
Dave Larsen, Louis Dambra and Emil Lemere of
the machine shop have been doing repair work on the
Don't in
Sal'eiy docs not mean "Lei George do it." to "Do it yourself."
It means
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Pige Five THE VALUES OF
LET'S ALL GET TOGETHER AND MAKE
THIS A 100% SAFETY MONTH.'
NOT A SINGLE ACCIDENT THIS MONTH —,
she is worth'.'"
IF YOU'LL HELP/
OUR ACCIDENT RECORD
Department
NO, Accide
its
L926 1927 TRACKS
ti
2
TRANSPORTATION
KFLLKY
TRANSPORTATION- LAFFIX SHOVKLS
-
KKI.LKY
SHOVELS—LAFFIX
1
n
0
0
II
ii
1
it
DRILLS -MEYERS
1
ii
DRILLS—KELLEY BLASTING OREWS
0
0
0
0
.MILL
MOTHERS
Shall the mother of the family be paid a salary? This is a question asked new and then, and answers of every conceivable kind have been offered. The answer we like best is. "Can we even begin to pay her wliai
IIAGFX
Investigators in home economics recently complet ed a survey in which they found that, in the course of a year, the average mother with four or five child ren, makes the equivalent of eleven hundred loaves of
bread, one hundred cakes, seven hundred and fifty pies, cooks the meat of two cows and six hogs, pares some thing like six thousand potatoes, makes twelve hundred beds, dusts seven thousand Ave hundred chairs, makes one hundred new garments in addition to all the mend ing, darning and sewing on of buttons incidental to the
family of this size, washes one hundred and twenty thousand dishes, and then finds spare time to do the family washing and ironing, can fruit, make preserves and jellies, wear out three brooms a year sweeping and doing other things too numerous to mention.
1
1
MILL—BELMORE
0
1
ELECTRICAL
0
0
1
1
hood and womanhood, cannot be measured, much less
CREWS
MACHINE SHOP CARPENTER
YARD-
SHOP
MACHINERY
II
II
paid, in dollars and cents.
II
the most valuable contribution the civilization of the
YARD—LABOR
:-.
0
u
1)
MISCELLANEOUS
0
I
lo
-1
-
The above list represents the nninher of lost time
accidents that have occured in the
different
ments during the months of April and
rearing her children to man
0
TUGS
TOTALS
A mother's labor in
depart
Day in and day out, it is
world receives. No salary can compensate her. She gets her reward in the knowledge that the world is just a little bit better for the family she has reared; thai home anil country and civilization have moved to a trifle higher plane as the result, of her labors, her sacrifices and her prayers. We can never hope to pay a mother what she is worth.
.May for both
years 1!I2I> and 1927. We wish to apologize for several slight
errors in
compiling these records in the May issue of this mag
azine and have endeavored to make the proper cor rections
in
the
above
crew did not have a
list.
lost
For instance,
the Track
^HERE'S at least
lime accident as was recorded
and we overlooked chalking one up against the Ma chine Shop, also the one charged against the drilling department has been changed to miscellaneous as the man was not working in the drilling department at the
one of these back of
time he was injured hut was on construction work.
every accident:
We regret very much in having to record one lost time accident for the month of .May. as we hail every hope that we would gp through this month with a clean
I don't know.
slate.
However, it is very encouraging to note that we
did go from the :Mst of April to the 25th of May without a single lost time accident, also the marked reduction of lost time accidents for the first
FOR
I forgot.
two months of our
operating season this year over last year. It is very evident that we are making progress in Safety work and we appreciate the co-operation that i^ being given in the furtherance of it. and we sincerely hope thai every employe regardless of bis position, will pledge himself to do everything in his power to pre vent injury to himself or follow-worUinen. MAKE JUNE A SAFE MONTH
I don't care.
EVERYONE.
You need UOt be an artist to draw a Safety Score.
No man gets very high by pulling another down.
What's the use.
It can't happen to me.
I can look out for myself. This safety stuff is all "baloney."
—Gary Works Circle
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One of the deficiencies of the American diet, ac- I
HOW TO KEEP WELL
Series by the Life Extension Institute Containing the Latest and the Most Scientific Information on Healthful
Living and the Prevention of Disease. THE RICH NUT
Man is a "poor nut" for not making larger use of nuts as a food.
The time may come when nuts will
solve the food problem of an over-populated world.
It
has been figured by Dr. John H. Kellogg that a row of nut trees on each side of our country roads would pro
vide protein or building food for a population of one hundred million people.
Nuts have all the advantages of flesh foods with
out any of the disadvantages. We are certainly "nut ty" in the unintelligent way in which we use this val uable source of food principally as an indulgence like candy or as the ornamentation or trimming of rich meals already overloaded with essential nutritional factors. Instead of using nuts at the end of affluent
meals, they would be more intelligently used on the poor man's table to insure him against food deficiencies. Nuts are high in protein in proportion to their weight but moderate in protein in proportion to their food value. Indeed, they are so high in protein that it
is necessary to use them with caution if very much dependance is placed upon them as a food.
For ex
ample, butternuts and black walnuts are more than 27
per cent protein. A very small quantity of such nuts will supply the protein requirement. Almonds regis ter 21 per cent protein; roasted peanuts 30.5 per cent cent. Also, all the commoner forms of nuts are very high in fuel value.
Pecan nuts have about twice the
fuel value of sugar and are somewhat higher in fuel value than butter fat. In proportion to their fuel val ue, nuts range from 5 per cent to 19 per cent protein calories.
A food that is rich in protein, in fat, in carbohy drates, in minerals, and in certain vitamins, is not to be despised or side-tracked as a mere indulgence. While pound for pound, nuts may be an expensive food as compared to the more ordinary types of food, they con
cording to Professor Henry C. Sherman, is lack of lime. Nuts contain more lime "in proportion to their weight than any other class of food, except legumes. Kellogg suggests taking at one meal a large orange and an ounce and a half of almonds; at another meal, an ounce
and a half of filberts and two ounces of figs. These nuts and fruits would supply 50 per cent of the neces sary lime; and by adding at a third meal, two oranges
and two ounces of walnuts, more than three-fifths of the total lime requirement would be furnished.
The almond and hazelnut are rich in iron, in pro portion to their caloric value.
Nuts, like most seeds, are deficient in fat-soluble
Vitamin A, but this is easily offset if some milk and green vegetables are included in the diet when nuts
are taken. However, many nutsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for example, the al mond, English walnut, filbert hickory nut and pecanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; contain an abundance of growth-promoting vitamin. WHY WE
NEED GOOD TEETH
The average grown person can exert 175 pounds pressure when chewing with the molars.
The chew
ing of certain foods, such as some restaurant steaks,
requires a force of more than 100 pounds and much of the force used is transmitted to the gums. This re quires that the teeth be kept in the best of condition. Pyorrhea, a disease of the gums, may destroy the gum tissue and cause the teeth to become loose.
In
bladder, heart tissues, appendix, joints and muscles. To prevent pyorrhea, the teeth should be brushed at least twice a day and all food between the teeth re
moved promptly with dental floss.
The teeth should be
examined twice a year by a dentist so that conditions
which cause inflamation of the gum margins can be corrected.
CAUGHT ON THE FLY There's a story going around in the construction
stitute concentrated nutrition and do not have to be
department about the latest fishing trip of their gen eral foreman. It appears he is very fond of fishing
eaten in large quantity in order to serve as a mainstay
and in telling about this particular trip remarked, "And
in the diet.
believe
There is a prejudice against nuts because of .their supposed indigestibility. It is true that nuts are con
marked one old timer, "the best thing I know of for
centrated and that the cellulose or fibrous matter is
very closely packed in them; but by thorough chewing this disadvantage can be easily overcomeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and one's natural inclination is to chew nuts rather thoroughly. Peanuts should not be over-roasted.
Peanut butter
is an excellent source of nutrition.
Most sources of protein food, such as meat, fish and fowl, contain some waste products and some bac teria, while nuts are sterile and free from waste pror ducts and also from any forms of parasites such as arc sometimes conveyed by under-done flesh foods. Furth ermore, the proteins of nuts are complete proteins and fully supply the body requirements of amino acids. It is true that the supply of nuts is rather limited, but this is because of the comparatively light demand for nuts as a staple food.
.
addition, it may cause infections of the kidneys, gall (
me,
Buddy, they sure did bite."
Well," re
mosquito bites is
." Mac still maintains that he meant the fish did the biting.
Yep, the swimming season was recently opepned when a certain young lady of the main office force took a plunge in the little creek that flows by the front of said office. It all happened real early one rainy morn ing when said young lady was on her way to work. No, she didn't wear a bathing suit, in fact she wore a slicker and carried an umbrella.
We assume the um
brella was used as a sort of parachute to enable her to submerge more slowly and the slicker to keep the rain from getting her wet after she got out. Anyway,
we think it a shame the photographer wasn't on the job to get a proper record of the proceedings.
A National Ideal: Our lives unstained by carelessness.
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P.ige Seven
Meeting An Emergency
Ellison (on the phone: "I've got a couple of firemen fighting in the fire-room, what will I do?" Ware: "Blow the quitting whistle."
VOUEN V>JE LAST
SAVJ LOUIE LIEDERKRANZ.
WE HAD BEEN HANDED & VJEEK'S LAV OFF FOR TRYING TO PULL A DANGEROUS PRACTI CAL JOKE . IN THE WEANT|N\E ME H/iS l-\&D TO PUT UP VMITH A WEEK OF TMlS
Adolph for a
Dullack:
"What is the correct deflnation
blow-out?"
Al. Boehmer: "It's a disaster to a tire wben the tire knows you are all dressed up."
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UNFORGIVABLE
GROCERY BASE BALL
A 20 Mule Team drew tin- players to the Hull Broth ers park. The game was called by Salad Dressing liecause of his Premier knowledge of iii«' rules. The Domestics were in the field With Tanglefoot oatehlng and Prince Albert smoking them over from the box.
spcai'iiiini Wrigley was ai lirsi. chewing with the limp. Cabbage played his usual heady game at second.
Rev. George Washington Jackson had losi a line, fat 'possum. stricken
Later, ai
mourners
a revival,
would
not
one
be
of
Hie
grief-
comforted.
"Cheer up. brolhah," exhorted
Kev. Jackson.
"No
matter whai yo' sin. it will he fo'giveu." "But
am a
not
liiss'tm." sobbed
the mourner.
"Ah
sho'
pow'ful sinuah."
"Yo' stole some while man's chickens?'* "Wusseli 'at."
Oleo, Ml short, went strong.
Smoked Herring pulled a bono on third, bin Potato had his eyes open' in lei'i Held. Domino was sweet in center and Popper pulled sum.- red hot ones in right. In the beginning of the ninth, the National Ads were at bat and Swans Down took the cake with a safe 11iI to deep center and advanced to second when Gort on's Codfish drew four balls, K rally cheese went home, but Argo Starch was SO Stiff he couldn't run. so Brer Itabhil was seal in to run
"Oh. Lawd. help dis pa' lamli.
lias yo' used a rnz-
zuh?"
"Wussen
'at.
It's
wussen
murdah.
Brothah
Jack
son."
"Den
Ah
knows."
shouted
down from the pulpit, peeling
the
preacher,
bis
coat
coming
"i>o
good
Lawd kin fo'give yo" el'feii He CeelS <iat a way. but All's
gwiue climb yo' frame.
Vo's de skunk what stole mall
'possum."
for him.
Dutch Cleanser chased a dirty one past ihird. then Canada
Pry popped up and was oiil al
lirsl.
Lihby's
Hied to ketchup with a home run and lleiu/. boanod One over the fence, but Bon Ami couldn't scratch a hit BO was on! at first. Karo hil a sweet one. bin it weal
lor a foul fly. and Flit killed it. retiring the side. Advertisers
The
BUYING ON
INSTALLMENTS
The practice of installment buying continues to grow. It has been the means of disposing of the In crease in production, it is true, but the following story makes us wonder if, in the near future, the installments
on our christening robe will overlap those on our wed ding dress, or those on our wedding dress overlap those
won.
At the game was Palmolive. dressed in green crepe and said lo be the sweetest made there.
She was ac
on our shroud.
"My dear." said the old man tenderly, "today is our diamond wedding, and 1 have a little surprise for you!"
companied by Old Manse Syrup. —The Progressive Grocer.
"Yes?" said i he silver-haired wife. He took her hand in his.
"Ynii see i his engagement ring 1 gave you seventy-
TOAST TO THE LADIES
Here's a toast to the ladies which we found in some
exchange,
six years ago?"
"Yes?" said tie- expecu,nt old lady.
it is so good we pass it on:
You recall how we used to help dress em:
Well, 1 paid the final Installment on it today, and 1 am proud to announce that it is now altogether
11
yours!"
"Here's to the ladies, Lord bless 'em!
was 'Honey, hook this,'
Or 'Dearie, pin thai' A
'Please lace my shoes' Bathing in
Or 'Straighten my hat.'
DE
LUXE
wine is
now
BATH
quite passe.
The kites!
A man had to be little John on the spot
method of taking an ablution is to plunge each morning
In the old-fashioned day. whether willing or not
into a
"But now—what a joy and a blessing!
whai a
We live in ihe days of sane dressing.
And nothing to pin.
Five large cans of milk are delivered each morning ai this lady's door. AI noon the milkman returns, pours the milk bach into the cans and takes it away. "Where does it go?" is a question Parisians are now asking themselves. Those who drink cafe an lait are especial
And so here's to the ladies, Lord hless 'em!
ly apprehensive.
There's nothing to fasten,
On silken hose trim, Nothing to lace up.
They're as fair as they were when we dressed 'em.
bathtub tilled with milk.
At any rate, thai
Is
Paris actress has been doing for some time.
Ii is to be hoped the milk dealer sells his second hand milk and cream to some farmer to raise pi<:s.
We
If one makes up his mind to lind fault or be pessi
can imagine oilier things—and so can the Parisians—
mist ie il is noi necessary to hear or see the evidence
but the pig-raising theory is the pleasantosl. to con template. Maybe it would not be too much to expect that chops from such fort una Ie (?) porkers WOttld laste after rice powders.
for doing so. Two beggars, one blind and the oilier deaf, met on a street comer after business hours.
"Whai
man.
is
the world coming
to?" sighed
Hie blind
"The young folks of today have gone mad.
the clothes the girls wear!" "Y.s." replied the deaf man.
See
She:
"Why not
ask
father
now?
There he goes
into the billiard-room."
"And ii's all due to
Ibis terrible jazz one hears everywhere."
He: "Wail till lie goes lo be bit with a
book than a
the library:
bil!iard-eue."
I'd rather
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SOME LARGE CARGOES OF STONE FROM CALCITE THIS
YEAR
Some record cargoes have been taken to Buffing-
ton by our boats this past month. On June 2nd, the Steamer Taylor carried 11,763 gross tons; May 27th Steamer Uobinson carried 12,1(13 gross tons; May 24th Steamer Munson carried 11,214 gross tons and on June 3rd Steamer White took 12,0lit gross tons. These were
all eargos of screenings and are the largest cargos to dale carried by any of the above steamers. THE NEW TUG ROGERS CITY
The new tug Rogers City arrived at Calcite about noon May Mist and from all appearances she is some
elassy boat.
We understand that Chief Engineer Frank
The first aid doc mopped up the gore, And tied Jim up with yards of tape. And laid him by a mouth or more Till he should mend in better shape. Not so is it with Richard Smiles, Who runs machines along side Jim's. His joyous laugh is heard for miles; His heart is always singing hymns. Dick's wife is happy as a lark When he gives her a kind good-bye.
The kids climb on his knees lo park, The dog stands wagging joyful by. "Some day I'll land a better job," He says, and does his best, with this. "I'll give the boss no chanee to sob, Xor make him wish to break my phiz.
Lamp and his able assistant Al. Boehmer didn'i feel very good on the trip up. Some of the crew tell us this
'BE SAFE FOR OTHERS' is my lay
was due to the smell of the new engine and others say thy weren't used to the fine grub banded out by that
The safer in their work today
famous hash-slinger, Otto Sparre. MARRIAGES
Mr. Jack Scbultz of the Machine Shop and Miss Sarah McVeigh, daughter of Bruce McVeigh of the
And Henry. Tom and Mike will be
Because I'm in their company. No doctor's tape for us is wound, For our life's blood don't bring the mop; Where care and kind goodwill abound That place is safest in the shop.'' W. K. HAY,
Mill Dept., were united in marriage on Saturday after
Fairbanks. Morse & Co.
noon, May 21st. at the parsonage of Rev. Pr. C.alzke in
Alpena. They were attended by Miss McVeigh's sister. Mrs Everett Meharg, and Bernard Scbultz. brother of the groom.
"Calcite Screenings joins with the many friends
of Mr. and Mrs. Scbultz in wishing them much joy and happiness.
Personal Safety is not a giant.
He"s a little-
fellow no larger than a toothache, but if von of fend him. LOOK OUT!
The happiness of your life depends upon the character of your thoughts and the Safely of your acts. BE SAFE FOR OTHERS
MODES OF THE MOMENT
By Marcia Meadows
(Courtesy Marshall Field & Co.. Wholesale, Chicago) The first hint of summer weather brings vacation "fans" out of cover. Soon, no doubt, there will be a surge toward the mountains and seashore, to say noth ing of the local golf course. Whatever vacation means
—a trip abroad or a week end jaunt in the country, new clothes are always in the, picture, and every store knows it! The most delightful things—real summer clothes—are now on display, not so different in tine or cut from spring clothes, but they
have
an
added
freshness and frivolity with, of course, marked empha sis upon cool transparent fabrics such as chiffons and georgettes. Such typically summer fabrics lend them selves beautifully to all the newer details of the mode—
When old Jim Dour went to work
clusters of minute tucking, soft bows, tine pleating,
He packed And in his belt And in his He didn't kiss But kicked
shirring, and cleverly
a scowl and frown along. a gun or dirk. heart no thought of song. his wife good-bye. the dog sprawled on the door;
lie slapped the kids and made them cry. Then grabbed his lunch and slammed the door "A helluva job I've got," he said. "The boss is always sore at me.
His cuss-words are my daily bread And make all kindly feeling flee, 'Tis true I used the wrong tool once When shaping up some minor part, And read the blue-print like a dunce. And stumbled on a trucker's cart.
Then while I watched the foreman go. I tripped and tumbled in a pile. And skinned my hip and broke my toe
And sprained my wrist and cracked my tile."
contrived
fullness
of
various
kinds.
For Summer Fashions
Two-piece styles tire still featured and in the new est models and underskirt is sewed to the waistband of
the skirt proper, a rather nice trick -don't you think?— and one that could be very easily copied at home. Sleeves follow the extremist tendencies of the day and insist upon being all or nothing. Many of the sheerest coolest-looking summer Crocks are Beverly long-sleeved and cuffed. Others, particularly ensemble frocks of brightly printed georgettes, and the blouse in with long coal or jacket, are sleeveless, and the blouse in the
three piece costume is usually sleeveless. Ensembles with a delightfully free combination of
colors and fabrics tire in a great many vacation plans if 1 may judge from the early summer displays in the smartest store windows.
Vivid prints in frocks— Ave
nue Prints for example
combine with plain colored
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The Skirt And Sweater Costume
make more and more preparations for the vast army of
hikers and campers and motor tourists that trail al! over the country every summer. Knicker suits in green and brown tweeds and corduroys to wear with sport skirts and tailored ties of bright bandannas are pretty much the uniform of the road with khaki for the warm
A joyous revival which seems to be included in nil clothes-planning for summer is Ihe sweater and skirl
est weather.
costume. Again it is going to be possible to make the little wardrobe unbelievably elastic by the use of a
gua ranted against rain.
single skirt and three or four different sweaters. Vivid or soft pastel shades for the sweater and a neutral color for tlu- pleated skirl are the mode, I'suaily the m-w sweater is knit of the finest and lightest yarns and most charmingly styled with square or "V" neck. A
gay kerchief carelessly knotted on the shoulder com pletes the costume, an ideal one for any number of va cation plans—motoring, boating, or playing at a sum mer
resort.
Lace Bespeaks Summer Charm
I.ace. the coolest and loveliest fabric in the world for summer wear, is really back again. Fvery report from Paris has some word to say on the new-found
vogue for laces. It follows inevitably. 1 suppose, with the swing back to things feminine and deliberately decorative; and jabots, flares, and other small fripppcri.^s that first softened the old si raight-line silhouette were the first step in the process. Among the lovliest laces used for summer dance
frocks
and
afternoon
gowns are Zion-made Cham illy patterns in black beige and white.
A delightful novelty lace is primed in a
large, wandering floral
design, vividly colored. It
looks like a lace cretonne, if you can imagine a fabric of that description, anil would, of course, be the jolliest thing imaginable for a gala frock. The new blouses I hat are being made of Margin laces in allover or smart
panel designs combine magically with a simple skirl
The newest khaki is moisture proof, a
nice prevention since not even the best vacation is Vacation Trifles
1 have discovered a new cold cream soap—I think
the name is America—thai is quite as cleansing and beneficial for the skin as cold cream. I like it tre mendously, this hard, polished, salmon-colored cake be cause I find soap and water so much more pleasant to use than cold cream. Just the same, the small tubes
of cold cream that lit conveniently into the baud bag are not a thing to travel without.
And speaking of handbags, do you know that of the newest envelope bags are made double in folds so that open Ihey are really enormous? are ideal for the traveller, of course, particularly there are passports and ninny papers lo carry.
some three They when Mags
of hycresi steerhide are sturdy and smart for travel wear.
The leather is an attractive, ruddy brown, very
nicely band tooled. The most exciting and unusual things are being done with Alexandre gloves. Novelty designs of dyed
kid are shown in soft blue. rose, and green with little turn back embroidered cuffs.
BEGIN TO TEACH BABY SAFETY LESSON EARLY Even the most carefully guarded infant may get into a dangerous situation occasionlly when his safe
ty depends on himself and his training.
For this reas
on it would be well for mothers to teach their babies
of silk or georgette, giving the effect of a lovely after
along with "pat-a-cake" other nursery tricks that may help to keep him safe and well, thinks Jessie C. Fenton
noon frock.
writing in the May issue of Hygeia. For A Seaside Vacation
Seaside vacations this summer promise to be gayer than ever before if the preparations are anything to
judge by. Coolie coats, beach pajamas, and bathing subs of vivid silk prints are now being shown. Reach life as we know il today is gay and complete, providing diverse modes of enjoyment for every taste and every hour. No wonder the costumes are brilliant and the
huge umbrellas multi-colored.
Swimming suits for the
real lovers of the sport, tire increasingly practieal often made with a long overblouse belted at a low line.
Many of them are made of a line striped jersey exactly like the jersey sweaters now so greatly the vogue. Playing Lady At Home The stores are also making a special feature of
the simpler summer frocks and fabrics—Clairloeh ging hams, Dorothy prints, and I'icardy voile, for vacation
The first one might be to give up things he has hold of which may hurt him, such as pins, scissors and matches. Every .time the mother changes the baby's diaiiers she might take time to place one of the pins in his hand for a moment. Then she can say "dive it lo me" at the same time faking il away, following this
with lively praise and perhaps a romp so Ihat the baby will associate the idea with a
pleasani game and be
ready to play again.
In this way he can be taught to give up things thai lie has picked up and show his tongue or what is in his hands. He should also be taught at an early age. be fore he is walking or gelling about alone much, to get down off a chair or bed safely and to crawl down stairs backward.
A child is not ready for Hie freedom of an unfeincd
home. One of the nicest vacations I ever had was that kind. New ferndale tissue ginghams in striking plaids are used for some of Hie gayest versions of the simple
yard until he has a well-established sense of responsi bility, probably well along in his ihird year. This sense of responsibility may be developed by teaching him the boundaries of the entire yard before he is re leased from his play pen. lie should be given short
summer frock.
periods apparently alone in the yard while the mother
may mean just a week or two of rest and leisure at
If You Rough It
Ii is interesting to note that each year the stores
watches unobserved, so that he will learn to stay with in hounds when left to his own devices,
,-
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With the Boats of the Bradley Transportation Company
THE CREW THAT COUNTS
BOAT PERSONALS
It's not the ship but the fellows in it That count on the rolling foam.
James Skelley left the Steamer White to take a
And it's only by smiling every minute That you make a ship a home.
position as first mate on the Steamer Robinson. George Beck, formerly of the Steamer Sir William Fairburn. has replaced Mr. Skelley as first mate on the White.
The newest boat that lies a-float, All modern aft and for'd.
Welcome to our fleet, Mr. Beck.
Can be more of a hell than a prison cell
help fit out the new Steamer Carl I). Bradley, now
With a growling crew on board.
under construction at Lorain. Bob will be first mate on the new steamer when she conies out next mouth. The largest cargo of stone taken from Calcite this
I've sailed on a bark like Noah's ark
At which the watchers scoff. With lines past use and the rivets loose
And the paint all chipping off. But there wasn't a kick when the work came thick,
We joked about the grub, And when she was all laid up in the fall
Robert McLean has left the Steamer Robinson to
year was loaded on the Steamer D. G. Kerr on May 25th when she took out i:?.2Gr> gross tons of (lux to Gary. A salesman is a man who can get a deacon to find
him a quart of Scotch and a carton of Camels to put in his fishing kit.
We hated to leave the tub.
Oh give me a scow with a broken bow And a cheery and hearty crew.
Elbow grease never soiled any man's shirt.
We'll be happier by tar than the grumblers are On a yacht all clean and new. For it's not the ship but the fellows in it That count on the rolling foam.
And it's only by smiling every minute That you make a ship a home. (Written by Steve Marsh, Sir. John G. Munson)
SAFETY MEETINGS OF THE FLEET STR. W. F. WHITE
Meeting held June 2nd. with the following mem bers present: Walter Callam, chairman; John J. McKenna, secretary; Arthur Graham, Burt Moninger, Don ald McKenzie and Leon DePurdy.
The meeting was called to order by the chairman A
DECKHAND'S
LOVE
DITTY
at 12:.'{0 p. m.
1 hate the ship. I hate the lakes, don't you?
I hate each trip, each load she takes, don't you? I hate the weather, cold or wet, The tunnel, deck, the grub we get, An Rogers City "worser yet," Don't You?
I hate the flux, 1 hate the Hues, don't you? I hate the chains and heavin' lines, don't you? 1 hate the rivets every notch, 1 hate the captain 'cause he's Scotch
And boy! I hate this watch and watch, Don't You?
1 hate to scrub until 1 faint, don't you? 1 hate the sight of limestone paint, don't you? I hate the hours as they crawl And eight months sailing yet till fall But Gosh. 1 sure do love il all. Don't You?
(Written for Calcite Screenings by a Limestone Deckhand)
The world may owe every man a living but he has to do his own collecting.
Capt. Dahlburg and Chief Sutt.lo both gave very instructive talks and complimented the Safety Com mittee and crew on their work so far this season, and were pleased that we can still report a clean slate.
Our new first mate. Mr. Beck, gave us a few sugges tions which were very much in order and will be car ried
out.
The respective committeemen reported everything in good order and suggestions of last meeting have been carried out.
The following suggestions were discuss
ed :
1. To look over all ladders and hand rails and re new or repair any that will not pass inspection.
2. Train all new men on deck about standing in the bight of cables, handling lines on the deck, etc. Any leaky steam pipes and valves to be repaired as soon as possible and all possible care to be taken when un loading and loading cargoes.
3.
All boom cables, blocks and shackles to be looked
over every trip and to be oiled monthly.
â&#x20AC;˘1. No horse-play on deck around open hatches, also to throw Over-board all refuse such as banana peels, orange rinds, etc.
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following members present: Gilbert Kemp, chairman;
present. Suggestions were made by the following: Boatswain:—Nobody to run hatch winches unless they thoroughly understand operation and signals giv
Daniel Molntyre, secretary; Floyd Gigax, Archie Beebe,
en and no racing of pulling off hatches.
STR. T. W. ROBINSON
Meeting held on May 11th at L:30 p. m.. with the
Robly Wilson and Millard Flynn.
The usual spring instructions were given regard ing the dangers on shipboard, such as walking on bandies, under loading machines, using ladders and handling cables on the dock, also pointing out the dangers encountered in the engine and boiler rooms. The older members of the crew were instructed to
watch the new men in their work and to give them advice regarding the safest way to accomplish it. To advise against the seemingly harmless pastime of Scuffling and running on deck, racing when pulling off
Second Mate:—When loading or unloading at night
place a red lantern by snatch blocks for boom cables on spar deck, also use red and green lantern when putting on or taking off hatches so the one operating winch will know which one to use and pay no attention
to anyone else, but the one handling lantern. Oiler, Fireman. 3rd Asst. Eng.:—When taking on supplies through gangway to notify watchman about same so he will be on the lookout before he shifts boat and to notify engineer ahead of time. All of the committee suggest that anyone going up
or down ladders should face the ladder and use hands
hatches, etc.
As this ship is equipped with powerful electrical units necessitating the use of high powered cables, transformers, switches, etc., the engineer called atten tion to the dangers of coming in contact with any of
as well as the feet as your hands are no ornaments—
plenty of soap and water around, boys. Think before you act. Leo Moll. Chairman
Stanley Dauseher, Sec'y.
the Installation when cleaning and painting or when
otherwise engaged in the vicinity of these parts which are protected as far as possible with screens and signs.
STR. JOHN G. MUNSON
As there were no further suggestions brought up at the close of the foregoing discussion the meeting ad
Meeting opened at. 7:30 p. in., on May 21st. with the following members present: Clarence Thorsen, chair
man; Melvin Keyes. secretary; Capt. McQuinn, chief
journed at 2:15 p. m.
Lief Urdal, Clarence Hoy, George Laughery, Orville STR. CALCITE
Meeting was called at 7:00 p. m. on May 20th and the following members were present: Axel Hoy, chair man: Francis Bacon, secretary; Donald Everett, Emery Derby, Robert Oliver and William Hudson. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 1. The shovels used on the clean up have been drill ed, making a half inch hole at one end, therefore, with a hook made of half inch iron rod which is made fast to the heaving line, the shovels are taken from the cargo hole in a safe manner. 2. Good use is being made of the Safety First signs in the engine room; signs are hung on throttle when men are working the wheel. ?,. The men of the committee who have had lirsl aid training, gave instructions on bandaging and other first aid work. The Schaefer method of artificial respiration The firemen have been cautioned not to diink
water from taps running into ash guns, as this water is not filtered.
f>. Captain Martin and Chief Engineer Urdal have made plans for shortening the boom stays. This is be ing done to bring the end made fast to the deck insid • of the hatches to prevent men stumbling over stays when traversing decks. 6. All boom blocks have been taken apart and thor oughly inspected.
The meeting dosed at 8:30 p. m. STR. B. H. TAYLOR
May 21,
At the opening of the Second Safety meeting the suggestions of the last meeting were discussed as to the way they were being carried out and the results obtained.
Suggestions made at this meeting were as follows: 1. Captain McQuinn called attention to the care that should be exercised by the men when pulling on the last leaf of the hatch covers. A bar should be used in easing them info place and by no means should men use their hands for this purpose.
2. The next suggestion was to have lights installed to illuminate the coal bunker hatch to be used when taking on coal at night and so constructed that the
light will not interfere with the navigation of the ship; also a switch to be installed near by in order that such lights might be turned out when not in use. 3. When swinging out the landing pole, the man
operating it should first make certain that the man to
was demonstrated also.
4.
March and 11. K. Pearson.
11127
The third safety meeting of the season was held aboard ship at noon and all of the committee wera
be carried out on it has a firm hold on the pole.
4. Chief Engineer Lief Urdal cautioned the men about neglecting to use goggles to protect their eyes when using the emery wheel for grinding, and suggest ed that a pair of suitable goggles be placed near the emery wheel for everyone to use when grinding.
5.
He also suggested that when necessary to work
on the outboard side of the hatch
engines,
such
as
packing and repairing them, that the mate place a staging over the ships side to give the men working on the engine a linn footing. 6. The last suggestion made was for every one to , make sure that, when eating fruit on deck to see that
the skins and rinds were thrown overboard, because if left on deck they might cause someone to slip and fall. Meeting closed at 8:30 p. m..
^Calcite Screenings Number Eight
July 1927
WHICH ONE?
I watch men work in each plant 1 gp thru And I see three types in each mill, There's the man who can't and the man who won't.
Ami the man who says. "I will."
The man who can't should be pitied, To him we should always be kind. For he works each day in the same old way, 1lis life is simply a grind.
So we have to take care and watch out for tins man,
To see that he doesn't get hurt.
For safety is something he can't understand Or how lo apply in his work. The man who won't is a failure
And he never will get ahead.
For he pays no attention whatever one says. And goes on in his own way instead.
When accidents happen and the question is asked.
The answer is always the same,
That the man who stubbornly says "1 won't" Is the man who is always to blame. And now we come to the last of the three, The man win. says that he will. We find he is better than all the rest
And the man of the greatest skill. This is the man who practices care hi every move that he makes.
Safety is part of each job that he does, .And this duty he never forsakes. There is one of these men that's embodied in you.
You can't, you won't, or you will. Ami 1 have it to you which one you must be In order the big job to fill. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;S. I-:. Whitcomb
Safety Kngineer Liberty Mutual Ins. Co.
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CALCITE
w
SCREENINGS
Published monthly for the employes of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company,
Rogers City,
Michigan, in the interest of Safety and Welfare.
The columns of "Calcite Screenings" are open to receive items of plant news, photographs, cartoons, safety suggestions and other items of general plant interest. Contributions will be welcomed from all employes. All such contributions should be received before the first of each month and should bear the name of the department and the sender and should be addressed to the editor. Editor
O. F. FEKDELMAX EDITORIALS ONCE MORE MAY BE ONCE TOO OFTEN
INSTALLMENT BUYING
When it takes five minutes or more to
You may or may not be one of the many thousands of persons all over the United States today buying automobiles, pianos, radios, victrolas. electric washing machines, expensive
make a job safe and only one minute to do the job itself, you don't need two guesses to figure out what the
clothes, unessential house furnishings and other needless luxuries on a weekly or monthly plan basis.
Most of the crooks behind the bars didn't
get caught on their first job. Men who get hurt have usually taken the same chance many times before.
average man will do.
Installment plan buying is ill right provided it is not car
Take ladders, for example. When the said average man is confronted with the choice of
ried to extremes and provided too many obligations are not
.using one in the last stages of debility or looking for a safe
The
undertaken at the same time. trouble is that it seems
one, he follows the slippery
easy to get things we want but do not actually need, under
ath of least resistance, trust-
'"fiig to continued good luck, or
this plan, that before we real ize it we have obligated our
his ability to land on his feet like a cat.
selves for weekly or monthly
Of course, equipment should
payments up
not be allowed to become un
safe.
Somebody must be re
sponsible for its maintenance.
rommittec can be everywhere at once and a lot of things can happen between inspections. Think of the other fellow as well as your self ami report those unsafe conditions. WHAT IS SAFETY FIRST?
Safety First is not a question of dollars and cents: it is a question of saving human life, the most valuable thing in once gone, can never be ing to keep men from legs, their arms, their
the world, which, when brought back. It is try losing their sight, their fingers and toes, which
never can be replaced. It is trying to avoid des titution and misery and the making of widows and orphans. Are you a booster for safety, or are you one of the many who think it is a joke. nd stand idly by permitting your fellow work-~men to be injured under circumstances which a
little care on your part might have prevented? —Schenectady Work News.
beyond
Usually we are the ones to
Too many men leave the re porting of hazards to the safe
ty inspector or the safety coiiimitee. But no inspector or
to and
the limit of our means, and in the end someone has to suiter. suffer most.
If you are an KocNiiy— tOU NKIlCWHC
4»lF«TV COUNCIL
instalbnent-
p 1a n buyer, don't obligate yourself for more than you
can afford to pay out each week. Remember a pay-check cannot be stretch ed, and neither can the amount of money for which it calls. Better to go slow and have enough than to spend it all in advance and have nothing for necessities and emergencies. —Mead Co-operation.
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forc ed to work and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content and a hundred virtues
which the idle never know.
—Kingsley.
Fatalism is an easy creed to profess but a hard one to practice. Few men who insist that they won't lie bumped off before their time comes would ride on a train if they knew it was going to be wrecked.
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RUSH FOR THIS MAGAZINE WHEN IT COMES OUT. HE FEELS WE ARE INTERESTED IN IT. BUT I WONDER HOW HE FEELS WHEN MOST OF US TURN A DEAF EAR TO HIS APPEAL FOR CONTRIBU TIONS TO ITS PAGES? PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Foster White, of New York. return->*>, June 2!)th from spending two weeks in Canada on fishing trip. They were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Munson until Friday evening when they left for Buffalo on their return home.
In addition to a Etna
outing and a wonderful catch of trout, they were fortu
nate in securing a number of motion pictures, many of them showing wild life. Several were close nps of moose. This is the third trip which Mr. White has made to this section of Canada.
WANTED—To hear from oilier plain base-ball teams desiring the services of a star pitcher. Owing to advanced age can only qualify for five and seven inning games. Have exceptionally good wind-up. Leo Kelley and GOQfi King please note. George "Toqley"
cently purchased new cars: Arthur Voight a SludehaUe? COUPe, Arnold Elowski a Chrysler ;">0. Fred LaLonde
LaTulip.
a Studebaker sedan. Arthur Paull a Hupmobile six and
We notice that the following employees have re
Clarence Schram
an
Essex.
I. L. Clymer, chief engineer, is musing a burned hand since the fourth of July caused while setting off some fireworks at his home. "Irv" says ii is not a lost time accident and that it really hurt his pride more than his hand. We would suggest that he study meth ods used by George Burks and his crew of blasters on the safe handling of explosives, before another celebra tion.
Steve Adulski of the Yard dept. and Louis Mo/.any of the Power House motored to Detroit where they spent July fourth. Miss Agnes Langley. R. N. of Bay City spent sev
eral days at our Plant hospital the fore part of last month
Fishing stories are still coming in—some a little more fishy than others—but here's one that deserves some mention. It appears that Charlie Sauvey ami
assisting
Miss
Sullivan
in
caring
for
Harry
Howling who was injured.
some of bis construction department friends went out
to Barnhardt lake recently to try their luck. Having caught some fifty bullheads after several hours fishing, they decided they would try another ajoining lake only a short distance away. Try as they might they could not get a bite, so Charlie decided then- were no fish in this lake and inasmuch as they had a nice mess, why not plant a few for seed. That the fish were properly planted is proven from the fait that while maneuvering the boat around to a better location, it capsized with the result that fishermen as well as fish went into the water. Charlie says he will let the conservation offi cers do all the fish planting from now on.
Miss Antoinette Pomeranke has recently accepted
a position as stenographer in our engineering office. REAL
All employe9 desiring milk to drink at the Plant
EVIDENCE
can obtain same at the Store room. Either plain or chocolate flavored fresh from Calcite Farms. See Ru
Having heard so many stories of the fine messes of fish caught recently by different parties wh:> fail to
dolph Tosch who will be glad to serve you.
substantiate their stories with the "real goods" it is a
Harry I'. Ware, general foreman of the Electrical department, who has been confined to his home for
pleasure to reproduce the above photograph of Art Wenzel of the Construction department, Erhardt Sehulwitz of the main office and Frank Wunderlich (center)
the past several weeks on account of sickness, was taken to the Harper Hospital at Detroit on the steamer John G. -Munson recently. The many friends of Mr.
<.f Highland Park, with the results of their catch at
Ware will be glad to learn that his condition is some
center of the string while Art says he got most of the big pike and bull-heads. Mr. Wunderlich who. by tile
what improved since entering the hospital.
Barnhardt Lakes a few weeks ago.
Erhardl claims he caught the large bass in
the
way. is While in Detroit recently the editor visited with Henry Hornbachor and Jack Higgins who for the past several years have been connected with our operations at Detroit Dock.
Both young men wish to be remem
bered 10 their many friends at our Plant here.
a brother-in-luTi'' of Erhardt's and a si ranger here, was very modest about claiming any credit so
you'll just have to draw your own conclusions as {./' who is the best fisherman anyway it's a nice mess, boys, ami we are glad you let the photographer in on it before the bones were thrown out iii the garbage can.
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Page Five MAY
5PEAKIHS Of COSTS-
MAYBE THE MOVIES SEEM
•;
BIRTHS
During the past month the stork visited at the
TO CHARGE US TOO MUCH
homes of the following employes and left baby boys:
FOR A 5-CENT PICTURE —
Harry Howard of the Transportation Dept., Charles
Heinzel of the Main Offices, Steve Kelley of the Mill Dept., Clarence Stewart, Emil Schadig and Mike Grohowski of the Transportation Dept. Baby girls were left at the homes of Russel Lamb of the Tugs, and Dave Baker of the Construction Dept. "Calcite Screenings" joins in extending congratu lations to the above parents. We regret very much that through an error the
-AND POSSIBLY THE
BUTCHER HAS APPEARED
"/•
A UTTLE TOO SEVERE-
'
-AND EVEN A NEW SUIT MAY HAVE SEEMED RATHER HIGH-PRICED-
-THAT IS-WE MAY HAVE THOUGHT SO UNTIL WE FIGURED UP
above interesting news item was omitted from last
WHAT ACCIDENTS COST
months issue.
US EACH ^,f%^ VEAR/ /UrtJL^
BIRTHS
OUR ACCIDENT RECORD
Department
No.
Accidents 1926 1327
~
TRACKS
2
0
TRANSPORTATION—KELLEY
1
0
TRANSPORTATION—LAFFIN
0
0
SHOVELS—KELLEY
2
1
SHOVELS—LAFFIN
1
0
DRILLS—MEYERS
1
0
DRILLS—KELLEY
0
0
BLASTING CREWS
0
0
MILL—HAGEN
2
1
MILL—BELLMORE
0
2
ELECTRICAL CREWS MACHINE SHOP CARPENTER SHOP YARD—MACHINERY YARD—LABOR
0
0
TUGS
-
2
1
0
0
0
0
3
0
1
0
MISCELLANEOUS
TOTALS
.
-
- 15
6
The above list represents the number of lost time
accidents that have occurred in the different depart ments during the months of April, May and June for both years 192G and 1927.
Again we failed to score a perfect month by one lost time accident. Unfortunately the department in which this accident occurred also registered one lost time accident last month.
Lost time from accidents means money going out and none coming in. Safety and full pay check have a natural attraction for each other.
Be a safe worker
That the stork must have worked over time during the month of June is evidenced by the fact that he vis ited at the homes of the following employes and lert
baby boys: .'Clarence Furtaw of the Store-room, Joseph Greka and Leonard Stepanski of the Yard department, Lloyd McDonal and Jacob Dembny of the Drilling de partment. George Kerr of the Quarry department and
Leonard Bruder of the Mill department; also girls at the homes of Dave Baker of the Construction depart ment and William Buezkowski of the Yard department. "Calcite Screenings" joins in extending congratula tions to the above parents. MARRIAGES
June was truly a month of roses and brides, and especially the latter in
this vicinity. Wedding bells rang for Alex. Kaminski of the Machine Shop;
*& Sylvester Dureicki of the Quarry and Harry Kuhlman of the Transportation
department. "Calcite Screenings" joins with the many friends of the above in wishing them much hap piness and joy.
Young Woman: "Whose little boy are you?" Sophisticated Willie: "Be yourself! Whose sweet mamma are you?"
JfefeMnnic MElWV-4 FELLEC'g 8EEH HURT
and draw the dollars to you instead of letting them fly
IV\ THE RUSH FER LUIACH 8UT I A\V\T HEVER IAOTICED -4u\Y
away.
CA2MLTIE2 jBk. UA THE PARADE
REMEMBER YOU ARE SHOULDERING THE
RESPONSIBILITY.
SACK TER
We cannot hope to make any month a safe month
for everyone unless every employee in every depart ment works safely. Let's think about Safety every sec
ond, every minute and every hour of the day. If you do this the weeks, the months and the years will take care of themselves. GET THK SAFETY SPIRIT. Picture the balance of the year without an acci dent—then work toward Its achievement.
^fS^PeS,
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It is well known that people who indulge in alcc-^
HOW TO KEEP WELL
Series by the Life Extension Institute Containing the Latest and the Most Scientific Information on Healthful Living and the Prevention of Disease POISONS
Poison is the main factor in causing old age and death not directly due to injury.
The life processes produce poison as by-products. Were it not for the liver, which destroys many poisons,
and the kidneys, bowels and skin, which eliminate pois ons, we would speedily die. In lad. as it is. we almost
The only real exception is
when we are killed by physical violence. When germs kill us it is Chiefly by the poisons which they generate. In the elimination of bodily poisons, water is a drunk
People
who
have
"moderate" Use of alcohol by any large group of people
pared to a similarly constituted group using no alcohol.
Medical Director, Life Extension institute
very important agent.
very clearly to the unprejudiced mind that even the will increase the death rate in these groups, as com
By Eugene Lyman Fisk, M. D.
always do die of poisons.
hoi show less resistance to disease than abstemious in dividuals. Statistical and laboratory evidence shows
habitually
too little water, while otherwise living under
The ill effects of tobaceo have not been closely studied and are not so well understood as those of al cohol, but it has been clearly demonstrated that the ex cessive use of tobacco is an important factor in lowered health states and the development of degenerative dis eases.
While the moderate use of tea and coffee which are
properly made may not injure the health of normal per sons in any marked degree, the trouble is that many do not confine themselves to moderate indulgence. In tact, the natural tendency of drug-craving is in the op posite directionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from beer to spirits, from moderate smoking to excessive smoking, from mildly stimulating
hygienic conditions, often experience a remarkable in
beverages to stronger ones.
crease of health and energy by attending systematic ally to this Simple but important need. On the other band, there is no particular advant age from very free water-drinking as some practice itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; for example, ten to sixteen glasses daily. Indeed, in certain conditions, this may overwork tin; stomach and heart. Excessive waterdrinking is particularly to be avoided where heart or kidney disease exists. Ordinar ily, six glasses of water daily is a good rule to follow. A large amount should of course, be taken when freely
Experiments at the Pasteur Institute have shown that the long continued use of very minute doses of poison ultimately produces appreciable harm. Each person, therefore, must deride for himself how far he chooses to depart from previous habits or traditional customs for the sake of physical efficiency.
perspiring. The bowels, like the kidneys, serve to eliminate
Those with feeble digestions or unstable nervous
systems are especially harmed by these poisons. A family history of nervously inclined people calls for rig id care in such matters.
And in all cases a fundamen
body poisons, and water, especially when taken early
al safeguard is the health examination, repeated at least, annually, in order to detect any adverse influence of one's living habits upon the life and health of the
in the morning on an empty stomach, stimulates bowel
individual.
action.
The injury which comes from
the retention
(Copyright)
of the body's wasie products is of the greatest import
ance. Const ipa I ion is extremely prevalent, and in com bating this condition, a sufficient intake of water is im
portant as well as systematic exercise and a properly adjusted diet.
Constipation, long continued. Is by no
means a trifling matter. It represents a constant and cumulative tax which sometimes ends in very serious
HOW TO
GET PEACE
Ordinarily peace can be obtained between individ
uals or a body of people by subduing one of the parties. Sometimes both contestants have to be gotten out of the way before a lasting peace is obtained. Two women in a
train
argued
concerning
the
consequences.
A correct posture is one of the simplest and most effective methods of avoiding constipation and selfpoisoning. A slouching attitude is often the result of disease or lack of vitality; but it is also a cause. In sitting, as well as in standing erect posture has been found to be a much more important factor in the maintenance of good health than is generally supposed. Aside from the matter of improved health, correct posture is attractive from an esthetic point of view. It is closely associated with self respect. Not only does
self-respect tend to brace a man's shoulders and straighten his spine, but. conversely, the assumption of such a bracedup attitude tends to "brace up" the
window and at last one of them called the conductor.
"If this window is open," she declared, "1 shat] catch cold and will probably die." "If this window is shut." the other announced, "I shall suffocate.
The two glared at each other. The conductor was at a loss, but he welcomed the words of a
man
who sat near.
open the window.
That
That will kill the other.
"First,
Next, shut
il.
Then we can have peace."
There's at. least one of these back of every acci dent:
man's mind also.
I don't know.
It should be remembered that many so called "patent" or proprietary medicines contain habit-forming drugs. It should also be remembered that alcohol, to bacco, tea, coffee, and many much advertised drinks served at soda fountains may be definitely harmful to
I don't care.
health.
These were:
will kill one.
â&#x20AC;˘
I forgot. -
What's the use.
It can't happen to me.
I can look out for myself. This safety stuff is all "baloney."
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DOINGS OF THE BROWNS 窶年ational Safety News
*'
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Upon his arrival at the Hospital, Dr. Monro/*-^ found the man to be suffering from the extreme hea „
The first Annual Industrial Safety Congress of the and in a very critical condition. Although everything State of Michigan was held at the University of Mich possible was done, Mr. Karschnick did not regain con igan in Ann Arbor on June 28th, 29th and 30th, which , sciousness and passed away at eight thirty in the the editor had the privilege of attending.
This Congress was sponsored by the State Depart-, ment of Labor and some 250 delegates representing the different industries throughout the State were in at tendance for the three day session.
The Mining section was especially well represent ed and some very fine discussions were held. Success
evening.
Relatives living in the surrounding country were notified and claimed the body. Although not an em
ployee of this Company, Mr. Karschnick
was well
known in this community where he lived for a number of years.
in Safety work, it was pointed out, is fundamentally
GROUP LIFE INSURANCE
the matter of educating every employee to work safely
Perhaps too few employees realize the importance of carrying ample Life Insurance, and, therefore, we
every day, atad it was very interesting to note the methods used by the different companies in promoting
this Safety education. It was also inspiring to note the splendid progress that is being made in Safety Work by the industries in this State and the co-opera tion that is being gl»en them by the State Departments. NAVIGATION FORMALLY OPENED AT BUFFINGGTON, INDIANA
The Buffington Plant of the Universal Portland Cement Company with its spacious harbor, said to be
call attention to the recent payment under our Group Life Insurance Plan to the beneficiary of Joseph Har vey Penglase, deceased. The real value of Group Life Insurance can better
be appreciated if we stop to consider statistics recently gathered. We are informed that 40 people out of eveYy 100
carry no insurance whatsoever and further that 20 of these 40 are uninsurable on account of age or poor health.
Dawes raised the American Flag and the Buffington
Group Life Insurance is carried by this Company on its employees covering employees regardless of age, state of health, sex, hazard of employment, race or
Harbor Flag after being greeted by a vice-presidential
nationality.
the finest on the Great Lakes, was formally open to
navigation on June 9th when vice-president Charles G.
salute of nineteen guns.
But an important point to remember is, that aU-^ though your employer carries this protection for yo
The new harbor at Buffington is the deepest har bor on the Great Lakes and only one of three such pri
it should be no reason for your neglect to carry further"
vate harbors, the others being at Calcite, Michigan,
insurance to protect those dependent upon you.
and Gary, Indiana. A feature of the formal opening was the presence of the steamer T. W. Robinson of the Bradley Trans
portation Co., and the Eugene J. Buffington of the
NOT YOUR WIFE, NO! NO! She's an angel in truth, a demon in fiction, A woman's the greatest of all contradiction.
Pittsburg Steamship Co., each loaded with 12,000 tons of Calcite limestone which was discharged during the ceremonies. The new steamer Carl D. Bradley, which was launched at Lorain this spring, is being built especially for stone carrying in connection with the development of the Buffington harbor and will be the largest carrier and of the latest type of self unloader freighter of the fleet on the lakes, today.
She's afraid of a cockroach, she'd scream at a mouse, But she'd tackle a husband as big as a house. She'll take him for better, she'll take him for worse,
Among the representatives of our Company pres ent at the formal opening were Carl D. Bradley, pres
She'll lift a man up, she'll cast a man down,
She'll split his head open and then be his nurse. And when he is well and can get out of bed, She'll pick up a teapot and thrbw at his head. She's faithful, deceitful, keensighted and blind, She's crafty, she's simple, she's cruel, she's kind,
ident, John G. Munson, vice-president, R. B. Henley, C. K. Fisher, Fred V. N. Bradley, I. L. Clymer and Capt
She'll crown him her king, she'll make him her clown. You'll fancy she's this, but you'll find she's that, She'll play like a kitten, and bite like a cat.
M. R. MacLean.
In the morning she will, in the evening she won't,
And you're always expecting, she does but she don't. EDWARD KARSCHNICK OVERCOME BY HEAT
Edward Karschnick, an elderly man living in Rog ers City was found near the entrance of the plant about live thirty in the afternoon of July 1st in a dazed con dition as a result of the extreme heat of that day. When first seen by.Mrs. Thos. Cummings, .who' was driving-home from the plant, he was leaning against the concrete abutment near the Safety Bulletin board at the plant entrance apparently in a very dazed con dition. Mrs. Cummings immediately notified the Time
Office and he was taken to the Plant Hospital and Dr. Monroe called.
—Powergrams.
Advice to Legion men going to Paris: To tell star board from port, look on the labels on the bottles.
Success is not always the result of wisdom nor does wisdom always beget success.
Bread-winning is not a job for a "loafer.' FOUND—A complete set of automobile tools. ply at Engineer's office.
r Ap
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INTER - DEPARTMENT BASE BALL Mill
Grizzly
Bars Hits
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Runs
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o
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i
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]
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I
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The Mill department is usually always successful iii separating the rock thai comes from the Quarry. However, on Friday morning. June 2-lih. Roy l.all'in
delivered to our local ball park a slighily different quality of stone, a bunch of hard heads that said they COUldn't be crushed. Alter Ibe cars were dumped, the Contents turned out to be a ball team. Bill Hagen with his grizzly (bars) stars picked from the rest of
the Plant, not including of course the Electrical depart ment where all the semi-professionals work, proceeded to separate the contents of this load of bard heads and
alter several hours of arduous labor during which time nine innings of so-called base ball were played, it was -mi.I (hat I.affin's gang couldn't stand the test and
â&#x20AC;˘*f( re downed eleven to six. Tooley started for the Mill and proved a sensa-
ttc-n while he lasted. He allowed only six hits and str.ick out thirteen batters. Even "Chum" Raymond,
Lester Fines acted as score keeper and while we know he has had Sufficient experience in this line and do B-Ol doul.t his veracity, it does look somewhat sus picious inasmuch as he is a mill-man.
H. noticed Dr. Sanford was on the job throughout the entire game looking for prospective customers. Ev idently Doc has a good eye for business.
G&orga Endres -lid the umpiring and kept the ar guments to a minimum. Xot being a Plant employe,
the bays accepted his raw decisions in a real sports manship manner.
Pat Lamb did the rooting for the Mill and Shad Nedeau for the Quarry. Seeing the Quarry bovs had
1|'1 little chance against Tooley's wonderful pitching. Shad sneaked out the back gate about the sixth inning giving as his excuse that he just had to gel some sleep
star hitter for the City team bowed twice to Tooley's baffling curves and was allowed only one hit and that
BEEFSTEAK
At least
was a two bagger to right field that failed to stick in
bination did good work for the Quarry. Both being lo
were loo much for him however. Quarry Hard Heads Hits
Runs
Warwick
1
l
Elowski
1
1
.McLennan
2
1
Raymond
1
:{
Qnade
1
0
Kuhlniaii
0
(I
Fleming
o
o
Pruning
0
0
0
0
^.ones
up
when
Hilary
was about to leave on a vacation for the southern part of the State and
The Howard Warwick and Chum Raymond com
who are more used to scrambling over rocks than on
went
And the sad part of it was that Hilary
screen.
level ground and seven free tickets issuer! to first base
UP
O'Toole ran into Joe Malocha's cow at the entrance of the Plant recently.
Harry Mcharg's glove. Ossie Voight did the receiving lor Tooley. that is between him and the back stop
comotive engineers, they had their signals down pat. Howard allowed only nine hits and registered ten Strike outs. Ragged fielding on the part of his men
it
GOES
"* had the car and himself all dolled up for the trip. Needless to say the vacation trip has been indefinitely postponed due to the fact that pari of the car and Hilary's new suit to say noihing of the cow, are a total wreck. Hilary says he salvaged
enough chipped beef from the car to last his family the rest of the year.
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Two Frocks In One
MODES OF THE MOMENT
A charming dance frock I saw recently of flowere
By Marcia Meadows
Whatever your personal opinion about the weather, it's summer in the world .of fashion and smart stores
chiffon was very cleverly designed. Two tiers on the skirt dipped down to a point in the center front; the blouse was plain and low waisted. the round neck bound with sell material. The only trimming was a bunch
er wear. To judge by the displays, summer brings us no startling innovations in style; there is simply an
equally attractive afternoon frock there was a little jacket of dark blue chiffon, bloused a bit at the waist
(Courtesv Marshall Held & Co.. Wholesale. Chicago)
everywhere are featuring cool apparel for warm weath added emphasis upon coolness and comfort.
of white violets on the shoulder.
To convert it into an
line and finished at the hips with three narrow flat
The Short Jacket
1 have seen many variations of the short jacket
in velvet and light silk and wool for wear with silk
sport frocks. Bright colors as well as the convention
al black are used, and the jacket is not at all a severely tailored affair. It is distinctly feminine in effect, often witli a bound "V" neck or a simple turn back collar. New Vogue For Ginghams
The three piece costume, of course—blouse, skirt and jacket—is ideal for summer. An unusual costume of this type shown at a fashion show held recently at the Illinois Athletic Club was made entirely of gingham combining Clairloch plaid with a plain color. The dress was a vivid red and blue plaid and the jacket was black with plaid collar and cuffs and a red leather belt, and there was a smart little sunshade covered with plaid gingham.
Ginghams are doing extremely versatile things this season. At. the some fashion show was a bathing suil in red and white check gingham, the skirt, finished with three rows of narrow red ruffles—a gay and porky
thing for beach wear—and the designer assured me that it could venture quite safely into the water since it was made of Clairloch gingham that does not fade.
links and ties in front.
It opened in a deep "V" to
display the printed chiffon and there were long sleeves gathered into a small tight cuff. Modes Of The Moment In Accessories In the realm of accessories—those trifles immeas
urably dear to all feminine hearts—I found a few new and significant details. The vogue of the boutonnier for dress or coat is by no means over. Now. however, one observes that on the newest and smartest costumes
a bouquet of flowers, combining a number of smart, shades is used, rather than a single large flower as
formerly, and the boutonnier is long in shape instead of round.
The scarf in its newest version is printed only on one end. and smart hose have taken to themselves heels of darker tones.
Have you seen them?
They are
really charming and combine beautifully with relevant tones in shoe leathers.
Burlington hosiery has achiev
ed some remarkable and unusual effects. For The
Seashore
Most important of all midsummer costumes is 11. swimming suit. Besides the frivolous one of gingham that 1 told you of before, there are extremely practical and attractive ones of jersey developed in the compose
"The Gingham Cottage"
Recently on display in one of the large depart* mont stores was a "Gingham Cottage." a charming and
idea. One I saw that pleased me was In three shades of green, a nice sea-weed, a mermaid and a salt water
colorful cottage. All the upholstery and decorative fabrics used were gingham—plain, plaids or checks. There were ruffled gingham spreads on the beds, ging
two lighter shades. The new printed silks in striking modernistic patterns are stunning for beach costumes.
ham slip covers on the chairs, gingham drapes and cushions, and delightful table linens bordered in check
ed ginghams. You can see how easily and inexpensive ly a summer cottage could be made individual and at tractive with a few yards of ginghams and a little in genuity.
is lace. Many gracious and lovely designs in Ziou laces are now being shown for summer afternoon frocks. Just to see a length of this beautiful fabric sets your
heart to longing instantly for a dress made of it and a garden party to wear it to. Paris designers are spon
soring lace enthusiastically this summer for frocks and for hats. It is true, seemingly, that fashions are be coming more and more feminine. Printed Silks Are Everywhere The summer frock that amounts almost to a femi nine uniform in its widespread popularity is the simple model of printed silk. There are designs for every
Costume Prints in neat tailored pat
terns are ideal for street and business wear.
a most amusing and infantile little kick pleat, purely for fun.
There was a narrow stand-up collar of green
taffeta, green taffeta belt, and all the seams were bound Beach jackets and coats are a fashion in them selves and may or may not match your suit. The Ori ental Houri <-oais ,,f silk and wool challia are extremely smart and colorful.
Coats of cretonnes are still used,
particularly the new crinkly kind, of Colonial cretonne printed in Japanese designs. And rubberized silks, of course, are most practical for beach wear. For Every Breeze That Blow?
The newest fad of the moment is a Cape Cod wind mill all your own to tell the way the wind blows on
gable, pole, or fence post. There are witches on broom sticks, jolly sailor boys, hearty old salts. Indians, and windmills to choose from and all
of them are hand
carved in the New England Coast towns.
Garden
Party Prints are gayly flowered and suggest the more formal afternoon frocks.
One that pleased my fancy mightily was of printed taf feta in a profusion of colors. It closed down the front in surplice style and the short skirt was furnished with
with green taffeta.
Laces Are Lovely
Another fabric now coming decidedly into its own
type of dress.
shade, the trunks in the darkest tone and the bodice in
The road to easy street is not paved all the way with good intentions.
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With the Boats of the Bradley Transportation Company
STEAMER MUNSON TO
RESCUE
Three men were rescued from drowning recently in the Detroit river when their cries for help were heard on board the Steamer John G. Munson upbound for Calcite. The steamer was brought to a stop, and life preservers were thrown to the men, who were
Every year there is one or more worthy sailors who change their home address to Rogers City. It can't be the weather that causes the attraction so once more the blame will have to be laid to the fairness of
the young ladies of that city.
clinging to their overturned canoe.
A few moments later a speed boat drew up beside the Munson in response to a hail from first mate Rob
ert Eckburg. Eckburg and chief engineer Leif Urdal, slid down a line to the boat and a search was begun for the three canoeists, who had drifted out of sight. Lo cated by means of the search light of the Munson, the
The steam freighter B. F. Affleck, latest addition
to the Pittsburg Steamship Company's fleet, was re cently launched at the Toledo Shipbuilding Company's dry docks. The freighter is a 12,000 ton vessel, 604 feet long, 60 feet wide and built at a cost of one mil
lion dollars. It was named in honor of B. F. Affleck, president of the Universal Portland Cement Company.
men were picked up and taken to Belle Isle where it
was necessary to revive two of them with the police pul motor.
A man recently fainted three times at his own
wedding, tmt it was no use.
Credit is especially due to Chief Leif Urdall and
first mate Robt. Eckburg as it takes both nerve and skill to slide down a small heaving line from the for ward deck of an unloaded freighter the size of the
^unson to the level of the river and there to grope in total darkness for the source of the cries for help. The rescued men have also Captain McQuinn to thank for his alertness. Hearing faint cries for assistance among the other noises that are heard while navigating the rivers is no small detail, especially at three o'clock in the morning when such things are not expected. Mrs. Capt. Malcolm MacLean and family took sev eral trips on the steamer T. W. Robinson last month and incidently spent an enjoyable visit with husband and father.
They waited until he
came around and he was married just the same.
Tenacity of purpose is the keystone in the arch
of success.
It's the thing that holds it once you build
it.
SAFETY MEETINGS OF THE FLEET STR. B. H. TAYLOR
Meeting held at noon on June 24th, with the fol lowing members present: Leo Moll, Chairman; Stan ley Dauscher, secretary; Alex. Feldman, Neils Ander son, Harry Whitehead and Henry Behlem. Capt. Pearse and Chief LaBounty were also present at this
meeting and gave short talks regarding the dangerous conditions aboard ship.
Several suggestions were brought up by the com
Speaking about change of address reminds us that we notice one or two members of the crew of the steamer Munson are beginning to act suspicious.
mittee to familiarize the men to do their work in the safest way and to avoid other conditions where one may be injured.
The coal passers before entering coal bunker to pass
coal Into firehold to clear off any loose coal that lays Here's one from Ike Ranke of the Steamer Robin son:
"That horse of mine beat the best five horses in the state by twenty lengths." "That's nothing, sou. I once owned a horse that
stopped coming down the stretch and gave birth to a colt, and then she went right ahead and won the race by five lengths."
Also to warn men in
Cables on winches to be rewound so as not to let
them get fouled on drum and crew warned to keep clear of blocks when being used and not try to guide them on cable with hands.
"Wonderful horse."
"Sure was.
along the arches or elsewhere.
firehold before fueling up at coal dock. Oilers are requested to keep stairways free from oil and grease to prevent slipping.
And that colt jumped right up and
came in second."
Frederick L. Leckie of the law firm of Holden.
T^uncan & Leckie of Cleveland, was a plsasant caller ;ÂŤi the plant recently taking care of marine matters on the various steamers.
Since we have started to carry passengers, mem bers of the committee are requested to warn them against dangerous conditions while they are watching the different operations of loading, unloading, etc., especially when there are children aboard. Other sub jects were recommended and will be mentioned at the next meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 1:30 p. m.
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if so, to warn them of the danger of falling stones.
STR. T. W. ROBINSON
Meeting held June 15th at seven o'clock p. m. with the following members present: Gilbert Kemp, chair
man; Daniel Mclntyre, secretary; Floyd Gigax, Archie Beebe, Robly Wilson and George Jennings.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and thoroughly discussed and the following suggestions made:
When working in the tunnel while unloading and
it is necessary to start the stone at the gates with a bar, that the men be advised to use the bar from the side of their body and not directly in front of them in order to avoid possible injury in case the bar is
2.' It was suggested that the conveyor men b. equipped with steel trench helmets to be worn when it is necessary to go beneath the center conveyor or
incline while unloading for protection from falling stones.
S. The new member, Oscar Hoch, called attention to the fact that some of the crew when cleaning up the cargo hold have been standing on the open gates talk ing through the narrow space to the men working in the tunnel.This practice is very dangerous as injuries could be caused from closing the gates.
work shall advise and warn others by no means to
4. Clarence Hoy suggested to use caution when starting any engine, that requires the use of a jacking bar to move it off center, first make sure that the throt tle valve is closed and remove the jacking bar before
open fire doors. This is in order to prevent possible
steam is admitted to the engine.
tripped up.
When blowing flues, the man undertaking the
serious burns.
Oilers be advised that when blowing water col umns to turn their head as much as practicable to avoid
injury and possible blindness in case a column breaks. That when a welding outfit is being used, men be discouraged in standing and watching the process as
the light is very injurious to the eyes, though seeming ly not, and as sailors, our eyes are one of our most necessary and valuable assets. If they must watch this work, they should provide themselves with suitable goggles.
It was also suggested that all members warn the men and make it very emphatic that they report all
injuries regardless of how trivial they may seem, to the officer under whom they are working, as most of the officers have passed a first aid examination and are
5. When the boat is loading or unloading at the dock the engine room crew should use care not to blowlive steam overboard on the dock side of the ship and before allowing it. to escape from either side, first look overboard and make certain that there is no danger. 7. Do noi allow tools to be left on steps of stair
ways. It can be the cause of a fall from stepping on them and losing one's balance.
7.
When a boat is not equipped with hatch-legs to
support the hatch covers when they are taken off, it was suggested that the hatch covers be pulled off far enough so that they will rest firmly on the deck, and not be left balancing on the combing and for the men_ to stay off the hatches. The meeting closed at eight-fifteen p. m.
well able to render aid. Their reporting to us will also enable us to make the proper reports of the in
juries.
Discourage the idea of men trying to care for
their own injujries as they may neglect them or use the wrong concoction and thus cause infection. All members stated that they would do their ut most to make the remaining months no accident months and we trust that this will be the feeling and result throughout.
STR. W. F. WHITE
Meeting held on June 30th with the following mem bers present: Walter Callam. Chairman; John McKenna. secretary; Arthur Graham. Burt Moniger, Donald McKenzie and Lt,on DePudry.
Proceedings of this meeting were as follows: The letter which the company sent out in regard to handling acetylene tanks was read aloud, also the
safoty first hints recommended by Mr. George A. Marr
The meeting was then adjourned.
of the Lake Carriers Association, of which we received a copy. STR. JOHN G. MUNSON
Meeting held on June 16th, with the following members present: Clarence Thorsen, chairman; Melvin Keyse, secretary; Capt. McQuinn, Chief Lief Urdal, Geo. Laughrey, Clarence Hoy, H. K. Pearsen and Os car Hoch.
Suggestions were as follows: That the ladder going from No. 28 hatch to hold be straightened as it has been bent by stone hitting it
and that hand holds be installed some place to enable men to get. on ladder safely (this is being done). The men handling winches were cautioned about taking slack up on mooring cables suddenly. This is
The meeting was opened by the chairman reading
dangerous as it would be possible to part the cable and
the circular of Safety First suggestions issued by Geo.
there is also a chance of pulling mooring engine from its foundation by breaking bolts and thus causing con
A. Marr of The Lake Carriers Association.
The mem
bers of each department reported that the safety de vices suggested at. the previous meeting had been in stalled.
The following suggestions were made at the meet ing: 1.
The chairman, Clarence Thorsen, suggested that
siderable damage.
All suggestions from last meeting were carried out and as the crew of this vessel has been here since the boat started we believe that by keeping such a steady crew and educating them into the proper way of doing things, it will become systematic, and we will hav
when cleaning up the stone in and around the control
much less risk of accidents.
ler room to make sure that the conveyor men or others
"A Steady Crew." journed.
of the crew are not working directly underneath, and
Therefore our motto is
With this the meeting
was
ad
No Accident Honor Roll
Department
Foreman or Captain
TRACKS
N. W. Pollock
TRANSPORTATION
T. L. Kelley
TRANSPORTATION
J. L. Laffin
SHOVELS
J. L. Laffin
DRILLS
Walter Meyers
DRILLS
Thomas Kelley
BLASTING CREWS
G. V. Burks
ELECTRICAL CREWS
Harry U. Ware
CARPENTER SHOP
F. W. MacArthur
YARDâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;MACHINERY
Julius Zemple
TUGS
Capt. Walter Peppier Chief Frank Lamp
STR. CARL D. BRADLEY
Capt. William MacLean Chief H. B. Moore
STR. W. F. WHITE
Capt. Theo. Dahlburg Chief Thomas Suttle
STR. CALCITE
Capt. Clayton Martin Chief Arthur Urdal
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CALCITE
SCREENINGS
Published monthly for the employes of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company,
liogers City,
Michigan, in the interest of Safety and Welfare.
The columns of "Calcite Screenings" are open to receive items of plant news, photographs, cartoons, safety suggestions and other items of general plant interest. Contributions will be welcomed from all employes. All such contributions should be received before the first of each month and should bear the name of the department and the sender and should be addressed to the editor.
Editor
O. F. FERDELMAN
^^
EDITORIALS OUR BOAT NUMBER
This issue of "Calcite Screenings" has been called the Boat Number because of the going in to commission
of the new steamer "Carl
D.
Bradley," latest acquisition to the Bradley Trans portation Company's Fleet and incidently the largest and most modern freighter on the Great Lakes today. Through the numerous photo graphs and especially the colored supplement which is given to our readers through the cour
tesy of the Management, we have tried to give you some idea of the size and beauty of this mag nificent steamer and her modern equipment.
With this issue we are also introducing a
lish this honor roll as it proves beyond a doubt that we are making progress in Safety work and that accidents both in frequency and severity are on a very noticeable decline. Our only regret is
that all departments and ships cannot be repre sented on this list. Some we know are only barred by one accident and are doing splendid work in the promotion of Safety. Only one de partment has had more than one lost time acci
dent since the beginning of operations this year. To these departments we wish to say that the season is only half gone. You still have an op portunity to make an enviable no-accident rec
ord. Put your shoulder to the wheel and keep on keeping on.
new cover design which we feel adds materially toward making our magazine more attractive, and as this issue is a special Boat Edition, the THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE cover used is also in keeping with the occasion. The modern version of the whiskered fable The continued marked improvement in the publication of "Calcite Screenings" is evidence about the race between the hare and the tor that the Management is desirous of doing every toise is the case of the fellow who drives sanely, thing possible to make this magazine of real obeying traffic rules, and the bird who detours interest and benefit to every employee.
In turn
we sincerely trust that all our readers will co
operate by sending in news items, safety sug gestions, photographs and other items of gener al plant interest, and last but by no means least,
we hope that you will promote Safety at all. times and always be on guard to prevent acci dents either to yourself or your fellow workmen.
by the way of the traffic court.
Chief among the highway pests is the dom
inating personality at the wheel who ignores speed limits and the right of way rule and tries to crowd others off the road.
Sometimes the "dominating personality" is a soft head soaked in hard liquor. The roadhog is often a steady customer of the sightless swine roadhouse.
THE HONOR ROLL
Under the above title on the opposite page, we have listed the departments of the Plant as
well as the boats of the Bradley Transportation
But even total abstainers sometimes
have a peculiar complex which makes them take their half of the road in the middle. When one
of these meets a careful driver on the highway, the latter has to do some quick thinking for the
Company together with the name of the foreman
both of them.
or captain in charge, that have not had a single lost time accident since the beginning of opera
Fortunately, the standard of performance for motorists is quite high. One state com missioner cslimates that 85 per cent of all
tions this year.
To have the name of your department or ship on the honor roll for no accidents is a de-
motorists are competent; the remaining 1.5 per cent have undesirable traits ranging from ab
sLinct honor indeed and one that you have a right to be proud of. It also behooves you as a mem
sent-mindedness to criminal recklessness.
ber of that department to continue to do all in your power to prevent accidents in order to keep
grade crossings, and when the other fellow has
your department on this list.
It is with a great deal of pride that we pub
The "boat" which stops at traffic signals and the right of way (sometimes when he hasn't) seldom drops anchor at the hospital or police court.
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New Steamer Carl D. Bradley Arrives At Calcite
Pride Of Fleet Given Warm Welcome As She Steams Into Harbor For First Cargo Of Stone At exactly eight o'clock in the morning oi' July 28th, the new steamer Carl D. Bradley, latest addition to the Bradley Transportation Company's fleet and which has jt:st been completed at the yards of the American Ship Building Company at Lorain, poked her big nose around Adams point for a first sight of Calcite
The new steamer made a very impressive sight as she entered the harbor. Motion pictures were tak en under the direction of Fred V. N. Bradley. Numer ous still pictures were also taken by E. A. Sehulwit/. and the editor, ssveral of which are herewith produced.
harbor and a short time later was given a warm wel come by hundreds of plant employes and people from
on her arrival: Carl D. Bradley, president;
Rogers City, who came down to the docks for a sight of the handsome new steamer.
Operations at the plant were suspended for sev eral hours to give all the employes an opportunity to witness the arrival of the new boat.
Automobiles were
made to park outside the Fines side of the loading slip
The following guests were on board the Bradley John O. Munson. vice president; C. R. Fisher. R. C. Stanbrook. Mrs. William J. MacLean, Mrs. H. B. Moore, R. P. Winn. E. Heionimons. B. A. Davis. K. E. Mott, Charles Steele. A. Kennedy. Jr., E. J. Simon and H. A. Knowlton. Village President Rudolph Dueltgen greeted the boat party as they landed and expressed feelingly the warm interest of the community in the Company ami
in order to keep a clear space where the boat landed
its welfare and commented on the Inge achievement
and which was completely tilled with eager spectators.
completed in the arrival of the magnificient new boat. Mr. Bradley responded in his usual hearty manner Oil
Hundreds of flags placed on the numerous buildings. locomotives, trucks, etc.. fluttered in the morning breeze and tin- whole affair presented a holiday appearance The new tug Rogers City with the Rogers City Community Band and Mrs. Carl D. Bradley and her i nests on board, steamed out to meet the Bradley and escorted Iter into the loadin;: slip amid the shrieking
Whistles and the waving of flags by the spectators.
>i
the part of the organization. Justly proud of the masn'fic/ein boat which bears his name, Mr. Bradley told of her construction and paid tributes to her qualities, not failing to give credit to her officers and crew and to the men who have built her.
He expressed a warm
appreciation of the welcome given the Bradley by the plant employees and the people of Rogers City.
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Mr. Munson spoke a few words of on the Bradley, justly hailed
comment as
the
finest
boat
on
fresh
water,
and
commented on the fact that the new boat
will carry thirty thousand tons of lime stone from Calcite each week which will
mean
ten
hours of good
organization.
Captain
work
for
William
the Mac-
Lean, who commands the Bradley .:nd her chief engineer. H. B. Moore, to gether with C. R. Fisher, electrical engi
neer, spoke briefly and the formal part of the program
was brought
to a close
by the playing of "America" by the band.
The new steamer Bradley is the Ion; est freighter on the Great Lakes and is the largest of the numerous unloader type of boats which have been built recent
The
years
beat
for
is
G3S
the
stone
feet
9
in
trade.
inch
Tugs Escorting The Bradley Into The Slip
es long and has a beam of 65 feet, 33 feet in depth and is 77 feel from the top of the idiot house to the keel.
Comparing the Bradley with the T. W. Robinson she is 50 feet longer, five feet wider, one Toot deeper
The unloading boom over which the stone travels is
and will carry 231)0 tons more stone on a 22 foot draft.
1(10 feet in length. She is electrically driven, has 4800 shaft horse power and is equipped with two Babcock
and Wilcox boilers, each having 5500 square feet of healing surface and fired with a five retort underfeed stoker. The electric propulsion equipment consists of a 4300 Kilo-watt Turbo-Generator which drives a 420J
horse power motor giving the vessel a speed of LB miles per hour. The unloading equipment is similar to that on the other vessels of the fleet excapt that the motors in this case are 2300 volts.
Modern aids to navitiation are equipment, the gyro compass, the Mike) radio direction finders and make the Bradley the last word in tion.
also a part of her gyro pilot (Metal
similar equipment freighter construc
We can understand now why Mr. Munson prefer red to stay amidships while the new steamer came into the harborâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he was sitting on the hog.
If you think the new tug Rogers City hasn't a loud whistle, just get up on the pilot house and try taking some pictures while they are blowing it. Our ears are ringing yet.
Speaking about the band, these hoys apparently are real honest-to-goodness workingmen besides musi cians as greasy overalls were very much in evidence.
They say the music was fine though in spite of the uniforms.
President Bradley Responding To Royal Welcome Given The New Boat
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INTER-DEPARTMENT BASE BALL DOPE The base
ball
fever seems
to
A GOOD TIME TO BUY COKE To make more dock room it
IS necessary
ami numerous twilight games have
that we transfer i.ttr present Coke storages. Ihis operation will cause breakage ami. therefore, the Company offers this coke* now in dry un
been played.
broken condition for $9.00 per ton at Calcite.
The first game that was called to our attention was played about
Screened coke can be had for $10.00 per ton at
have gotten hold of quite a number of our employes the past month
ilu-ee weeks ago when the Quarry Hard Heads, that
aggregation d real ball players developed under the
Calcite.
Arrangements can be made with the Ac counting Department for employees to pay for
personal supervision of R<-y I.at fin. locked horns with this coke later as yon would on fall deliveries.
the Nicklo Chasers (sometimes known as the Rogers
City Merchants). Unfortunately we are unable to Ob tain but very little information regarding this tilt, in fact a ureal deal of secrecy seems to surround this game, nevertheless both sides seem to agree that a chicken dinner was at stake and that the score went to a five and five tie.
Not being content with the result of their game
The Management is anxious to move all the coke possible from these storages in a short time
and orders for same should be left at the Time ( Ml'ice or Store I louse.
This is a g 1 opportunity for all employes who Use this kind of fuel to get their winter's
supply and it is hoped that as many as can will take advantage of it.
with the Quarry Hard Heads and with thoughts of a de licious chicken dinner still in their minds, this hungry bunch of Nickle Chasers next challenged the officeforce. The first three or four innings of this game certainly looked like a walk-away for the Merchants, but the
wiry Pen Pushers from the Office became encouraged when they saw their opponents were beginning to sag
under the strain, came back strong in the last few innings with the final result being a draw at ten and ten.
For the Nickle Chasers Phil McLennan and Ceorge
McClellan served as the battery with Butch Hasenhurg
on the first sack. Judge Carter on second. Allan West-
rope at short, Gus Kane third, and Frank Woods. Fniory Walborn and Harold Lehndorff in the field. The Pen Pushers had Hergie Platz
and
Lester
Raymond for their battery with .lack Kinville at first. Charlie Platz second. Rube Schultz short, ami Bud
Dueltgen and his dog Jiggers at third. The out field honors were borne by Joe Valentin. Charlie Beiuzel and the editor with Fred Fisch ready to step in if any one was carried out.
Subsequent games were the Mud Hens of the Yard Depart incut against the Electrical department's Juice Plugs with a victory for the latter and the Green
The above picture shows Charles Schalk of the Const ruction department with a nice string of fish
Targets of the Quarry (a hard hunch sponsored by Leo Kelley) against the Mud Hens with a victory for the
which he claims he caught at Ocqueoc Lake in the course of one hour. The rock bass are all eight t >
Hens.
eleven inches long and the large fish in the center of
Our attention is called to a second recent game
the string is a pickerel which measured 10 inches.
between the NiCkle Chasers and the Pen Pushers which
Evidently there are some real fishermen at oar
resulted in a decisive victory for the latter, however,
plant and especially in the construction department, as well as some good story tellers. Nothing like a good
new the the Chasers say it isn't fair because the Push ers were loaded with such semi-pros as Bob Mundt. Eddie Glasier and a few more. Notwithstanding the
argument, we are playing Safety First by keeping our chicken coop locked with a roll call of hens every morn ing. No telling what these Nickel Chasers will resort to.
picture to prove your story.
Let's have some more.
The first element of success is the determination to succeed.
Most of us wo Id give anything for health except obedience to its laws.
One of the most serious highway hazards is a soft head soaked in hard liquor at the steering wheel, â&#x20AC;˘N-'-'it- Safety News.
You never mis; (he wafer until the well runs dry. and vcu never miss the finger until one is shy.
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PLANT ACCIDENT RECORD Department
No.
FIVE HUNDRED AND TWO DAYS WITH
Accid illtS
l!i2G 11)27
OUT A LOST TIME ACCIDENT Not a single lost time accident since March ICth
TRACKS
2
0
TRANSPORTATION—KELLEY
1
0
Construction Department, the
T R A N S PO RT AT IO N—LA PF1N
1
0
1 ictuied below.
SHOVELS—KELLEY
4
1
SHOVELS—LAFFIN
1
0
DRILLS—MEYERS DRILLS—KELLEY
1
0
1
1)
BLASTING
0
0
CREWS
MILL—HAGEN MILL- BELLMORE ELECTRICAL CREWS
3
1
ii
2
(i
0
of last year and still going strong is the record of the members of which are
Every member of this department is a Saftey Booster and while their work is perhaps just as danger ous as any other about the plant, they have demonstrat ed ilia! it can be done in a Safe Manner when everyone co-operates to the extent of preventing accidents.
:5
1
Safety meetings of the foremen of this department are held every Saturday noon at which certain groups (if workmen are invited to attend and participate in the
CARPENTER SHOP
i)
0
discussions.
YARD MACHINERY
2
0
MACHINE
SHOP
YARD LABOR
4
1
TTJGS
1
0
MISCELLANEOUS
0
1
In this way every member of this depart
ment has an opportunity to attend at least one safety meeting every month. They also have a general safe
ments during the operating season to August first for
ly meeting of the entire department every month at. which talks on Saf< ty are given by the different men of the department. Inspection committees render weekly reports and a close check-up is kepi on all tools equipment, house-keeping, etc. In this manner every member of this department, is keenly alert to his responsibility in preventing accidents either to himself
both years 192G 1927.
or his follow workmen.
TOTALS 24 7 The above list represents the number of lost time
accidents thai have oecured in the different depart
ONE ACCIDENT prevented us from registering a perfect, score in July.
This oecured in the Yard Labor
department on July 27th when four more days would Lave meant a perfect month, however our disappoint
Much credit is due Mr. F. W. MacArthur. general foreman, his associate foremen and every member of this department, tor the keen interest they are taking
went from June 11th to July 27th. a period of 45 days,
in promoting Safety and the Prevention of Accidents. They have proven beyond a doubt that accidents are preventable in nearly all cases and that enviable records
without a single lost-time accident.
can be made in this work when every man is willing to
With a little more co-operation on the part of EVERY EMPLOYEE, with more thought for Safety
co-operate and assume the responsibility of doing his particular work in the Safest Manner Possible.
and what ii means to all of us and to those who are de pendent upon us as well as for the Company for which we work, we feel confident that we can make August a
Once an old darkey visited a doctor and was given instruction as to what he should do. Shaking his head
ment is somewhat overcome when we consider that we
SAFE MONTH.
Can we count on YOU to help us? R E M E M B E R
"Here. Rastus. you forgot to pay me."
ONE ACCIDENT IS ONE TOO MANY
Didja hear Hilary O'Toole's cannon booming a salute when the new hoat came in?
he started to leave the office, when the doctor said:
Made us think we
"Pay you for what, hoss?"
"For my advice." replied the doctor. Naw. suh, naw, suh. I ain'i gwine take it."
And
Hast :s shuffled out.
were back in France in the World War.
Exchange.
Construction Department Is Making Splendid Showing In Accident Prevention Work
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Safety First—It's Going To Be A Big Splash—Safety First
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Plant Safety Picnic To Be Held Labor Day Employees' Outing Planned At State Park Plans are now being made for
an
Employes
Safety Picnic lo be held at the Hoeft State Park on
the afternoon and evening of Labor Day, September
5th, to which all Employes of this
Company
ami
their families are cordially invited. This being our first adventure in an affair of this nature, we are very anxious that it shall he a
success, and to this end we are bending our every effort. The program will start in the morning with a Band Concert and
Ball game in town.
Two of the best Plant teams will be picked for the
ball game and this should prove very interesting as well as a good beginning for the days activities. Beginning at one o'clock the big program of the day will he held at the State Park. For those employees and their families lacking means of transportation, Compatiy Buses will lie run as often as necessary leaving the Bank corner promptly at one o'clock, so if you haven't a ear. be sure and get one of the Buses which will take you directly there and back again most any time up until nine o'clock in the evening. One of the main events of the afternoon's entertainment will be a speech by Douglas Mulloch who comes to us highly recommended as a humorist and poet. Those of you who attended the Foremen's banquet here about a year ago and heard Mr. Parlette talk, will no doubt recall the convincing method he used in putting his topic across.
We understand Mr. Mulloch is of the same
type and will guarantee to make you laugh if you've carried a long face
tor the past twenty years and at the same
time
give
you
something
worth while to think about.
Besides Mr. Mullock's talk, we tire also endeavoring to obtain some
vaudeville artists and performers from
Detroit that will be a
real at
traction.
Athletic events of all descriptions will be pulled off during the afternoon, many of which will of course carry prizes with them, so no matter how old or how yo :ng you are, we will endeavor to have something that you can enter in this line. Following is a list of some of the events that the Committee has in mind, to wit: Keg race, Tug of War, Three-leg;;ed race, Fat man's race. Girls' running race. Woman's ball throwing contest, Log rolling contest, Pie eating contest for boys. Peanut race. Greased pole climbing. Motor boat races and cigar smoking contest. There will also be an exhibition drill by the Boy Scouts and a Life Rescuing exhibition staged by the Hammond Coast Guard Crew.
Of course the Band will he on the job to help liven things up and to top the day's activities, there will be a big dance in the evening at the
Park Pavilion.
The Blue and White Orchestra will provide the music
for the dance.
Quadrilles as well as round dances will be in order so be
sure and stay for this part of the program. Money of csurse will be of no use at this picnic. BUTâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and this is a very important part to rememberâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;each employee will be provided with
w
,
plenty of tickets and tags for himself and the members of his family. These will be the "money" with which oue will buy ice-cream, lemonade, coffee, etc. The tags Will be the pass which will buy Bus rides to the Park and return and admission to the dance. They will also designate you as an employee of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company.
There will be a tent located at the entrance of the Park where yon will receive your tickets. As soon as you arrive at the
Park, find this tent, tell the clerk your name and he will check you off the list and give you your tickets. Then start out and have the time of your lives but don't, lose these bits of pasteboard.
!f 'you <njov swimmin:. Lring along your bathing suits. The water won't be too cold by then and the Coast Guard Crew will be on duty for Aflh.
protection. A first-aid tent will also be provided to take care of those who are liable to eat too much lunch
^^s^ZjgfjLtf^g^^ or drink too much lemonade. ' 0L-Xa\VHW Further notice regarding this Picnic will bepub-
-g. .
S0X=, lished and passed out at the Plant in bulletin form
~^^ biter
this month.
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Caught On The Fly Around The Plant PLANT PERSONALS How about lawns around
the gardens your house?
Dave Larsen seems to be having
and Are
his trouble since he bought a car.
you doing your part to make them
He says he can't understand why
look attractive?
all his friends offer excises when
Don't forget that
fifty dollar prize. Somebody Is go ing to get it and it might as well be you. It's not too late yet. to make the judges sit up and take notice when they give
your place the once over.
So get out the shovel and
the hoe and don't be afraid to dirty your hands. We're; sure you will find friend wife only too willing to do her share and even the children will co-operate if you explain to them what its all about.
he calls to take them for a
spin.
Even his wife insists on riding in
the front seat where she can have one
hand
on
the
I uei'geney brake. He also says they make the roads too natrow especially at the State Park where he has harked several trees and narrowly missed cutting down numerous other ones. We understand he took his first diiving lessons by having the A. A. A. wrecker tow him around for several hours. Stick to it, Dave, you'll learn yet.
Max Bellmore has a unique way of getting his car to run when the starter refuses to work. In his front
yard Max has a very steep hill on the top of which he parks his car. When he is ready to start for work he just puts the car in gear, has his wife give it a start and that's all there is to it. The car is either running when it. gets to the bottom or it's out of com mission for good. Max says he saves a lot of gas this
way too as the car gets enough start to coast half way io the Plant, providing he isn't held up by traffic. How do yon start it. when you back down the hill, Max?
We understand that Raymond Kelley dispose 1 of bis limousine to Orie Baker for a consideration of $10 spot cash. Since the transaction 0;ie has bean hiv ing all the "Smooth-On" at the Storeroom in order to hold the engine together and has ordered a wash boil
er to be placed on top of the hood as an auxiliary tank to keep the radiator filled with waler. The milk salesroom at the Plant has been chang
ed from the Storeroom to the Garage.
Any employee
who desires milk to drink, please see Edwin Radtke at Mr. and Mrs. Frank MacArthur left recently on a two weeks auto trip into Canada and New York Stale. Frank says they have a beautiful route planned, one that will take them to the most scenic parts of the prov inces of Ontario and Quebec. We wish them an enjoy able trip and a safe return home.
Darwin Patrick, linesman of the tug Rogers City, left recently for Bay City where he expects to consult
a specialist regarding his health.
Mr.
Patrick
has
been in poor health for the past year and we hope he will he able to obtain relief for his ailment.
the Garage.
Ed says he keeps the milk on ice. and it
is nice and cold at all times.
Among Doc
Sl-.elton
the of
visitors the
at
Marion
our
Plant
Steam
recently
Shovel
were
Company.
Messrs. McConnel and Nichols of the F.'.ice Coal Comâ&#x20AC;˘ any and M. L. .Jacob-; and W. S. Hourlier of the Beth lehem Steel Company.
Latest Base Ball Dope: Quarry Hard Heads clean rp the Yard Mud Hens 18 to 2. We don't know who the umpire was but presume he must have been pick ed o t by Roy Laffin.
Joe Penglase, Emil Dehnke and Dave Larsen re
cently went to Bay City where Mr. Penglase purchased a
new LaSalle sedan. Some car. but Dehnke says wait until you see mine. We understand Emil is get
Bergie Flatz of the office force, vLitod the display of new Buiek cars at the Milliken gara e recently; Since then he's been driving a naw town Brougham master six.
ting a cabriolet of the same make.
As a cheer-leader. It. B. Henley lakes first, prize. Beware of the man who spends his cash too eas
ilyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he often pays his bills with notes instead of cash.
It matters not if you are ignorant meet people daily who know it all.
for you
will
It takes two to make a quarrel, but when one is willing it is easy enough to find another.
Me nu.de more n.-ise than
the whole haul
when
the
new Bradley cam;: in.
Work Wanted:
Painting trailers a specialty. See
Adolph D Hack or leave ert'ers with Harry Ellison. A
good
talker is
always d<"lighted
counters a good listener.
when
he en
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CREW OF THE STEAMER "CARL D.
WHAT ACCIDENT AND FIRE
BRADLEY"
PREVENTION MEANS TO US
Commander, William J. MacLean; Chief Engineer, Harry B. Moore; 1st. Mate. R. U. MacLean; 2nd. Mate, Francis Bacon; Boatswain's Mate, Moise Brossoit; Boatswain, John MacGee; Wheelsmen, N. A. MacLean, Oscar Jaeobson; Watchmen. J. S. Phillips, Bert Morey; Deck Watch. Albert Stierstorfer, William .loppich; Deck Hands, Carl Johns, Earl Moore, .lames McHenry, John Barnes, William King, Delbert MacGee; Radio Operator, A. E. Cone; 1st. Asst. Engineer, Charles
In the hurry of our daily work most of us find little time to fully appreciate how directly concerned we are with the work which safety and fire prevention engineers are striving to accomplish. This work of preventing accidents and safeguarding our lives and
Frederick; 2nd. Asst. Engineer, George Hoye; 3rd. Asst. Engineer, Andrew Kertas; Electrician. E. H. Billman; Repair Man. John Coleman: Conveyor Man. An drew
Garvidge;
Asst.
Conveyor
Man,
Walter
Levon-
flosky; Oilers, Isaac Ranka, Arthur Lamb, Millard Flynn; Stoker Men, Lawrence Lorenti, Glenn Bahan, I'M ward Walsh; Steward, Otto Spare; Asst. Steward. Louis Petersen; Waiter, Charles Billmen. Porters, William Conger, Daniel Miller.
KING ADDS WRESTLING LAURELS Besides being able to wrest stone from the bank
with No. 5 shovel, Gene King
is
continuing
to
pile
laurels upon himself this summer as a wrestler on the mat.
On June 11th he met Rex Smith, of Canada, in a bout that caused no little attention.
First fall went to
Smith in fifteen minutes. However, King came back strong and took the second fall in eighteen minutes, and the third in twenty-four minutes. On July 22nd he took on Tony Bernardi who hail ed from St. Louis and claimed to have held the Italian heavyweight championship for six years. Bernardi was without a doubt one of the strongest and fastest men that King has met in some time. However, that
King was more than his equal was proven by the fact that the latter got two out of three falls.
property from injury and destruction bears very defi nitely and deeply upon all of us.
A had accident, a serious fire, or an explosion where we are employed might affect us very seriously; we might he among the killed or injured, we might lie one of those who lose their employment through the ravages of accident or fire, or we might suffer a serious
financial loss and the course of our career suddenly be completely changed.
Prevention of accidents and fires means to many of us the prevention of suffering, trouble and loss to out selves, for all profitable employment, irrespective of the position held, depends upon the prevention of loss and interruption. Therefore, apart entirely from the fine appeal upon constructive and humanitarian grounds which this work of safety has. it has a person al appeal. The more that accidents and fires are elim inated the more we all benefit. It is sound insurance against trouble happening to us. It is difficult to vis ualize one sound reason why everyone should not. co operate in this work, but there are a score of reasons
why we should lend our hearty co-operation to those whose work it is to prevent happenings which are de structive and benefit nobody.
Let us all see the point clearly and treat the work of prevention and protection as it should be treated, and help the safety and fire prevention engineers to the limit. They are working for our good and the more this constructive work succeeds, the more do we all reap the benefit.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Safety Engineer.
The first fall The next
went to the big Italian in eighteen minutes.
to King in fourteen minutes, and the third to King in
AN
HONEST WORKMAN
twenty eight minutes.
Is never afraid of tin inspector. Values his honor above his wages. Doesn't have to speed up when the boss comes in.
Plans are being made to have Gene wrestle Rex
Smith again on Labor Day at the Plant Safety Picnic which should prove quite an added attraction to the
Is always to be preferred to one merely clever. Depends more upon ability than pull. Always gives something that wages can not pay
entertainment on that dav.
OLD
RESIDENT GONE
for.
We regret to record the passing to the Great Be yond of (lustav Radtke, an old and respected resident of this community, who died at his home on July 13th. Although not an employee of our Plant. Mr. Radt-
ke's taxi business which he followed for the past eight years, brought him in close contact with our operations
and he was known to practically all of oar employees. He was of jovial disposition and very active for his advanced age and followed
his taxi
business until
Appreciates justice far more than pity. Is not envious of success of his employers. Doesn't nurse the thought ho is not getting
a
square deal.
Looks after his tasks and lets the clock take care of itself.
Gets real pleasure out of his job. Believes that work is a blessing and not a curse.
a
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mueller Record.
The sympathy and sorrow of all employees of cur Plant are extended to the immediate family and rela
In Turkey a woman never sees her husband be fore the mariage. In America she doesn't see him
tives in their bereavement.
much afterwards.
short time before his death.
vm j. Maclean PLE£.T
CAPTA/N
Stecamer CA LENGTH &Z>3FT
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DEPTH 3 3 FT.
O TONS. S. 1327.
THE LAUNCHING-
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TELLING THE BOSS
THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN The headless horseman in
Washington
"Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was
a
harmless
By F. S. CURTIS Leading Signal Maintainer, Elkhart, Ind.
Irving's
spook.
The "headless hois.•man" on the highway today is a
place is the gas-eating creature of enameled tin. It
Do you ever feel like kicking At the things that come your way? Do you ever let a grumble Mar the beauty of the day?
has no instincts of its own and must depend on the
Do the items given to you
serious menace.
The old "hay burner" which was cred
ited with having horse sense, is disappearing and in its
Seem to figure up a loss
driver for intelligence.
To all appearances the headless driver is a normal being. He has a knob that looks like a head but it functions like a radio when the batteries need recdiarg-
And you get disgusted with them? Better go and tell the Boss.
ing.
He's a sympathetic fellow,
The headless driver, so-called, takes the pleasure
He may meet you with a smile,
out of driving for careful motorists, spoils the traffic
And inform you that your kicking
COp'S temper and makes the railroad engineer grayheaded before his time. He can spot a shapely ankle two hlocks away when driving in traffic-but fails lo notice a boulevard "stop" sign. He can hear an invi tation to have a drink of prewar stuff if it's only a whis per but he doesn't notice the locomotive whistle at a
Is hardly worth your while. But if his brow is gloomy And is colored like old moss. Better be a
grade crossing.
Better know your "P" and "Q."
divided into two classes—those who can be educated
Else he may, j.-.st for the pleasure.
and those who can't. Fortunately there are very few
Ream the dickens out of you.
in the latter class. Some learn through signs and bul letins—the cheapest way. Some get their education in the hospital or in court. Others have their faults bur
So for all the good 'twill do you, it's about an even toss, You will hustle a
little harder
After you have told the Boss.
ied with them.
HOW YOU CAN HELP REDUCE ACCIDENTS
Then just work a little harder, Gel a hold on what you do.
The man on the street has yet to learn that he himself carries one of the keys to the traffic problem,
"To the swift belongs the triumph" Is a saying good and true.
observes A. A. Mowbray in the August "Hygeia." He must look to municipal and state authorities for engi neering ami regulating innnovations that will do much to lower the traffic toll, but amost as important, is the part that he plays, either as pedestrian or motorist. and
improvements
in
Bear the burden given to you, Do not seek to show your cross;
Then you'll never feel like kicking. Never have to tell the Boss!
the
world will not prevent traffic accidents unless the citi zen does his share by being careful of both himself and the other fellow. Everybody can help to reduce acci dents.
to the Boss.
If you're hound to do some kicking,
Human heings. whether drivers or pedestrians, are
All the regulations
little careful
When you tell it
DOTTY DEFINITIONS Berth Control—•Something you wish for on ship hoard when you're seasick.
Grapefruit—Substitute
Here are some of the means:
If you are a clergyman, you can take the subject into the pulpit.
If you are a teacher, you can interest your princi pal in having safety methods taught in the school. If you are a father, you can teach your children the importance of always being careful. If you are a mother and belong to a parent-teacher association, you can arrange to have safety discussed
cold
morning
Galloping Consumption—When a
man
eats
and
runs.
Scran Book—Diary of a prize fighter.
Hash—A connection between the vegetable and animal kingdom.
If you belr.ng to a chamber of commerce, luncheon Cltlb, fraternal order or board of trade, you can inter
oats.
est that organization in participating in a community
that
Riddle—What they do to you in Chicago if you buy a drink from the wrong bootlegger. Horse Sense—The ability to say "Nay."
at some session.
safety campaign. If there is a community safety council in your city you can join and participate in its activities.
for
shower bath.
Highland Fling—A Scotchman sowing
his
will
Petty Officer—One who pells a petting party in every port.
town, you can bring up the question of the advisibility
Aresipelas—Disease caused by the aviation bug. Synonym: Skyatic. Milkmaid—'I he feminine of cowboy. " be Pinnacle of Fame— Often the "Height of
of either organizing one or having
Folly."
If there is no community safety council in your
conduct a campaign.
some
association
-—From The Office Cat.
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The New ''Rogers City" Is Latest Addition to the Tug Fleet
The new tug Rogers City which was built by the
BIRTHS the
American Shipbuilding Company at Lorain last winter
homes 01 the following employes and left baby boys: Theodore Yerlcs, ('ash Gayshyu/.ski, and Henry Gruelke of the Drilling department, Frank Hoffman of the Quarry, and Tony Mulka of the Mill department. Baby
and delivered here May 31st, is entirely built of steel and is the last word in tug construction. In size she compares favorably with the Central and Kellers hut has considerably more power than either. She is SS.4 feet in length with a beam of 23.6 feet and a depth of 12.7:". feet. Her engine is a fore and aft compound 20x â&#x20AC;˘10x30 inches developing approximately 800 horse pow er. The boiler is a marine fire box type 186 inches long and 132 inches in diameter carrying 160 pounds steam pressure. She is also fully equipped with Union steam pumps, ash gun and patent flue blower. The pro peller is nine feet six inches in diameter and has a
During the
past mouth the stork visited at
girls were left at the homes of Alex. Crawford of the
Mill department. Vincent Brady and Erwin Merchant of the Q- any and Gustav Gruelke. of the Drilling de partment.
"Calcite Screenings" joins in extending congrat ulations to the above parents. OBITUARY We are very sorry in having to record the death of the wife and infant child of Elmer Vcigt of the Store
pitch of eleven feet nine inches. The Rogers City carries two crews with Captain
room and the infant child of Louis Ohlrich of the Drill
Walter Peppier,-engineer Thad Kneale, fireman Arthur
ing department.
01 ristensen, linesmen Darwin Patrick and Harry TvTen-
"Calcite Screenings" joins
in extending our sln-
cerest sympathy to the immediate relatives
in
this,
their hour of bereavement.
APPRECIATION
Thru Calcite Screenings I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to the Machine Shop and Storehouse for the beautiful flowers and oth
er courtesies extended at the recent death of my wife. ELMER VOIGT.
ton on one shift and Captain Arthur Cook, engineer Frank Lamp, fireman James Gardner, linesmen Paul Flier and Ray Menton on the other shift.
The tugs Central and Kellers are singled crewed with Captain Harry Cook, engineer Dan Ryan, fireman Prank Flewelling and linesman Russel Lamb on the former and Captain Charles Carstens, engineer Frank W. ism wsl:i. fireman Alfred Quade and linesman Carl Hoch on the latter.
These crews change shifts every week and two tugs are on constant duty with a third tug under steam
Some fellows can talk about success in a way that
ready for any emergency that might arise.
makes the rest of us feel like failures.
MAKE AUGUST A SAFE MONTH. A reckless man is the raw material for an accident.
ENJOY THE LABOR DAY PICNIC.
LET'S ALL
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ESSAY
ANOTHER
ON
From
a
It
schoolgirl's
composition:
lO^S^C^
"There
gible
our
bachelor
is
ieties—prizes,
Ihe
a Husbands are of
surprises
three var-
and consolation prizes.
A
widower is a man someone has rescued as he goes down for the third time. Making a husband of a bachelor is one of the highest plastic arts known to civilization.
It requires
science, sculpture, common
sens,' and faith, hope and charity, especially charity.
sent to marry me."
•Tin sorry," said the maiden kindly but firmly, "hut I will not marry you."
So the fellow went out West and after sixty-two
in
only. name
imagina
We but
have
not
the
game. When we got married we listened to our better half promise to obey
as implicitly as she did to love and honor us.
But it
didn't take longer than a few weeks for us to discover that she made a very decided mental reservation in
that "obey" stuff, and that, while we might continue to pose as the boss of the household, it was only a pietty little delusion for the benefit of the neighbors, relatives and
"1 shall die." throbbed the suitor, "unless you con
ol
that we men
wives
tion
An eli
mass of obstinacy sur rounded by suspicions,
understood,
have been bosses of
bachelors
and widowers.
is
course,
<£*) ^^SZs ^'\4^\
are three kinds of men
—husbands,
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SHATTERED
MEN
friends.
Now. to add to our woes, the Protestant Episcopal Church recommends that the word "obey" be omitted from the marriage ritual. Thus we are to lose our last shred of self-respect. Of course we don't expect to lie
obeyed, even when they promise to do so, but this pret
years, three months and a day, became suddenly ill and
ty little word in the ceremony gives us a thrill by mak
died.
ing us believe we run the ranch, even though we don't. —Exchange.
We like the credit of being boss, even though we tire
the servant—as wo usually are.
Co-operation is the dominant principle of modern
life.
Co-operation means conducting yourself so that
But now they plan
to take from us the one little comfort we Even if
have
left.
the women do rule the roost, they might at
least leave us that small crumb of comfort of being
others can work with you.
the titular head of the family.
"Doctor, if there is anything the matter with me.
—The Kablegram.
don't frighten me half to death by giving it a long, sci entific name. Just tell me what it is in plain English." "Well, sir, to be frank, you an' lazy."
"Thank you. doctor. name for it.
Now tell me the scientific
The waiter was taking the order of a pretty girl who was accompanied by a florid middle-aged man.
"And how about the lobster?" the waiter inquired.
I've got to report to the missus."
"Oh. he can order whatever he likes." —Black
Cat.
Customer—Have you the same razor you used on me yesterday?
They were talking about inventions.
Barber—Yes, sir; the same identical one. Customer—Then give me gas. —The Progressive Grocer.
Mrs. 'Awkins—And 'ave you mane all the arrange ments for your wedding, my dear?
Miss Jorkins—Well, not quite all.
I've got to bu?
"The man who invented the flyin' machine was a
great genius," said Pat. "Hi think wireless is the greatest invention." said 'arry.
"Veil," said Ignatz, "the fellow that invented in terest was no slouch."
my trooso and take a 'ouse and get me 'usband a job reg'lav
"I hope you keep your cows in a pasture." said
And then I'm to name the 'tippy
Mrs. Newlywed as she paid tin- milkman. "Yes'm," replied the milkman, "of course we keep
and buy 'im a suit of clothes and washin' work to do.
get
some
day.
them in a pasture." "I'm so glad." gushed
Officer—Not a man in this division will be given
Mrs. Newlywed.
"I have
been told that pasteurized milk is much the best."
liberty today.
—Exchange.
Private (in rear rank)—Give me liberty or give me death.
A story is told by a southern railway officer con cerning a colored laborer working under his spuervis-
Officer (sharply)—Who said that? Private—Patrick Henry. —Exchange. Teacher—Which travels fastest—heal
Johnny—Heat.
or cold?
ion.
Impressed with the darky's excellent work, the officer put to him the question: "Say. Sambo. I don't understand how you can do all your work so quickly and so well." To this the colored man replied: "Why.
Teacher—What makes you think so?
boss, rial's easy.
Johnny—'Cause one can catch cold.
to de fuse nil energy, and jes' natchuraly explodes."
Sure I sticks de match oh enthusiasm
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HOW TO KEEP WELL Series By The Life Institute Containing The Latest And The Most Scientific Infotmation On Healthful Living And The Prevention Of Disease THE PASSING OF OUR MUSCLES The age of chivalry is past; so is the age of mus
cle.
Don't
point
to
Babe Ruth!
Ruths are there in this country?
How many Babe Only
one;
there
aren't any more.
Gene Tunney?
Well, there may be a few glad
iators here and there but not many among the people •who
do the world's work.
We are passing into the age of brain and nervous
system. All we need in the way of muscle is enough to push buttons, strike keys, pull levers, feed machines and climb in and out of the various vehicles that trans
port us to and from our work. The soldier no longer "marches on his stomach"; he is moved in motor lorries.
What will be the final stale?
Can the brain and
nervous system exist and persist if there is no back ground of muscle? What kind of a world will it be, where shrunken forms feebly carry brain cases an;! nerve filaments around?
Even though we believe the effect of disuse of muscles is not Inherited, in the long run the low value of muscle power in the modern struggle for existence carries with it grave, risk of final decay of the muscu lar system.
Evidently something must be done if we attach any value to well-muscled bodies and a state of good animal efficiency. The trouble lies in the fact that while good health, in the best si use of the word, cannot
be
maintained
without
good
muscular efficiency
and
the stimulation of adequate exercise, it is possible for the half sick to earn a living and live long enough to
propagate their kind. There is only one cire for this condition of mus cular apathy and that is artificial muscle culture. The
muscularly debilitated should rush into strenuous gym nasium work or physical training courses. Sanity in exercise is necessary to safeguard life. A physical ex amination should reveal one's limitations as well as
one's needs and then a graded exercise regime can be adopted. We have heretofore stressed the importance of cutivating "muscle hunger." Muscle hunger is a crav ing which all vital people have to use their muscles. If not heeded it wanes and ceases to impel one to mo tion. The healthy young child—even the infant—litis muscle hunger. Watch him kick and Strike out and reach out if given the chance. He "feels" his muscles,. When a man does not "feel" his muscles, he is a "dead one" as measured by any reasonable standard of ani mal excellence.
College sports are not to be derided or their ef fects feared if the strenuous competitive work is limit
ed to those selected with care as qualified to do such work without risk of damage. The whole student body should be brought into mass plays and a physical program made compulsory so that sound ideals of phys ical stamina and power may be instilled into those who lead in business, professional and social life. We may well go back to the Greeks for light on a scvnd educational policy. Notwithstanding a high state of mental culture such as the world
ual and for the race.
things a man does not do for a living must bring into 1 lay his muscular system.
He must
seek
muscular
recreation rather than sedentary recreation; play bill iards rather than bridge, if he must play indoors; and spend more time playing golf and tennis rather than
watching others play and talking about
it.
Also he
must devote a certain amount of time each day to form al exercise or gymnasium work.
Remember that the 31G pairs of muscles of the body
do
not
constitute
a
natural
endowment—some
thing just given to man complete, like a
toy. to play
with. These muscles are man's response to life strug gle; they have been evolved over millions of years dur ing which his ancestors fought, hunted, climbed, b tilded, and
struggled
bare-handed
with Nature herself.
with
animal
foes
and
Now the struggle has passed on
to electrical hands and arms, legs and backs. This does not mean that men and women who have for years pampered these muscles mid become soft and
has never
since seen, the Greeks placed physical education 00 a par with mental. The Greek citizen was a soldier; he had to to be physically well trained. There is no pres ent call for physical training in anything that man does for a living, with rare exception. Hence he must de liberately and voluntarily protect himself by seeking such training as a matter of safety-first for the individ
fafyiJlnnie Ther£z a lotta beauty ter be seen iiathi2 old world-that'2 why safety gogglez waz \w\iev\teo.
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(Modes Of %h^ <fM.om.ent By MARCIA MEADOWS
Courtesy of Marshall Field & Company, Wholesale, Chicago with a subdued but rich luster.
It is shown in all the
Iis always a bit difficult at this time of the year to tell what way the winds of fashion tire blowing. .Most of us are primarily concerned with the coolest
shades that promise to be smart for fall, terrapin, shag-
thing possible in filmy frocks and bathing suits. Yet the complicated world of fashion goes right on plan ning and producing new modes for the season ahead.
fairway in green, and grey dawn, and beige in natural
bark, burnt russet and Spanish cedar in brown, Renee.
Napoleon, and navy in blue. Lanvin, laurel leaf and shades.
Pile Fabrics Are In Vcgue
New Modes For Fall
fall
Judging by the advance showing of fabrics and ready-to-wear models. velvets, remarkably supple
modes. Very feminine »hey are—these smart dresses of silk crepe and supple velvet with many interesting
weaves, light as silk, should have tremendous vogue. Kress designers have been particularly clever in ma
The custom apparel section of one of the largest
department stores is already showing
advance
variations of flares, fucks, pleats and tiered flounces.
nipulating the rich texture of this fabric, creating sub
They are no longer Ihau the summer models and the fulness is confined almost entirely to the front of the skirl. Double belts, diamond pointed seams, scallops, flounces, jabots, and surplice collar lines are only a
tle illusions of depth and color. A clever modiste told me that velvets hold surprises for most women. Many who find black unbecoming in other fabrics wear it. most effectively in velvet for the fabric falls naturally
few of the smart details of this widely diversified fall
into graceful masses of light and shade.
mode.
Necklines are square, folded over to one side,
ing fabric always, for it tends to make the figure light
cut in
a cardigan "V" or lengthened delightfully into
er in effect.
The waistline is definitely on its way up. 1 should getting there.
Two and
three
belts
placed a few Inches apart are most frequently used; so if you are at all in doubt where to place the belt on
your fall frock yon may solve the problem by using two or three of them.
of
the
fine
Smart shades in stockings are definitely growing Rose Beige and ochre replace the litillt even ing shades. Grey shades are all extremely good for street wear and a new Burlington shade, natural, is being worn a lot. The darker heels are Q smart cos
jolly looking red-brown and soft grey mixtures collared in fox are distinctly smart for tin- fall sport coat. Coats of this type are an excellent choice because they are warm enough for cold weather wear ami yet never cunibersoniely heavy. The Sweater Is A New Favorite
Sweaters ate everywln re. seemingly
a
part
of
After s.-asous of negioct, the French
modistes have remembered them and given them the dignity of a blouse. K you remember your war knit ting you can easily duplicate them with the line soft
sunspun yams that many of the stores are Stowing. There are many different kinds for sport and dress wear.
ecrase leather, suede, and novelty bye-rest fabrics are extremely fash ionable.They are much smaller, not minute by any means, but still less eapacio::s
than
the- enormous en
velope bags we have been carrying. They make up for their lack of size by having a number of Intricate di visions and pockets iusiele. The costume jewelry in Current vogue is much more
elaborate than formerly. Pendants and long necklaces often looped or worn twice annual the neck, replace the short choker.
Large pearls are combined with semi precious stones in brilliant and unusual effects. Oayly decorated hat boxes are among the' foolish small things that make tin- world amusing. They are made of black leather painted in brightly Colored de signs and used apparently for carrying everything from hats tti week-end things.
Silks For The New Season
delightful
note.
Round handbags in reptile and
Tweed and homespun coats in warm and rather
There are a number of
true
darker.
tume
The First Fall Coats
every costume.
particularly
New Things In Accessories
say from the models I have seen, though it is still a bit about
is
Chilton velvets—Empresse, for example.
frills, bows, and belts.
hesitant
This
It is a becom
new
crepe
weaves, Silks Beau Monde most of t.hein, which maiiv
REMEMBER—NO ACCIDENTS THIS MONTH SO
of is will be wearing when we sel our minds seriously
EVERYONE CAN ENJOY THE LABOR DAY SAFETY
on fall fashions.
PICNIC.
Crepe Siren is one, a heavy weave
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DOINGS OF THE BROWNS 窶年ational Safety News
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TOM-THERE S TO BE
' A DEf/ONiTRATlON} OP ReSU^ClTAUOM IN} TME CAFETERIA, AT THREE OCLOCK. 窶｢ WANT VOU TO ATTEND .
/^BOVS- THlb lb KNOWN A*a TME PROME PRESSURE OF RESUSCITATION.
IT IS USED
TO REVIVE TlAE VICTIM OF ELECVRlC .SMOCK. #
DROWNING, OR A"bPMVX.IATION, FIRST GET TUe'
PATIEMT INTO TVIE AU^-R'ENiOvE Any FOREIGN) O&0ECT& FROM TkSF MOUTH- POT Ml^ IN TM\S
PO&ITIOM-PALM& OF WAND^ ON EJACK. WITH MNSER& OVER RIB'S SO THAT LITTLE FINGER JU^T TOUCHES LOWESf RI&-
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With the Boats of the Bradley Transportation Company 窶｢jr
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ACCIDENT RECORD OF THE BOATS Nei. accidents this yeai
Name of Steamer CARL D. BRADLEY T. W.
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recently for Goderich. Ontario, to attend tin- eelobration of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the "Old Home Tenvn" whieh takes place the first
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B. H. TAYLOR
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JOHN G. MUNSON VV. P. WHITE
From the steamer W. F. White:
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In looking over
the last issue of "Calcite Screenings" we notice that the personal items, the acquisition of a Chevrolet Cabriolet
TOTAL
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Tin- above list represents the number of lost time accidents that have occared mi the different steamers
to Angus! first of the operating season of this year. it is encouraging to note that there are at least
White
and Taylor respectively. Please rectify this this boat issue dear Editor. Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! All ye Fair Ones of Rogers City and iovern yourselves accordingly. error in
two of the- steamers, he-sides the new steamer Carl D.
Bradley whieh went into commission
only
recently.
without lost time ae-e-ieieuit to mar their record this year.
Wo appreciate very orach the fine work that is being done in the promotion of Safety a,h:>ard our steamers, the holding of Safety meetings hy the- ships' Safety Committees and the constant edueationing of the crews to |. Ttorin their duties in a sate manner. These are the thintes that count in the prevention of accidents and we sincerely hope that every member of the Boat crews will co-operate for Safety anel that you will leave nothing undone to bring your ship through AUGUST WITHOUT A SINGLE LOST TIME ACCI
Captain Theo Dahlburg of the- steamer VV. F. White says
when
Mr.
Munson
issued
his edict
of --
feet 3
inches as recommended draft for Baffingtou, it caused no
little sorrow
aboard
the "White."
In
view
of the
record load of the "Taylor" and our hopes for a load Of twos and tours to demonstrate our ability to carry limestone, we regret to say our hopes have- suffered an anti-climax.
VOUR. BEST GIRL.
WILL BE INTERESTED
IN YOUR. SAFETY RECORD - SHE
, WANTS TO BE C/m VOUR WIFE -
DENT.
NOT VOUR WIDOW.
We regret ve-ry much that we eliel not receive a Saftey .Mooting report from the steamer Cale.ite for last month's issue". We cannot, help hut feel that those meeting are of great importance in the promotion of Safety work aboard the steamers anel we hope that all the crews will co-operate in the holding of these meetings at least one-.e a month if not more often and that the minutes of the same will he forwarded in the
Editor for publication in this magazine. Please send your reports in before the first of every month to provide- sufficient time few set up and printing.
BOAT PERSONALS
Captain M. R. MacLean of the steamer T. vv. Rob inson says he litis the following for sal.-: On- Lake- Eli-
SAFETY MEETINGS OF THE "GENERAL
FLEET
SAFETY
MEETING窶認LAGSHIP
CARL D.
BRADLEY
Conducted by R. U. MacLean, Mate. Assisted by Officers and attended by all members cf the crew An interesting and beneficial tour of Inspection Of our beautiful, gigantic steamer was completed at 2:*5 p. in., starting in the Pilot House anil finishing in the Engine Room. Each piece Of equipnn in and I ho safest manner of operating same, was explained to our crew.
who have been
An interesting talk was given by Mr. Karl LaGess our Electrical Engineer, in which he explained the p r1 ose of each switch in our switchboard room. At his Suggestion we appointed one man em each Watch to operate the switches for the Mate's department When ever there is work to be done in that room. Mr. LaGess is te> be notified and he will see that all hoards are
enjoying their vacation on the steamer Robinson, tefi
properly covered, thus eliminating all possibilities of
chart ami a complete set of lower river c.'iarts, same
bavins he-en used but four or five, times this season an!
an- in A-i condition.
Would consider a Lake Michigan
chart as part of the transaction. Mrs. M.
R.
MacLean and family
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coming in contact with live wires.
running, playing and wrestling on deck especially when
Messrs. MacLean and Bacon gave talks relative to
safety first methods in performing duties on elee-k. in the tunnel, and handling the lines on the dock. The proper method of ascending anel ilecending ladders was explained and demonstrated as many casualties have been caused by carelessness on ladders. Messrs. Fredrieks and Hoy gave complete instruc tions to the men concerning the various duties in the Engine Room whereby the safest methods should beemployed.
Mr.
Sparre.
Steward,
cautioned
the
men in
the
Galley about the- electrical kitchen appliances. All bands were given there proper positions in boat anil fin- drill and instructed in the operation of strip ping the life-boats.
Most of the crew have previously served in the employ e>f the Bradley Transportation Company and we know that everyone will do his utmost to ke-ep our committee's slate clean.
At the close of this "General" meeting, a Safety First committee was appointed anel we will look to them for many suggestions in the future-.
hate-hes are open.
Let's be careful.
Again the men were warned about cleaning all of the stone off the arches before starting the clean up, this to prevent any stone from falling on the men work
ing in the cargo hold on clean-up. That all planking, staging, pipes, etc. stowed on the ships side or overhead, be placed in racks or see-ure ly fastened in some way to prevent the same from fall ing and causing a possible injury. There is always a chance of stone falling off the
loading shuttles when loading at Calcite. especially open hearth and flux, therefore, it was again suggested that all men be warned against the practice of running under these shuttles and thereby save themselves from possible serious injury. All members stated that they would do their ut most to eliminate and avoid all chances for possible in juries either to themselves or their felleiw ship-mates, after which the meeting was adjourned.
We- regret very much that Capt. MacLean and Chief Harry Moore could not be with us on this tour as they were away em business. R.
STR. T.
STR. B. H. TAYLOR
Meeting held on July 21th at seven O'clock p. m. with the following members present: Leo Moll, chair man; Stanley Dauscher, secretary; Alex. Feldman. Neils Anderson. Harry Whitehead anil Win. Schwartz.
tr. MacLEAN.
W.
It is a long way to the bottom of
the cargo hold anel a very sudden stop when you get. there, now who wants to take the leapâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we ask you?
ROBINSON
Capt. F. F. Pearse and chief engineer Guy LaBounty
Meeting held on July 28th with the following members present: Gilbert Kempe, chairman; Dan Mclntyre, secretary; Floyd Gigax, Archie Boehe, Wal
were also present.
ter Owen anel Bert. Nolan.
ner in whiCh the work is being handled around the'
The third meeting of the ship's Safety Committee was called to order by the chairman at seven o'clock p. m. em the above elate anel all members were present. The minutes of the previous meeting
discussed.
were read and
The following suggestiems were maele, to
wit:
On
forced
draft
boilers
the
firemen
should
see
that the induced draft damper is open before blowing flues to avoid explosion through ash pan from
whieh
serious injury might result. A suggestion from the Steward's department â&#x20AC;&#x201D; That the men working in the galley when washing dishes be very careful when placing dishes in sink in order that none may be broken and eliminating any chance for bad cuts on
the hauels and
wrists and that
sharp knives should never be placed in
the sink but
The Committee was well pleased with the man deck, engine-room and elsewhere, and
with
half the
season gone by, we are glad to say we can report a clean slate as regards lost-time accidents.
Particular attention was called to men going in swimming immediate}- after meals as such practice should be discontinued. One hour after meals is recommended, and a ring buoy should be near at hand when- men are swimming.
The seamen were informed again about handling the bridle alone when taking off hatches as in this manues it is necessary to stand on the hatches, which is very dangerous. The man operating winch should not pay out. cable unless two men are handling bridle. While loading steamer, watchmen should not alIdw anyone to put ladder down to the dock until steam er is properly spotted along side of clock. Coal passers are requested to keep fautail as dry
should be hold in one- hand and washed with the- other
as possible after cleaning up with kerosene to prevent
and set out to be elrieel Immediately. Two olel but sane suggestions were again brought before the committee!, namely regarding the handling of lines around docks and opening, closing and work ing around open handles. We feel that we cannot be too careful in these undertakings and the more we discuss them, the more impressive will be made the fact that there is considerable chance for very serious
slipping.
injury in each of these instances.
Meeting held on July 17th at which the following members were present: Clarence Thorsen. chairman; Aielvin Keyse. secretary; Oeorge Laughrey, Clareii'-e
It
was also suggested
that
our men
be advised
anil disciplined if necessary regarding the danger of
The letter from the plant Safety Director regard ing the handling of acetylene tanks on board ship was read and discussed.
Meeting aeljourned at eight o'clock p. m.
STR. JOHN G. MUNSON
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Hoy, Oscar Hoch, H. K. Pearson, Capt. McQuinn and Chief Lief Urdal.
The former suggestions were reviewed and the members of the safety committee asked to bear them
With so much auxiliary machinery aboard this class of vessel it behooves every man to be alert and observing. Railings should be inspected, walks and ladders kept cean and periodic reports made of such
had been putting out the ladder for the purpose of go
in order that necessary repairs can be made before an accident occurs. Attention was called to the improved conditions of ladders leading to the cargo hold (hatch No. 29) since hand holes were burned in archway and repairs made to ladder. We have renewed lines to the landing boom as a safety precaution, also renewed coal
ing ashore before the boat is brought to a stop and tied
bunker falls to insure the safe handling of bunker hatch
up.
covers.
in mind at all times and be ever ready to caution a fellow workman to refrain from any dangerous practi ces while performing his regular duties on board ship. 1. Attention was called to the fact that some of the
crew (other than the regular man for that purpose) This is especially dangerous where there is a ce
ment dock as the end of the ladder when rested on same without being made fast by the blocks and tackle
on the opposite end, may slip and cause anyone on it to lose their balance and result in injury. The Watch man is busy handling the winches until the boat is made fast and as soon as that duty is performed he or some other member of the crew on duty will lower the ladder and make it secure; all others should keep their hands off.
2.
All men should be cautioned to observe the warn
ing signs and not enter the paint lockers while smok ing, and not to light lanterns or torches in the lamp room, but to take them into another part of the ship before lighting same.
3. All the doors should be examined and see that they work easy and do not jam when closed to assure easy escape from the rooms or other parts of the ship
It was suggested that members of the
crew
be
warned to stand clear while the mail boat comes along side at Detroit as it only requires one man for the oper
ation and is not so confusing to the man in the mail boat. Care should be exercised in going ashore via Wescott's boat as a slip on such an occasion means disaster.
We are pleased to report that the minor injury to Mr. Dwyer, 3rd asst. engineer, sustained while coming out of engine room recently, is mending quite satisfac torily.
In conclusion, the Captain advises everyone to be extremely careful at all times and warn other members of the crew. He suggested that we be especially care ful in case of minor and seemingly unimportant injur ies, that they be reported immediately and the proper first aid attention given them.
Meeting adjourned.
in case of an accident.
4. Examine ladders leading from the deck to the cargo-hold for they are sometimes loosened from stone striking them while loading. 5. The men working on deck while loading should
stay clear of the stone dropping into cargo-hold, for oc casionally some of the stone strikes the hatch combing and bounces for some distance to the side.
These suggestions being made the meeting was closed at eight o'clock p. m.
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Meeting held on June 26th with the following mem bers present: W. MacDonald, chairman; Axel Hoy, sec
retary; Donald Everett, Emery Derby, Robert Oliver and William Hudson.
The minutes of the last meeting were read also the rocemmendations issued by George A. Marr of the Lake Carriers Association.
STR. W.
F. WHITE
Meeting held on July 27th with the following members present: Walter Callam, chairman; Afred Dwyer .secretary; Arthur Graham, Bert Moniger, Donad McKenzie and Leon DePudry.
The meeting was called to order by the chairman and all members were present except second asst. en
gineer J. J. McKenna, who at the present time is act ing as relief engineer aboard the Str. John G. Munson while chief Suttle is on his vacation.
The minutes of our last meeting were read and ap
proved, after which the Lake Carrier's Bulletin was read and discussed extensively. Special mention was made of several personal injuries listed in the bulletin some of course unavoidable, but others due entirely to carelessness and neglect. The Captain and Chief Engineer urged the men in their respective departments to exercise the utmost care in the daily work and to insist that their shipmates do likewise. We simply cannot tolerate carelessness or neglect of duty in the way of Safety First work aboard ship.
Captain Martin and chief engineer Arthur Urdal gave interesting talks on first aid and cautioned the crew to be careful when fulfilling their duties aboard ship.
All acetylene tanks are to be carried on deck when moving from place to place and not dragged, also they are to be lowered to dock by means of rope. A ladder is being installed in the forward
end of the cargo hole in order that the men when through cleaning up can come up on deck from where they fin ished their work and not have to walk to the after end
of this compartment.
Eye bolts have been placed in boom-pan so when it is necessary to rehiove pan from boom, it can be raised into place again by the bridle. Coal passers were cautioned not to use their hands to remove a lump of coal when it becomes stack in the bunkers. It
was
also
recommended
that
aboard ship be inspected at least once
all
hand-rails
every
month
and if any were found to be defective, the same to be replaced immediately. Meeting adjourned at 8:30 p. m.
The Man Who Does His Best (By James Edward Hungerford)
No matter how little he's gettin'; No matter how little he's got,
If he wears a grin, and is trying to win— He is doing a mighty lot! No matter how humble his job is, If he's striving to reach the crest, The world has a prize for the fellow who tries— The man who is doing his best! Today he may be at the bottom Of the ladder to wealth and fame,
On the lowest rung, where he's bravely clung, In spite of the knocks—dead game! But slowly he's gaining a foothold, His eyes on the uppermost round; It's a hard old climb, but he knows in time
He will land—and be looking down! The fellow who never surrenders,
And is taking things as they come; Who never says "quit," and exhibits grit, When the whole world's looking glum; The fellow who stays to the finish,
That nothing can hinder or stop,
And who works like sin, is the chap who'll win— And some day he'll land on top!
Tiii!iiiii!iiiiiiiiini;iininiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiii!iiiiii!iii!iiiiiw
No Accident Records are o n
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ly mad(
when everybody co-operates to the extent of doing their work in the safest manner pos sible, thereby avoiding injury to themselves and their fellow-workmen
Let's Have More
Co-operation for Safety then well have no accidents
to spoil our records
Set the Safety ^Habit
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No Accident Honor Roll lijli
In
|I
Department
Foreman or Captain
TRACKS
N. W. Pollock
TRANSPORTATION
T. L. Kelley
TRANSPORTATION
J. L. Laffin
f.ti
SHOVELS
J. L. Laffin
iiti
DRILLS
Walter Meyers
DRILLS
Thomas Kelley
BLASTING CREWS
G. V. Burks
ELECTRICAL CREWS
Harry U. Ware
CARPENTER SHOP
F. W. MacArthur
YARD-MACHINERY
Julius Zemple
TUGS
Capt. Walter Pepler
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STR. CARL D. BRADLEY
STR. W. F. WHITE
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Chief Frank Lamp
m
Capt. William MacLean
a.
Chief H. B. Mocre
iiti
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LT
Capt. Theo. Dahlburg Chief Thomas Suttle
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Capt. Clayton Martin Chief Arthur Urdal
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Minh1;,l'onShe,1t,m011,!lly U!r ?S ?ÂĽ*"*?'ÂŁ'&* ****** limestone &Chemical Company, Rogers City,
.Michigan, in the interest of Safety and Welfare.
The columns of "Calclte Screenings" are open to receive items of plant news, photographs, cartoons,
safety suggestions and other items of general plant interest. Contributions will
employes
be welcomed from all
All such contributions should be received before the first of each month and should bear the
name ot the department and the sender and should be addressed to the editor.
0. K. FERDELMAN. Editor
EDITORIALS OUR EMPLOYEES' PICNIC
THEY LEARN FROM YOU
We have chosen to call this issue of our
A child, like a chicken, has an inclination to
magazine the "Picnic Xumher" as through its dart across the Street at any place without pages both by picture and story wc arc trying to thinking or looking. There is nothing criminal
give in detail an account of the numerous activ
ities that took place at our Employees1 Picnic held at Hoeft's State Park. Labor Day, Septem
about that; it's normal instinct, but a dangerous one in this motor aye.
A hen can spoi d a u g er quickly
ber 5, 1927.
The cover design is a reproduction of an act ual photograph taken at the Park, and is em
blematic of the beautiful scenery at thai place.
t i v e
the presence of
derful event and seeing their plans duly carried
pletely
The holding of this picnic, as it was for all
as
she
does prior to a
the employees and their families, again demon
chicken dinner. The hazards of the street have
strates the desire of the management to create
a better feeling among all employes, ft was also given as a reward for the splendid work
increased SO rap
that is being done in the promotion of safety and
idly in the past
In return
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we sincerely hope that every employee will as sume the responsibility that'is rightfully his in
partment.
instincts
an automobile. She loses her head as com*
out. Also, the fine spirit of co-operation that was manifested by all those who were present
low workmen, and that our Safety Pro-ram will be carried on to the fullest extent in every de
around,
her protec-
don't function in
credit on the part of all those who gave so free ly ot their time and efforts in planning this won
preventing accidents both to himself and his fel
when a
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There is no question but that this picnic was a huge success in every respect and reflects due
prevention of accidents at our Plant.
enough hawk is
years
that
e v e n grown-up
h u ma n
can't always realize them.
beings
They still act as they
used to when the greatest danger in crossing the street was losing their rubbers in the mud.
Educators have proved that children can be taught to take care of themselves and safety is
^ our boss may determine your Salary, but
yon yourself determine your "worth. To yet more make yourself worth more.
now part of ihe regular instruction in many schools. But children spend only about five hours a day in school and the classroom instruc
tion may be wasted if they are taught different ly at home. The teacher needs a little co-oper
Some men are born to trouble: some have
il thrust Upon them: others look for it by violat ing the safety rules.
Driving a car at night without lights is bad
enough; it's worse when the driver is all lit Up.
Happiness doesn't just happen. It has to
be earned.
Everything has.
ation.
Eleven thousand children of school age were killed by automobiles during 1926. Some were
victims of reckless drivers; others were merely following the example of their thoughtless eld ers.
The youngster; learn from you. Are von living up to your responsibility?
Don't talk about vonr abilities. Demon-
strate them.
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EMPLOYEES SAFETY PICNIC GRAND SUCCESS LABOR DAY EVENT ENJOYABLE
Ideal weather conditions coupled with the unceas
ing efforts of those in charge of the program resulted in the First Employees Picnic held on Labor Day being a grand success from start to finish. The 'lay's activities started at 9:30 in the morn
ing when the Rogers City Community Band augmented by several new members played several selections at the band stand and then marched to the Baseball Park where two picked teams from the plant captained by Frank Retake and Bob Mundt put on a baseball battle that kepi the spectators on their toes Trom the start to finish. Bergie Platz, star pitcher for Reinke"s team
displayed unusually good form and went the entire nine innin.,s. His pitching together with the fine fielding support and hitting ability of his team mates proved too much however for Mundt's all stars and resulted in a final score of ten and two in favor of Reinke. Ossie
Voight did the receiving for Bergie and played a good steady game. Bill Warwick, old lime pitching star did the hurling for Mundt's team and showed some real old time stuff until his arm went bad in the sixth inning when he was relieved by Ids brother, Howard. Num erous fielding errors and the inability of bunching their hits played havoc with Mundt's team, nevertheless both teams worked hard and displayed an exceptionally good
brand of Baseball which was thoroughly enjoyed by the large crowd of onlookers.
Intersporsing the ball game were numerous peppy
selections by the band and several catehy songs by Mr. Walter BiUaney of the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company assisted by Mrs. BiUaney at the piano. The iwo Fuuny-Bones, dressed as clowns, a vaudeville act from Detroit, also amused the crowd and especially the younger folks with their antics. Promptly at 12:-15 the two large Company busses filled with employees and their families started on their first trip to the Hoeft State Park where the afternoon entertainment was held.
These buses were run almost
continuously during the afternoon and evening in an effort to get all people there and back again. It is esti
mated that approximately five hundred people took ad vantage of ihis means of transportation.
After arriving at the park the first stop was at the information booth where a regular plant pay-day was held, the money being in the form of tickets for which one could buy coffee, hot dogs, ice cream, lemonade and different kinds of fruit.
The refreshment stands were in charge of Mr. H. W. Schultz, who with a large corps of efficient helpers did some very fine work in caring for the large crowd that patronized these stands
all afternoon and until late in the evening. Near the information booth was also another stand dispensing favors such as paper hats, balloons, sqnawkors, etc.,
lor I lie children anil picnic cigars and cigarettes for the
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men,
surf boat in the lake.
Tin- afternoons entertainment started at 1:30 P. M.
With a vaudeville act by Bert Geyer and his monkey.
At I: in P. M. the athletic contests started and al though on account of rough water, all the events were
This proved to be a good starter for the program and was followed at 1:46 by Robertio the contortionist who was also oik- of the clowns at the ball park in the morn
well described by the list of events and winners else
not included, the activities for an hour and a half are where in this issue.
ing.
Promptly at 2:00 p. M. Mr. Bradley delivered a welcome address and outlined the purpose of the picnic as well as thanking those who had worked hard to I.Ian the picnic. He emphasized the fact that this was a safety picnic and stated that it circumstances per mitted he would like to continue an affair of this kind annually and also stated that it seemed to him that we
might well go through the coming year with the follow ing motto: "THE BETTER THE SAFETY RECORD,
THE BIGGER AND BETTER THE PICNIC."
In clos
ing Mr. Bradley introduced Mr. Douglas Mailoch, fam ous poet and humorist, who delivered the main address
of tin afternoon. The subject Mr. Mailoch took for his address was "Husbands and Wives." Mr. Malloeh's address was put over in good style and this as well as
all announcements from
the stage was amplified by
radio apparatus.
At 2:40 P. M. .limmie, the Funny Man entertained for fifteen minutes with his juggling act. Everybody enjoyed this as well as his clowning in the morning at the Baseball Park.
away, Harold Lehndorff. Evenrude motor, and Byron
Penglase, Evenrude motor, and with the natural dare devil spirit of the boys and rough water there were thrills never to be forgotten. Harold Lehndorff went home witli first prize.
At il: in P. M. Aerial Jeukinson and Company ably assisted by Frank MacArlhur put on their Huhe Char
acter
At 2:55 Aerial Jeukinson and Company held the
Crowd spellbound With their aerial act
The perform
ers used a tight rope forty feet in the air and this act
being forty feet up was really the high spot of the aft ernoon.
At :J:20 P. M. Gene King and Rex Smith wrestled
and it was a real go.
Ai 5:40 P. M. the boat races were scheduled but
again on account of rough water, did not take place with all contestants entered, however two starters go!
Of course Gene won, he couldn't
do otherwise with three thousand of his best fri.Mids looking on.
At 3:41 P. M. we were ready for the Life Saving
demonstration by Captain VV. A. E. Trapp and his crew from Hammond Station. This drill proved interesting to all and the skill required in this was marvelous. 1 heir drill was first on the beach and then over their
Act
and
Revolving Ladder Act.
These boys
again demonstrated their expert ability us well as pro vided a lot of fun for the audience.
This brought ns right up to G:30 P. M. and there could be nothing more appropriate at this time than the basket dinner with coffee and other refreshments. At 7:00 P. M. the dance was started with the Blue
and White Orchestra full of pep and shortly afterwards Robertio the Contortionist, again performed on the pa vilion porch and the BiUaney sisters entertained with
son-s and dances. During the dance, motion pictures were shown on the large screen in front of the pavilion. Several hundred enjoyed pictures while others danced. Several of our Calcite Screening news reels were shown besides additional films furnished by Universal Port-
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land Cement Company and General Electric Company. Later in the evening the Blue and White Orches tra was augmented In John Modryn/.ski's .la/./. Hounds, ami Daniel Beehe, our own famous accordion player,
certainly did his share throughout the evening.
l'ri/.es
were offered for several of the dances.
Motion pictures were taken of the entire day's activities by Mr. Fred Bradley assisted by Mr. Charles ilein/.ei and still pictures were taken by E. A. Schulwil/.. p. W. Craig and the editor.
A First Aiil tent and equipment was maininiicd
on the ground with Miss Wornick. R. N.. of Alpena, Michigan, in charge and Dr. Monroe available. Very few first aid treatments were given although there was quite a run on the aspirin bottle as the [0118 day and the hot sun was tiresome for several.
Cars were carefully parked under the expert sup
ervision of Mr. Fred Larke. Park Caretaker.
Mr. LarkO
gave "he parking and traffic careful consideration prior 10 the picnic- and we wisli to here express publicly our appreciation for his Services. It was estimated that
approximately twelve hundred cars passed through the park in the afternoon.
In checking up the attendance all estimates judi cal e thai there were more than five thousand people at the picnic. A large number of whom were miests
of employees; also visitors who regularly come to the
park on holidays. Cars bearing Alpena. Petoskey, Cheboygan, Mackinaw, Onaway and Sault Ste. Marie li censes w- re noticed.
The general opinion of all was that this picnic was the largest and best ever held in this cnmmuniiy and we go to press with that satisfied feeling which always atti uds a successful undertaking.
Tom Smothers displayed his old time skill in jug gling cones in the ice cream stand. He sure knows
his business when it comes to handling tin- scoop.
The high spot of the entertainment was reached when the Aerial .lenkinson Company did their stuff on
a light wire 40 feet up in the air.
They did most eV
erytbing on that wire but dance the black-bottom. Lat er in the day this Company pulled off a Rube act with the assistance of
Prank
MaeArthur.
announcer, not the Rube.
IUBH
mmmim 1R ••: Vjj.
l - i*K«
Frank
was
the
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Tug of War—Team captained by Adolph Sorgenfrei. i hre.'h gged Race, Boys Ken- & Tui-
getski . lal prize.
prize; MoloeUa Brothers, 2nd
Keg Race. Boys—Alex
prize;
Molocha.
1st
Basil Kerr, 2nd prize.
Women Running Race Mildred Lamb. Men Running Race—Alvin Raymond. Hall Throwing, Women—.lessie Pulcher,
Pie Bating, Boys—Eldren McLean. 1st prize; Vernon McLean. 2nd prize. Peanut
Race.
Girls
Hattie
Kidmen
1st prize; Violet Wefizel, 2nd prize. Potato Race, Boys—Johnnie Cordon. 1st prize; Basil Kerr, 2nd prize. II
takes a lot of work to run a
three-legged
race
and the youngsters who entered this contest demon strated to us j st What co-operation can accomplish. We tl ink they 1 arned ii from their Dads who are prac' icing il every day at the Plant. Wc appreciate verv m cli the courtesy extended to us by the I etroit Branch of the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Ccmpany, in sending Mr. Walter BiUaney to help wiiii our entertainment. Mi-. Billaney is a very tal ented young man and his performance both at the ball game in the morning and at the Park Pavilion in the I••veiling
was mrch enjoyed hy all who witnessed it. Mr.
Billaney was accompanied by Mrs. Billaney at the piano. Mr. Miller, stale agent for the ahove Com;.any, came up witli Mr. Billaney, and together wiih their wives made the trip on tin steamer B. II. Taylor. SAFETY
FIRST
The disposition to look out for "number I" is as old as creation and. we suppose, will never be thoroughly eradicated from human
nature.
Corn. Sweeney bad been detailed to take bis squad of engineers hi mop up aft er a company of infantry. Arriving ai the cellar of an abandoned chateau lie was iusirnted by bis lieutenant to gq inside,
leaving the remainder of the squad about the door lo gel the fugitives. "Yes. sir," answered Sweeney, obediemtly. Then, turning to his men. he added the cautions. "Hut if more I ban one man comes out
of that
n liar, for
the
Lord's
sake.
before
Adam
don't shoot the first one."
What
and
did
tie-
m,
i,s
Bvq wore clothes?
eai
Sack Race. Boys—Edmund Kowalski,
1st prize;
Lawrence Kowalski, 2nd prize. Shot
Put—Emerson Lee.
ills! and Galling
Mrs. Eric Perdeike, 1st prize:
Mrs. Helen McLean, 2nd prize. Nail Driving, Women—Mrs. Philip Kowalski. prize; Mrs. Eric Perdeike. 2nd prize.
1st
Waltz—Harry Boutin and Beatrice Lindsay,
1st
prize; Mr. and Mrs. John Blaskey, 2nd prize.
Charleston—Myrtle
Hanson.
1st
prize;
Gertrude
Win;hio.,e, 2nd prize.
Step Dance—Mrs. Robert Radtke. 1st prize; Miss Ethel Arscoti. 2ml prize, Waltz Clou
Mr. Callagher.
A long chance often means a last chance. Don't gamble with Kate Safety first, last ami always.
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(Modes Of ^h^ • (Moment By MARCIA MEADOWS
Courtesy of Marshall Field & Company, Wholesale, Chicago Like a small boy eager for the incoming circus train. I've watched tlie Fall Fashions advance with a thrill of delight. The new styles, fabrics and colors
—they seem to be the "Staff of Life"
are positively bewitching. I wish you might see the style shows and shops with me!
colors to their charms.
The Fabric's The Thing
in the fabric world. Satins and satin-faced crepes keep their hold on prestige as much as ever, but have added many new For The Youthful
en such remarkable strides in the creation of new and
Since many French Fashion authorities encourage the use of taffeta for dance frocks, I might mention a delightful period frock I saw made of Spartan Taffeta in two luscious shades of orchid. The billowy skirt was scalloped around the edge and was much shorter in front than in back. The basque blouse was sleeve less and depended solely upon a long cluster of pink
original weaves and designs.
and orchid flowers, placed upon the left shonder for
It is obvious that smart appearance depends as much upon the fabric of which one's frock is made as upon its lines and general style. Fashion authorities seem to emphasize the material even more than its
color; probably because fabric manufactures have tak
ornamentation.
New Ways With Rayon
AI one style show 1 attended great Interest was aroused by the display of frocks and negligees of a rayon fabric that looked for all the world like heavy, brocaded silk—one of the most ingenious things I have ever seen. This "Stardust Grope" and another rayon creation
called
"Caresse
Satin"
made
into
luxurious,
draped robe of gold banded with black, excited more attention than
even the silks and velvets.
Silks—Original And Effective
I was enchanted with the newer novelty silks— Reptillian Crepe, in particular. This is a soft drap
Now
what
could
be
more
"in
the
mode"
than
that!
touch
of
distinction
was
brought
left side in front. The Autumn Palette
Deep toned and luxurious are the new colors tor Fall, And their names conjure pictures of frost, tip ped woodlands—Claret Red, Goya Red, Balsam Green, Lauerlleaf Green, Burnt Russet. Cocoa Tan. Chamois, King's Blue. Napoleon Blue. Reefrose Coral—and of course black and Navy Blue are in very good taste, as well. Gray and beige are excellent for street costumes.
ing, heavy textured, flat crepe, with a watered effect
that produces a remarkable resemblance to reptile skin.
A
out by the unusual neckline which fitted snugly around the neck in back but slanted sharply downward at the
Incidental
Fashion
Notes
Hero and there some accessory or detail of a frock shows to advantage and proves its popularity by fre
Fashion trims our hats, purses, gloves and shoes with
quent
the skin itself, now we can complete the ensemble witli
touches one can make a plain frock smart and up to -
a
the minute. I've noted the tendency to accent the in a costume by the contrast of a close fitting black hat, black r loves (generally suede) and black shoes. It gives a striking effect. Largo 'kerchiefs to drape over the shoulder and tie at the side have even become a feature of the evening mode when made of chiffon, printed, beaded or painted.—A reversable coat of printed and plain Viking Velveteen is both smart and
frock of this attractive material.
Do look about you for Homespun Prints! are perfectly delightful; and so new!
They
I saw a charm
ing outfit composed of a straight line, one piece dress of Balsam Green, and a full length coat of Viking Velve teen, the same shade. The dress and the lining of the coat matched—a Homespun Print in a quaint design of ornamental squares.
Just such an outfit one could wear
on any number of occasions and always look smart and appropriately garbed. Velvets Are Popular Velvet,
particularly
or rich shades of brown,
transparent
or
variation.
By
knowing
these
little
(•(dor
practical. For afternoon and evening frocks
circular insets
in skirts allow more freedom and are frequently shown. in
black
green or red, shows
velvet,
every
sign of In ing most fashionable for formal afternoon and evening affairs. Velveteen appears for sports and Street wear only.
usage
Of course crepe faille and flat crepes
Continue to tie shown for almost every kind of costume
Also, skirts are (censing the interest to the side front by means of bias draping, ornaments, bows, sashes and diagonal linos. ir you wish to be ultra-fashionable, add a waistcoat to your daytime frock and a smoking jacket of metal cloth or velvet to your formal evening gown.
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Light Refreshments and Wise Cracks Which Sometime Come To the Editor's Desk Ragman—"Any old rags or papers to sell?"
How to be happy tho" married: Toll her often. "I
Smith—"No, my wife's away for the summer." Ragman—"Any empty bottles?"
love you."
A real estate salesman tried tQ sell a bouse to a
Mary Bad a little dog,
newly marled couple.
His pedigree was tony, lie made a dash across the street—
Honk! Cop
a ticket.
Honk!
Said the wife:
"Why
buy
a
home? I was born in a hospital ward, reared in a boarding-school, educated in a college, courted in an
Balogna.
automobile, anil married in a church; get my meals at a cafeteria.; live in an apartment; spend my mornings
I am sorry, ma'am, but I'll have to give you
playing golf and my afternoons playing bridge; in the
You were going forty miles an hour.
evening we dance or go to the movies; when I'm sick 1 go to the hospital, ami when 1 die I shall be buried from an undertaker's. All we need is a garage with a
Lady—Impossible.
Why,
I haven't
been
mil
an
hour.
bedroom."
Mother—Now, children, don't quarrel,
What's the
matter?
Grocer—Here's your flypaper.
Harold
We're playhf shipwreck, an' Susie won't
Anything else
to
day?
go in the bathroom and drown herself.
Rastus
Yas-s.uli. I want six raisins.
Grocer -DO you mean six pounds? The editor figured a long time thinking how to say Then he wrote: "Miss Beulab Blue, a Brinilield belle of twenty summers, is visiting her 'twin brother Jerry, aged thirty-two." something nice.
Rastus— Naw. sab: about six. jes' enough l'o'
NOT
GUILTY
"Pardon me. sir. but "You say you come from Detroit," said the doctor
to his fellow passenger, "that's where they make auto mobiles, isn't it?"
"Sure." replied the American with
some
resent
de
coys.
could you tell
me where
I
could get a drink?-'
"Mister, I'm only a street car motormau. You're the third man this morning who has mistaken me for a
polieiiian."
ment, "we make other things in Detroit too." "Yes. 1 know." retorted the doctor, "I've ridden in 'em."
"Vaas." drawled young tanner Hardacres. sort of decided to buy a
"I've
radio for the lonely evenin's.
'stead o' marryin' that Perkins gal on the money 1 gql Chronic
Condition
saved."
Guide Co party touring Ford plant I—"Do you know what would happen if that man on the right side of you missed a day at work?" Interested Onlooker—"No. what would happen?"
Guide—"Well. 2,261 Fords would go out of the fac tory without springs."
"Do toll." ejaculated his neighbor.
"Whats the
idea?" "Well. I flggered ye (ran turn off a radio." A
FEW
NEEDED
INVENTIONS
A berry box which will prevent all the best berries
Onlooker—"Say. mister,
that
fella's
been
sick
a
helluvah lot. ain't he?"
from staying on top. A telephone ring that will tell us who is on the other end of the wire before we answer it.
It lakes an income of six figures to get a man in
the rotogravure section, but one figure will gel a girl there.
A golf ball with a gramophone attachment that will sing out. "Here I am."
An adjustable ring that will fit the usual number
of girls you become engaged to during the summer. If
it. Is
hard for you to get
along with
people,
An angler's scales which will corroborate the fish
make up your mind that it is hard for people to get
erman's story.
along with you.
A piano that will sound the same to the girl play ing it as it does to the neighbors,
Traffic Cop—What's your name?
—Belle Hop.
Truck Driver—It's on the side of me wagon.
Cop (trying to read name)—It's obliterated. Driver—Yer a liar,
it's O'Brien.
You can't be mean and happy any more ihan an orange can be sweet and sour.
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LIMESTONE AND ITS EXTENSIVE USES By J. A. Valentin. M. L. & C. Co. Chemist To most people, limestone is a common rock and hardly worthy of any attention, much less careful study. The part it plays in the great Industries of the country is known to extremely few and the various changes to
wliicb it is subjected to bring about certain finished products having desirable characteristics is known to -ven a lesser number.
To most readers of these col
umns, however, limestone is not a common rock but is "bread and butter" metaphorically speaking, and
although many have been working in the uiiarrying of Limestone for years and realize that it plays an import ant part in the industry of the country, it is quite prob able that few know of many specific uses to which it
is put. together with the particular part it plays in mak ing steel, heavy chemicals, carbide, cement, etc. There
fore, CALCITE SCRKKNINGS will from time lo time through its columns and under this heading endeavor to giye you in a general way. accounts of various pperaions in which limestone is used. Chemically, limestone consists of Calcium Carbon ate. Alumina. iron. Silica. Magnesium Carbonate
I'hosphorrs. Sulphur and somtimes Arsenic and Titan ium.
The
active
constituent
is
Calcium
Carbonate.
A stone high in Calcium Carbonate and low in the oth er ingredients is. therefore, most wanted and it is the possessing of this characteristic that makes Calcite One of the many uses of exceptionally high grade We ship an
nually to the Union Carbide. Company, with plants at Sauli Ste. Marie and Niagara Falls, many thousand tons of stone. The first process in this operation is one of lime burning. The Soo plant, which the writer
had the pleas-re of visiting a few weeks ago. and thru the courtesy of Mr. White. Superintendent, and Mr. 1laker. Assistant Superintendent, was shown much of interest, have three horizontal type (Rotary) lime kilns s'h in diameter and 12."> feet long, one being acetylene welded and is the largest of this kind in operation. The usual method of building a kiln is to butt strap the seams.
During the summer mouths the heat, passing from the upper end of the kilns is wasted by being allowed lo pass into the atmosphere through a large slack. Dur
ing the winter months, however, it is fed into waste heat boilers which generate steam sufficient for heat ing the plant. The temperature of these escaping gases is around 1200 degrees Fahrenheit as they leave the kilns and about leave tin
These kilns in appearance are not unlike the
large revolving screens formerly used by I he Michigan
600 degrees Fahrenheit
as
they
boilers.
In making Carl ide. lime and coke, charcoal, an thracite or other coal are mixed and fed to the furnaces
in the form of small lumps. The furnaces are of the arc type. The reaction begins at about lf.ou degrees Centigrade and the Carbide fuses at 1800 degrees and is tapped off in the molten state at regular intervals, below the operating platform. This is allowed to cool in chill cars and is then crushed, sized and packed in
iron drums ready for shipment, to be used in generat
ing acetylene gas. signal fires, metallurgy, reduction of copper sulphide and production of Calcium Cyaiiamide. Acetylene is derived by the action of water on Calcium Carbide and is used for illumination. Oxy-Acetylene welding and cutting of metals; and when carbide is used for generating acetylene, the lime shoud lie free from
si one so popular and desirable. limestone is the manufacture of carbide.
where it is fed by small spiral conveyors and fired in the kilns on an air blast.
phosphorous and Arsenic and low
in
sulphur.
Phosphorous through conversion yields phosphine in water and renders acetylene liable to spontaneous in flammation or explosion. Arsine and Hydrogen Sul phide an- poisonous. Magnesia reduces the fusibility of the carbides and makes the furnaces difficult to tap. the molten carbide will not run freely and the operation is hindered and slowed up and production drops off. Therefore, lime should be low in this constituent.
Alu
mina, Silica and Iron act merely as diluents and may
be valuable in increasing fusability. but any impurity increases the In ai
consumption of the process.
The
heat at Union Carl ide is derived through electric Cur rent from water power.
The Niagara Falls
plant uses about
much limestone as is used at the Soo.
one-half as
Going through
Limestone ami Chemical Company, only they are a great
the plant of the OUiOn Carbide at the Soo is very fas
deal larger.
cinating, not only is the operation in itself interesting,
The stone is fed into the opposite end
of the kiln from the fire and thus, subjected to a con
but one is impressed by the cleanliness of the whole
stantly increasing temperature until it reaches about 2000 degrees Fahrenheit in the critical zone. At the
plant. The coal pulverizing I lant. usually a dusty and unsightly operation, is carried out by them to the high
lower or firing end
est degree of efficiency and the fire hazard reduced to
the lime falls out
and through a
cooler and then by a bell conveying system io the Mix-
a minimum.
line Department.
as is the furnace room and packing room.
These kilns are fired by coal which
is prepared by drying it at a temperature of 12". degrees Fahrenheit, the moisture being here reduced to less than 3 per cent. It is then run through Raymond Mills and pulverized coal is stored in bins, near the furnaces
The kiln room is clean and free from dust
They maki
pain;
and label
their own drums
in
which the carbide is packed and this is also very inter esting, most of the machines having automatic features.
They have a small hospital with a man attendant,
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where every minor injury is taken care of and reported. They have a recreation building 70x90x36 high built of
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brick, equipped with bowling alleys, pool tables, card tables, lounging room, reading room, reception room
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Department
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All of this they are very proud of, and well they should be, but they have something else—they have
TRANSPORTATION—LAFFIN
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SHOVELS—KELLEY
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SHOVELS—LAFFIN
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and dance hall and kitchen for use in social events.
no-accident record.
The last Lost Time Accident at
l he Soo plant occurred on .January 9th, 1925. which up to July 1st 1927, gave them a record of equivalent
DRILLS—MEYERS
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DRILLS—KELLEY
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labor hours worked of 2.571.101, or it amounts to one
BLASTING
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man woi king S hours a day for 880 years. Now. boys, if you are looking for a star on which to hitch your car, here you are. TRY AND BEAT IT!
CREWS
MILL—HAG F.N
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0
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MACHINE
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MILL—BELLM ORE SHOP
DEATH TAKES JUDGE E. H. GARY
CARPENTER SHOP
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It is with profound regret that we make reference to the death recently of Judge E. H. Gary. Chairman of tlie Board of Directors of the United States Steel
YARD MACHINERY
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YARD LABOR
7
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TUGS
1
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MISCELLANEOUS
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33
7
Corporation.
Judge Gary's life, activities, and administration of the many large interests entrusted to his care, and the
TOTALS
-
able manner in which he has performed his duties has
Tin' above list represents the number of lost time
earned for him the respect of mankind and of large
accidents that have occurred in the different depart ments during the operating season to September first
financial interests the world over.
His influence has always been for the good and
his judgment has been sound, and he is entitled to tin greatest credit and respect from all citizens of this country.
for both years 1921! and 1927.
THE
RECORD
HAS
BEEN
BROKEN.
WE
HAVE FINALLY GONE ONE ENTIRE MONTH WITH
Through our association with the United States Stoc-l Corporation, our management has felt the Influ
OUT A SINGLE LOST TIME ACCIDENT.
ence of Judge Gary in our affairs during the past few
made in our No-Accident campaign, but not until last
years which has always been to our benefit and. there
month did we go thru one entire month without a lost time accident. This is a record that every one of our employes has a right to be proud of and we sincerely
fore, our citizens here in this community carry with them a .Meat respect and feeling of great loss in Un dent h of J:dge Gary.
Out of respect for the memory Of Judge Gary, flags
Several previous records of 45
days
have
been
hope that it is just the beginning of more concerted ef fort on the part of every employee to work safely. Our picnic is over and we are sure that everyone
at the plant and of the boats of the Bradley Transpor tation Company were flown at half mast, and on Aug
there
ust 18th at 10:30 o'clock, the hour of the funeral, all
this issue, it was given partly for the splendid showing
o. .-rations at the plant were suspended for a period of
we made thus far in Safety and Accident Prevention
five
work. What more fitting appreciation could be shown than by making the remaining few months of our op
minutes.
TEN
GOOD
Walk in
RULES
FOR
had a
wonderful
time.
As stated elsewhere
erating season Safe for every employee.
HEALTH
if every employee will co-operate.
tin' open air.
in
It can be done
Will you help us?
Let this be our motto,
Keep a contented mind.
Breathe deeply of pure air.
"NO MORE ACCIDENTS THE REST OF THIS YEAR"
Enjoy innocent amusements.
Get plenty of sleep each night. Give your body and soul plenty of sunlight.
Eat healthful, plain food—and just enough of 8.
Associate
the steamer B. II. Taylor; Mrs. Ida Hoffman, mother of Robert Hoffman of the Construction department;
9.
Give your body plenty of pure water, outside
it.
with
companions
who
will
benefit
you.
and Andrew Grant,
and inside.
in.
you.
OBITUARY We are very sorry in having to record the death of Mrs. Bernard Streich. mother of Edward Stretch of
father-in-law of Rhinart
"Calcite Screenings" joins in
Do unto others as you wish them to do unto
—Firestone Non-Skid.
An Egoist is a man who thinks as much of himself as yen do of yourself.
Bruder of
Ihe Yard department. cerest
sympathy
to
the
immediate
extending our sinrelatives
in
this,
their hour of bereavement.
Haven't you noticed that the happiest people are I he busiest.
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Harbor Construction Work With Self-Unloading Vessels
Our Company is developing a method oi construc
ting harbors on the Great Lakes, particularly in deep wafer,
that
promises new
uses
for our self-unloader
boats and our stone, especially the coarse openhcarih size product.
In Milwaukee we have been working for the pasl three years with contractors
to construct
1mm break-1
four feet wide and about twenty feet deep, lapering with thick, heavy concrete walls. These cribs are placed level on the stone foundations and are keyed together by flanges. Later after they have been allowed lo sel on the foundation base, they are filled with crushed limestone either by our boats or by derrick scows, and when this stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which is about the size of our flux
waters in front of the city in the harbor at a depth Of
Stoniâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is filled into the inside of the caisson, it is cov
approximately thirty feet.
ered over with a concrete cap about five feet thick cap
The
method
of
operation
is
that
our
unloader
boats take cargoes of coarse stone to this port and dis charge the stone on
the bottom
of
the
lake in a
sirai lit
line. The steamer accomplishes this result by moving up and down in front of the proposed dock line against pile cribs all ready driven.
Tin- stone is
discharged from the boom into the open water, and the location is controlled by engineers standing on the oilier end of the boom of (lie boat, who look down into
the bottom of the lake and see that the stone is placed regularly;, and the result is a base or foundation for
carrying the concrete caissons.
The steamer deposits
its cargo in small lidges on the bottom and these are Spread over by a dipper dredge, giving flat level face, say forty feet wide on the base and thirty feet wide on the toji.
On this coarse stone foundation are placed con crete caissons thai are fifty-four feel hum by twenty-
ping the entire breakwall.
This method of construction is much cheaper than the old way of building breakwaters, and can be done very much more rapidly and it served to provide many advantages to this type of const ruction work. In addition to this class of work, we have recent
ly filled with our self-unloader boats two cribs con structed in mid-lake deep water where first, cribs have been set, and then we have, filled the cribs from the booms of our boat with coarse stone and have perform ed the work within a few hours time that would take several weeks to accomplish with die old method of construction.
It is expected and believed that considerable con
struction work will be developed along the Great Lakes in various harbors that will adopt our method of con BtTUCtion for the many advantages ilmi result. C.
I). B.
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The Steamer "T. W. ROBINSON*' which did all
Richard Tulgetske, Deck Hand;
the work referred to on the opposite page, was built
Passer;
by the American Ship Building Company at Lorain. Ohio, in the winter of 1024, launched on April 25th and ai lived at Calcite for her first car; o of stone on July 11th. l!»2:">. She is named for T. W. Robinson, vice-
ond Cook.
A I like
president of the Illinois Steel Company and Director of both Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company and Bradley Transportation Company. This steamer is 586 feet in length. GO foot beam ami has a carrying capacity of 10.SOU gross tons.
Alfred Joueck, Coal
Harry Glantz, Deck Hand; Otto Maimer. Sec
lots
CONFESSION
of attention.
Coax me and I will do most anything.
You iniisi not handle in.
v.iib strong arm methods
or with kid gloves.
Treat me rough
and
I
will have my pound of
flesh.
Her equipment consists of three Foster water tube boilers with economizers, a 3000 KW General Electric
least expect me to.
tin bine anil a 3000 HP motor which is directly connect ed lo the shaft and has a speed of 13 miles per hour.
scaffold, give him the slip and watch him fall to the
The galley is completely electrically equipped and she This Steamer was the first electrically propelled freighter on the
also has electric unloading equipment. Great Lakes.
Her crew consists of the following:
Lean, Master; John S. Sparre, Chief I--.. Sfcolly, First Mate; Anker Berg, neer; Daniel Mclntyre, Second Ass't C. Kemp, Second Mate; Martin Birk.
M.
R.
Mac-
Engineer; James First Ass't Engi Engineer; Gilbert Third Ass't Engi
neer; William Kunner. Radio Operator; Frank Berg. Oih r; Kobley Wilson. Oiler; Kenneth Pawcett, Oiler;
Revenge is sweel to me and 1 will gel jt when you
My greatest delight is to get my victim on a high ground.
Some men get
me into a
tight corner, curse me.
and when they try to p.ill me to pieces I get slippery as an eel, fly off my nut and kick them hard. Most times, though, I let them bump themselves. I am the black sheep of my family.
Surely you know me.
l am Miss Monkey Wrench. - The Look
PRACTICAL
JCKE
PROVES
BOX.
FATAL
Stephen Chihola, Conveyorman; Myran J. Boysen, Wheelsman; Floyd Gigax. Wheelsman; Archie Beebe,
The following article which appeared in a recent issue of the Detroit Free Press, was handed lo ns by Mr. Ware, general foreman of the Electrical depart
Watchman; John B. Hursh, Watchman; Edward Fawcetl. Steward; Arthur Spade. Porter; Emil 0. Herbert,
ment and our attention is called to the serious results that are sometimes caused by the so-called "practical
Porter; Peter Fleming, Jr.. Waiter; John Lamb. Fire
jokes." The article reads as
man; William B. Nolan. Fireman; James R. Frye. Fire
joke, which resulted in the death or his best friend.
man; John A. Cerry, Coal Passer; Frank Nodeau. Coal
Edward Koch, 17, may cause the arresi of Paul Haas A coroner's inquest today revealed that Haas had attach ed a live electric wire to Koch's dinner pail "to see his friend jump," and that the current which was stronger than Haas anticipated, had killed the youth when he picked up the pail."
Passer; Arthur A. King, Coal Passer; Merritt Smith. Fireman.; Louis Smollnski, Fireman; James Fltzgibbons. Fireman; John F. Hilla, Coal Passer; Walter GlantZ, Deck Hand; Edward Smith. Deck Hand; William J. Hursh, Deck Hand; Alex Selke, Deck Hand; Murdock
MacLean. Deck Hand; Norman Raymond, Deck Hand;
follows:
"A
practical
of Drehersville. Pa., on a charge of manslaughter.
H
?$&** -WFFV*
• •:;,:
y^s^s^^^^s^s^ia^. w
STEAMER T. W. ROBINSON LYING AT ANCHOR
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Demonstration of Liquid Oxygen Explosive By RUDOLPH DUELTGEN, Jr. During the month of August two demonstrations were made in the quarry with Liquid Oxygen Explo
sive by Mr. George B. Holderer. Mining Engineer with i he Air Reduction Company.
The Mist
blasi was made on August
upper quarry level.
10th on the
Ten boles varying in depth from
.",(; lo 42 feel were loaded with a total of lit) cartridges.
Cordeau was placed iii all the holes before the cart ridges were dropped in. When the holes were loaded I he stemming was Shoveled in without tamping. The connected to a trunk
cordeau from each hole was
line of cordeau, the end of which was connected to an
electric cap. The loading, stemming and connecting the cordeau was all done in less than thirty minutes. Besides the officials and employees of the Mich igan Limestone & Chemical Company many outside visitors witnessed the blast, among whom were the following: Messrs. Mcllenry and Hatt of the E. I. DuI'i in I eN'euioitrs <fc Company; Messrs. Eels and Patnoe of the Dolomite Products
Company. Cleveland, Ohio,
and representatives of the Michigan Alkali Company of Alpena.
This blast was very successful, shattering the rock
oxygen explosive for quarry work of this nature. The material for these demonstrations was shipped here from the coal mine of the Enos Coal Mining Com pany near Oakland City. Indiana; the liquid oxygen
being shipped in vacuum containers holding 125 pounds each.
The cartridges consist of cotton bags 4% inches inches long, which are tilled wilh carbon and weighing 3.1 pounds each. The cartridges in
diameter by IS
are packed in soaking boxes especially constructed for this puriose and the liquid is poured in. After about thirty minutes the cartridges are fully soaked, the car bon readily absorbing the liquid oxygen, bringing the weight of each up to 12 pounds. The boxes containing the soaked
cartridges are hauled to the holes to he
shot.
Liq-'id Oxygen Explosive was lirst used in Germany and since the World War the Air Reduction and Inger-
soll-Ran I Companies carried on experimental which resulted in the building of a liquefaction which was purchased and installed by the Enos Mining Company owners and operators of a large
work plant Coal strip
thoroughly and preparing it in excellent shape for dig
coal mine in
Indiana where liquid oxygen explosive is used to blast a heavy overburden of limestone and sand
ging and loading.
stone
rock.
August
The Air Reduction and Ingersoll-Rand Companies
20th on the lower level. On account of the limited amount of liquid only four holes were shot. The depth
are now manufacturing plants for producing liquid ox ygen by the Claude process. These plants are installed
of the holes varied from 51 to 53 feet and a total num
at the mine or quarry and the explosive is made on the job. A substantial saving in cost is gained over the present cost of dynamite and many dangers in handl
The
second
demonstration
ber of Tii cartridges were loaded.
was
made
on
The shot was in one
of the most difficult locations in the bank to shoot.
HOwever, the rock was well broken and the blast dem onstrated very favorably the practicability of liquid
ing and loading are eliminated. R. D.. Jr.
The ia ken
accompanying on
photograph
was
the steamer T. W. Robinson
recently and shows Captain M. R. Mc Lean of that steamer with his parents.
Captain and Mrs. William McLean, Sr.. who enjoyed a very pleasant trip on the Robinson. This being the first pleas ure trip of the elder captain in bis ill years of sailing experience. He is now in his 79th year and was actively engaged at his life time work until Sep tember of last year.
The captain and Mrs. McLean, Sr.. make their homo in Grosse suburb of Detroit.
Point,
a
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HOW TO KEEP WELL Series
Life In stitute
By The
On
Containing Th e
Healthful Living And The Prevention Of Disease
HEART DISEASES Heart, disease today ranks first annum the fata! troubles. For the population as a whole it is more fa tal than tuberculosis, For people over fifty years of age it is many times as fatal as tuberculosis, sharing
ils unenviable position only with kidney troubles and cancer.
'I here is a reason for this.
health activities,
As a result of public
the life span has considerably in
ert ased during the last twenty years. The Outstand ing declines in death totals have occurred in such diseases as typhoid and malaria, where communiiies may virtually determine their death rates; in the di sc asos Of infants, which can be materially lessened by
sanitation and education; in diphtheria, for which a specific has been found and also a preventive vaccine: in tuberculosis, which has yielded to a strenuous ed ucational campaign. But the degenerative diseases, those thai attack us after middle life sets in. have been lessened little, if at all. Again there is a
Latest And The Most Scientific Information
ami himself.
Diseases of the heart are due to a variety of causes. Many of them are. however, the result of what is called focal infection, which means that '" some place, the root of a tooth, or a tonsil, there is ;i diseased condition which causes that place to be a focus from which infection is carried by the blood to other parts of the body. Sometimes the heart is af fected, sometimes it may be the kidneys, sometimes
the digestive organs, or perhaps the joints are the suf ferers.
To avoid heart disease it is most Important thai we guard against focal infection. For this reason peri odic examinations are recommended. The teeth should be examined to determine that they are not diseased and that there are no abscesses at the roots.
The tonsils should be examined to acertain whether I hey are or are not diseased. The teeth and the tonsils are the most frequent foci of infection, and that is why their importance is so emphasized in health talks.
A heart which has been weakened by focal Infec
reason for this difference. Com
for
tion should not be subjected to the strains that would
the success in combating the diseases I have noted; but only personal hygiene, individual care of the body mechanism can control the diseases of later life. It might fairly be assumed that by the time an
prove harmless to a normal heart. Among the things that strain the heart, three chief ones are these: ex
munity efforts and community education account
ercise, overeating, and anger or sudden emotion.
Intelligent person reaches the age of fifty, he will have
It is fortunately most easy to gauge exercise. If an exertion causes a person to get out of breath
learned the peculiarities of his own human machine.
quickly or causes the heart to palpitate more rapidly
Unfortunately,
than normal, the chances are the exercise is too stren
however,
quire ibis knowledge.
comparatively
few do ac
If they learn the lesson, all is
uous.
If a person gets out of breath more quickly than
apt to be well; if they do not learn it, they are most
formerly, be should consult a physician; it may he a
likely
feign of heart trouble.
lo
have some reminder that the fifty-year-old
machine is not the same bit of mechanism that it
in I he years long past.
Overhauling is necessary.
was
Readjustments are in order.
It is not easy to measure over-eating. People who habitually eat heavily find it difficult to cut down
Habits have to be changed.
their rations; yet a prime source of heart strain is in
An attack of heart disease or kidney trouble or some disturbance of digestion will remind the middleaged that things are not what they used to be; that the strenuous exercises of youth are not helpful to older people; that strains must be avoided, and that
digestion that comes from taxing tin- stomach and di
the digestive system may not be treated as something
heart disease too often reveal an over-loaded stomach As people grow older, whether they have heart trouble
thai should perform miracles.
In most instances a person in fair health will get.
gestive organs with more food than they can properly take care of. Over-eating is directly responsible for the fatal ending of many cases of heart disease.
Post
mortem examinations of persons who have died from
or not. they should learn what to eat and bow much to
over the first attack and receive a second chance. That
eat.
is, he will gel over the first attack and be comparative
doubly necessary. The determination of diet, quantity or quality, is largely an individual matter; General
ly little I be worse for the experience, provided he takes the warning and revises his mode of living. If ilm warning be allowed to pass unheeded, there is apt 10 be a second attack- and there may be a second (banco to use good judgment. The fact that a man has heart disease or kidney disease should not. as a general
thing, cause him to worry greatly.
Indeed, it has of-
n n been said that if a person wishes to live long he should get some chronic ailment and take care of it
When
heart
trouble
exists,
this
knowledge
is
rules only can be given. The individual must use his own Intelligence if he would find out what best suits him; but medical advice will help greatly in reaching a
determination.
Depending upon temperament it is easy or difficult to govern the third causeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;anger or sudden
emotion.
Violent outbursts of temper are extremely dangerous in heart troubles. As a matter of fact, when a person
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I'lrml Picnic Number readies middle life be should begin to take things more
Mr. H. C. Russel of the Carnegie Steel Company's
philosophically and should not allow liimsei to bfl sub
Pittshurg office spent several days visiting our Plant
ject to tits of aimer or any other sudden mental strain. For a person haying a heart trouble this care Is essen
tin- first of this month.
tial.
Mrs. Herman Wagner, wife of Herman Wagner oi ihe Electrical department, was taken to the McRae hos pital at Alpena recently where she Underwent an opera tion for appendicitis, Latest reports are lhai the Op:
The
bil Ileal
threescore and
ten
was
not
set
as
the limit of a long life, but as the reasonable expect
ancy of man.
If that was true in ancienl days when
medical science was in its veriest infancy, surely sev
eraiion was a success and .Mrs. Wagner is doing nicely.
enty years is too early to die in our limes, when we lake iulo consideration the discoveries of modern sci
ence.
However, public health officers can do little to
help people over fitly.
Such .are mnsl he left lo the
Mr. John G. Munson returned recently
from
De
troit where he underwent an operation for the removal of his tonsils.
We r.ndersiand the operation was a suc
cess and while he still feels the effects of if. he is able
individual.
to be around,
BIRTHS During the pasi month the stork visited at tin- homes of Ihe follow
ing employees and left baby girls: W. p. Mundt. Dock Office, Mike Varch of the Mill Dept. and Robert Hoffman of the Construction Dept, and a baby boy delivered to the
home of James Sicinskl of the Transportation Dept. (Laffin shift i.
We hope he will soon be able to enjoy
his usual rugged health again. One of ihe main features of the Picnic on Labor
Day was ihe splendid work done by the Rogers City
Community Band, most of the members of which are These boys outdid themselves
employed ai our Plant.
in keeping things livened up and many comments were heard on their fine music.
They are deserving of much
credit and we wish to assure them that their services were very much appreciated.
"Calcite- Screenings" joins in extending congratu
Martin Dirk, third assistant engineer of the steam
lations lo the above parents.
er T. W. Robinson and Ike Ranke oiler of the si earner
Carl C. Bradley, were among the several new members
MARRIAGES
appearing with the Rogers City Community Band <>u
During ihe past month wedding
Labor Day.
Both of these gentlemen are accomplish
bells rang for the following Plant
ed musicians, Birk as a cornetist and Ike as saxophon
Employees:
ist, and aided materially in helping the Band make a such a splendid showing on that day. Arrangements for these men to help the Band at the Picnic wen- made through the courtesy of chief Harry Moore.
Alva
Meyers of
the
Drilling Dept.; Henry Kornbacher of the Detroit
Dock, and Sianley
Haske of the Mill Dept Calcite
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joins
with
the many friends of the above in wishing them much happiness and' joy.
PLANT PERSONALS ('. W. Richards, our Detroit Dock Agent, together With Mrs. Richards, motored up from Detroit and took in the Plant Picnic on Labor Day. We understand quite a number of the Construction
department crew working on tile breakwater jolt, have been doing some fancy diving off the cribs. Too bad the photographer couldn't be tipped off when these stunts are pulled.
We regret very much that Ceorge V. Burks, in charge of Drilling and Blasting, is confined at Mercy
Hospital in Pay City.
While his condition is not deem
ed serous, Latest reports indicate that it will be neces sary for him to remain there for several weeks.
Lucas l.ee. of the engineering department, return
ed recently from the upper peninsula after spending several days in the vicinity of Grand Marais fishing in company with bis brother-in-law and their wives. The
DELIVERING
THE
GOODS
From the above photograph is Quite apparent ihai Edward Buza and Fred Dagner of the Transportation Department (Kelley's shiftl did deliver the goods when they retained from' a recent trout fishing expedition. Although we were not Informed as to the actual size of the trout, judging from t'e.e picture it would
men bad excellent luck and returned with a fine string
aei in thai 'hey are all well above ihe average, it's a line catch boys, anil we lhank yon for remembering us
oi speckled trout.
with the picture.
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Local Wrestler Gains Enviable Reputation Practically all of our employees are acquainted with Eugene King, operator of number five shovel (Keltey'S shift) who has gained a remarkable reputation for himself as a
Gene, as
wrestler.
he
is
commonly
known
friends, says be became interested
in
by
bis
athletics
especially wrestling, when he was still a
many and
boy and re
ceived his first real training in the gymnasium of the Vernon Mining Comp any of Iron River, Michigan, town,
first er,
bis
Gene was to stay with the strong man ten minutes and thereby win fifty dollars. He used the first five in trying out his opponent, in two minutes more had flopped him on his back and he sat on him the last three minutes just to round out the ten minute period. Upon his return to work that evening, he received
a telephone call to come down and try it
all
home
where
he
was
employed. while
in the bald-beaded row ready lo accept the challenge
when it was offered again,
over.
Nothing
loathe, he went back
to face young
Lat
working in
ensmith,
Hack-
light
heavy
P< ntiac. Michigan, he
weight
received
the world, as the cir
training
der expert ion and
un
supervis
was
cus
taught
champion
man
was
utes
this
the game.
clamp
a
Being and
possessed
fine
his
on
physique
keen
close
showman
all
with
this line of sport and
pocketed
took advantage of ev
fifty
ery
opportunity
to
Nelson and
through.
A large crowd had gathered and enjoyed In immensely. Gene
interest
touch
the
time
half
he was
for the game he kept in
called.
It took just nine min
many of the tricks of
with a
of
his
bucks,
second returned
to
home and worked the
barn the science of it
rest of the night shift
as well as keep him
apparently
self
worse for his encoun
in
fine
condition
physical
of
He has had several
the
bouts
here
this
best wrestlers In this
mer that
Stale
little attention.
if
section
not
in
this
of the
first when
coun
try.
Gone
has
himself the tic
this
proved
summer
caused
pn
sum no
The
June 11th Rex
be
met
Smith, who claimed to
be the champion of ant? f i o in
terror of
side show
the
ter.
with the re
sult that today he is perhaps one
none
artists
Canada,
having
whom he took the best
carnival
two out of three falls
wrestler at Cheboy gan an I only recently
in eighteen and twen
the strong man of the
spectively.
defeated
a
ty-four
Gentry
Brothers
Cir
22nd
cus
Alpena.
The
Tony
at
minutes he
re
On .July won
from
Bernard!, who
latter event is rather amusing and one that. Gone likes
bailed from St. Louis and who claimed to have held the
to tell about.
Italian heavyweight championship for six years. Gene says Bernardi was Ihe hardest man he has met for
It happened that several of the boys from the Plant, attended the circus at Alpena and saw the fam
some time and the bout was a real tussel from start to
ous strong man strut up and down with bis chest out, bellowing out his challenge to the audience "fifty bucks
finish.
to the man who can stay with me in the ring for ten minutes.
Word was immediately sent to Gene and be
fore the Concert was over later in the afternoon, he was
His latest appearance was at the Picnic when
lie again won from Rex Smith in 20 minutes, 28 seconds. Gene has made a host of friends since coming to
our Plant some eight years ago and his wrestling bouts here never fail to draw a
large attendance:
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Speaking further of the Tuu-of War. il may be pOSSible to discard several sets of chain falls at the Plain and call these two teams the "Bell Splicers." Hill Raker, end man for Adolph Sorgenfrei's team, dug himseli Into the sand so far that be got his feel
wet.
No complaints were raised, but next time these fellows
wi.ii Mm line experience mi .hi lie ruled out of ihe con n-si.
Roy Laffin and Billy Heller did some hustling dur
ing the aihleti • contests. Mter the tug of war they had to change their race track to the oilier side of the heacll in order lo fiio! some level ground.
Mundt's AH-Stars Bill
Warwick,
pitcher;
Earl Dfteltgen. first; Mnndt,
short;
Halltghan,
catcher;
Charlie Griwatch. second; Bob
Howard
mond, left field;
Guy
Warwick,
third;
Chum
Penny lloefl, center field:
Willi all the pretty «irls in the information boih. Ihe crowd made an awful rush for I heir tickets.
Ray-
Ivan l.ee.
righl Hi hi: George Sobefc sub. The Lost and Pound department
busy.
was
uol
very
After all the exciienieni cleared away, a lady's
fra.1 was found in the pavilion.
It is a fall hat of a red
dish color with an artificial flower on one side and is
being held at the Main Office for the owner. Alt' Boehuier trotted up to ihe stage aboui three o'clock wilh a baby in
his arms and claimed
found.
He bad the "provements" right with him.
fil
- shoe thai
had been
II
the baby fine.
Didja
notice
how
puffed
Clarence Osborn
was?
ib- sp.-nt mosi (.f ihe afternoon blowing up balloons I'm ib'' kiddies.
The Funny Bc:ies—Robertio, Hilary and Jimmie An added attraction a1 the ball game in me morn
ing it.;:' d 'i Ite a little Ittteresi and it was agreed thai the same event would be staged in the afternoon b.ii ill re were no boxing gloves to lie found in town.
ReinL:c:s iio.sJi>a?l Giants
Bergie J'lutz. ritoh. r; (»ssie Voight, caicher; Les lor Raymond, first; Sttth Moh1 On, .-<••
ml; Carl Starr.
John Modrynski and Happy H&pp did the fiddlin" for the old time dames and their music with the help
of Pells Kunia (clarinet) ami Dan Beeha (accordion) WRS so entrancing that even Hilary O'To.le could not nsis! doing a step dance an 1 when joined by Clarence
short:; Dannie Rose, third; iiarry Meharg, '-",'i field; Frank Revoke, center field; Alfred Reiser, right field; I et r Kelley ami Charles Plaix.. umyires. HM. Green,
Os'-OTO ii I rought down the house or at least the raft• is beg in in shake. If we could have only had this in
s lb.
the im.vie reel.
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Calcite Screening's SAFETY MEETINGS OF THE FLEET
and personal injury. 2
Steamer W. F. White
Now that the tarpaulins are in use again extra
ordinary care should be taken when putting them on
Meeting held on September 1st. at 12:30 p. m. Walter Callum,
with the following members present:
chairman; John J. McKenna, secretary; Arthur Gra ham, Burt Moniger, Donald McKenzie and Leon DePadre. Captain Dahlburg and chief engineer Thomas Suttie and First Mate Beck were also In attendance. Both tho Captain and Chief complimented the Committee on the fine work that is being done in Safe
near an open hatch.
All men should be especially
cautioned not to jerk tarpaulins when same get caught as they may become loose suddenly and cause men to fall
into hatch.
3
When swinging
boom,
men
working
near
cables that cross dock should be notified as cable mov
ing across the deck may strike them and cause Injury. •1
Watchmen
were
again
cautioned
that
when
ty on both ends of the ship so far this season and with
boat was in such a
a short instructive talk, asked the Committee to work still harder In order that this boat might come through the entire season with a clean sheet as regards lost time accidents. First Mate Beck also complimented the crow in general on the way that the Safety work was being put across and warned them to be more
sot firmly on the dock, that they pull the ladder high
position that ladder could not
enough up off dock so men on dock cannot use it
be to
come aboard.
Suggestions from the last issue of Calcite Screen ings and the Lake Carriers Bulletin were read and dis
when tarpaulins were put on to do the work as well
cussed and all members agreed to do everything in their power to make September another No-Accident month on this ship. No further business appearing the
as possible in order that they would serve their purpose
meeting was closed.
careful now that the fall weather was coming on, also
If needed.
GILBERT KEMP, chairman.
The following suggestions were made: 1—Warn the watchmen and deck watch that when
warming up winches to see that the lever is in reverse, in order that if the steam does turn the engine over the end of the cable on the drum will not fly over and strike the operator.
2—Warn deckhands that when taking off hatches.
they be extremely careful and the man giving signals Should see that everyone Is clear of cable. 3—While laying in Buffalo Creek unloading re
cently. It was noticed that a boat, going up the creek was taking oft' hatches without a light.
This was re
ported to the chairman by two non-committee men. This is the spirit of the steamer White. 4—Railings, walks, and boom cables were Inspect ed and found in A-l condition.
5—We notice while loading at Calcite. especially en the Fines side, that visitors and sightseers have no
regard for the danger that they put themselves in by standing near mooring cables or sitting under them. Accidents have been prevented only by the men on
board wa.^ug them. We would suggest signs. We also noticed that the tug men going Into Cal
cite are endangered by hot water and steam flying out from steamers loading. We would suggest that our boats be provided with a small
of boater line exhaust
guard similar to the guards now installed on many of the ore carriers entering Calcite. Meeting adjourned.
Steamer Calcite Meoting held on August 22nd at eight o'clock p. m. with the following members present: A. Howey, (hair-
man; W. MacDonald, secretary. D, MacLeod, G. Hoverstock, Emery Derby and Robert Oliver. The
Committee
looked
over
found all to be in good condition.
the
hand
rails
A ladder has 1
and
n
Installed in the forward cargo hold so the deck hanAs can now come up where they finish their work and do not have to walk to the after end of the hold as was
necessary heretofore.
Captain Martin and Chief Urdal gave interesting talks and cautioned the crew In regard to warning the new members about the dangers of carelessness about ship. Also that as the fall weather approaches and the decks are wet and slippery, everyone should be excep tionally careful when performing their duties. Some members of our crew were noticed jumping from the boat to the dock when boat Is nearly loaded and down nearly even with the side of the dock. The Committee considers this a very dangerous practice and should lie stopped.
Every member of the committee resolved to do all in their power to keep the name of this ship on the No Accident Honor Roll the remainder of the year. No further business appearing the meeting was closed at 8:30 p. m. Regretting today over lost opportunities insures
Steamer T. W. Robinson The regular monthly meeting of the Safety Com mittee of the steamer Robinson was held on August
that tomorrow you will still have lost opportunities to regret.
31st at seven o'clock p. m. with all members present. The minutes of the last meeting were read and discussed after which the following suggestions were made:
1
All
men
should
be
cautioned
not
to
smoke
when working in paint locker or using kerosene as may cause fire
these materials are inflammable and
Steamer B. H. Taylor Meeting held on August 28th at 0:35 p. m. with
the following members present: Leo Moll, chairman; Stanley Dauscher, secretary; Alex. Feldman, Niels An derson, William Schwartz and Harry Whitehead. Capt. F. F. Pearse and chief Guy LaBounty were also present.
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Several of the former suggestions of the earlier
The ship's sides should be cleared of everything
part of the season were gone over and discussions were
thai might fall when tho Ship is in a seaway. Or if il is necessary to stow some of Ihe things on the
made as we have a
few new members in the different
departments since that time, furthermore, it is nearly the same routine that, we have to go through and it is
a good idea lo keep after I he
men
and
warn
side shelf pieces, they should place.
them
against the dangerous conditions that they are up against in performing their respective duties aboard
engine room hut so far everything has been going O. K.
forward with the exception of one seaman who cut him self while shaving but who didn't use a "Safety" razor. 1.
Following suggestions were made at this meeting: Seamen should not go into cargo hold on clean
up with boots on as they are apt to slip while going
up the sides of the ship.
Also to keep clear of bights
in tow-line while paying out line to tug.
2. Coal-passers should not throw water on ashes until told to do so by firemen. Oilers and watchmen
firmly
into
No further business appearing the meeting was
GENERAL SAFETY MEETING
that we are listed as having two
lost time accidents which occurred in the firehole and
lashed
adjourned.
ship. We are sorry
be
Steamer Carl D. Bradley August 12th. 11)27 Those present were Capt. Win. J. MacLean; Chief Engineer H. B. Moore; Chairman Francis Bacon; Sec. Geo. Hoy; Bos'n John McGee; Frank Troxel, Arthur Lamb. Willard Fox and John Coleman.
The meeting was called tp order by ('apt. Win. J. MacLean al 6:45 p. m. The minutes of these Safely Meetings are printed monthly in the "Calcite Seret sings." This is our own magazine and all members of ihe steamboats crews ami different departments at the plant lake a personal in
should replace burned out lights whenever ibis occurs
terest in
as they were put there and are needed for lighting
Assn. to take notice- of our magazine. Captain Mail.can gave a talk on General Safety .Methods aboard ship QSpecilly while loading or unload
purposes.
Meeting adjourned at 7:45 p. m.
its publication.
Wo ask I he Lake Carriers'
ing cargo.
Steamer John G. Munson Meeting held on August 10th with the following
members present: Clarence Thorsen. chairman; Melvln Keyes. secretary; H. K. Pearsen. Oscar rToch, Clarence Hoy. George Laughrey. Captain McQuinn and Chief J. Anderson.
The meeting was opened by the chairman ui eighl He suggested that every member of this
o'clock p. in.
Committee and the crew should read the safety meet
ing reports of the different steamers as published in Owing to the fact i hat the work on each conveyor boat is about tin- same,
Chief Moore warned us all in regards to the num
erous high tension wires aboard this ship. These wires are all properly insulated and are as safe as modern i ngineers can make them, but there is always Bome danger. He also warned us to let no one except those familiar with the switches operate any of the machin ery. The sign "Danger, Keep Out" is to be painted on tho doors or the Battery Room and the Has Engine Rot m. There are fumes coming from the batteries and
gas engines that are explosive and it is unecessary for
"Calcite Screenings" each month.
anyone to enter these rooms.
most of the suggestions made by the different safety
A great, many of the younger men being quite active and some of ihe beginners who are sailing on their first boat, like to descend the ladder to ihe dock
committices can be used to good advantage on any of
the ships. The medicine and supplies contained in the first-aid
cabinets should be checked over frequently to insure carrying a full stock at all times. Many slight injuries have turned out to be real serious for want of proper first aid treatment at the time the injury occurred. Sepembor and the beginning of the fall season being near, means the beginning of the use of tarpaulins. A suggestion was made that the men be instructed to put
them on properly taking care that the ends are tucked in. the clamps in place ami fastened tmhlly and to al ways watch for small tears so that they may be mended before they beeomo large enough to be dangerous. The port-hole glasses should be examined and the clamps to the port-hole dead lights, ash-gun covers,
gangways, etc.. pn1 in good working order that they may be put in place quickly and easily.
Another fall suggestion was to examine the rolling
in an upri-.ht position. Therefore they go down the ladder facing the dock and if anything did harpen their hands would not be much use to them, a many times
before it has Icon said "this i-; a very rfSngerous prac tice."
A
man
descending a
ladder should
face
the
holder and make use of his hands as well as feel
Mention was made of the danger in shifting the boat while the gang plank is ous.
Due e asideraiion
should be given ibis both by the Mates and Engineers Dept. and then there should be no danger. Goggles have been supplied for use in unloading at BufflngtOD where there is considerable c nient dust in the air at times and they have been found to be very practical.
it was also suggested that in opening dead lights where two chains hold them open, be sure to use both
chains.
And then there is less danger in skulls or
fingers being cracked from the lights falling.
hooks on the furnace fire doors in order that each door
All members of the committee were told to warn
can be hooked back in place thereby lessening the danger to the firemen from burning theirs arms on the
the other members of the crew whenever they are seen
hot doors when stoking fires.
to carry out their duties in an unsafe manner.
The meeting was brought to a close at 7:85 p. m.
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Calcite Screening's Carl Starr of the Electric il dept proved himself to be u star at the ball game in the morning. Carl pounced on one of Bill Warwicks fast ones and drove ii .bar out in the middle of Third street for a home r-u in the sixth inning. "Gee." Carl said, "it felt goi d when 1 hit that hall." ihro is a good one—THE CKIAR SMOKING CON TEST was omitted from the pro ram and the reason for
of ihe ladies h oking for a place for her baby n> take a nap, decided to use the hack seat of the car.
Thi^-
\.. s all very | ood and no doubt the baby enjoyed a nice
sleep while it lasted, but it appears Fred had to use hi-
car before said nap was completed ami not being able to find Hie Mother. Fred being a good baby tender any way, jusl started out with baby and all. Naturally there was considerable excitement
when
the
mother
It. was reported thai a
returned for her baby and was unable to find it or the car. To make a long story short Fred was abb- to re
dozen cigars were loaded and the Safety Director, in
turn the baby to its Mother before the sheriff was call-
it
was jusl discovered today.
whose charge the cigars were i laced, could not preach Safety Without practicing it. so be conveniently forgoi lo lake Ihe cigars to the park. —
e 1 and explained for its necessitated absence.
They
aay Fred and Ihe baby go! along jusl fine together durIng Ihe ride.
submitted bv R. B. H.
As an announcer, Henley was there with bells on. Of course ihe PI K-ICATING CONTEST for the boys
was just what pie-eating contests always are—a lot of
tun.
W'
wish we could pm their pictnre right here,
If he only had a voice like Frank Richards, amplifiers would have been unnecessary. Frank did the ah.nouh.CIng for ihe wrestling match.
but not having it. nor the space to tell you. we will jus! lol you imagine how a dozen youngsters looked after
devouring a blue-berry pie with their hands tied be hind them.
The
HWSBAND
CALLING
CONTEST
created
Quite a little Comment before the picnic, because of the lad
thai
'heir were
i f entertainment.
no rules out
tor ibis
new
form
So all may be informed, ibis consist*
The Committee has not decided just yet what might have happened if ii had rained on Labor Day. lint some
crowd
of the more serious minded are giving this subject deep
usually uses when she wants him to gel up in ihe morn-
thought, ii •.
in all probability it wo. Id have been a calam-
as facilities for indoor entertainment
were
very
l d of a married lady Standing up in plain view of a large and
calling
her
husband
in
in• • or when he is late for dinner.
Hie
manner
Of course, all calls
are censored before they are broadcast.
seal ce and although the Picnic News stated that if it rail's, do as they do in Texas—Let It Rain—thai remark mi lit
not have been taken so lightly had old Jupiter
PI 'vious i o::red forth his wrath.
A Word Of Appreciation What wonderful pep and enthusiasm can be inject ed into a Safety Picnic without the use of any preV lsn ad encouragement. There were no ml s or reg
ulations en this subject issued ai ail.
It j st seemed
natuial for everybody to he tlnmselves and rood
have
a
time.
The water was too rough to start the LOG ROLL ING CONTEST, even though we had several old rivermi':! wiih is and to lei you in on another secret, we
want to admit that we were no: nearly so much Inter ested in tho contest coming of,' as we were in sedim
some (f the boys ducked. After thinking these things ovi r. we arc Wondering if it is nee. ssary to Import any act: re for our future picnic:-. Occasionally we need to do some construction work in a 1 i •: hurry, and therefore, w-a have furnished
The employees of this company de sire tu take litis opportunity of ex pressing their sincere thanks and ap preciation to the management for the splendid picnic held on Labor Day, al so to the committeemen and all those
who worked so earnestly in planning tlie program of entertainment and carrying it out so effectively. (Signed) Fred LaLonde,
Joseph Penglase, J 111 ills /.eni|iel. Committee Representing Employees.
I rank MacAith r with a list of the names of the wom en who entered the nail driving contest, ami ai-
tli • 'gll Pile Monroe stuck aroir.id with a first-aid kit. his services were not found necessary after this (tontest.
They were experts.
Editor's Note—The management appreciates
ibis expression
of
the
Employees
I banks Ihem for their past
uid
good will and
hopes fir their continued co-operation and We understand that Fred LaLondo, who acted as
taxi driver for the entertainers, came near being ac cused of kidnapping. It happened Cat Frod's car was
parked near the pavilion during the afternoon and one
interest.
sin
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With the Boats of the Bradley Transportation Company
Captain McLean says in bis opinion the new Steamer Carl I). Bradley is just about the last word in ship building, and the finest steamer on fresh water
BOAT ACCIDENT RECORD No. Accidents
Name of steamer CARL
I).
this year
BRADLEY
•
B.
II.
TAYLOR
-
JOHN (!. MCNSON \V.
F.
WHITK
CALCITE
-
2
-
2
-
-
in every respect.
0
T. W. ROBINSON
2
-
. . .
STEAMER W. F. WHITE
George Beck, Reporter
II
Since ihe last issue of Calcite Screenings, we had
||
Ihe misfortune of losing our steward. Mr. Welch. TOTAL
-
-
We
hope thai the operation Mr. Welch anticipates having
6
The above list represents the number of losi time
pel formed will be a success.
accidents that have occurred on the different steamers
lo September first (if the operating season this year. We regret that one lost
time
steamer Munson prevented the
on
the
Fleet from going
accident
thru
the month of August with a clean slate, however, we
a| predate the splendid interest that is being taken by all members of ihe different crews in the promotion of Safely and
Accident Prevention. We sincerely hops I ha! ibis fine spirit of co-operation will continue to exjsi and that every member of every crew will be con
stantly On the alert to prevent accidents either to him self or his fellow
Mrs. Dahlburg and son Russe! have returned to their home in Lakewood. Ohio, after spending several pleasant trips aboard the steamer White.
Chief engineer Thomas Suttle maintains thai there is an organized band of crooks aboard the Calcite.
Ever since that passenger read Kenn Falor's palm he hasn'i been the same. Did our celebrated radio op erator have on his vacation with an eternal triangle 1(1 Solve'.1
workmen.
Now thai the fall weather is here and with it the
increased hazards due to heavy seas and slippery decks, il is necessary for every member to be exceptionally
careful in performing their respective duties in a safe manner.
The new steamer L. E. Block, latest addition to
Inland Steamship Company's fleet, loaded L5,G22 gross tons of flux at Calcite on August 2Slh for Indiana Har bor. Incidentty this is the largest single cargo of stone every carried out of this port and the largest cargo eve,- carried on
BOAT PERSONALS
the Lakes.
The Block was buill al
Lorain this year by the American Ship Building Com
STEAMER CARL D. BRADLEY
pany and is G20 feet long and having a beam of <;.| feci.
Isaac Ranke. Reporter
Although noi q-:ite as large as Hie steamer Brailh-y, She has slightly more cargo capacity due lo ihe fad that she is noi equipped with self-unloading machinery. Her draft on the above cargo was 2\ feet, In inches.
The running time of the Bradley on her nip i , Bnffington and return on August 21st. was 63 hours and •i minutes with a load of 15,2(17 tons. Not so bad. eh?
forward and 22 feet aft.
Overheard in the galley: Waiter—"What kind of pie will we have today?"
Steward "Lei's make jam pie -two crusts jam med together." Louie 1'eh rson. our second cook, was locked
in
Ihe ice box With some chicken ihe other day. Naughly: Naughty!
First deck-hand—"Lei', over by an auto and died."
the
undertaker was run
Si com! deck-hand—"He didn't make much on that funeral,
did
he?"
Firsl deck-hand—"No. in fact he weni in the hole,"
In an effort to obtain more personal news Items from tile different steamers, letters have been sonl oui lo the masters of the boats of our fleei asking them to appoint some one member of their crew as a report er for this magazine. To date two such appoinfmenls have been made, viz: Isaac Ranke of the sleanier Carl I). Bradley and George Beck of the steamer W. P. White. We appreciate very much the news Items that
these two gentlemen have sein Us and we hope thai all the boats will have a reporter before our next Issue goes to prosS.
Let's have a real personal news column
for the Boa's-and make Calcite Screenings more Interesling lo all employe,.a.
HnrETa-ET m
ETEr.ETlErErB€io\ErErE^
|
i 77>e Friendly Hand When a man ain't got a cent, an' he's feelin' kind o' blue,
An' the clouds hang dark and heavy, an' won't let the sunshine through,
It's a great thing, O my brethren, for a feller just to lay
His hand upon your shoulder in a friendly sort o' way.
It makes a man feel curious, it makes the teardrops start,
An' you sort o' feel a flutter in the region of the heart;
You cant look up and meet his eyes; you don't know what to say
Lp
I
When his hand is on your shoulder in a friendly sort o' way.
Oh, the world's a curious compond, with its honey and its gall
I
With its cares and bftter crosses, but a good world after ali.
An' a good God must have made it—leastways, that
1 In in
is what I say,
When a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort o' way. - James Whitcomb Riley.
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Next to Preventing Accidents
Every Employee i R
• Should prevent infection when injured by getting prompt
First Aid Treatment.
BU
Cabinets containing First
Aid Supplies are placed in all parts of the Plant for your protection.
If You Receive An Injury
i
No matter how slight it may seem, Play Safe, by getting
1E
First Aid Treatment Immediately.
Then tell
your foreman about it.
.s
Dont Forget — .4 &/>c/; In Time Saves Nine
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No Accident Honor Roll
$ 1
Department TRACKS
N. W. Pollock
TRANSPORTATION
T. L. Kelley
TRANSPORTATION
J. L. Laffin
SHOVELS
J. L. Laffin
DRILLS
Walter Meyers
DRILLS
Thomas Kelley
BLASTING CREWS
G. V. Burks
ELECTRICAL CREWS
Harry U. Ware
CARPENTER SHOP
F. W. MacArthur
YARD-MACHINERY
Julius Zemple
TUGS
Capt. Walter Pepler
m
m
Foreman or Captain
Chief Frank Lamp STR. CARL D. BRADLEY
a
Capt. William MacLean Chief H. B. Moore
STR. W. F. WHITE
Capt. Theo. Dahlburg Chief Thomas Suttle
STR. CALCITE
Capt. Clayton Martin Chief Arthur Urdal
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Calcite Screening's
CALCITE
SCREENINGS
Published monthly for the employes of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company.
Honors City,
Michigan, in the interest of Safety and Welfare.
The columns of "Calcite Screenings" are open to receive items of plant news, photographs, cartoons, safety suggestions and other ileitis of general plant interest. Contributions will be welcomed from all employes. All such contributions should be received before the first of each month and should bear the name of the department and the sender and should be addressed to the editor.
(). !窶｢. LLKPLLMA.Y. bditor EDITORIALS OUR FIRST BIRTHDAY
The month of October brings us to the first
milestone in out progress as a publication.
It
was in October of last year that "Calcite Screen
ings" first started on its journey as a messenger to foster good will and mutual understanding-, devoting ils columns to safety and items of gen era! plant interest.
During the space of one short year our pub lication has made a remarkable growth and many changes have been made for its betterment. The
first issue was just a small four-page edition de voted almost entirely to safety.
From this be
ginning and on to its present size, the growth and continued improvement of our magazine ''as only been made possible through the endeav or to have- it serve its purpose and the splendid
CO-operation and encouragement given by both the management and the employees. We wish to take this opportunity of extend ing our personal feelings of indebtedness and
gratefulness to all our good friends for the loy al support given us in this undertaking and ask
prospects in life will increase as you develop your capacity for constructive thought. And the more you think the more need you will see for leadership, the more opportunity you will find to lead.
True, Napoleon landed at St. Helena, ami Lincoln met death at the hands of a maniac, but
while they lived, they lived. Leadership carries with it responsibility and danger, but also great er remuneration and greater enjoyment of life. Men of courage have ever lead the world to victory: their own personal success is grounded
in courage. It requires courage at times for a man or woman to stand for the things that are right; but the world never turns its b.v k on tin man of courage. You can be pretty sure that the man who talks a lot don't do very much, and by the same token, the man who don't talk very much usual ly has the thing done by the time the other men are finished talking.
lor your indulgence and continued co-operation
and to assure you that the same is very much appreciated indeed. LEADERS
It has been said that leaders are born, not
LET'S SMILE
A smile costs nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive it. without making poorer those who give.
It takes but a moment,
but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
made, and yet -Roosevelt was considered a phv- Xone is so rich or so mighty that he can get sical weakling: Lincoln was laughed at as *a
country lawyer; Demosthenes stuttered.
Habits make followers of many of us: we
along without it and none so poor that he can
not be made rich by it. A smile creates happi ness in the home, fosters good will in business,
wait for someone to lead. Had we taken the initiative ourselves, we would have had to as
and is the countersign of friendship.
sume responsibility
for tin- outcome, and we
shine to the sad. and is Nature's best antidote
The way to learn to >wim is to jump in: the way to learn to lead is to lead. For every lead
borrowed or stolen, for it is something that is
er there are a thousand sheep to follow窶馬o won der mutton is so cheap. The fact that so few
Some people are too tired to give you a smile.
are willing to assume the responsibility for lead
so much as he who has no more to give.
shrink at that.
ing make-, it certain that the man who leads
Stands out. attracts attention, and. if his leading ^
successful, wins promotion.
It brings
rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sun
for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, ol no value to anyone until it is given awav. Live them one of yours, as none needs a smile - -Anon.
It is discouraging when the best years of
As a forerunner for leadership, thought is one's life have been spent in the .accumulation of essential, but thinking hurts no man. Your fob riches to find out that money is sometimes only will be done better if you give it thought: your another kind of trouble after all.
('alcite Screenings
aye I-oil I
Right—First locomotive arriving at
Calcite
Engine
in
No.
summer of
28—Latest
1911.
addition
to transportation department. Lower left—A big train in 1914.
with Chas. (Porky) Thompson en gineer and Victor Koch brakeman.
Wc have decided to call this ; sue (d "Cal
cite Screenings'* the Transportation dumber and in the following article will endeavor to giv< the history of this department and the develop ment of it to meet the d< mand of tli creasing size "\ our Ouarry.
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Since the publication of our Boa1 Xumi August, we have deckled to devote each pill tion of our magazine to detail write-up in story form of some particular department or
our industry. We will endeavor to slow the comparison of the equipment oi these depart ments in the earlier days with thai of todayt in order to show the continual developmenl to meet
the increasing demand for our LimestO] Our first thought in writing ibis Story was
to include the entire (juarry department but as this would include drilling, excavation, tracks
and transportation, space would not allow •To sufficientlv into detail in ail A one of them.
fore, we have decKfed >" <livide it into two
rate groups taking the transportation and : i this number and the drilling and exca-
va.ioii in a (Mtarry Number for our next issue. I be first two locomotives to arrive on the scene were numbers one and two. These were
17 toil -addle tank open back type built by the American Locomotive Company and delivered here in the earl) summer of 1911 shortly after small Vulcan steam shovel started to
make its first cut in the quarry bank.
This was
at lie time that the Detroit & Mackinaw Kail-
. ad was building its railroad into Calcite. and this was about the first equipment to come over tills Flew railroad. As the insert in the above
picture indicates, these lOcOmotWeS had to be drawn by a team of horses on a temporary track from what was Chen known as Crawford's Quar:\ small settlement where tin- Ii^iim^ at Cal
cite are riO'W. located) which was the termination of the I) & M railroad at that time, to
a point where the Quarry operations were started, which was just back of llie old main office.
Later in that
year the numbers
three, four and five were added. Thes/r"s locomotives were of the same type a.-, the first two but sbginly heavier. These locomotives together with about
25 .-mail Kttssel hand dump Id yard
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Live
_ rs were used entirely on quarry de velopment and construction work such as making the fill for the first trestle
approach during the remainder of the year 1911 and for the first six months of l<;]_>.
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HSfe^^^fc^Ln
~^vfl jjBmm^hb -
Operations were first begun at our plant in the month of June in 1912. At
3£JOtS&£^2$fe
^ ^ ^ ^ - .'•'
that time two shovels were in opera
•_ •
•
tion and four locomotives, each loco motive hauling tS small Russel hand duni]) cars. Two trains served each
shovel and the operation was carried
Locomotives Ready For Operation—Spring 1919
on mi two shifts the same as it is to-
day. that is each shift working ten hours and changing about every two weeks. Trains were
There was only one circle of tracks at that time and the target house was nothing more than a
backed into both sides of the Crusher House al-
switch shanty perhaps similar to those in use
lernately in a sort of jack-knife fashion.
The
today at the different circles.
Block lights were
following year four shovels were in operation
brought into use ami the switch at tins target
and these were served by six locomotives. The record production on one shift for this year was 445 cars and caused equally as much excitement
house was operated by a large lever located in the house. In this year the system of coaling shovels by locomotive and flat car loaded with
and friendly rivalry between the two shifts as
coal sacks was first started.
did the recent record of 1850 cars.
time a horse ami wagon was used for this pur
It was not until 1914 that the circle system ol transportation was installed allowing trains
Previous to this
pose.
This method elimin-
The tracks in those earlier days were prac tically all constructed of f>0 pound rail and the only ballast used for several years was the small-
'ed considerable switching and made for quick— dispatch of trains. This method also brought
er stone in the quarry by which the tracks were blocked up. Practically all this work was done
about the introduction of the first target house.
bv a small crew of Italians.
to enter at one side of the Crusher House ami
leave on the opposite side.
Track Crew— Insert, N. W. Pollock, Foreman
Wrecks and derail-
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I'age Six
air fi rr these ed
first fnxrns
b\
:
small car d couioii',
. h< • •
- .'
did not prove \
tuenls were a more or less common occurrence
were numerous.
The model 37 shovel used as a
grader for track work and purchased in 1923 has been a tremendous help in eliminating the hand work in this department as has also the spread
on
a
ment
. > •:;•
and
so.,n all' . ii '•' hi air compressors w ere installed on loci i \ es hauling Ehe '• '•• • jince this time all
First Train of 20 Yard Air Dum.i Cars
and long delays as well as injuries to employees
ed
is just in the rear of the
new locomotive, have been purchased with this equipment installed ami ii ' laced on
practically all of the old '• While the additional L from time to time ha re been
d in size
er plow purchased in 1924. The latter equip-
and weight, ii was not r bers 23 ami 24 that
menl is especially useful for leveling material dumped along track preparatory to throwing
70 ton type and :
track over such as on the dump operations and other construction work. This equipment to
locomotives in Use ai -•• They were pur chased in 1924. The following r the first
gether with the two track shifters now in use represent.- the outstanding marks of improve
the arrival of number.-:, 25 and
that
ment in the building and maintenance of
time additional loci
type
the
track system in the continual increasing size of our Quarry. The demand for larger equipment to take care of the longer hauls in the increasing size of our Quarry such as larger locomotive.-- with larg er ears making for bigger trains also brought about the installation of heavier rails and better ballasted tracks with electric switches and block-
signal systems-. Perhaps the greatest change in this respect was brought about in 1920 when the first JO yard air dump cars were purchased. The
Crews On
Laffin
: of num q> was made in
this direction. Tin-.
re of the
i ' He tank
tender type loci
" idtice 1 \. ith
have been installed, the numbers 27 and 28.
Larger air dump cars h; ed from time 1" time.
i been install
The first increase in •</.••
being a 2? yard ear ami :-> the lai I year or so 30 yard cars have been These ears are at the present time with a drop doOt ;-
added. of the iiv ' >or type and a new type of air dump cat*, hi
The transportation .}••
be
yond the Quarry, however we will leave this for another story altho'u to call attention to the
Shift—Insert, J. L.
Laffin,
Foreman
ould like portation of the
Page Seven
Calcite Si Three locomotives
freiuli
arcl cars are in operation
here
shovel.
This fines ma-
he"shovel onto a small tres
tle and chi i. •• e. 1
a hopper from whence it is •• d-i • Ily to the bines ha been in operation for
the pi The
' n of our plant has : > part by the iustalla-
of li departmenl ai d
aent in the transportation pts i"'1 ft>fth by the men
ma- I
in lost I ime accidents due
I here ha - ;il.-o been a re-
to efforts put :' men of this departi I in the promotion of Safet} in the pasl sev eral . to da • this year no1 one single lo t time accident ha
been recorded in the en
tire
tbe way. is a record
that evi
of the department can justly be
prou ! •if. Company
Coo;! health is pri • • I above money, success or power, ranki . character in the scale
of n ai . to fci i•;• us til
i . through
M ' the Ii- -
f life.
good health ami and i ; :ise. Most of a in our jobs, but when irl< we sometimes saeri-
should sleeps for a good time.
are enjoyed at the nioiu•
;. I .;• '
are bound to
Spreader Plow
exact a toll from us sooner or later.
Often the
very next day. when we have slept but a few hours of
the
twenty-four, we
find ourselves
"resting" on our jobs.
Our employers have invested their faith and their money in us, and have a right to expect that while on duty we will complete our partic ular tasks to their satisfaction. But it is most difficult for the human machine to function ef
ficiently without the proper
amount
of
rest.
What we do "off hours" is to a great degree a
personal matter, but we should consider at all times that another day is coming, we have a job to carry through and that we are expected to do this job each day to the best of our abilities.— Sand and Spray.
. on Kelley Shift—Insert, T. L.
Kelley, Foremar.
Pasre Eiirht
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Calcite Screenings DELEGATES ATTEND NATIONAL SAFET" COUNCIL AT CHICAGO
The Annual
Convention
of
the
National
Safety Council was held at Chicago this year during the week of September 26th and besides the editor. .Allen Kemp of. the steamer White, and Donald
Mel.cod,
of
the
steamer
Calcite.
attended as delegates from our Plant.
Each succeeding year finds this Convention
of a larger scope with greater attendance and added features and this year was no exception. Being held at the Stevens Hotel, the largest hos telry in the country, made it much more conven
ient for those desiring to make the most of their time by attending as many different sessions as possible. Our delegation made the most of their time An Old Time End Dump Car
Economy
The practice of judicious economy is one of the prime essentials to success. Economy, like intelligent and uniform work, is constructiveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;
and no one can hope to enjoy real independence who does not keep his expenditures well within the limits of his income.
The reckless spending ol money quickly be comes a habit, and those who allow themselves
to be enslaved by extravagance are burdened
under the triple load of past, present and future obligations without sufficient funds to meet them. There is just pride and pleasure in know ing there is going to be a surplus left when the weekly bills are paidâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;much greater pleasure than the temporary enjoyment of things we can not afford.
Selected.
by attending the Quarry, Plant Publication and .Marine sections, the latter being taken in mostly by Messrs. Kemp and Mel.cod. Sessions were held morning and afternoon with special lunch eons in between from Monday to Friday and to break the monotony of it the evenings were given over to amusements and entertainment. It was a wonderful week and we returned home
enthusiastic about the possibilities of our work and with many new ideas ami suggestions.
Messrs. Kemp and McLeod were given this opportunity of attending the Convention because of the remarkable Safely record made mi the^ respective steamers, the W. I'". White and Cal cite. neither of these boats having had a single lost time accident to date this year. This is a splendid record and we were indeed glad to have
these gentlemen with us. We feel sure that they enjoyed the meetings and that their crews will benefit by the many suggestions and ideas that thev were able to briny- back with them that can
The Transportation Department Aided Materially In Construction Work In The Summer Of 1911
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VlX&Q .\iui
e applied to their particular kind of work. We.
Earnestly hope that when the time for the Con vention rolls around next year we will lie able to have a representative from every boat of the licet g\o with us. Who Am I?
"Yotl know me. but sometimes you forget me.
You had better take care of me.
"Perhaps you don't think much of me at times, but if you were to wake up some morning and realize you did not have me. you would start the day with an uneasy feeling. "'From me you get food, clothing, shelter and such luxuries as yoti enjoy. "If you want me to—badly enough—I'll get you a twelve-cylinder motor car and a home oil the avenue.
"Hut I am exacting.
I am
a jealous mis
tress. Sometimes you appear hard!) to appre ciate me at all. In fact, you make slighting re
Target
House— Pnst and
Present
Time is old 'out ever} new morning i- young.
marks about me at times and neglect me.
"Considering that you need me not *nil\ for
•'( 1 : ' nie. Take good care of me and
the material thing- of life, but spiritually as well.
I'll ;
I wonder sometimes that you do not take great er pains to hold me. "What if I should get away from yoti-? Your
News, t 'hicago.
happiness would Flee, for a time at least, ami your friends would worry and your haul; ac-
[us1 about the time we convinced the fool • was not to rock the boat, hunt for a gn>
1 with a lighted match, or light the fire with •.
•ount would dwindle.
^
care of you."— Hell Telephone
"So after all. I'm pretty important to yw. "I'm ycur job!
comes Prohibition and now we
lliin the dangers of drinking moon: nine.
Dispatching Trains From Present Target House
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LIMESTONE AND ITS EXTENSIVE USES By J. A. Valentin, M. L. & C. Co. Chemist THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF LIME
cause for the lime industry not making more
Thousands of tons of limestone annually go into the manufacture of lime, so it is not un natural that many tons of stone quarried by the
has made progress but not nearly as rapid as
Michigan Limestone & Chemical should serve this, purpose.
Company
Calcium Carbonate occurs in nature as Cal
It is almost always associated with such impur ities as Silica, the Oxides of Iron and Alumina and Magnesium Carbonate.
burning of lime, a great many As to what happens, we can from the original and final state
The big change is the loss in
weight, that is a given amount of limestone will
lose about 43 per cent of its weight in the process of burning through the driving off of carbon di oxide.
It, of course,
has other industries.
The two principle kilns used in the manu
facture of lime today are of the shaft or rotary
cite, which is the main constituent in limestone.
During the changes occur. in a way deduce of the product.
progress the past quarter century.
The chemical formula of Calcium Carbon
ate is CaC03. Heat of a sufficient degree will cause the C03 radical to be broken up into Car
bon Dioxide, C02, which escapes as a gas, the remaining oxygen atom entering the CaO struc ture which is Calcium Oxide or may be locally known as Calcium Monoxide, lime, quick lime, burnt lime, caustic lime or calx.
Lime production is an ancient art, and in
typeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two types in a more or less experimental stage are the tunnel kiln and sintering machine. Up until a few years ago, practically all the lime produced in this country was burned in a shaft kiln, although of late the rotary kiln so well known in the cement industry has been com ing into prominence. The shaft kiln resembles
a short wide stack of either square or round, cross section. It consists of a casing of steel or stone which is lined with high heat resisting ma terial. The long vertical chamber formed b*y this lining may be divided into three compartments
by imaginary horizontal planes. The top com partment, called the hopper, is used for storing and preheating the stone. Its sides slope in so that the stone may slide down into the middle^-*, compartment of the shaft.
This shaft is
the
place where the lime is burned. It may be of either square or round cross section, independ ent of the outside of the kiln. Generally, the sides of the shaft are vertical, although in some
common with the other arts it probably has help ed teach us a great deal of modern chemistry.
cases they slope outward.
In its simplest form, the manufacture of lime
tom of the shaft the third compartment (the cooler) is used for storing the lime after it is burned. The top of the cooler, must of course,
merely involves the bringing of limestone up to a temperature of about 2300 degrees Fahrenheit. The ancients probably did little more than build a fire over a pile of limestone and kept it burn ing until such time as the stone was changed to lime. Later a small kiln was developed, which consisted of nothing more than a cylindrical wall
In the latter method,
it is customary to omit the hopper. At the bot
have the same cross section as the shaft.
The
sides are drawn in to form a slide leading to the drawing door, the hole being closed by a door or sheets of iron which swing on a pivot and are known as shears. The lime is removed through about ten to twelve feet high, in the upper half this opening. â&#x20AC;˘ The fuel used in burning lime is of which was bridged the limestone and the low consumed in fire boxes usually arranged on two er half being used for the fire, the fuel being sides of the kiln. They are similar to those used wood and the heat was continued until such under modern boilers, each kiln having two or time as the change was complete. The product, more which are set in openings through the cas although variable, was on the whole, due to the ing and lining into the lower part of the shaft.
slow burning of the stone and better distribution
of heat caused by the moisture in the wood, a
good lime and in those days very acceptable for agricultural and local building purposes, but for
When gas is used for fuel the fire box is a mere port through which the gas is led into the kiln.
Many fuels are used, coal usually, but at times gas, crude oil, producer gas (coal and steam),
its present use in the chemical industry where wood and pitch are used, depending largely on whichever keeps the cost of lime per ton to a
uniform high grade material is desired and us
ually essential, it is a constant menace and it is regretful that some lime manufacturers of the present age still persist in old-time methods and
minimum.
The draft caused by the combustion of fuel--
draws the flame up through the shaft in directO
insist that lime is lime, which to say the least is contact with the limestone and the gases formed not an accurate statement. In all probability it pass out the top of the hopper. If increased
i- 1*10 i;;v*uicity of the operation that is
the
drait ;s desired, a, stack is placed on top of the
'
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Forced or induced draft or a combination
oi the two are in common practice. Forced draft is generally created by blowing steam through the grates into the fire box: indnced
draft by drawing the gas out through the top with a fan.
lime as
well as general building.
There are
many more uses, all more or less interesting, and more complete information as to the part played by bine in the various industries may be. given in these columns later. At times, the carbon dioxide- gas is collected
The rotary-kiln was described in these col umns in last mouths issue of this magazine and little need be said of it here. During the past few years the rotary kiln seems to have won
quite a place in lime manufacture, even though the cost of installation per ton of capacity is somewhat more than it is on the shaft kiln.
Both kilns are capable of
burning high
as it leaves the stack, purified and put to use in the chemical industry for making carbonates.
Recently, much experimenting has been done with it in trying to make ice. Laboratory ex periments are successful but with a growing tendency toward eliminating the ice problem by the installation of electric refrigerators, it is doubtful if carbon dioxide ice will ever be very
grade lime, but under like conditions, one or the popular. other may be the more suitable, for instance, all shaft kilns require the stone to be in pieces rang ing in size from about four to ten inches. With rotary kilns the stone should not be larger than 2.5 inches -and the kiln will successfully burn
'dust, it being necessary of course that all the stone be of fairly regular size in order to insure uniform burning.
A shaft kiln cannot success
fully burn small material, as it works into the crevices between the larger stones and chokes
the draft, decreasing the output, and causing ir regular burning of the lime. Locally, lump or pebble lime may be in demand. Gradually, the rejudice of the building trade against rotarv^""kiln lime has been overcome and much of it now
finds its way into this industry.
There are many considerations which limit the
practical size of a kiln, chief of these probably is the market the kiln has to supply. There are also many different limes on the marketâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;limes differ as do people and a chemical analysis does not always begin to tell the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;an over-burn ed lime, a medium burned lime and an under-
burned lime do not begin to give the same re actions, although chemical analysis may show them to be the same.
Probably, the most efficient limestone plant now in operation is that of the Limestone Prod ucts Company of Menominee. Michigan, where we ship thousands of tons of our large size stone which is converted into high calcium lime.
Mr.
I-'.. P. Smith, the President, was the first to con
ceive the idea of Using our high quality stone and take advantage of our transportation facilities in establishing a plant in the northwest. The olaut was started on a small
scale about
five
â&#x20AC;˘ear- ago ami today shows the result of hard work and much effort.
It is the largest high
;alcitliu lime producing plant in the northwest,
the entire plant being modern and up to date, employing the latest methods and some very ef ficient ideas of their own in the manufacture ol high calcium lime.
In addition to their lump lime they also have a hydrating plant where the lime is hydrated (given just enough water to slack and so the iieal generated will leave it a dry powder) to a
fineness of ''7.50 per cent and put up into 50-lb. paper sacks. A visit to the plant of the Limestone Prod ucts Company is a revelation of what combined effort and will power can do and certainly an
The quality of the product of any lime kiln will depend primarily "ii that of the stone burned. agreeable surprise over conditions as they may As far as the burning is concerned, the quality of the lime is most affected by the completeness
be seen elsewhere.
with which the stone is dissociated into Calcium
Oxide and Carbon Dioxide.
Picking and sorting
of poor material and nnderbnrned pieces is, of course, much more easily done with the size o! stone used in the shaft kiln.
In fact, it is most
impossible to hand pick a rotary-kiln product.
There probably are now about six hundred different uses for lime, ranging from the exten sive uses in the chemical industry to its use in lime water with which most of ns make our ac
quaintance early in life. I.ime is used in the manufacture of sand-
nm-briek. glass, soda ash and caustic soda, bak
ing powder, illuminating gas. ammonia, calcium carbide, calcium cyauamide. Spraying compounds,
sugar, also in tanning, paper making, butter mak ing, refining fats and greases, am! ;is agricultural
We appreciate your cooperation/ Serious accidents are om the decrease and off-time injuries are not as frequent as they have eee.\ let us continue to be alert to recognize hazards and quick to
correct them before injury results
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BREAKWATER CONSTRUCTION AT CALCITE
Crew o'i Str. B. H. Taylorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Insert (right) Capt. F. F. Pearse: (left) Chief Guy LaBounty
During the month of .\ugus1 the northwest breakwater
Was extended at Calcite a
distance
of 1150 feet bv a comparatively new method of
ot the core. In this manner the breakwater was-~^ extended a distance of 1150 feet
ami
widened
Ranges were es
with quarry run stone for a distance of approxi mately fifty feet. As the fill made by quarry run stone was completed, it was followed with the Id-inch suction dredge line, which discharges the waste product from the mill ami this fine stone material formed a beach which protected
tablished on the shore on tin- Hue of the propos ed breakwater so that the stone could be depos
beach wa.-. approximately fifty feet wide so that
break w ater construction.
The core ..f thi- breakwater was put in of a mixture of openhearth ami flux stone by the
self-unloader steamer P. II. command of Captain Pearse. ited in proper location.
TA^LOJR
under
The steamer was float
ed in position, anchors dropped and booni swung
overboard on the line of the breakwater.
B)
the working of ibe wheel and the rudder, it was
possible to swing tile steamer and I
m with
sufficient rapidity so thai Hie core of the break-
the core and sides
of
the
breakwaler.
This
the entire distance across the breakwater was
one hundred feet.
On the
outer
end
of
the
breakwater, heavy timber cribs were sunk and filled with five to seven Lai piece- of r..ck. which were assembled in the quarry. After these cribs were sunk, the) were covered over with
wall was installed without any deviation from
large quarry run stone.
the established line. \'o cluster piles wel'e used to hold the steamer in alignment. Stone was deposited in the breakwater b\ the steamer a"
er, when these cribs have had sufficient time to
settle, to concrete a permanent bulkhead at this point and install a permanent lighthouse and
the rati- of approximately 2000 gross ton- per
radio beacon.
hour.
The depth of the
water
varied
Ii is contemplated lat
from
The entire breakwater construction, with the
twelve feel at the -hoiv [,, 3fi feet at the outer
exception of the placing of the large rock on the
end, so ihat there was constructed from a 10.('()() [im cargo, eight) to one hundred twenty feet of breakwater core. The core was filled a dis
cribs, was completed in less than thirty days.
tance of approximately eight feet above the wa
the outer end. the Steamer TAYLOR was plac ing the core, the track crew was extending the
ter and for a width of approximately eight feet. Immediately following, as the core was be
At times during this construction the derrick boat AJ AX wa- -inking and filling the cribs at track, a gang under direction of Fred LaLonde
ing installed by the self-tillloader boat, the yard
was widening the core from (piarry run stone
track crew, umler general foreman Julius Zem-
and the pipe gang under Dick Lamb wa- extend
ple. and the gang foreman Joe I'rban. laid stand
ing the Id-inch pipe so that
ard gauge track so ihat train- filled with heavy
extend daily, Tim-, at times, there were five operations being.-, carried on -imultancou-lv
tjuarn run -tone, could be dumped on the -ides
the beach could
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I'aire Thirteen
In placing the
core, steamer TAYLOR handled eight load- of 99,460 tons, which it dis charged in the breakwater core in
approximately forty-eight hours. Al
though everything was done to hast en the construction of the breakwat er, no lost time accident occurred
(hiring tlie construction.
In the next
few years, it is hoped that tin- north east arm of this breakwater can be
built, so that at Calcite we will have
one of the best harbors on the Great Lakes. —John (i. Munson.
Str. Taylor At The New Breakwater
ler:
watchmen
Malcolm
MacDonald
and
bred
\\ etherton : wheelsmen Charles b. Ramsey and
The steamer Ii. II. Taylor was built by the
American Shipbuilding Company at Lorain dur
Angus MacQueen. deck watchman John W^iiland. porter Yevill Canned, ami Cliff (ialpiu:
ing the winter .if 1922 and was launched in the
waiter R. Carthwaite. deckhands, Neils Ander
summer of 1923. She is named for lb II. Taylor of the Carnegie Steel Company and director of the AI. L. & C. Co.. ami made her first appear
son. Reuben King. Angus McRae. George Kerr. Jr.. Luid llofno and John Radtke; firemen Lave.me Crock. Frank Otto, Alfred Roiudrup. Ber nard Dukes, W. H. Whitney. .M. L. Smith and Christie Ross; coal passers Joseph Ros^. Louis
ance at Calcite in October of 1923.
This steamer is 552 feet in length. 00 feet
beam and 32 feet deep.
Her equipment con
l.evcck and William Schwann.
sists of three Scotch boilers 14 feet in diameter.
11 feet long, carrying a steam pressure of 183 pounds per square inch. She has a triple expan sion engine 25l_.x41xd7 inch cylinders ami a
stroke ot 42 inches. She develops approximate ly 2500 II. I'. and when light makes about 15 niles per hour. The conveyor is electric driven, the current being obtained from a 600 KW turbo generator.
The Taylor has a cargo capacity of 10,000 gross tons which she can discharge at the rale of 2000 tons per hour.
Her crew consists of the following: Cap tain I-', b. I'ear-e. chief engineer Guy LaBotinty, first mate Chris Swart/., -eta.ml mate Leo Moil, first a.-si. engineer Raymond I'mehler. second asst. Henry Miller, third nsst. Stanley Dauscher.
steward Albert Good.eau. second cook Chris Javit-ou, con veyorman l-'.dward Streich. asst. con
vex onnau I.e.. Oraham. radio operator Charles
Beckett, boatswain Alex. Feldman, oilers FLenrv Whitehead, Bernard Beauvais ami Winner fcCoeh-
It's A
Poor Joke
When some woman blushes with embarrass ment.
When some heart carries away an ache.
When something sacred is made to appear c< minion.
When a man's weakness provides the cause for laughter.
When profanity is required to make it fun ny.
When a little child is brought to tears. When everyone can't join in the laughter. —Southern .Yews Bulletin.
If your fob is worth any «.f your lime it is worth all of it.
Did you ever wonder what the barber finds lo talk about, now ihat the bobbed hair has Caused '.lie feminine se\ to invade the barber
shop?
A Much Improved Method Of Building Breakwaters
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(Modes Of ^ho e!M.oment By MARC1A MEADOWS
Courtesy of Marshall Field & Company, Wholesale, Chicago
Clothes are going tq be more fun this ball than ever before, more intricate and feminine. more elaborate and detailed, according to the dis
plays in the large -tore.-, fashion shows, and
bulletins from Paris.
Increasing
emphasis
is
signs cleverly simulating the patterns of. tweeds and homespuns, are being much used by smart modistes ami dress makers for the indispensable little tailored silk frocks for street and business
wear.
A friend of mine was delighted to find a
placed upon individuality, and the styles are SO gay little tan Home-pun Print almost like her many and varied that surely all of us can find a t weed coat. mode of the moment that is peculiarly our own. The Way The Winds Of Fashion Blow
Satins Are A
First Favorite
Crepes and crepe back satins in all the beige
longer, particularly for evening, ami wider with
and brown shades, gray-green and bottle green, blues from light to navy, red for accent, and. of course, black, are in every showing of new fall
flare. The accommodating waist line may be
clothes.
Skirts. I gather, are going to be just a bit
irregular hem lines, circular cut. ami gradual
placed exactly where you want it high. low. or medium, with snug fitting hips.
Lines in gen
eral are more clearly defined without being any
the less graceful,
(.'loverly placed pleats, re
verse tucks, tailored bows, and adroitly managed
I saw a charming frock the other day
of Lac La Rouge satin
in Cyclone grey
bands of the crepe side of the fabric about the waist and cuffs. The name unusual and very fashionable shade of taken. I believe, from the color of the
draperv give emphasis and variety to the new-
before a storm.
frocks.
snakeskin design, are a smart novelty.
ing about you in shop window-, and fashion mag friends. There is really something to see in them. They are different ami individual, with out the trite uniformity of the former season. Velvets. Velvets Everywhere
And the new fabrics I have seen are just de
lightful. There are velvets everywhere: beau Monde chiffon and transparent velvet, stiff vel
Reptilian Prints, in lizard and The New Fabrics
book at the new clothes that are blossom
azines, aiid the wardrobes of fore-sighted
with
applied for thi.y> grey is sky just
I am surprised ami delighted with the new (elaiiese and Rayon fabrics. They should no longer In- regarded as imitation silk or as a sub stitute for silk. They are individual weaves as important as cotton, silk, and wool. Celanese. a very soft ami lovely fabric, has two unusual
virtues, A physician tells me that it is the only fibre that permits the penetration of the I'ultraviolel rays of the sun.
This makes it a very
vets, printed velvets, and cut velvets on gauze
healthful fabric.
and metal grounds.
spots and perspiration stains come out very eas ily in washing. Yes. indeed Rayon and Celan ese have "made good" in the fabric world.
The transparent velvets
are lovely things, very sheer ami soft, almost chiffon-like in texture.
Some of the most strik
ing printed velvets are in a richly mottled snake skin motif.
There are also Viking Velveteens
from England in plain shades and smart check and plaid designs very effective for sport and Formal
find
that
ink
You will be sure to enjoy the fabric displays this fall.
They are perfect carnivals of color. Accessories Make The Costume
Fashion experts everywhere are stressing the foirportan.ee of carefully chosen accessories. Xot long ago T heard the young woman in charge
tailored wear. For
In addition, I
Wear
Ml metal laces in bronze, gold, ami silver
of a large fashion fabric show speak so wisely
make sumptuous evening frocks. Colored /.ion laces over satin slips are also effectively used Col" evening wear, ami once in a while the under -lip is fashioned into a charming little pair of
on this subject that I took down her advice in hasty shorthand for the Modes of the Moment
trousers ending at the knee.
an learned the art of matching her accesorics with her dress. American woman is beginning
Tweedsy Patterns In
Silk
Homespun Prints, silk crepes in tailored de
followers.
Now if I can read my notes she said
something like this. "Long ago the French woniy^ to realise more and more the importance of ac-
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•s.-ories and the fact that
to assemble them
Wisely and well is an art. Every woman knows that her dress is only the beginning of her costiinie.
She has her hat. her hose and shoes, her
gloves, her purse and her jewelrv. all of which are extremely important in women's dress." New Costume Jewelry
Color is particularly important in the new costume jewelry. For a number of seasons we have hung the inevitable strand of imitation pearls about our throats and let it go at that, and while pearls are still very smart, there are many new things in different colored -emi-precioustones which carry out the color note. With a blue dress, a chain and ear rings or a bracelet of harmonizing blue is beautiful: if the frock is white, nothing is smarter than a chain or ear rings of crystal. Gold and silver chains, oddly shaped links, and snake-like necklaces and brace
lets are also being shown. Are
Your
Heels
Pcinted?
Warm brown and beige shades are consider ed the smart hosiery tones for fall. Have you seen the new Diamond
Point Heels? the heel
zig-zags up to a high diamond point in back in a graceful and slenderizing fashion. Puppy Dog Purses
The new puplbv ('""' purses are among the amusing trifles that make life worth living.
NOVEL DISHES FOR HALLOWEEN PARTY WILL PLEASE GUESTS
Whatever entertainment is planned for Hal
lowe'en parties, serving attractive food is one ol the ways the hostess can be most -ure of making
her parly successful. A particularly appetizing luncheon which can be served either at the sup
per hour or in the midst of the evening enter tainment is suggested by -Miss Ada L. I.ockhart
of the Ohio I "nit of S.'ational Dairy Council. Either the rarebit or salad can be served as a
main course preceding the dessert. Halloween Baked Rarebit
Cut one pound of soft mild cheese in thin slices, roll _" _. cups stale bread crumbs, sprinkle a layer of bread crumbs in a buttered baking dish cover with 1--^ Clip of cheese and season with salt and paprika. Repeat twice, making three sep arate layers. Beat three eggs, add \l/> cups of milk and pour over the mixture. Dot with two tablespoons of butter, bake in a modern oven about one-half hour and serve at once with toasted crackers or buttered toast cut: in tri
angle shapes. Magic Ring Salad
Place lettuce
leaves
on
individual
salad
plates and make a Circle of dates which have been -toned and dotted with mayonnaise. Place a salad combination of cottage cheese and chop
jhey are the color and size of Airdale puppies— ped nuts in the center of a pineapple ring inside
'Tcry wooly and friendly-looking beasties to tuck
nonchalantly under one's arm. In the back is a capacious purse. For more conventional then- are Hycrest leather purses in lizard ami snake skim and ostrich grain, with mans com
partments and the convenient back strap. Don't worn about political differences. It: is political indifference that is the curse of the country.
of the date circle.
Hot buttered rolls may be
served with this. Pumpkin Ice Cream
A clever dessert for a Hallowe'en party is
made by placing halves of yellow peaches in a slice of brick ice cream. Cse pecan meats for stems ami leaves.
Individual cakes iced with orange icing on
which peaked witches" caps can be outlined with raisins or dates accompany the pumpkin ice cream.
.-^
As we see It, Europe wants the United States to lend the members of the League of Nations sufficient funds to enable them to build a navy of sufficient strength to come over here and com
pel us to join. OBITUARY
We are very sorry in having to record the death of Miss Helen Streicb. 17 year old daugh ter of William Streicb of the Yard Dept. Miss Sinieh had recently entered the State Normal School at Ypsilauti when she was taken sudden
ly ill with diphtheria, bier death came as a great shock to her many friends and relatives
So'IWEWCCOS. ftfpOMM
liere as a previous report indicated that she was recovering from the dreaded disease. '•Calcite Screenings" joins in extending our - inc. ;\ .-.; sympathy to the immediate relatives in this, their hour of bereavement.
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Light Refreshments and Wise Cracks Which Sometime Come To the Editor's Desk Johnnie's Predicament
\ man went to his doctor and
-Win do von look so troubled. Johnnie?"
requested
tr.alme.it for his ankle.
"Because ff I go ter school ter-day «le teach\fter a careful examination the doctor mer'll lick m< fer not preparin' my lesson,, an' if 1 quired: "How long have you been going around Stay home, me mudder'll lick me fer not goin' ter school,
like this?"
\"w. either I got ter go or slay home.
"Two weeks."
But if I go an' the teacher licks me and inudder find- it .an. me nmdder'll lick me fer not cloin'
"Win. man. your ankle is broken. HoW t] m;i,Klo-e,l to get around is a marvel. Why me school work; an' if I -lay home :m' me niii-b ;]i(ln-, ymi C:0mx. ,',, me ;it first?" der licks me. de leacber'U lick me tomorrow tor .^ .^^ (.vt.rvlinK. , >;n :invlhjng is
beiu' a truant! t.re! <mess 111 go ter sleep. ,-i.
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I he Erie Record saws one ol the local teach-
er- received this note from a parent of one of the students: "Please excuse my sous absence
vesterdav.
Me was not feeling well so we kept
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Stop smoking"'
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.*•»* V i •. i i . 4i Maudy. you doii t look seventy-three.
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A college education never hurt anvbodv who .... ' , , • ,: was willing to learn somethuig; afterward.
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1111
An old country gentleman, who had been to
i
, ,•.,--"' • , i London lor the first tune on business, returned
in a bad temper.
..,..,,.,.., , • 1 .. , i . At the hotel, he complained. thev kept ,,,•,,• | , , • ii -'i . I the light m mv bedroom burning all night. I ,,'. , •- , • | .. couldu t set a wink ol sleep. ..,,-,' i-i •, i,i -. - •• i iiWin didn t \«>u blow it out: asked his wile.
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Rlow it out: i,
not.
It
was m
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said the "Id man. ,,,
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a bottle!
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lunR,(1
. i\\ . ild are v< ai:" .... ' .. , , . •• 1 se seventy-three, Jedgre. "Are vnii sure :"
ness of the skirt that counts, it's the upcreep. \
fud
to the negro woman Oil the stand and asked:
bun at home to chop wood.
1 , • ,i i As to exposing the knee-
^ ^ ^ ^^ ,.„' h.m. to
ii
I could
"Pse sure, ledge."
. • . • -_ Alter a tew moments the trial was mtej , , ., , .., , , ,
fuptcd by Maildy. Jedga-. sub. I was wrong when I said mv acre was -event \ -three ; tha's . - .,
mv oust measure.
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I his particular bird tried to crash Locw s . r, ' ... , .. . .... State liallroom minus his soup and tish. I he , , , , ' ... keeper ol the gates pointed out a sign reading ,„ . ' .*» , * „, ... & . . ,& (iiiesis must he dressed meanwhile giving the , & * *>
gent the bum's rush. "Dammit," he said, "can't cha read?"
.
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—Pearsons.
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twirps
the
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w ho-the-hell s
sinokim
Cop
Who was driving when you hit that
The captain entered the officer's mess kitch
car ?
Drunk i triumphanilv)—Xoiu- of us: we was
,1 ,, . I • , ,, . .... all on th hack seat.
*
Doctor- What von n7ed. mv voting ladv. is
a little -in, and air.' Patient
W h\ . doctor, how dare you !
Why.
'mnta even married ,,.,,.
...
Air. blank, out driving,
en.
Do 1 understand that there will be no desert . ... , , , tonight: he demanded sternly.
llj**-" "&***** ™™ ami careless private, \es whsi.1:
"Yes—we hia ve
r"a?d the W1*1"' no
hananas.
|,,,)U(1 mhftr Whal >h;i]] U(. ral, ft? ,
, ,•
asked
his
,
colored
Chauffeur to slop tl,«_- car while he admired a
I'"11'1 Mothe-r
bet's call it Units.
When a small boy refuse- a second piece of
l;,rge. haud-^me budding he bad no. seen belore. |:i(. j, (]i,(.Mi-, int.:tn ' th<.lt, |« mivlhing wrong l'"'"1"1" '" :i -l,:;u' ;it lls ,,asc bfarmg the date Nvilll tlu. hm, Tcn ctiaiices ,,, (,ne" it's the pie. ' P'JI A. I)., he said: "< n-orge, do yoti know whal
that A. D. stands for?"
.
Impeccable virtue i.- a gift, and for what f*
"Sunnily, boss, suitinly." responded the chauffeur. "Why dat dere A. D. stands fo' "all
bestowed upon a man he is in no way responsible but he who is bom with many weaknesses ami
done."
Cdimuors iheni is a hero.
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PRIZE WINNERS FOR BEST HOME
PLANT ACCIDENT RECORD \'o. Aeei(
I)epartmeut
1926 5
Tracks
2
Transportation- Kelley
cuts
[927 0
The winners of the pri/.es offered to the housewives keeping their home grounds lo.iking the best throughout this season will be publish ed in the next issue of this magazine. As stated in our May issue this prize would be §50.00 to the
kelley
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Shovels—Laffin Drills—Mevers
3 1
0 0 I 0 0
1
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0
Transportation Shovels
Laffin -
Drills-Kelley
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Blasting Crews
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Mill— Hell more Electrical Crew-
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Mill-l'lagcu
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3 U 0
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Machine Shop Carpenter Shop '1 aid Machinery Yard -Labor Tugs Miscellaneous
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Totals
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GROUNDS TO BE ANNOUNCED IN NEXT ISSUE
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0 2
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wife of any employee living in a Conipam house having the be-t looking yard around her house throughout tin- season with a similar prize to those living in their own homes or houses other than Company houses.
Inspection- have been made periodically and we understand that the judges are as yet rather undecided a- to win. is really the he.-i gardner. however, we feel sure that the matter will be
weighed y^vy carefully and that awards will be made to those who have shown the best consistant results.
We cannot help but feel that this contest has 8
The above list represents the number of lost time accidents that have occurred in the differ
aroused much interest ;md we note many im
proved lawn- and yards whicli add materially to the general appearances of the premise-.
ent departments during the operating season to October first for both years 1916 and 1927. We had fond hopes of repeating our August record last
month
but
these
were
MARRIAGES
During
shattered
lien the Machine Shop registered one lost time
the first accident charged against the Machine Shop since the fourteenth of April and clearly
demonstrates that this depart mem is working bard to promote Safety. With only two months to gi. before the close
of operations we sincerely hope that every em ployee will take it upon himself to be extraordi nary careful in avoiding accidents.
As we com
pare the figures listed above showing the re markable reduction of accident- to date this year over that of last year, we cannot help but feel that we have made a tremendous progress in the right direction.
Lei us KbbP OX
past
following Plant
accident on September 6th, This occurred when a locomotive repairman was sent out i,n extra work as a brakeman on a train hauling rock to
the breakwater. He was struck by a moving train and knocked down ami only escaped ser ious injury, if not death, by throwing himself clear of the track as he fell. Incidently this is
the
month
wedding bell- rang
for
the
Employees:
Arthur Cetzinger of the Elec trical Dcpt.. khinart broidieh of the Construction Dept., Joseph Kowalski of the Yard
I)cpt.. and Ilerbert bricdrich of the Laboratory. -C; ilcite Screenings" joins with the many lends of the above in wishing them much hapn e s s and joy. Ambition without action
i-
like
a
motor
without s>as.
Just a.- we were going lo press we received a fine write \\\) of personals from the stiamer jbhn ''. Munson which we were glad to make rouiu for. Pud Taylor is tin- reporter of this steamer and we are very glad to welcome him to uiir midst. Pine work Pud -keep it up.
KEEPING
o\' and make this year a Banner Year for no accidents.
We are glad to announce that another ire-
porter ,!;is ,,t'1'" added t" those representing the Fleet.
Love is a broker whose specially is matri monial bonds, the dividends of which are babies
or alimony or both, according to luck. Ke-ting i.- never ru.-ting to one who ha- pcr-
dically given bis mental machinery a little of ^Thc oil ol relaxation.
Mr. Leo Moll, second mate of the steam
er P.. II. Taylor.
We appreciate very much in
deed the news items that Innc been sent in this
nionth and hope these reporters will continue their efforts, also that the steamers Robinson. Munson and Calcite will send in the names of
their reporters for our next issue with a nice lot of news items from each one.
Let's make this
boat section of Calcite Screenings ;i real live, in
Simple vanity often masquerades under the guise of commanding ability.
teresting part of tin- magazine.
Ml right, send
in your'dope bill SEND Id' LARI.Y.
Page Eighteen PLANT PERSONALS We understand Pat Sheedlo of the Trans
portation Dept. recently bought a ticket on the
Calcite Screenings r\ As Ave go to press we notice Billy Heller Oi the Machine Shop wearing a big smile and pass ing out the "smokes" on the arrival of a new boy at his home. Congratulations Smoky.
raffle oi a rifle and was so sure that he was go
ing to win it that for two weeks previous to the time the raffle was pulled off, he was practicing shooting at targets with an air rifle. But the strange part of it all is that when the numbers were called, sure enough Pat held the lucky one. Looks suspicious, don't it?
We regret very much that in the last issue of our magazine we omitted recording the death of William MacDonald of the Mill Dept. Mr. McDonald died in Alpena on August 25th after an illness of several months.
He was one of our
older employees having worked at our Plant, mostly in the Mill Dept., for approximately 13 years. Funeral services were in charge of the Eagles of which Mr. McDonald was a member and he was laid to rest in the Alpena Cemetery Saturday afternoon, August 27th. The follow ing plant employees attended the funeral: Hilary O'Toole, Harry Ellison, Adrian Brackinreed, John Montych, Peter Montych and 0. F. Ferdelman.
Frank E. Ticknor of Buffalo spent several days at our Plant recently. Mr. Ticknor was connected with our organization for several years during the early days of construction and
assisted in the development of our Belt Convey ing svstem.
Here's one we heard on our congenial chem ist, J. A. Valentin. It seems Joe had a party of friends out for a ride in his new boat "Aloha"
at Grand Lake Labor Day morning, demonstrat ing her fine points, when suddenly the engine stopped. After considerable time spent in crank ing, adjusting carburetors and timers, etc., dur ing which they perspired freely and the air be came blue (with smoke) someone suggested they look at the gas tank which they found bone dry. During this time an obliging wind had in creased their distance from shore and being
without oars, they were forced to tear up the floor boards and paddle their way slowly to the dock.
Since this time the Aloha has never left
her dock without a row boat with oars securely fastened to her stern.
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The Red Cross roll call has been met with a
hearty response and at this time there remains
to be heard from only four plant departments. Indications are that the high mark of 1926 will be exceeded this year. There is a great satis faction in knowing that we have properly taken this opportunity to be of service to our fellowmen all over the world through this efficient
How strange. We haven't heard any duck hunting stories yet. What's the matter, boys, aren't they flying yet?
Even the Spitzer season is getting away to a slow start.
Must be the black and white hides
are not quite in prime.
agency.
It is our understanding that the Red Cross
BIRTHS
has had in 1926 its busiest year of its career as there were twenty-nine major disasters.
During the past month the stork visited at the homes of
the following employees and left baby girls: Tony Darga of
Mr. J. Lyman Bryan and Mr. Walter B.
Rawley of the Cleveland Trust Company spent ten days here during the middle of September
the Track Dept., James Con-
geonti of the Blasting Dept.,
and we were glad to welcome them on their an
and John Montych and Fred
nual visit.
The boys were fortunate in being here dur ing the duck season and the hardware stores did quite a good business but the ducks didn't suffer to any great extent.
Dr. Sheldon and
Mr.
Hauser, Construction
Manager of the Marion Steamshovel Company paid us a short visit recently.
flSw-v; !:â&#x20AC;˘>:Âť
Lee of the
Electrical Dept.
Baby boys were delivered to
the homes of Fred Stone and Rudolph Wenzel of the Transportation Dept., and Leo O'Connor of the Electric Dept. In addition to the births published last month a baby boy was delivered to the home of Leonard Lamb of the Electrical
Dept., and a baby girl at the home of John Shefke of the Track Dept.
Earl Meyers, Walter Santimo and Henry Bey motored to the Soo recently and spent a few days visiting friends and relatives.
Avery Cook and family spent several weeks of last month visiting in the southern part of the state.
"Calcite Screenings" joins in extending con gratulations to the above parents.
O
1he doctor told us to take two drinks be fore each meal for insomnia, and we find that
while it doesn't put us to sleep it makes it a pleasure to stay awake.
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HOW TO KEEP WELL Series By The Lite Institute Containing The Latest And The Most Scientific Information On Healthful Living And The Prevention Of Disease THAT "TIRED FEELING''
The terms "tired" and "fatigued" may be misleading in that they imply an excess of work. As a matter of fact, fatigue- is a symptom with many possible causes other than mere work. In cases where a man reports that he is "all in" at the eiul of the day or week, it is necessary to ask tin- (piestiou. "Is the man tired because he is ill or ill because he is tired?" in by far the greater number of cases we will find that the man is tired because he is ill.
just as it is impossible to strain a perfectly healthy heart by physical exertion or exercise, so is it impossible to strain the brain and nerv ous system of a perfectly healthy man by hard; executive work in an ordinary working day. So far as the work itself is concerned, it ;.-
not so much the quantity of work as the method of doing it that counts. If one's work involves the assumption of heavy risks and intense anxi ety and worrimeiit are added to the factor of ere executive labor, a breakdown may come TTOlll these combined factors.
Yet even in such
cases an unpoisoned body and sound organs will carry an individual pretty far.
It is important to have this point of view be cause if in conditions of depression and fatigue and a consciousness of inability to tackle work-
in a spirit of "pep" and ambition, reliance i> placed upon mere rest or vacations or mitigation of the strain of work, apparent improvement may take place but the underlying condition ol
disease or disability that is really responsible may be overlooked. The fundamental protective measure, there
fore, for tin- person of any age. if he wishes fc© prevent thai tired feeling or that actual condi tion of inefficiency, is to have his body and his life examined and all the fads brought to the surface.
The work span of life is altogether too short. In the United States Registration Area there oc
cur annually about 1.200.000 deaths. Grouping the deaths from disease of the heart and circu
lation, tuberculosis, cancer,
apoplexy,
kidney
trouble, and diabetes, we have, for the country
at large, an annual loss of about 700.000 lives. Leading specialists in the treatment of these different types of disease have testified that the
most important measure that can be taken in glueing the death rate from these maladies is the periodic health examination. Even in the case of cancer, where the actual cause
t
un
known, early detection by means of periodical
health examinations will enable many lives to be saved by prompt operative treatment. Also there are conditions that predispose to cancer which could be delected and corrected.
11 may be discovered that there is no phys
ical disability but that a person is doing the wrong kind of work, or only one kind of work. 11 has been well said that no one can overwork
who does two kinds of work: one by which he Cams a living ami the other through which he
finds self-expression—something in the nature of a fad or avocation.
Premature physical breakdown, old age, and
the incapacities that assail people in later life are not preordained conditions arising without cause.
Hereditary predisposition is an important factor; hence the importance of choosing one's ances tors wisely! Nurture and hygenic government ol a life can. however, do much to defeat hered
ity. Work is the greatest stabilizer of health.
It is better to equip oneself to meet it than to um away from it. Retirement should not be the
goal of man's activities, but rather a prolonga tion of his working period, when he can feel that lie is really in the game ami not a mere observer on the side lines. Just as the average success
ful man reaches a period of high development in his chosen field, too often he finds it necessary to i aSS it on to some one else, and much of the
I uddiug work is of necessity done over again .'long new lines.
This is sometimes fortunate.
However, it we could retain the experience, judgment, and sense of proportion of leaders in business for an average of ten or twenty years longer than is now usual and at the same time keep such men in a state of health and flexibility receptive to new ideas and methods, and with
the vigor to put them into practice, surely soci ety would be better off and these men would
have a more abundant and satisfying existence.
The working period of life could be prolong ed ten or twenty years on the average by the simple method of periodic h-alth «xamiiiatioii •;
and reasonable co-operation in accepting the counsel based Upon them.
OLD MAN ACCIDENTS HAS A HEARTY APPETITE. HE CONSUMES TWO
MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF AMERICAN WORKMEN'S TIME AND MONEY EVERY WEEK
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A FIRST AID QUESTIONAIRRE
Questionairres on every imaginable subject are being used to find out how much (or how little) we know.
Here are a few simple ques
tions on first aid:
1. 2. 3. 4.
How many kinds of germs are there? In what ways do germs enter the body? What is the best antiseptic for wounds? Why. is a punctured wound particularly
Is rust on a nail dangerous? Why should home remedies for headache,
toothache, etc.. be avoided? Answers
1.
Ask us an easy one.
2. There are four ways: (a) From the air by inhaling thru the mouth or nose; (b) By eating infected foods or drinking contaminated water;
(c) Through the skin by means of wounds or scratches; (d) Into the blood through the bites of animals and insects or by absorption from a local infection.
3.
C\
When he is hurt.
When he is about to go to bed. his first night away from When When When When
home. he is thirsty at night. he is hungry. he has good news to tell. he wants money.
When he attains honors.
When he hears something said against wom
serious ?
5. 6.
When A Boy Thinks Of His Mother
Iodine and mercurochrome are both reli
able antiseptics. Mercurochrome has the ad vantage of being non-irritating. Iodine be comes stronger as the alcohol evaporates and old iodine may cause a serious burn. Hydrogen peroxide was formerly much used as an antisep tic for wounds but is not considered as effective
as iodine or mercurochrome. Phenol (carbolic acid) and compounds containing it are useful for disinfecting toilets, washrooms, etc.. but in ef fective strength they are too irritating to apply to a wound. Bichloride of mercury is a power
ful disinfectant but it is too deadly a poison to beep around the home.
Boric acid is a mild an
tiseptic, suitable for use in eyewashes, but not reliable for preventing infection in wounds. 4. A punctured wound is particularly danger ous because of its depth which makes it difficult for an amateur first aider to reach the affected tissues with an antiseptic. Medical treatment is needed for such wounds.
5. Rust in itself is not dangerous and a bright nail may carry germs of infection as readily as a rusty one.
6. Some remedies for aches and pains con tain dangerous drugs which should be used only on a doctor's advice.
Pain is a symptom—a
danger signal—not a disease in itself and drugs which relieve the pain result in the real cause of the trouble being neglected, often with ser ious results.
IF YOU'RE TEMPTED TO TAKE A CHANCE. STOP A MINUTE AND REMEMBER WHO'S WAITING FOR YOU AT HOME
en-folks.
When he sees a dog he would like to bring home.
When he would like to leave the baby and join the gang.
When he is losing in a family dispute. When he thinks he is drowning. When his mother is sick.
When he has grown to be a man.
When he has nonaged thru the cupboard. When he is going to meet her after his first smoke.
When he wants her aid to put something over on the "old man."
—Mueller Record.
CAUGHT ON THE FLY WE'RE AFTER A NON-STOP SAFETY RECORD THIS MONTH/ WILL YOU HELP US COMPLETE
n
THE NEXT 30 DAYS
WITHOUT A LOSTTIME ACCIDENT ? MWTftttiHm IWWiMWtfJfflW!
In spite of the saying, "Don't take your troubles to bed," many married men still sleep with their wives.
The world is either better or worse each
d:ty as a rccult of your work and influence.
A family tree of great antiquity is nothing to boast of if it bears only nuts. Safety has many ramifications. Safe work men turn out quality production, quality prod ucts make a prosperous firm, and the prosperity is bound to return to its source. Just another way in which Safety benefits you. Watch those little injuries. You don't have to have a lot of cheek to get lock jaw. Plenty of people have a good aim in life, but a bjt of them don't pull the trigger.
r> We submit the following as a slogan for the Anti-Saloon League: "If at first you don't suc ceed, drv and dry again."
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W With the Boats of the Bradley Transportation Company
many diversified forms of Safety First in the
BOAT ACCIDENT RECORD Name of Steamer
No. Accidents this vear
'o
Carl D. Bradley -
2 2
-
2 0 0
T. W. Robinson
B. H. Taylor John G. Munson W. F. White Calcite Total
-
6
The above represents the number of lost time accidents that have occurred on the differ
ent steamers to October first of the operating season this year. It is with a great deal of pleasure that we wish to report that .all the. boats of our fleet went
through the month of September without one single lost time accident. This is a splendid rec, rd and demonstrates very forceably the results
^â&#x20AC;˘fnat can be obtained when everybody is willing to co-operate and put their shoulder to the wheel in the promotion of Safety. Incidently three of the steamers have retain ed their names on the Honor Roll for no accidents
this year and we have every reason to believe that they will continue to do so for the remaind er of the season. It can be done in spite of the increased hazards due to the usual heavy seas at this season of the year if each member of the different crews will be more careful in the per formance of his duties. Let's co-operate for Safety and make the remaining two months Safe for every one on the boats. SAFETY FIRST CONGRESS
The Safety First Congress held at Chicago and attended by delegates of all the principle in dustries of the nation was indeed an impressive gathering. It clearly demonstrated the import ant position held in Safety First work by the in dustrial intellectuals and men of consequence. Great strides have been made along these lines while we learned that there was still room for as marked advances in the future as have
b en made in the past.
Our delegation of three men, sent by the B.ad'ey Transportation Company, consisted of ,iwo men from the boats and Mr. Ferdelman,
y^ditor In ed and by the
of "Screenings." making a report on the work accomplish the talks by speakers we were impressed importance attached by these men to the
different industries. For instance, the mining industries are concerned with gases and under ground work. Chemical companies along chem ical lines, steamship lines are concerned with safe navigation and the safe handling of cargoes, steel plants strive to prevent physical injuries caused by machinery, etc. All these concerns spend enormous sums for this work and feel the money well invested. Safety first ceases to be looked upon in the light fashion it was a few years ago, at present it has resolved itself into practically a compulsory order. There were many instructive talks by prom inent men, physicians, professors and men con nected with large industrial plants. If one could only convey a small portion of the good advice and practical experience of these men our work as delegates would be a tremendous task well accomplished. At the Marine section of the Congress, with which we were most concerned, were given very instructive talks by representatives of the Sperry Gyro-Compass Corporation, as applied to safe ty and exactness in navigation. Of course we are more or less informed as to the great aid our tgyro-compass renders in directing the boats. Next we examined and heard discussed the the
ory and practice of the radio direction indicator. Whili this is comparatively new to many people, we aboard the boats have had the efficiency of
the direction finder in foggy weather clearly demonstrated several times. Another appliance which came to my notice was the vapor and shock proof lights. I believe they would be a safe and economical light if used in our work aboard the boats.
In conclusion. I wish to say that we hope that in some way we may impart some of the knowledge gained at this Congress to our ship mates aboard the boat, thus justifying the Brad ley Transportation Company in going to the ex pense and trouble of sending us to this wonder
ful Congress.
Allan Kemp.
SAFETY MEETINGS OF THE FLEET
Steamer B. H. Taylor The sixth Safety Meeting of the season was called to order by the chairman on September 25th at twelve-thirty o'clock P. M. and the fol lowing members of the committee were present: Leo Moll, chairman; Stanley Dauscher, secre-
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tary; Niels Anderson, Alex. Feldman, Harry
2. It was suggested that the electric fans b(~*^
Captain F. F.
examined and those having no guards over the
Pearse and chief Guy LaBounty were also in
blades should be equipped with the same or re moved from the rooms thus avoiding the danger
Whitehead and William Swartz. attendance.
Following are a few of the different subjects that were brought up at this meeting: 1.
All seamen should be more careful in put
ting the battens back in place and not leave the
of anyone getting their hands caught when mov ing about the room without light or at any other time.
3. The next suggestion made was to examine
ends stick out from the end of the hatches.
the down-haul cable for the aerial making sure
2. After loading or unloading, the pins and clamps should be in place at all times and atten tion was called again about throwing orange
of climbing up the after spar.
practice when the spar becomes wet or covered
peels, banana skins, etc. about the deck.
with ice.
As
mentioned before, this is a very dangerous prac
tice especially this time of the year and may cause a serious accident.
3. During rough weather and especially when the decks are wet or frosted the forward crew were told not to run back aft for their meals as
one is apt to slip. If they are afraid of a little rain or wind they should use the tunnel if neces
it is in good condition to eliminate the necessity It is a dangerous
4. The last suggestion is to keep watch of the anchors when entering port or in the rivers now that the fall weather is approaching. At such times make sure they are free and ready for instant use and not frozen in place. That trouble has been experienced on some ships when wishing to drop the anchors they were found to be stuck fast with ice.
sary.
4. All stayings, ladders, paint barrels and all other loose objects aboard the ship should be lashed down to prevent same getting out of place in rough weather. Meeting adjourned at one fifteen P. M. Staamar John G. Munson
Meeting held on September 18th with the fol lowing members present: Clarence Thorsen, chairman; Melvin Keyse, secretary; Oscar Hoch, H. K. Pearsen, George Latighrey, Clarence Hoy, Captain McQuinn and chief Jack Anderson. The meeting was opened by the chairman and then Capt. McQuinn talked on the import ance of keeping the ships ladders in good condi tion at all times, especially so for the remainder of the season owing to the fact that there is more danger from the ladders being wet from rain or snow or the weight added to them by ice. He continued by asking that more care be exercised by the men at their work to keep off the hatches except when absolutely necessary to walk on
Steamer W. F. White
The Safety Committee of the Str. W. F. White. Date of Meeting, Sept. 28, 1927. Pres ent: Walter Callum, chairman; John McKenna, secretary; Bert Moninger, Arthur Graham, Leon DePudry, and Donald McKenzie, other members.
Proceedings of meeting on above date nanyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;s. ed were as follows: Captain Dahlburg congratu lated us on our no accident record and hopes we will continue in our efforts and complete the season without a lost time accident.
The worst
part of the season is approaching and more vig ilance is needed to combat the conditions brought
by winter's coming. Tcy decks are a hazard, also icy docks. Slipping on these, might cause a ser ious accident.
Be fiire that hatches are batten
them, and to use caution on the decks and docks
ed down carefully an:l properly. They are a big help in keeping the boat seaworthy. The sub ject of keeping archways and channell irons free from stone was discussed. This is important on the clean-up where men are in the hold. A slight jar of the boat against the dock will loosen this stone, creating a serious danger to the men in
when these are covered with ice and snow.
the hold.
Chief Anderson asked that the men working on the after end co-operate on keeping the bilges and boiler pans clean and free from rags or any thing that might cause the pump and syphon suc tions to become plugged. When the water be comes too high in such places and it is rushing from side to side when the ship is in a seaway, it
Much of our remaining time was occupied in discussing a very unusual situation which oc
is dangerous to the bellies of the boilers and some of the moving parts of the engines. 1. The chairman suggested that the men be instructed to stay clear of the Boom holding cables when the Boom is being moved to differ
ent positions or to and from its place of rest on the deck.
curred on this boat.
We shipped a porter from Gary, Indiana, while unloading at Buffington, who came aboard and worked all day in the galley and then retired for the night. Upon awakening the following morning to resume another days work he was found to be suffering from a rash on his arms. Upon the discovery of this condition he was or dered to his room and the other occupant moveci to other quarters as a safety measure, in case i^ was contagious. Upon our arrival at Calcitf '
The cables often jump up ;ind down
the doctor was called and after an examination
and injuries can be received by j.:;/wii_ V~:::w' t^o
!:c reported that it was practically impossible lo tell what it was that early in the disease. It
near them at such times.
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s^-sc inbled small-pox to some degree. As a re sult we were temporarily quarantined, the crew
can be applied to our work on the ship. Meeting adjourned at 8:30 o'clock P. M.
vaccinated and we were ordered to South Chi
cago for examination by health authorities.
Steamer Carl D. Bradley
After a consultation by four specialists and Che Chicago Public Health officer it was decid ed that it was not small pox. But regardless of what it was. it resulted in the entire crew being inconvenienced and a very serious loss of time for the boat of about twelve hours, and if it was
not smallpox it was something not very pleasant to look upon; The patient's body was a mass of st i r e s .
Some precautions ought to be taken at the
shipping offices against such types shipping on the boats. The galley crew is subjected to a doc tor's examination, why not an examination be
Sept. 10th, 1927 The Meeting was called to order at 6:30 P. M.
Those present were as follows: Chairman. Francis Bacon; Sec'y. I reo. Boy; Bos'n, Jack Mc-
Gee; Repairman, Tom Brown; Oiler, Isaac Ranka: Stokerman. Willard Fox; Deckhand, Del McCee: Mr. Winn ami Mr. Williams of the General
Llcctric Co.. Mr. I leiroiiiinus of the Westinghouse Electric Co.. and all members of the crew not on watch.
Francis Bacon suggested that we lie more
fore shipping such men as this particular speci
careful as to what we do with fruit
tions aboard onr boats such infectious diseases should be eliminated by a doctor's examination at ports of shipment.
skin.- and peel laying around. A person is liable to slip on them and get a bad fall. Capt. Macl.eau gave a talk on Safety and Efficiency in general.
men hi the galley. In view of the fact that every effort is being made to improve sanitary condi
Alter satisfactory reports by all members of the committee the meeting was adjourned. Secretary John McKenna.
skins and
peel and be sure we throw them overboard. It L dangerous walking on deck after dark with
Mr. Ileirouimus gave a number of very help ful suggestions to those working around the stokers and boilers.
Mr. Winn was next called upon ami he com
Str. Calcite
Meeting held on September 29th with the
Hallowing members present: Axel Hoy, chair
plimented the officers and men on the operation of the ship in general. And in return was given a vote of thanks by the crew.
man; frank Ilinnegan. secretary: Donald Mac Mr. Fredericks was next called Leod., Emery Derby. Gerald Haverstock, Robert the chance to say a few words.
but declined
Bob MacLcan gave a few words on co-oper
( >liver.
The meeting was called t,, order by the ation and pointed out to us a number of things chairman at seven o'clock P. M. on the above
that are done on the
date.
which are somewhat wasteful.
On account of the absence of Donald Mac Leod who was at Chicago attending t|u. Nation
al Safety Council Convention, this meeting was postponed until he returned on October 1st. The following suggestions were made, viz:
1. Ladder in number one cargo hold reportid in bad condition.
Needs new bolts and ad
justment.
2. The stewards department to be cautioned about leaving cans and boxes otttside of gallev as some one might trip and fall over these ii) the dark.
3. Nooks have been installed on fire doors
to prevent their swinging when ship is rolling in sea and perhaps burning firemen.
-b All caps on sounding pipes to be kept clos ed a., they are liable to fill up with stone and lank cannot be sounded.
5.
When steamer is taking on fuel, man on
watch notify firemen on duty before any fuel is taken on in order that they can keep clear of ^
Ernest Billman,
forward
our
end of the boat
electrician,
followed
with a talk on the operation of the electric deck winches and the care and precautious of all elec trical equipment when any water is near it. ! ie recommended welding all cracks in eleva tor In using to keep the water out of the switch
board room.
Me also suggested that when we
(inish Using an extension light on deck and take the connection out of the plug box to be sure to
screw the Cap on.
If the cap wasn't for a pur
pose they would not have put it there. Me suggested that when working on any electrical equipment be sure the switch controll ing that machine is pulled. lie is going to take all of those men who
lave anything to do with the conveyor system and show them were all ol the emergency -witches are. so in case of trouble everyone will know the nearest place to shut the conveyors down.
Williard
Fox
recommended
the
bunks
be
''linker.
marked with the life boat stations so in case of
.Mr. Donald .MacLeod gave a very interest ing talk to the Committee regarding his trip to
disaster everyone will know where he belongs.
the
National Safety Council
The meeting was adjourned at 7:30 P. M.
Convention and
brought back many suggestions that we hope
Pule vour work or it will make von its slave.
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ing talk to the members of the Safety Commit tee:
"This meeting is rather an innovation, but we all hope that this meeting and others follow ing will tend to better our operation. It is a self-evident fact that if our employers
that we can use what we like and it will be al right.
"I have noticed that we are very wasteful
of soap, rags, and other cleaning materials. It is possible to keep this job in first class condi tion without undue waste of these items, but it
cannot be done unless you men who are doing the actual work watch these items.
"If we do not watch these things, when our
do not make money that they cannot be liberal with us in our compensation. If they make a profit we must make it for them.
comparative statement comes out we will be
"I am sure that it is a privilege and a pleas ure for everyone of us to be a member of this, the most modern ship afloat today. "In the years past our Captains and Engi neers of our fleet have felt that if they pulled
"We want all of you from the Captain down to feel free to make any criticism as long as it is
together the rest of you would just naturally fall in line and do your bit.
"This job it too big for that kind of opera
tion and needs the co-operation and brains of every member of the crew. Of course this boat is new and we are just
beginning to get near an efficient operation. If
we want to get clown to real efficient operation we must all watch the small wasteful practices in which at times we all indulge.
"Our operation here will be closely watched and I hope when the season closes the manage
shown in rather an unfavorable light.
These practices are hardly carelessness, but are just the results of not thinking. constructive.
"Our crew in the engine room probably do things that you think are wrong; if so please be frank and say so, and we will do the same. "We have operated this boat so far without a personal injury of any kind. That is good per formance, but it should just make us the more careful.
"The corporation records show that nearly all accidents could have been prevented if prop er precautions had been taken. "We would like to have suggestions, now, from-all of vou."
ment can say 'WELL DONE.'
In the above article Chief Moore has pointed ) "We want you all to feel in this meeting that out the value of the promotion of Efficiency personalities will be cast aside and we want to make it a real pickers meeting and let the chjps along with Safety, bearing out the well known
fall where they will and make our criticisms con structive. We are bound to find some differ
fact that Safety does not, in any way, interfere
with Efficiency.
ence of opinion on many things and will have to think them out and make ruling on certain things.
"I think possibly that I can start things out by being specific on certain things. "First, our largest operating cost next to labor is fuel. For some time I have been watch
ing rather closely our metered output of power. When checked it is astounding the power that we waste for light.
"I find that we waste enough to pay the to
tal living cost of your home and mine for an en tire year. It is remarkable what we have been able to do just by watching this item in the en gine and boiler room. I find that every depart ment on the boat is nearly as wasteful as we
have been. If you, each one, had to pay this bill out of your own pockets, I know we would be more careful. It is probably a safe state ment to say that every room on the boat uses double the current necessary for comfort and convenience.
This is rather a serious criticism,
but I believe it to be justful. General Upkeep "This is the largest boat in the fleet and we
naturally have a little more cleaning and general upkeep than the other boats but if we don't watch our step we will just naturally assume
BOAT PERSONALS STEAMER CARL D. BRADLEY
Isaac Ranke, Reporter
The evening of September 22nd was a very exciting period for the members of this ship when our Radio man gave us his room as an S. O. S. headquarters during the Tunney-Dempsey fight. A connection was made in the pilot house and also one in the dining room and everyone
was happy until the fight was over. You see we are practically all Dempsey boosters and still are although Jack lost. Many thanks to our friend Arthur for this act of kindness.
H. B. Moore, our chief engineer, has left our
vessel temporarily. He was relieved of his dut ies by J. S. Sparre. chief of the T. W. Robinson. Welcome, Mr. Sparre.
Tommy Cobb, one of our seamen, refuses to eat peas because it require a juggler's exper ience to hold them on a knife. Tommy has been cautioned about eating with a knife by a member of the Safety Committee but he said he has been
destroying food for ten years and as yet has n/"^ scars to show for the experience. More powei to you Tommy, another ten years and you'll be a world's champion. Lorenzo Lorenti, alias "Possible," our bird
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V^pert, has adopted a chicken hawk which was other fellow. Young ladies of Rogers City, recently found seeking shelter aboard our ship, please take noteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;This young man needs cheer since his pet pigeons got homesick and left.
To
make his new friend feel at home, he purchased
ing up.
two pullets but was quite disappointed when he
STEAMER W. F. WHITE
found the hawk was afraid of them.
Our Captain William J. MacLean is wearing that "I wish you were here" look since Mrs. Mac-
Lean left our ship after spending many pleasant
George Beck, Reporter
Mr. Allen Kemp spent several days in Chi cago as a delegate to the Sixteenth Annual Safe ty Congress held at the Stevens Hotel the week
trips on the new freighter. Thejittle blond piano player at the five and
of September 26th. AI caught the boat at De
ting terribly absent-minded.
recent change in line-up. We had the pleasure of having Mr. Ticknor
troit the following Sunday and reports having ten in Buffington says it's hard to B sharp when bad a wonderful time. you're alone with a saxophone player in A flat. Walter Galium, our second mate, has been Mr. Ellis Murchison, our swamper, is get transferred to the steamer Munson during the He
went
into a
dentist's office some time ago to have a tooth extracted. "Don't you want to take some gas?"
guest aboard the White from Buffalo recent asked the dentist. "I guess I'd better," says El as ly. Mr. Ticknor is an interesting character and lis, "and while you're at it you might look at my has many thrilling tales to tell of the early his oil too."
A certain young lady in Rogers woke up one morning to the fact that she was getting rather plump, so she decided to go horse-back riding every morning to reduce.
After a month she
found she had taken off twenty poundsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from the horse.
tory at Calcite.
He is an exponent of the belt
conveyor system, having had much to do with its early development. Mr. MacDonald, late of the steamer Calcite.
has been placed aboard our steamer as second
mate.
Mac has an interesting repertoire of
Scotch stories. STEAMER B. H. TAYLOR
STEAMER JOHN G. MUNSON
Leo Moll, Reporter
>-' In response to the editor's request for re porters on the different steamers. Mr. Leo Moll
has been appointed to fill this position on the steamer White. We hope the crew will co-op erate with the reporter in getting items of news as this is about the only way it can be accomp lished. Up to the present time we have been
going along nearly 100 per cent with the excep tion of some small things which have to be over looked as we all make errors sometime.
That
is the reason that we have erasers on lead pen cils.
Sixty-two trips so far this season and still
going strong, of course not counting eight loads to the new breakwall at Calcite. Captain Pearse wants to know "When is a load not a cargo?" Suitable reward for the best answer.
Our Scotchman was frying bacon for lunch.
When we asked him what made it so foamy, he said he was frying it in "Lux" to keep it from shrinking.
Julius Zempel and family recently made a
R. C. (Bud) Taylor, Reporter
My Limestone Queen I gotta girl in Gary, a skirt in Buffalo. A rib in South Chicago, and every port below, But somehow being with them the thrill is not so keen
As when we dock in Calcite and I sec my Limestone Queen. Oh! She's the lass to love you, She surely knows her parts. She was born down in the Quarry and raised on Openhearth. She drinks but Limestone water,
Her time is safely spent. Believe me she's some crusher and she's ninetynine percent. The crew all swear they love her and pine their lives away, They say from looking at her my eyes are turning gray. The Mates both tried to make her. the Bos'n tried it too.
But she snubbed them all and gave her love
trip to Gary with us. Julius discovered that we unload Openhearth faster than we load it. It
To a limestone Deckaroo.
nearly cost him railroad fare back to Rogers City to make this discovery. On the way back we ran into a bit of a Nor' Easter and'Julius
A little Finn in Fairport, in every town a jane. But I gave them all the gate for her,
wanted to know what made the boat vibrate and >Minp so. One of the sailors replied "She's on a VwCk."
One of our eligible young officers received some very distressing news recently. His very best girl wrote him that she had married the
Yes, 1 had a broad in Detroit, a lassie in Lorain,
She's worth it, what I mean,
Just one among a million My little Limestone Queen.
Deckhand: "Say, boy! you mustn't miss that
new show "Birthday Fashions of 1928"; they've got a Godiva scene in it with a dame without
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was somewhat under the influence of
Why, I ain't seen
a horse for years!"
he was urged by the Chief Engineer to go to bed but was reluctant about doing so.
It is with the deepest sympathy that we
speak of the sad drowning of our friend and co worker, Fred Tatro. Fred joined us in Gary, Indiana, several months ago.
In the time he was
with us we all grew to know him as a good steady fellow, always ready to help the other fel
liquc
After being around the ship for about an hour Finally
in company with the Chief Engineer he went to the stairway leading to the firemen's room and started up the stairway when the Chief left him. Shortly after this the Steamer shifted from the flux loading dock across the slip to take on fuel and it was at this time that the boatswain
in going around the after-cabin noticed Tatro
low and a gentleman.
The whole crew join in sympathy with the
mourning family in the loss of their son through
apparently asleep on a laundry bag just back of the.' after-cabin.
About twenty minutes later
the Steamer started shifting back to finish load
this tragic accident.
ing and the boatswain again went around the
Mr. Harry Moore made an inspection trip aboard our steamer last week.
We notice that the after-crew's bank deposit
after-cabin and noticed that Tatro was missing
but that his cap was lying on the laundry bag where he had been asleep a short time previous. The Boatswain started up the deck and on
slips are showing more signs of prosperity and looking across the slip noticed Tatro swimming
the laundry bills are fewer since the crooks who had the washing machine motor's rotar, return ed same.
The best wishes of the whole crew go with our former mate Mr. Robert Eckberg to his
in the water about fifty feet from the flux clock. He immediately yelled to the deckhands, who were on the opposite dock waiting to take the steamer's cables, calling their attention to the man swimming in the water. These men called the dock men, who secured a pikepole from the
new position as first officer of the Str. Carl D. pump house and held it out for Tatro to catch Bradley.
We are glad to be able to congratulate our former second mate Mr. Clarence Thorsen on
his promotion to first officer aboard our steamer. A most cordial welcome is also extended to our nM friend Walter McCallum who has come here from second mate of the Str. W. F. White to second officer aboard the good ship Munson.
Our steward, John Miller, is now the proud
hold of. Apparently Tatro paid no attention to the pole that was being extended to him and be-v fore the men could turn the pole around to us . the hook for catching hold of his clothing, Tatro went down and did not again rise to the surface.
Grappling hooks were immediately secured and the bottom of the slip was dragged for the
body but all efforts were unsuccessful until aft er the arrival of the
Hammond
Coast
Guard
Crew about 6:00 A. M.
The body was found by the Coast Guard
possessor of what he claims to be (and it looks Crew about 7:00 A. M. and was then taken the part) the hottest sport roadster in town. charge of by the coroner. It was later removed Congrats, John. We sincerely hope, however, to the Rogers City Undertaking rooms awaiting that its speed will keep you clear of the fair sex. You've made a mis
advices from Tatro's father whose home is in Joliet, Illinois. Shortly before noon word was re ceived from the elder Mr. Tatro to have the body sent to Joliet for burial.
"Aren't you the little girl I kissed at the
of the crew on this Steamer having started to
"Hello."
"I beg vour pardon! take."
party last night?" "Must have been sister.
She's sick."
Fred Tatro was one of the newest members
work last August. The question of how he fell into the water will perhaps never be known and is one of those most regrettable accidents that
FRED TATRO OF THE STEAMER JOHN G. MUNSON DROWNS IN LOADING SLIP
sometimes occur when men are under the influ
ence of liquor.
A very sad accident occurred at our plant when Fred Tatro, fireman on the Steamer John G. Munson, lost his life by drowning in the boat
loading slip earlv in the morning of September 30, 1927.
It seems that Tatro had spent the evening
up town returning to the boat shortly before midnight with one of the deckhands whom he had met in town later in the evening. At the time he came aboard the steamer he
The Safety report of the Str. Robinson is omitted this week.
Due to delay for boiler re
pairs the Robinson was late in getting in and her report necessarily has to be left out in this issue.
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When big business combines it is accused of conspiring when in most instances it is merely perspiring.
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WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN
tl
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock, And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin' turkey-cock, And the clackin' of the guineys, and the cluckin' of the hens, And the rooster's hallylooyer as he tiptoes on the fence; O, it's then's the times a feller is a-feelin* at his best, With the risin' sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest, As he leaves the house, bare-headed, and goes out to feed the stock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. They's something kind o' harty-like about the atmusfere When the heat of summer's over and the coolin' fall is here—
Of coarse we miss the flowers, and the blossums on the trees, And the mumble of the hummin'-birds and buzzin' of the bees;
.
But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock— When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. The husky, rusty russel of the tossels of the corn,
And the raspin' of the tangled leaves, as go'd°n as the morn; The stubble in the furries—kind o' lonesome-like, but still A-preachin' sermuns to us of the barns they growed to fill; The strawstack in the medder, and the reaper in the shed; The hosses in theyr stalls below—the clover overhead!—
O, it sets my heart a-clickin' like the tickin' of a clock. When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock!
Then your apples all is pethered, and the ones a feller keeps Is poured around the cellar-floor in red and yeller heaps; An^ youv cid^r-makin's over, and your wimmern-folks is through
With their mince and apple-butter, and their souse and sausage, too!
tei
I don't know how to te'l it—but ef sich a thin? could be
As the Ante's waniin' boardin'. and they'd ca'l around on me— I'd want to 'commodate 'em—all the whole indurin' flock—
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock!
—James Whitcomb Riley.
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CALCITE
SCREENINGS
Published monthly for the employes of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company, Rogers City, Michigan, in the interest, of Safety and Welfare. The columns of "Calcite Screenings" are open to receive items of plant news, photographs, cartoons, safety suggestions and oilier items of general plant interest.
employes.
Contributions will
be welcomed from all
All such contributions should be received before the first of each month and should bear the
name of the department and the sender and should be addressed to the editor.
(). F. FF.KPFLMAX. Editor EDITORIALS INVESTIGATE BEFORE YOU INVEST
REPORT THOSE SMALL INJURIES
Frequently hi the past few years informa tion conies to our office of salesman peddling— and peddling in tin's ease is the correct word—
questionable securities.
These high finance
schemes of doubtful character will always find in this big world some buyers, and we are sor ry indeed to say that some have found buyers
in Rogers City. It is with the idea of being helpful to our employees that we suggest you in vestigate at length before yon invest. Von will will always find reliable bankers ready to give yon good sound advice and other people who are acquainted with financial transactions and finan
cial Statements, who are glad to take the time to advise ymi if there is a question of doubt as
In checking over our accident records at the
end of every mouth, we invariably find quite a number of dressings done by the Doctor for which there are no accident reports on file. Us ually these are small injuries in which the Doc
tor is consulted at his office after plant working hours but occasionally it also includes a call to I 'alcite by him and while it makes for extra work-
in getting these reports in, it is also quite diffi cult to get all the details pertaining to the acci dent especially when several weeks have elaps ed since it happened. We are glad that you do get medical care
to the soundness of investments offered by sales men who come here with the sole idea of selling
even for small injuries and appreciate the fact that most of the small injuries can be taken care of by the doctor after yon leave the job. provid ed of course that you get First Aid treat
their security, good or doubtful, and leaving the
ment at the time the accident
investor with a certificate of little value.
want you to gp a step further and report such action to your foreman at least the following day
We
do not mean that all security and bond salesmen handle paper of doubtful nature but we do want
to impress upon yon that your advice on invest
or as soon as you possibly can.
occurs, but
we
In this wav a
ment should come from a person who is quali
record will be had of tin- injur}- while it is still fresh in your mind and will keep our records up
fied, and who is acquainted with the money mar
to the minute at all times.
ket >. and who can tell you whether a company is in a condition to pay high rates of interest v. he'! i he normal rate is low.
DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU THAT
The advice of an enthusiastic buyer of these securities brought into Rogers City, is not al
Co-operation is a first aid to Safety.
ways the best advice, and let us mention that no investment that has come along in recent
It is better to stop a minute than forever.
vears. that
we recall, needed spontaneous ac
tion -there is plenty of time to think and to in
quire—just because a salesman is leaving town tomorrow at 6:Q0 o'clock is no reason for clos
ing the deal because, if it is legitimate the sales man can be reached by mail and negotiations can be closed within a reasonable length of time. Do not be mislead by the ever handv fountain pen to tret your name on the dotted line quick-
lv.
Invest after vou have thoroughly investigat
ed.
To a really bit;" man authority never means more than responsibility. To <U> good for the sake of reward is not virtue hut selfishness.
To lie Safe we must recognize facts.
Safety like virtue is its own reward.
If Safety isn't first there may be no oppor tunity for other things.
Careful habits are your best bodyguards. Automobiles are like people. They smoke, they skid, they break down, they knock. Some times they stall.
We just heard of a guy who got into trouble by being frank and earnest, lie was Frank in St. Paul and Ernest in Minneapolis,
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Shovelsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The first used in the development of our quarry was the small Vulcan which was brought over under her own power from Met/, before the D. & M. had built their railway into
("alcite. This shovel was used in Opening the first cut along the bluff beginning at a point just
higher until in 1918 it became necessary to con struct a second bench or operating level for the economic and safe operation of the steam shov els. This second bench was begun at the north erly end of our quarry and gradually extended southward until it now extends approximately
A little later in
one half the distance of the loWcr floor of the
the same year (1911) the numbers one and two
quarry. In extending the quarry southeastward it became necessary to strip off considerable over
in back of the old main office.
BucyTUS steam shovels were added. These were of the 95C type ami were equipped with a three and one-half yard dipper. As the Quarry was
extended additional
steam shovels were installed.
These were num
bers three to eight inclusive and except for num bers seven and eight which were models UK), they were all 92 ton types built by the Marion Steam Shovel Company, The installation of
Bucyrus caterpillar traction on all steam shovels in 1923 was a decided improvement on this equip
burden and in the winter of 1924 a Dump Opera tion was organized. This consists of one elec tric shovel which is served by three trains. The
material is deposited on a dump and the opera tion is carried on by three shifts during the win
ter months when the plant is not in operation. The following article was writen by
Mr.
Bradley in 1920 as an introduction to a technical article which appeared in the General Electric
ment in that it reduced the pit force by 50 per cent and also the time for moving the shovels
Review. It is gratifying to note that the predic tions made by Mr. Bradley at that time have proven correct by the developments of the past
especially when taking shovels from one part of the quarry to another. As the quary was worked the face against
seven years. Two additional electric^ shovels have been placed in operation since that time and a unit production of 5,000 tons in ten hours has
which the shovels operated gradually became
been maintained.
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No. 2 Bucyrus Shovel in 1922
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"About ten years ago the Michi gan Limestone & Chemical Compa ny purchased a tract of several thousand acres extending for sev
eral miles along Lake Huron and
containing
limestone
which
the
company intended to develop com mercially for blast furnaces, chem
ical plants, etc.
The limestone lay
close to the water front and deliv
ery to steamers was comparatively
easy and economical with proper fa cilities.
"In order to establish a
market
for its product the Company made sales contracts at very low prices which required very careful consid eration of all details relating to con struction and operation of the plant in order that costs might be kept within the limits prescribed by the
selling prices obtainable.
Large scale opera
tions were involved and many engineering prob lems had to be solved. The general problem was to drill, blast, quarry and transport the stone to the mill and there crush, size, wash and con vey it to storage and thence load it into steamers.
"Changes were necessarily made in the plant from year to year, and the difficulty of hand ling the great tonnage was finnaly overcome by the installation of large crushers, la rye screens
Experimental Blast of Liquid Oxygen
and similar equipment.
The loading facilities
have developed to a point where steamers of 13,000 gross tons arc loaded in six hours, and the management is convinced that theoret
ically the problem of quarrying limestone is no different from that of handling and loading it.
However, no adequate means of getting large output from open cut quarry operations at lowcost has been developed and therefore attention
has lately been forced upon production at the
fe^^vv> Blasting Crewâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Insert, Geo. V. Burks, Gen, Forema â&#x20AC;˘
I'age Six
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quarry.
"Quarrying operations are being conducted against the natural bluff of limestone which is
now in excess of one and one-hall miles long and
more than one hundred feet high, requiring two benches. This hank is too high for the economic and safe operation of the 100-ton steam shovel,
and because of this fact and the high costs of
labor and material the management has become deeply interested in the application of large dig ging and transportation units which will permit the quarrying operation to keep pace with the mill and loading system. If a digging machine can be had which will take care of 5.000 tons of
material in ten hours and operate satisfactorily under this punishment day in and day out, the problem is approaching solution with a resultant economy in all operations. "For the future the quarry will approximate two miles in length in one face with five large electric shovel units working against it. served by locomotives and cars of comparable capacity. The tonnage per man hour will be multiplied by five over that of present day equipment. With the introduction of the large electric shovels, quarrying on a large property such as that under consideration is reduced to a scientific basis.
"The modern trend in industrial develop ment has been toward increasing the efficiency
Recent V;aw of Drills At
New Cut
Ston:e4 in screening, conveying and Loading it. the efficiency at the digging end has not kept pace with that of other operations, and it was specifically for the purpose of improving this
performance that the large electric shovel was installed. The results that have been accomplish ed by the new equipment have been most grati
fying, and it is firmly believed that through the proper application of these large electric shovels the quarry operations will be made entirely satir-facLorv."
of the individual, or in other words, the rate of
commodity handling per man hour; only by Mich a test have we the right to measure accomplish ment. While the management has keen able to satisfactorily increase tin- rate in crushing lime-
In commenting further on the installation
and performance of the electric shovels at our
quarry, Mr. C. R. Fisher, electrical engineer, writes as follows:
L'.-illing Crewâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;insert, Walter Meyers, "oreman
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"The development of the large electric shov el was made possible through the application in the open cut mining of midwcsiern coal fields Large overburdens up to fifi\ feel in thickness had to be removed from the coal seams, and the
success in this stripping led to introduction on the Iron range where they are now gradually replacing the large >earner . One interesting and remarkabl • fact is in the i lcr< ;: •• i ; digging efficiency of the small steam shovels in the same seven years. An investigation on the Range
showed that large steamers produced aboul 60 per cent more tonnage than the small 100-ton shovel which was then digging about 1301) tons in ten hours. The large electric has gradually been pushed to over 5000 tons in ten hours, and the small steamer has held its ratio of produc tion without any design changes except the ad dition of caterpillars. This is a remarkable per
Cart Used ror Pullirrj Drill Casing
formance and shows that organization and op erating efficiency can do as much as engineering and technical developments.
"Our Xo. 9 electric shovel was the great im provement over previous units, particularly in the control system. When electricity came into general use in the United States Xavy. a very efficient control system was invented by Ward Leonard to swing the heavy turrets and raise the 14-inch guns. This system of generator field control was adopted feo operate the various functions on the shovel and all large electric units built since that time have used this system. "The writer wishes to take this opportunity
of thanking the operating personnel of tin- plant
and shovels for their valuable assistance in these
developments^/' DRILLING AND BLASTING
The first drilling equipment used in our quarry was the Clipper type, gasoline driven non-traction. Later tin- gasoline engines were replaced with electric motors and in 1922 thirteen
new tractor type Cyclone drills were purchased replacing the older equipment in use up to that time.
Holes are drilled on top of the bank about twenty feet from the vd1^ of the face and about fifteen feet apart for steam shovels and sixteen feet each way \<<r electric shovels on account of
L.-illing Crew—Insert, Thomas Kelley, Foreman
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the latter shovels taking a larger cut.
The holes
are usually drilled about six feel below the quarry floor level in order to bring out the bottom in shooting and prepare it lor shovel digging. The quarry faces runs from 35 to 55 feet in height and the holes drilled are from 40 to 60 feet
deep.
A six inch casing is used for the. first four
to ten feet to start the hole and the size of the
drill bit is five and five-eighths inches in diame ter. If all the holes drilled in our quarry last year were laid end to end the distance would be
approximately seven miles. In all probability the distance drilled this year will be even greater. Drill holes are charged with dynamite using
from one hundred to three hundred pounds per hole, depending on the depth and hardness of the rock which varies slightly along the quarry face. The total number ol holes charged and fired at one time varies from five to forty. The big job of the blasting crew is to keep enough rock
Brushing Crewâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;John Brunin^, Foreman
done by the drilling and blasting crews after op erations had ceased in the fall.
Last spring a small 20-ton electric type shov el was added to the equipment to better clear
up the stone surface. Four auto trucks serve this shovel in disposing this material.
blasted down to insure continuous operation of the shovels for the production of fifty thousand tons of stone per day. Dynamite and blasting
In closing it is only fitting that we call at tention to the remarkable record made by the
accessories are stored in magazines located at
Quarry crews in Accident Prevention. They
various places convenient to the different parts of the quarry. The rock at our quarry is of such nature as to require very little secondary blast ing. This method consists of drilling the bould ers that are too large to pass thru the car doors.
have not had a single lost time accident due to
with a jack-hammer drill using compressed air furnished by the shovels. For the secondary blasting the dynamite used comes in small sticks usually one inch by eight inches in size. Up until 1920 no stripping was necessary ex
premature blasting since the inception of the Plant, and only one due to other causes in the
past three years. This is an achievement worthy of every commendation when we take into con sideration the fact that they have handled from 200.000 pounds of dynamite per season in the earlier years to 1.200.000 pounds per season in recent years.
Both shifts of the Drilling crews still have
cept to clear the top of the quarry of brush and a clean record thus far this year with only one small timber.
Most of this clearing was usually
lost-time accident for each during the entire
Shovel Crew and Floor Blasterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Insert J. L. Laffin, Foreman
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season of last year and we feel confident that they will continue their record for the remain der of the season.
crews
have
one
Each
shift
lost-time
of
the
accident
Shovel
charged
against them to date this year, however they too
have experienced a remarkable reduction in ac cidents over previous years. These are wonder ful records and reflect due credit on the crews
for the splendid efforts being put forth to pro mote Safety. OBITUARY
We are very sorry in having to record the deaths during the past month of Leonard, the four year old sou of Carlos Cole, of the Construc tion Dcpt., Adolph Joppich, the father of Leon ard Joppich of the Mill Dept.. and Frank Ned
deau of the Machine Shop. "Calcite Screenings" joins in extending our sincerest sympathy to the immediate relatives in this, their hour of bereavement. CARD OF THANKS
\\ e desire to express our sincere thanks and
appreciation to the employees of the Construc tion department for their kindness and sympathy during our recent bereavement in the loss of our dear son. Carlos Cole and family. DEATH TAKES FRANK NEDDEAU
It is with a feeling of deep regret that we record the passing to the Great Beyond of Frank
No. 9â&#x20AC;&#x201D;First Electric Shove^
older employees, having worked at our plant some twelve years or more.
He was first em
ployed as a brakeman. shortly after promoted to locomotive engineer and for the past several years was in charge of all locomotive repair work on the night shift. He had been in ill health for some little time
and several months ago went on an extended va cation in order to regain his health. About a
week previous to his death he went to Flint for medical treatment and altho his condition was
serious his death came as a shock to his family
Xeddeau who died at the home of his sister, Mrs. I). \Y. McKeuzie of Flint. Michigan, on October
and many friends.
26th.
on Saturday morning, October 29th, and were attended by a large number of his fellow workers
"Shad," as he was commonly known by his many friends and fellow workers, was one of our
Funeral services were held
from the home of his brother-in-law in Alpena and friends from our plant.
Shovel Crew and Floor Blasterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Insert, T. L. Kelley, Foreman
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LIMESTONE AND ITS EXTENSIVE USES By J. A. Valentin, M. L. 6c C. Co. Chemist OPENHEARTH
The Dundee formation consists essentially
AND ITS USES
Probably before going into the uses of limeStOUe farther, it would be well to give a brief out
of Calcium Carbonate, allho as may be expected from the way it is formed, is not found pure in
line as to the origin of these great deposits, it being estimated that about three percent of the
any large extent, the impurities generally pres
earth's crust is calcium. Limestone is one of our commonest rocks.
On the basis of chemical composition lime stone may lie divided into several classes : very pure crystallized limestone is known as Calcite:
It is of sedimentary origin.
That is. it was de
posited originally from solution by living organ isms or by chemical or physical processes. The average layman may perhaps have to stretch his imagination some to think of the
territory now known as Michigan and its im mediate surroundings, as having been at one time covered by seas. Imt nevertheless, our great
geologists tell us. and certain existing condi tions bear them out. that such was the case.
In
fact the vicinity was. in years gone by and at different times, the basin for several shallow seas, each having its own particular gTOUp «»'" liv
ing organisms which are responsible for the de positing of sediment now bearing the name ol the particular sea invading the territory during
its deposition and even though from possible so lution and redeposition much of the original characteristics of the hard part, skeletons and shells of the organisms secreting them, have
bein destroyed, enough usually remains to tell the story and classify the origin. Hue of Un
ent are Magnesia, Iron, Alumina and Silica.
as the content of Magnesia increases the stone is called Maguesian limestone until the ratio of Calcium Carbonate to Magnesium Carbonate be comes 1(K) to 84. when it becomes Dolomite.
If
the Magnesia content remains low but other impurities increase, the rock is known as Argil laceous (clayey) limestone, natural cement rock (with suitable clay content for cement manufac
ture) and calcareous (lime containing) shale. Limestones are- also classified according to
their physical properties, as hard or soli, porous or dense, coarsely crystalline or fine grained, when metamorphosed—-that is, when by the ag
ency of heat limestone has been crystallized after deposition, it is known as Marble. The Michigan Limestone & Chemical Comp any quarry is located on the northern exposure of the Dundee formation. It is an exposure of high calcium stone, hence the name Calcite was given to the port and also the first stone carry
This means that they consist of layers varying
ing self-unloading steamer. The central loca tion of the quarry with relation to other lake ports has been a big factor in making it what it is so justly termed—The largest limestone quar
in material, texture, color and in thickness, cor
ry.
characteristic
features about
the structure ol
sedimentary rocks is that they are stratified.
responding, of course, to existing conditions dur ing their deposition. Thus, we have in this section the remains of several seas—the Traverse formation contain
ing stratas of limestones, shales, clays in the high calcium stratas of which are located the
qttaries of Alpena. Roelcport, Afton and Petoskey.
Beneath the Traverse and the next older
formation is the Dundee.
It is in this forma
tion that the Michigan Limestone and Chemical
Company has their quarry and we are more ol ios familiar with its characteristics. The sea before the Dundee was the Monroe, differing
The uses of limestone are many and varied
likewise diiiereni uses sometimes require differ ent sizes.
I his necessitates an elaborate- screen
ing and sizing plant.
In preparing Calcite stone
for market it may be said thai Drilling, Blasting, Loading. Transporting. Crushing, Conveying,
Washing, .screening and Sizing are all major Operations but next to quality or chemical com position the customers big requirement is size. The. management has always endeavored to ful fill this requirement and to give the size desired for the particular operation and are now planning a new sizing and washing plant with added im
some in chemical composition from the Traverse and Dundee formation in that they are compos
provements. Calcite stone, altho not chalky, is comparatively soft and it is regretable that al
ed mostly of high calcium stone, whereas the Monroe is composed mostly of high Magnesia
ly sized, the treatment it receives in the Hand
Stone and dolomites.
There
were also other
seas but the above should suffice at this time
to give a fairly good idea as to the deposition of sedimentary rocks.
tho it leaves the screens perfectly and beautiful ling and transporting between the screens and place of consumption is always abusive as to size. The sizes now being made are ' >pcnhearth. which is the largest and goes through an inch
Page Eleven
Calcite Screenings The fuels used are generally
natural
gas,
bar grizzly and over a 6 inch cataract grizzly; the Flux goes through the 6 inch cataract grizz ly and over a Lj inch vibrating screen : sizes smaller than these are sized with vibrating
producer gas. oil or pulverized coal, depending largely whichever fills the needs 0.1 the operation 'he best and keeps the cost per ton of steel pro
screens and material down to one-sixteenth of an
duced at a minimum.
inch is being saved and sized in the screening
long flame is directed down upon the metal from the top ends of the furnace, first from one end
plant.
The Opcuhearth can probably be justly call ed our banner size stone.
Changes are constant
ly being made to give the customer a size more acceptable for his particular operation, with a result that in price, it sells for a little more per ton than does the other sizes.
The name ( )pcnhearth was given this par ticular size of stone because of its great use in
the manufacture of steel by the openhearth proCess.
To give a technical and detailed account ol
Ihe operation of the Openhearth furnace would require more space than we are permitted to use. but in a general way. the pig iron as it comes from the blast furnace runs high in Silica. Man ganese. Phosphorous, Carbon and Sulphur. To make steel these must be reduced and this is
done in an Openhearth furnace, which is a rec tangular brick structure varying in size from 5 to 250 ton capacity, the later furnaces are ol about 100-ton capacity, which are about twenty
feel wide and eighty feet long with a basin or hearth with depth sufficient for about 24 inches of molten metal. In short, it looks like a huge oven.
The hearth or bottom of the furnace on
which the metal is made molten is basin shaped and lined with dead burned dolomite.
In this
basin is placed the charge which consists, start ing at the bottom, of limestone, ore and scrap and
molten pig iron or cold pig iron to complete the el arge. Thii is all heated until the mass is £lightly fused, when more molten pig iron is add d. This creates a lively reaction in which -,i greater part ><f the silica, manganese, phos phorus and some of the carbon is oxidized. The silica, i • and phosphorous form com'-. inds thai slag with the iron oxide and join the Lou and lime silicate-- already molteM. About seventy-five percent of the slag is drawn off in rb< u' three hours and the action continues for
rbout six more hours during which time the lim stone i being- decomposed by the heat and the carbon dioxide bubbling up through the mol ten l.i.: ; exposes part of the metal to the flame, oxidizing it and completing the purification
The heat in the form of a
and then from the other, ami the molten mass
kept agitated by the breaking up of the lime stone and the bubbling through of the Carbon Dioxide.
When
the molten steel has reached
the desired stale it is drawn off into ladles from
whence it goes to the bar and rolling mills. Another big use ol the ( tpenhearth size is in the manufacture of Soda Ash and Caustic So da. Most of the soda ash sold in this country
is made by the "'Ammonia-Soda or Solvay Pro cess, A solution of common salt is saturated with ammonia and into thb mixture Carbon di
oxide is passed, when the resultant mixture is evaporated and soda ash obtained by crystalliza tion. Ammonia, although a by-product oi coke ovens, is comparatively expensive, consequently the gas is recovered to be used again, and in re covering the mother liquor is treated with lime and distilled.
The lime replaces the ammonia in
its compounds and thus sets the gas free to be distilled off.
The usual impurities in the stone
are not generally harmful, but some operations claim high magnesia may cause some trouble in that it forms a coating in the Ammonia still, cutling down its production, and. of course, the
more impurities the less lime, the active and de sired constitueni being reduced by the extent oi the contamination,
h can be seen that in the
manufacture of Soda Ash the limestone is in de mand both for the lime ami carbon dioxide.
Caustic S. da '• '- made by dissolving soda ash in
water and ad ling line, thus precipitating Calci um Carbonate ( ludg b he caustic soda being left in solution. In reaction Magnesia is inert", acting merely as a diluent, hut impurities
-a., und -irable in Chat they [i rm g datinous pre: ates which (Jo no "' • dear, thereby tends to contaminate the finished product. In the manufacture of sugar, again both car bon dioxide and lime are in demand, so limestone
i; bought and burned as used. The juice, a • extract< 1 from ei her sugar i• •. I Or cane, eon! a in;, various impurities. Souroi" these Vffil'J discolor the sugar, others (organic
Acids) will change the sugar to uuerystallizable
ted by the ore reaction. Here high Magnes ia stone has a tendency to stick ami build up the bottom of the hearth which is objectionable: also a high magnesia stone causes the slag to be come thick and heavy which mirl be thinned
gluco ••. and so reduce production. To remove i! e impurities the juice is heated to near the boil
with fluor-spar before it can be drawn off. Fluor-spar is cm ib and too. if added in too great
uable salts, and also forms an insoluable com pound with the sugar itself, so if is then neces-
amount the slag becomes too fluid, so high Mag nesia in this operation is not desirable.
ing point in the presence of an excess >>\ lime. The lime combines with the acids, breaking up
the other organic compounds and forming insulafter the lime has completed its action to pass Carbon dioxide through the liquor, which
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breaks up the combination between the lime and sugar, precipitating the lime as Calcium Carbon
ate which in settling carries with it the coloring and suspended matter, leaving a clear solution of sugar, which is pumped through a filter press evaporated and granulated to the finished pro duct with which we are all familiar.
The lime for use in sugar refining should be as pure as possible. Magnesia and soluable si lica are especially undesirable as they tend to scale up the evaporator used in evaporating the juice. Iron should be low as it is apt to give the finished product a greyish color which of course is objectionable. And thus, we find the Open Hearth size be ing used in some of the most important of the country's industries wherever lime is used, whether it be in chemical lime, glass, cermics, water softening, soda ash and caustic soda, bleaching powder, calcium carbide, illuminating gas and ammonia, commercial fertilizer, spray ing compounds, sugar, paper, paints or tanning and the kiln is of the shaft type, the large size stone is preferable. The principals underlying the use of lime and the various lime reactions in the many industries remain much the same from year to year. How ever, the desire for leadership, coupled with the keen competition of the present age, are pro ducing numerous changes in our various indus tries and it becomes more evident every day that in general people are beginning to realize that, what is true of individuals is largely true of industry also and that he who can produce a certain piece of work a little better than any one else, just naturally puts himself on the pre ferred list.
PLANT ACCIDENT RECORD No. Accidents
Department TRACKS
1926 -
-
-
-
1927
-SO
TRANSPORTATION—KELLEY 2 0 TRANSPORTATION—LAFFIN 3 0 SHOVELS—KELLEY 4 1 SHOVELS—LAFFIN 3 1 DRILLS—MEYERS --10 DRILLS—KELLEY - 1 0 BLASTING CREWS 1 0 MILL—HAGEN 3 1 MILL—BELLMORE 2 2 ELECTRICAL CREWS 0 0 MACHINE SHOP .-42 CARPENTER SHOP 0 0 YARD MACHINERY -.30 YARD LABOR 7 2 TUGS - 1 0 MISCELLANEOUS 1 2 TOTALS
-
-
41
11
The above list represents the number of lost time accidents that have occurred in the differ
ent departments during the operating season to November first of both years 1926 and 1927. Two lost time accidents were recorded dur
ing the past month.
One in the Yard Labor de
partment when a workman dropped a piece of scrap-iron on his foot while loading a truck and which resulted in eight days lost time. The oth er occurred in the Miscellaneous department
when a driller on test-hole work dropped a cas ing on his foot when he stumbled while carry ing same. This accident resulted in two days lost time.
We also recorded
a
third
accident
which
happened on August 24th and which we have FIRE DESTROYS HOME OF WM. BEACH The home of William Beach at Calcite was
totally destroyed bv fire Friday morning, Octo ber 28th.
Mrs. Beach had only been gone from the house about ten minutes to telephone a grocery order to Rogers City from Smith's boarding house near by, when on her return she found the house filled with smoke. An alarm was immediately sent to the Fire Department at Rogers City and although they made a quick run to the scene the flames had gained such headway that nothing could be done to save the place.
The contents
were also destroyed and practically everything was a total loss. Fortunately there was but lit tle wind at the time and the firemen were able
to save surrounding buildings. "Calcite Screenings" joins with the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Beach in offering their sympathy in the loss of their home.
had under consideration for some time as to
whether or not it was necessary for the injured man to have lost the time he did. This accident occurred to a steam shovel craner on Laffin's
shift who bruised his arm by being struck with a hoist chain when same broke. Although there was nothing visible on the arm to indicate that the injury was sufficient to warrant the loss of time, only the injured man himself could determin whether or not he could resume his regular work on the next shift or do some lighter work and the fact that he did lose time makes it neces
sary in all fairness to the other departments, to charge the Shovel Department on Laffin's shift with a lost-time accident.
In this, the last month of operations, we ask that every employee at our Plant leave nothing undone to prevent accidents either to themselves or others that the splendid record we have made in this work so far this year will be maintained until the close of the season.
Every man has a right to live and we want to help him to live his life in perfect Safety.
Soft heads do more harm than hard hearts.
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I'age Thirteen
PRIZES AWARDED TO BEST KEPT RESIDENCES
Although periodical inspections were made
in the lower right hand corner and that oi Mrs.
throughout the summer by the judges of the Best Kept Hume Grounds contest, it became
Mertz's in the lower left. The splendid work done by these ladies in the planting of shrubs and
rather difficult as the season drew to a close to
flowers and the keeping up of the lawns has
decide the winners, however, after much careful
done much to set their homes out among the many beautiful residences in our community.
deliberation it was finally decided to divide the prize for those living in Company Mouses equal ly among the four highest, who are as follows: Mrs. Clare Macklem, Mrs. Dave Larsen. Mrs. Frank Hamilton and Mrs. William Kunncr.
Tt
was especially difficult to judge this class of homes inasmuch
as considerable work
on the
front lawns at least was done by the Company. It was therefore a case of taking into considera tion the improvements that had been made in the back yards. Mrs. Macklem's home is shown in the upper right hand corner, the rear part of which was
exceptionally well kept up and beautified by rows
of flowers.
In the upper left is a view of part of
the vacant plot of ground bordering on the hous es of Mrs. Larsen. Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs. Run
ner. These ladies worked diligently in keeping this plot up throughout the season and the re sults they obtained were most gratifying indeed. In the class of houses occupied by employ ees other than Company Houses, the prize was equally divided between Mrs. Casimir Sobek and
Mrs. Louis Mertz. Mrs. Sobek's home appears
We also wish to make special mention of the efforts put forth in the Company House class bv
Mrs. J. P. Kinville. Mrs. J. L. Laffin. Mrs. Roil Rains and Mrs. Fred Bradley; also in the other
than Company houses of the results obtained by Mrs. Walter'Relarski. Mrs. William Heller and Mrs. Charles Heinzel. Many others, too num erous to list here, both in Company houses and in their own houses, put forth efforts in beauti fying their surroundings. While the contest was held primarily for the house-wives of our em ployees, we feel sure that the husbands were call
ed on frequently to lend a hand and we want them to feel that their efforts are also appreci ated. (We earnestly hope that the efforts put forth in this direction this season will be contin
ued and that your home surroundings will con tinue to become more beautiful each year.)
And Henry Ford has been betrayed by one of his own flivvers, h'.ven Henry can*t make one of the darned things mind.
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Chicago visiting friends last month.
PLANT PERSONALS
William Tulgetske, pitman on Laffin's shift has been confined to his home with a severe at
tack of pneumonia.
George V. Burks, snpertntendenl of Blast ing and Drilling, returned recently from Mercy
W. li. Mayo, chief engineer of the Ford Mo tor Company was a plant visitor recently. Mr. . :• ,, came up froa i !) troi! on the new st« a er Carl D. Bradley.
Joseph Valentin, pja it eh mist, together Hospital at Bay City alter a severe attack of v/i !i hi.; mo.ie. r, . ill an enjoyable wee', 0 pkuresy and while likely, his physi motor nip to M ••.: al, Ontario, the firs!
cian recommend d a n.ft in i
; climate and
(if the month.
Mr. Burks together with Mrs. Burks left short
ly for Tucson, Arizona., where they will spend
CARD OF THANKS
ihe winter. We hope the ft si and warm climate will be beneficial to George and that he will be aide to return next spring much improved in
pr< a iug our iincej e than
health.
ing and house-hold articles given us by our many
Frank Reiuke of look his father to the cently. Although his reports his Eaih r as ci nil be expected,
the electrical department hospital at Ann Arbor re condition is serious, Frank getting along as well as
Since the arrival of a I i • i • '
We desire to take this u porturiity "f ex-
: ttion for
the many kindnesses shown u >and gifts ol cloth friends and co-workers ot our hi me by fire. William Beach and family*
' y a ih :
h< me of Mr. and M n*. 0. I». \V sld i . w • lioti ;e constfu itioi; Eorei ta .
been all smiles.
M
Vrthu r, ha
M -. Weldon is a daughter <>'.
Mr. and LV1 •:•. Ma.cArthur an I that makes Frank
a granddad ly, do
"t i .
Art Paull and Lloyd Cynley gave a dancing party at SchuKz*s llall in Hawks recently. All report a very enjoyable time.
Ben Rounds of the Machine Shop went to May City for medical treatment several weeks
agOi
lien has been suffering from a severe at
tack of rheumatism and was taken to the train
at Alpena by the Riant litis. His many friends will be glad to hear thai his condition is much improved since his arrival there.
CAUGHT ON THEIR HONEYMOON
Shortly after Sidney Vial of the Yard De partment anil Miss Gertrude llcnkcy of Millers burg were united in the holy bonds of matrimony they were driving thru our Plant when they were slopped by the Editor who happened along with his camera, and asked to pOse for their picture to which they readily agreed with ihe result as shown above.
We are glad to announce that Henry Hopp and Rhinari Froetkh of the Construction Depart
We wish Mr. and Mrs. Vial much
happiness and joy in their wedded life and also thank them for letting us take the picture.
ment have come to our rescue in getting news
for these columns. As a starter these bays have come thru fine and we sincerely hope they will continue with their good work. By ihe way this might be a good example for the other depart ments to follow.
MARRIAGES
Ihiring the past month wed ding bells rang for the fol lowing plant employees: ReRoy <roulette of the drilling
How about it?
Dept., and Sidney Vial of the Ernie Adrian of the Storehouse office under
yard Dept. Calcite Screenings joins with the many friends ..f the above in wishing them touch
went an operation for the removal of his tonsils
al Alpena recently.
We wish him a speedy re
covery.
jack Kinville of the main office spent a few days in Detroit and Buffalo recently.
Hugh Re wis of the Engineering department together with Mrs. Rewis spent two weeks in
happiness and joy. It may make im difference to you if your grandfather was a monkey, but you've got to admil it must have been tottgh on grandmother.
KiCWAflp LAiW8|,a-r 1?iftcen
Calcite Screenings RED CROSS DRIVE GOES OVER BIG AT PLANT
It is with a great deal of pleasure that we
publish the following result ol the Red Cross Drive at the Plant this year as given us by R. B.
Henley under whose direction the drive was so i wceessfully put over. Xo. Contri-
Solieitor Department Leo Kelley, Quarry - - I. L, Raili-1. ( ktarry - - -
Imtions Ami. - 83 $ 83.00 - 76 76.00
Capfe C. C. Mcljuinn. Str. Muuson 38
70.00
Capt--F. F. Pearse, Str, Taylor
-
.^7
69.00
Walter Meyers. Drilling & Blasting 69
69.00
Cant. M. R. Macl.aiu. Str. Robinson 36
61.00
Otto Zemple, Yard - - - 61 Capt. Clayton Martin. Str. Calcite - 36
61.00 60.00
-
-
-
55
55.00
George C. Wing, Electrical
X. W. Pollock, Tracks
-
-
55
55.00
William llagen. Mill Max Bclhnore. Mill
-
-
-
-
Frank Mac Arthur, Construction
55
55.00
52
52.00
- 46
46.00
!â&#x20AC;˘'.. R. loppich. Miscellaneous - 44 foseph Penglase, Machine Shop - 41 Ella Reinke, Office (Main) - - -'4
44.00 41.00 32.00
Capt. Theo. Dahlberg, Sir. White 22 Ca.pt. Wm. J. Macl.ean. Str. Bradley 24 Edw. Kelley, Office (Engineering) 11 [oho Bruning, Charing - - - 10
31.00 24.00 11.00 10.00
Totals
------
^75
31005.00
It is indeed gratifying to note the splendid
response that is given to this wonderful humani tarian work each year at our Plant and on the Boats ami Mr. Henley desires to take this oppor
tunity of expressing his thanks and appreciation to all the solicitors and every employee at the Plant and of the Bradley Transportation Comp
WHO IS IT?
We'll give you three guesses for the correct name of the above gentleman. He has worked at our plant for quite a number of years and now holds a responsible position in one of the depart ments, lie has many friends at the Plant and
is known to practically every employee.
The
any for their co-operation in making this drive
picture was taken in the winter of 1918 while
such a huge success, surpassing as it does the high mark of 1926 by 54 dollars. We might add that only fifty cents of every subscription, whether that subscription be one dollar, five dollars or ten dollars, is sent to the
lie was at work at our Buffalo Plant.
National Chapter of the Red Cross for relief
the following employees and left baby girls: Stanley Mod-
work that is carried on by that institution thru-
niil the country every year, while the remainder is kept in our own community to be used lor any emergency that might arise.
BIRTHS
During the past month the stork visited at the homes of
ryznstd of the shovel Dept., Raf fin's
Shift,
and
Adolph
Gruelka of the Machine Shop.
Baby boys were delivered to APPRECIATION
the homes of William
!-",â&#x20AC;˘
.
i;i
I teller
I wish to thank the Michigan Rimestone & Chemical Company for the prize given me as a
of the Machine Shop, Elmer Wenzel of the Pow
reward for one of the well kept home grounds.
fin's Shift.
1 am sure we all appreciate having such nice homes provided for us and hope to continue to CO-operate with the Company in helping to keep
Husband and wife should not find fault with each other; leave it for the relatives of each to
them desirable.
pick you to pieces.
Mrs. Frank Hamilton.
A man who cannot lead and will not follow.
invariably obstructs.
er Plant and Alia Tatro of the Shovel Dept.. Laf
Purbank died to,, soon.
If he could only
have done something about a stringless ukulele.
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HINDSIGHT vs. FORESIGHT
- Notional Safety No
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Page Seventeen
With the Boats of the Bradley Transportation Company
In our previous issues of the "Calcie Screen ings" we have set apart several columns to tell
BRADLEY with all her modern improvements
and Mr. Pradley. who is always looking for an Opportunity to improve conditions, conceived the idea of building an unloader boat of larger carrying capacity and instead of using the pan conveyors, planned the use of conveyor belts for
as well as being the largest vessel on tin- Great
unloading the cargo on account of their success
about special duties performed by our various steamer-, to-wit: The new Steamer CARL D.
Lakes: the Steamer T. W. ROBINSON in build
ful operation in our plant.
ing breakwaters at Milwaukee, etc.. and the
contemplated also offered a number of difficul ties to overcome to adapt her for the unloading equipment. During the winter of 1914 a contract was
Steamer B. II. TAYLOR with the construction of our own break water at Calcite.
This month our boat section is occupied by the Steamers W. P. WHITE and JOHN G. MUN-
The size of the boat
given the American Ship Building Company for
SON. In the past few seasons practically all special work required of the boats has been done
the construction of this steamer at their Lorain
by those steamers equipped with the more mod ern equipment which better enables them to handle these jobs where constant stopping and starting ol the unloading equipment is necessary. Yet, it all had its beginning in the Steamer W. R. WHITE. Up until the summer of 1915, when
W. P. WTI1TK went into commission the latter
part of August, 1915. She is 530 feet keel (550 feet overall) 60 feet beam and 31 feet deep with a carrying capacity of 10.500 on JO'b" draft. She is propelled by a triple expansion engine devel oping 2400 II. P. and steam is furnished by three
the Steamer WHITE went into commission, the number of self-unloader boats on the Rakes was
Scotch boilers 13'<>" in diameter by 11*2" long. The unloading equipment was furnished and
limited, the largest being of 7.500 tons capacity, the same size as our Steamer CALCITE. They were all equipped with pan conveyors running the length of the cargo hold on each side of the
installed by R. C. lb Co. and consists of two 40" conveyor belts in the tunnel under the cargo hold.
ship.
boom belt and is conveyed over to the storage on
During the season of 1914 the need for
more unloader boat capacity became apparent
Yard, and work begun promptly.
The Steamer
These belts discharge into a 96" bucket elevator
which in turn discharges the cargo on to a 60" the
dock.
Another
feature
of
kdktaaaa^
Steamer John G. Munson When She Was Known As The Carl C. Bradley
the
Steamer
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Page Eighteen WHITE at that time was a 150 foot boom which
better adapted to handling of larger size material
was considerably longer than that on other un loader boats and this has proven of great bene
that the Steamer WHITE.
fit in unloading the cargo higher and farther back on the dock. Power for driving the unload ing equipment supplied by two Westinghou>e compound engines which are connected by rope drives to conveyors and elevators. She is named in honor of Mr. W. P. White, the first President of the Michigan Limestone
& Chemical Company who is now one of its Di rectors.
During the season of 1910 the necessity of additional unloader boat capacity was again real ized, and arrangements were completed for the construction of the Steamer JOHX G. Ml'XSON. This steamer is of the same length and beam as the Steamer \\ 111'TE but is one foot deeper, with
engines and boilers of the same size. The improvements and changes in the Steam
As in the case of the Steamer \\ II I'l R the
hull and machinery was built by the American
Ship Building Company at their Lotfain Yard, and the unloading equipment was furnished and installed by the Robinson Conveying Belt Com-
Both the Steamers W. F. WHITE and JOHN (i. Ml'XSOX have been the pioneers in ihe de velopment of our self-unloader boats; the Steam er WHITE being the first to use conveyor belts instead of pan conveyors in the tunnel, and the Steamer ML'XS()X being the first to operate the unloading equipment by use of electrical in stead of steam power. C. R. Plalz.
CREW OF THE STEAMER W. F. WHITE
bodied largely in tin- unloading equipment. The principal improvement was the use of electric motors to drive the unloading equipment, in
Theodore Dahlburg. Captain; Thomas Suttle. chief engineer: George Reck, first mate; Walter Callam. second mate: Harry Sloan, first asst. engineer; J. J. Mclvenna. 2nd as>t. engi neer: Alfred Dwyer, 3rd asst. engineer: Arthur
stead of the engines on the WHITE, and this
Graham, oiler: Herbert Graham, oiler; Walter
er Ml'XSOX over ihe Steamer WHITE are em
has proven to be of great benefit in all respects.
RUcfson. oiler; Rrastus Dawson, fireman: ThoT
This necessitated the installation of a <>00 K\V
Rllefson, fireman; Anton Oleson, fireman; Ted
steam turbine generator in the engine room with cables and electric control equipment to operate the motors forward. All the handling of con
Ramp, fireman: Charles Wolf, fireman: Peter Ward, fireman; Peter Centala. coal passer; John Mewinny. coal passer; Thomas EJjggins, coal
veying equipment was then done with automatic
passer; Xatlian Cadwell. conveyorman;
push button stations. The additional foot of depth of the Steamer tin-
Moniger. asst. conveyorman: Reon RePudry. boatswain; Wallace Soney, wheelsman: Allen Kemp, wheelsman; John Saunders, wheelsman:
gates and belt, so that the Steamer MR\'S()X is
Theo Strand, watchman: Leonard Dauzis. watch-
also
allowed
for
more
clearance
between
Steamer W. F. Whits Beln0 Loaded At Calcite
Bert
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Page Nineteen
man: John Petrishen. watchmen : Donald Lang-
ridge,
watchman;
Donald
McRenzie.
The Fa-iciss Race of the White and Bradley
deck-
watch: Allen Strand, deck-watch: h'.mil Johnson, deck-hand; Michael Stevens, deck-hand; Oscar
Jacobson, deck-hand: Charles Dale, steward; Fred Ellis, waiter: Raymond Ply, second cook;
Carl Walker, porter; Alfred Roach, porter; and (). R. Ralor. radio operator. CREW OF THE STR. JOHN G. MUNSON
Crosley MeOuinn. captain: Jack Anderson, chief engineer: Carl Rckburg. first mate: Clar ence
Thorsen.
second
mate:
Earl
Rockhart.
The Ship We
Left Behind
Us
first asst. engineer; Melvin Keyse, 2nd asst. en gineer;
Arthur Johnson, 3rd
asst.
engineer:
I laakoii Pearson, boatswain ; Clair Wade, wheels
man : Neil McDonald, wheelsman: Pert Foley, watchman: Kenneth
Morrison, watchman:
Rs-
kel Reid, watchman; James Stafford, deckhand; Oscar Hoch. deckhand; Walter Johnson, deck hand :
George
Baker,
deckhand : Clarence
Sehwering, deckhand: Perry Middaugh, deck hand; John Miller, steward; Mark (irassin, 2nd
cook: Ruthven Taylor, waiter: Stanley Wrightnii, porter; Michael lloolich, porter; John Reckziegel. conveyor engineer; Victor Dunger. help
er; George Leveck, radio operator; Clarence
(This poem was written by Charles Ward, man ager ol" our buffalo Riant, at the time when these were ihe only two ships in the fleet). Have you heard the tale of the gallant race of the Flagship Carl D. Pradley with her sisler
ship of the Limestone Fleet, who flaunted her boom so proudly? Oh. The White was glad of the rep she had, as the fleetest that sailed fresh waters. And she didn't propose to lose that rep
to any of Neptune's Daughters.
Xow Captain
Rill is a canny old pill, like many a Scottish kid dy. Put he didn't have much on Mac at that, for little Billy's daddy knows a thing or 1wo
Hoy, oiler; Edmund Magnuson, oiler: Win. Patchkowski, oiler; George Raughery. fireman; Glen Gilmore, fireman; Dudley Stone, fireman: Barney Oldficld, fireman: John Warto, fireman;
about sailing a ship. The art of which he's past
Andrew Haider,
o'er hill and heather, of what they would do
fireman;
Harold
Carter, coal
master.
So the White is fast, but Uncle Bill
thought that maybe his ship was faster.
For
weeks and mouths the rival clans had shouted
passer; Charles Pons, coal passer; John Havlaud.
that other crew if ( ver they got together.
coal passer.
wouldn't be even a urease spot left as biÂŤr as a
There
Crew of the Steamer John G. Munsonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Insert, (right) Capt. Crcsley McQuinn; (left) Chief Jack Anderson
Page Twenty
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wooden nickle. They would clean them up and make them look like a wart on a mustard pickle.
Well, the fateful hour arrived at last, so fraught with intent and meaning.
The Bradley took on
to go by her. Thus the race was run and the honors won, and the crew cheered each other madly, for the White is still Queen of the Inland
Seas, and no ship has yet passed the Bradley.
ten thousand of flux, the White ten thousand
To avoid any misunderstanding we wish to
of screenings, and each of them tried to get the pole, 'twas a cinch they both couldn't do it. Xow if anyone took just a moment to look very close ly at how things were going, they would see the Scotch cunning get into the running and make a beautiful showing; for it would never do. figur ed Mac and his crew, as they finished their load ing in a hurry, to let the foe speed too far in the lead, or he might give them something to worry. So with all there might they made snug and tight, and heard with their hearts beating gladly,
announce that there will be another issue of this
for winter before this issue is ready for distri
the signal to clear, and then with a cheer, they
bution.
were after the fast flying Bradley. And all thru the night pressing on in full flight, there as swift as the stroke of a sword, sped the Queen of the Rakes, in pursuit of her mate, wdiose ban ner no ship had yet lowered. What would the dawn bring to those Ragles a'wing, and how'd go the race on the morrow? Would victory preen on the bow of the Queen or would she be
keep this boat section of the magazine right up
magazine about December 10th or 15th and in
which we wish to publish the reports of the final Safety Meetings of the boats of the fleet. We hope all crews will co-operate in sending in their reports sufficiently early as to enable us to have them by the time we go to press. We would also like all the addresses of the crews in order
to forward copies of the December issue to them by mail as no doubt all the boats will be laid up Don't forget the December issue.
Ret's
to snuff to the last.
Some recent boat loading records were made at our Plant when the steamer Carl D. Bradley was loaded with 12,554 gross tons of numbers two and lour screenings in a total time of five hours or an actual loading time of three hours
bowed down in sorrow? When at last the day broke and through columns of smoke, a score of eyes eagerly sought her. There the Bradley
and 48 minutes averaging 330o tons per hour or 55.1 tons per minute.
still sped like a swallow ahead, with the lead of a league of blue water. They say a stern chase always means a long race, and for hours excite ment grew higher. But although she cut down the Bradley's lead to a mile, the White had vet
burg Steamship Co. was loaded with 11,214 gross tons of Flux in total time of two hours and fifty minutes or actual time of two hours and eight een minutes, averaging 4878 tons per hour and 81.3 tons per minute.
The steamer William E. Palmer of the Pitts
Crew of Steamer W. F. Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Insert, (left) Capt. Ths0. Dahlburg; (right) Chief Thomas Suttle
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OUR SHIP COALING PLANT By LUCAS S. LEE
During the summer of 1925 the idea of coal ing ships at Calcite Harbor was developed. Sev eral studies of this problem were made and the Plant for coaling ships, which is now being con structed along the slip at Calcite, is the result of
The head end of incline conveyor, tail end of conveyor across slip and the chutes and bins mentioned above, are supported by a tower which is designated as the North Tower. This tower is 30 feet square and 117 feet from the top of the
these studies.
foundation to the bottom chord of the roof truss
The essential parts of this plant are ground storage piles for coal, a track hopper, a loading tower, with bins on each side of the slip, and a system of belt conveyors to transport coal from the track hopper to the required points. Coal will be placed by self-unloader boat along the outer dock wall in two storage piles each of which has a capacity of 16,000 tons. Slack coal will be stored in one of these piles and the other will be used for lump coal. Two piles are necessary as different ships require different
es. The peak of the roof is 137 feet 6 inches above lake level. This is the highest elevation
sizes of fuel.
Dump cars will be loaded from the storage piles by a power shovel and transported by rail .to the track hopper. This hopper has a capaci ty of 50 tons or 6 small cars. It is designed suf ficiently long for the dumping of our large air dump cars as well as the small cars. The track hopper is in two sections or in reality two hop
pers placed end to end.
This design was adopt
ed to conserve headroom. Immediately under each section or hopper there is a reciprocating or shaking feeder which delivers coal from the
hoppers to a belt conveyor. These feeders are rigidly connected together and are driven by a single unit drive, so that when one is discharging onto the conveyor the other is receiving a meas ured load from the opposite hopper. Thus a fix ed even load is delivered to the conveyor, and as
the capacity of the track hopper is sufficient to permit the loading and dumping of a train of cars while the hopper is being emptied, contin
uous operation of the conveyor system at full capacity and therefore, maximum efficiency is possible.
From the shaking feeders the coal is carried by conveyor, which is about 50 feet long, to a junction house where it is discharged through a chute onto a second conveyor, which is 350 feet in length. The latter conveyor travels on an
angle of 18 degrees and elevates the coal to a point which is 120 feet above the level of the water in the slip.
At this point there is a five-way chute by means of wdiich the coal may be discharged into any one of four bins, each of which has a capac
ity of 100 tons, or onto a belt conveyor. This chute is so designed that the coal may be routed to any one of the five points without stopping the stocking operation.
that has been reached by any of our plant struc tures up to the present time.
The four bins arÂŤ
each 15 feet square and as they discharge inta a common chute, they have the appearance frorr the outside of one bin 30 feet square. Coal may be drawn from any one of the bins by means of a gate, which is of the radical cut off type. These gates may be opened or closed at any time. It will not be necessary, as might be supposed, to completely empty a bin before closing the gate and thus stopping the discharge of coal from the bin. When a gate is opened the coal is fed through a chute onto a shuttle conveyor which transports it to the ships coal bunker, in the same way that stone is load ed into the cargo holds. This method of loading bulk material on a ship is more economical than other methods, such as chutes, as it requires the minimum amount of head room, and also per mits the loading of a maximum cargo without any necessity for hand trimming. The controls for the shuttle conveyor are lo cated in an operator's room, which is immediate ly above the shuttle and projects beyond the face of the tower on the slip side. This room has windows on three sides, thereby affording the operator a clear view at ail times of the dis charge end cf the shuttle and the ship receiving coal.
Directly opposite the XTorth Tower, there is located on the coulh side of the slip, another tower called the South Tower, which is a dupli cate of the North Tower in all essential respects. These two towers are 213 feet 6 inches apart and are connected by a truss span, the bottom chord of which is 111 feet 6 inches above water
Rvcl. This height is sufficient to clear the spars of any ship which enters Calcite harbor. The truss span is 13 feet wide and 21 feet high at the center. It supports a conveyor which trans ports the coal across the slip from the North to the South Tower.
In order to reduce the sur
face which is exposed to the wind, and, therefore, the wind loads, the conveyor is housed by a gal lery just large enough for working clearances inside the truss span. For the same reason the towers are enclosed, only where necessary, to protect the machinery and operators as the wind
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stresses c<institute a large percentage ÂŤ>f the
hour bins were placed in each tower instead
loads, which the structural steel must carry down
of one so that the fuel requirements, for at least
to the foundation in a structure of this kind,
three ships could be placed in the bins before
with its relatively narrow- diameter as compar
those ships reach Calcite.
ed to the height.
are known for the boats of our fleet and can be
When the towers were designed, provision was made for the erection of the slip bridge. R will he assembled on the ground at the shore end of the slip and all field connections riveted.
learned by radio for boats of other fleets suf
After both towers are completely erected, except for the operator's rooms, and the bridge seat on the South Tower, each end of ihe bridge will he loaded on a flat car and
the
whole
structure
moved along the slip to a point directly under its final location. Xear the top of each tower there are two lift beams so located that there is
one directly above each qu(\ of each truss of the slip bridge. These lift beams projecl beyond the face of the towers, and as the overall length of
the bridge is less than the clear distance between the towers, it will be easily possible to hoist the bridge into its final position withoul interference with the towers.
For the hoisting a set of falls
These requirements
ficiently far ahead of their arrival, to permit the placing of their order in the bins. The four bins, also permit the storage of hoth slack and lump
coal on hoth sides of the slip, and thus might pre clude the necessity of transferring a ship from one side of the slip to the other for coaling. The shaking feeder and stocking conveyors are designed to transport coal at the rate of 400 tons per hour, and the shuttle conveyors will place it in the ship's coal bunkers at the rate of 800 tons per hour. Thus a ship may receive 200 tons of coal in fifteen minutes or less time than
is required to fill one hatch of the cargo hold with stone. The coaling towers are so located in relation to ihe stone loading shuttles that, for most of our boats and a large number of the
boats of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company's
will he reeved from each of the lift heams to a
fleet, their coal bunker will be directly under the
corner of the bridge and the lines led to two sep arate hoisting engines located in a convenient
coal loading shuttle when one of the hatches of
position on opposite sides of the slip. Bridge
the cargo hold is being filled. These boats may receive both their fuel and cargo in the same
seats which project beyond the face of the tow ers will support the bridge when the hoisting
length of time that is required for their cargo.
cables are removed.
installation of this kind at Calcite harbor will be
The
seat
on
the
Xorth
Tower will be in place before hoisting is started, and the one under the south end of the bridge
will he erected after the span is raised to its fin al location.
At first thought it might appear that the storage of 800 tons ( f coal in bins high in the air is uneconomical construction, hut this is not true
for several reasons.
A few of the many savings accruing from an mentioned
below-.
The cruising radius of any vehicle which
provides its own power is limited by the amount of fuel il carries, ami in the case of a cargo ship where the amount of weight which may be car ried has a fixed limit, it is desirable to keep the dead or unproductive weight as low as possible
R was necessary to make
in older that the maximum amount of cargo or
the towers high em,ugh to support ihe slip bridge and the elevation of the bridge was in turn de termined by tlie spars of the ships which must I a-s beneath it. 'ihe elevation of the shuttle conveyors was also fixed by the ships, because
productive weight may be transported. Without facilities for coaling at Calcite it was necessary for ships, on runs to ports where they could not obtain coal, to carry more fuel and therefore Rss cargo than will now be the case. For in stance, ii it was desired to scud a cargo of stone
it is desirable to have the shuttle conveyors as
near the top of the coal bunker:, as practicable.
to Milwaukee or Rtiffington. it was either neces
'Ihe distance from the top of the ship's coal hunkers to the to]) of the spars is considerable; and since this space was available for bins at the relatively' small additional cost of replacing the necessary tower bracing with bin girders and a slight increase in the size of the columns. It is desirable to coal a ship in the least pos
sary for that boat to procure enough coal at De troit to last them until they could return to De troit or make a detour to a coal dock and thus
lose time, as no coaling facilities are available on a direct route from Calcite to either of these
ports.
The routing of the ships from Calcite
will also be simplified, as it will not now be ne
may he used for filling the bins than would be necessary if the coal were delivered direct to
cessary to send them past outside coal docks at frequent intervals. Considerable time is now required for one of Our ships to check, tie up at a coal dock, take coal and gel under way again. This time is increased if any other ship is ahead of them at the dock. 'i he time that can be saved by taking coal at Cal cite instead of other docks should prove attrac
the shuttle with no reservoir between.
tive to fleets other than our own.
sible lime at any hour of the day or night. With four bins on each side of the slip sufficient stor
age is provided to eliminate the necessity for the night operation of the stocking part of this in stallation. Another advantage afforded by the
bins is that smaller conveyors at slower speeds
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Heretofore, on ships such as the T. W. ROB INSON and CARL I). BRADLEY which hure. slack coal, it was necessary to provide crushing
season of this year. One lost lime accident on the steamer John
possible to get pulverized eoal at the existing
('.. Munson prevented the fleet from registering a perfect month. This accident occurred on Oc tober 12th when a repairman from the plant re ceived a crushing injury to his right foot while
coal docks.
at work on that steamer.
equipment on board ship to reduce lump coal to a size which could be used, as it was not always Elevators were also necessary to
place the coal in the stokers after it was crush
ed. Being assured of a dependable supply of slack coal at Calcite it was possible to eliminate
this crushing and elevating equipment on the CARL I). BRADLEY with
a saving ill (had
weight and thereby increase the cargo capacity. It is estimated that the saving in time to
gether with the increased cargo capacity due to
We regret exceedingly in having to charge this accident against the steamer Munson. how ever, this man was doing work on the steamer
under the direct supervision of its officers, and we could not possibly charge it to the department
at the plant from which the man was loaned. As an explanation we might add further lhat all men loaned from one department to all
the saving in dead weight will amount to one
ot her and being under the direct supervision of
It will also be necessary to transport the coal to
meet with an accident while on such work, such accident shall be charged to the department in
additional cargo per season for each of our boats.
Calcite by boat and this will provide about twelve cargoes on the up trip which is now made light or under ballast.
In laying out this coal handling plant, consid eration was given to future developments. As lake freighters increase in beam it appears that at some future time it may be necessary to increase the width of our loading slip. For this reason the Xorth Tower was set back far enough to
provide for increasing the width of the slip by 30 feet.
When this time comes the existing tug
that department in which they are working, who which it occurs and not to the original depart ment from which the man came.
We sincerely hope that during this last month of operation, all members of the boat crews will co-operate to the extent of their abil
ity in preventing accidents either to themselves Or their fellow workers. In Spite of the in creased sailing hazards. November can be made a Safe Mouth if everybody will do their utmost
in the promotion of Safety.
harbor will be moved to some other location, and
the coal storages transferred from their location along the outer break wall to this site. At this time the coal will be reclaimed from storage by
a tunnel conveyor under the pile, similar to those under our stone storage piles. This tunnel convevor will be directly under the center of a stor
age pile, which can be placed by self-unloadcr
boat and will discharge onto ihe tail end of in
cline conveyor without alteration to the latter conveyor.
Since the major portion of, the material used in its construction is steel and cement, and. since
our limestone has an important part in the manu facture of each of these, we can all feel that
we had a part in its construction. It is an addi tion to our plant of which we may all be justly proud.
BOAT SAFETY MEETINGS Steamer John G. Munson
Meeting held on October 17th. with the fol
lowing members present: Clarence Thorseu. chairman: Mclvin Keyse. secretary; Clarence
Hoy. Ceo. Raughrey. H. K. Pearson, Oscar Iloch.
Capt. MeCjuiuu ami Chief Anderson.
The members of the Committee reported that they were carrying out the Safety work on
board this ship to the best of their ability, and if any member of the crew was seen doing work in a dangerous way. he was at once instructed to perform it in ihe proper and Safe way and the danger oointed out to him.
II. K. Pearson suggested that the fence cab les be examined for weakness as they are ex
posed to the weather and becoming worn in places.
Attention was again called to the fact that
BOAT ACCIDENT RECORD 1.1 ist-time accidents
Name of Steamer
this year
CARR D. BRADLEY T. W. ROBIXSON
-
Ik II. TAYLOR
-
-
-
-
-2
JOHN G. MUNSOX W. R. WHITE
CALCITE
0 2
3
-
-
-
0
째
The above list represents the number oi h>st
time accidents that have occured on the different steamers of the Bradley Transportation Corn-
pan v's fleet to November first of the operating
more fare should be exercised about throwing
anything sliopery or greasy on the decks. When the galley is not equim>ed with a garbage chute. often tunes greasy water is thrown out of the door on the deck making a very slippery spot. It will soon be time to blow water out of the
deck line with live steam to prevent it from
freezing when not in use. When it is necessary to use the steam through an injector for this
purpose, it was suggested that the engine crews use caution and not put too great a pressure on
the line as the force of the steam coming in sud-
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den contact with the water in the line is apt to burst the pipes or fittings, which would be dan gerous to anyone standing nearby.
er on the watch to report any unsafe conditions which might exist and can be improved.
At our next meeting the routine of our lay-
The Chief suggested that when opening the throttle valve on the deck engines not to turn it wide open because about the same power can be
in the proper and safest manner to go about same. No further business appearing the meet
obtained from the winches when the valve is
ing was adjourned.
opened about three turns.
up work will be discussed and the crew schooled
Then in case a cable
breaks or an accident occurs the valve can be
closed in less time which may save some member of the crew from injury as seconds count at such times.
No further business appearing the meeting was adjourned.
Steamer Calcite
Meeting called to order on October 24th at
one o'clock p. m. with the following members present: Axel Hoy, chairman; Frank Hennegan, secretary; Donald MacLeod, Gerald Haversock, Robert Oliver, Emery Derby, Captain Martin and Chief Urdal.
Steamer Carl D. Bradley Meeting held on October 19th with the fol
lowing members present: Francis Bacon, chair man; George Hoy, secretary; Isaac Ranke, John
McGee, G. Bahon, Del McGee, Capt. William J. MacLean and Chief John Sparre.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read by the secretary. The Captain and Chief gave short talks and instructions to carry on the balance of the season
as they have in the past and try to finish the season without a single lost time accident. The Committee having made a tour of in
Capt. MacLean again mentioned that the practice of running long cable leads on the dock
spection reported all safety appliances, etc., in
should be discontinued.
good condition.
The men in the engineer's department were cautioned about throwing rags and waste mater
ial over the starboard side of the ship thereby preventing those articles from stopping the ship's log when in operation.
The seamen were cautioned not to pull cables over their shoulder when changing them on deck.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:35 p. m.
The suggestions of other vessels as printed in the Lake Carriers Bulletin were discussed at length.
After a general talk the meeting was ad journed.
Steamer B. H. Taylor Meeting called to order on October 30th at
12:30 o'clock p. m. with the following members Steamer W. F. White
present: Leo Moll, chairman; Stanley Dauscher,
Meeting called to order on October 31st, secretary; John Hegland, Niels Anderson, Harry with the following members present: William Whitehead and Alex Feldman.
McDonald, chairman ; John McKenna, secretary; As this is the last month of the season and Arthur Graham, Burt Moniger, Leon DePudry the most dangerous one around the deck, docks, and Donald McKenzie.
We are on our last lap of the season and so
far have had no accidents which is something to
be proud of. Let's keep the good work up. A fatal accident was probably prevented by one of the watchmen on our ship who pulled one of the crew out of the slip at Calcite recently. This man was coming aboard ship under the in fluence of liquor and fell off the ladder into the
etc., precautions will be taken to see that there are no more accidents added to our list for this season.
The two lost time accidents which occurred
in the earlier part of the season and that are
charged against this steamer were caused by an oiler slipping down the stairway and spraining his ankle and by a slight bruise on a fireman's hand which became infected and he was forced
water. He was immediately discharged as strong to go to the marine hospital for treatment. Since drink and ladders do not harmonize very well. that time we have not had a lost time accident, We are liable to encounter rough weather the crew having learned their A. B. C.'s of Safe from now on and everything movable should be tyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Always Be Careful. kept lashed down, especially in the boiler room Firemen, oilers, engineers, and coal-passers where there is danger of breaking steam lines, could prevent a lot of sickness if they would put
etc., should anything break loose, also remem
on a sweater, coat or some kind of jacket for pro
bering that there _are men working below. Icy tection when coming out on deck from a warm
conditions will also have to be contended with
soon making work on deck more dangerous and the men in this work have been cautioned about these conditions.
Walks around the center conveyor have been inspected and repaired and the committee is ev
room. It isn't the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in. A barrel of salt or sawdust would be advis
able to have on hand to sprinkle around icy stairways, etc.
Two seamen or more should always be sent
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be instructed not to walk too close to the edge especially when the docks are icy as one is apt to slip in between the boat and the dock. Ladders that are in use while loading or un
cargoes to the Interstate Steel Company before finishing the season. Arriving at two a. m., heavy current and nobody on the dock to take the lines.
Nuff Sed.
loading should always be made fast in case same should slip. The entire crew is asked to co-operate in
making November a No-Accident month on board this steamer. Meeting adjourned at 1:15 p. m.
Steamer T. W. Robinson
Report of Safety Committee meeting held on October 29th, with the following members
present: Gilbert Kemp, chairman; Martin Birk, secretary; Robley Wilson, Bert Nolan, Floyd Gigax and Archie Beebe. The meeting was called to order at one o'clock p. m. on the above date. October Safety suggestions were read over and thoroughly discussed, especially those con
cerning fall conditions and stormy weather. A suggestion was as follows: Now that we are liable to have freezing weather at any time, salt should be kept aft as well as forward to be used for cleaning off the decks and stairways while ship is at the docks as well as out in the
STEAMER CARL D. BRADLEY
Ike
Ranke, Reporter
The steamer Carl D. Bradley carried a record cargo of 15,724 gross tons to Buffington on October 5th, breaking the record of 15,622 gross tons as carried by the steamer Block on August 28th. This cargo was unloaded in 4 hours and 53 minutes. Howzat? We might add that this was the largest cargo carried by any vessel in the history of fresh water transportation. Mr. Canada, our hash slinging porter, let a
can-opener slip the other day and it cut him in the pantry.
Our quartermaster, Norman MacLean, was called home recently on account of the illness of his mother and we regret very much to learn that he may not be with us to finish the season. We all hope his mother may have a speedy re covery.
The reporter has received considerable com ment on the little jokes appearing in the "Screen
ings" from time to time as sent in by him about
lake.
certain members of the crew, and they threaten
It was also suggested that cargo hold lights be kept in first class shape at all times, renew burned-out lights and keep reflectors clean, as
look forward for something good.
we may have long dark nights and the unloading being a very dangerous operation.
to get revenge in the last issue this year, so I've been a good fellow, (Boys) I earn all I spend,
Payed all I've borrowed,
censored for working too near the loading shut
Lost all I've lent; I loved a woman once,
tle.
And that came to an end,
Several members of the crew were severely
No further suggestions being made the meeting adjourned at two o'clock p. m. until one month from the above date or before if condi tions warrant.
BOAT PERSONALS STEAMER B. H. TAYLOR
Leo Moll, Reporter
According to the expressions of the crew one sure can tell that the time for laying up is near. The rumors around this steamer are that
the boats will lay up earlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;certainly, early in December.
Our herring chocker wheelsman sure seems
to be delighted over it as he continually sings and whistles "Because I Love You." A stranger would think our steward was feeding him canary seed.
Chief Engineer Harry Moore was aboard our steamer recently inspecting conveyors, en
gines and other pieces of machinery. He got off wearing a broad smile so everything must have been in perfect order.
Captain Pearse would like to have two more
Buy a dog (Boys) He'll always be your friend. STEAMER JOHN G. MUNSON Bud Taylor, Reporter
Our entire crew is sorry to have lost our old friend and fellow sailor Daniel Mclntyre.
Our
best wishes go with him in his next position. It may pay some enterprising young amateur Sherlock Holmes to look into the reward we hear is offered for the names of the person or
persons who let the hoodoo black cat aboard this ship recently. We understand the reward is of fered by Chief Anderson. A Sailor's Farewell
Farewell my Rogers damsel fair, Oh, how I hate to go,
And leave you by your lonesome Amid the winter's snow.
But as the evening sun is setting And your thoughts are trouble free, While of me you are a thinking Grieve not too bitterly.
Don't be greedy now my darling,
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Just say good-bye and let me go, For another one is waiting In some sunny port below.
and pulling him onto the dock.
While I am with some other maiden
Kemp says to ask the Cook.
And the moon is shining low, I'll be thinking of you dearest
cently been doing some radio research work. He
Dame Rumor has it we will run to the first
of January this year.
What have you heard?
Kenneth Falor, our radio operator, has re
has been exceedingly successful in bringing in
Further north amid the snow.
Sweet memories of you always Will to me dearly cling
many of the Pacific Coast stations with remark
And tho I leave you for the winter
with reception on the short waves, twenty, forty, and eighty meters, has been quite interesting. The Str. Calcite certainly did show us the way to Calcite. Give the boys credit. They're
able clearness and volume.
I'll return again in the spring. A. C. Gull.
Of the thirty-nine men aboard this ship, the above only goes for the majority. It still looks bad for at least two of our noble crew.
Also some work
certainly on the job.
As the
Our Watchman, Theodore Strand, has pur
Frenchman says: "Love, she is ze grand thing." Mr. Earl Lockhart of the Pittsburg Steam
chased a magnificent Paolo Soprani accordion.
ship Company's steamer "COREY" is our new
ter.
First Assistant
Engineer.
Welcome
to
our
midst, Earl.
He intends going on the concert stage this win For atmosphere's sake, Ted wears his red
bandana and corduroy trousers while at prac tice these days.
A skin-tight hat, a cigarette, A lip with a distainful curl,
A skirt that stockings never meet, A clothes-up of the modern girl.
Hallowe'en was celebrated with great pomp aboard our steamer. Our steward John Miller done everything in his power to make it an en joyable evening for all the crew. Nothing was lacking (except the ladies). The dining rooms
Tom Rose of the Dock Office recently sent us the following clipping which appeared in the October issue of The Lake Carriers Bulletin
and which we are glad to reprint herewith: The Calcite Screenings The Calcite Screenings is the title of a fine
ly printed and ably gotten out magazine which the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Co. has
were decorated with the greatest skill, the tables filled to overflowing with all the dainties of the
established in the interest of safety and welfare
culinary art and every one seemed to get a thrill
among its employees which include the men in
out of the evening when the old witch and her cat flit over the countryside. It was indeed an
pany.
enjoyable occasion.
The young married couple were having their usual mealtime discussion.
"What," she flung at him, "did you think you were marrying, a cook?"
the fleet of the Bradley Transportation Com Mr. O. F. Ferdelman is the editor.
The
magazine, which is probably the first of its kind to be issued by a concern engaged in lake trans portation, contains items of general interest to all employees, photographs, cartoons and safe ty suggestions.
"No," he whipped back, "neither did I think
I was getting the world's champion can-opener."
Mr. Kenneth Fawcett, the youthful oiler on
We aboard the steamer Munson wish to take this opportunity to conoratulate Calcite
the steamer ROBINSON, has declined an offer
to play basket ball with the Rogers City team
Screenings and its editor Mr. 0. F. Ferdelman
this winter as he is planning on playing with the
for what we think is the best Company magazine published. Though there are other corporations who circulate a publication among their employ ees, they seem to lack the personal touch which
"Screenings" possesses. In other words we all agree without exception that "Calcite Screen
ings" has got "IT." (Thanks, Bud, we're glad you like it and hope you will continue to help us make it even more interesting.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Ed.) STEAMER W. F. WHITE
Fisher Body team of Detroit. Kenneth was formerly a member of the
Washington Junior High School team of Port Huron who, by the way, have been the Junior High School champions of Michigan since 1921. S1TTW& FROTY
A SAVINGS ACCOUNT
KEEPS ON WORKING AFTER YOU QUIT. STAUT ONE NOW AND ADD TO IT HEGUIARLV
Geo. Beck, Reporter
Our Watchman, John Petrishin, is to be
commended for his attentiveness to duty. When on watch recently John noticed a man slip and
MWMWWTW^
A woman who lost her thumb in a motor ac
fall from the ladder. Quick action on his part cident is suing for $200,000 damages. Must have
saved the man's life by passing a line around him
been the one she kept her husband under.
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utyankaghring iloija Cart-loads of pumpkins as yellow as gold, Onions in silvery strings, Shining red apples and clusters of grapes,
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Nuts and a host of good things, Chickens and turkeys and fat little pigs,— These are what Thanksgiving brings.
Work is forgotten and play-time begins; From office and school-room and hall, Fathers and mothers and uncles and aunts,
Nieces and nephews and all
Speed away home, as they hear from afar m
The voice of the Thanksgiving call.
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CHRISTMAS NUMBER
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Department and Foreman or Captain
TRACKS
N. W. Pollock
TRANSPORTATION
T. L. Kelley
TRANSPORTATION
J. L. Laffin
DRILLS
John Dembny
DRILLS
Thomas Kelley
BLASTING CREWS
Theo. Haselhuhn
ELECTRICAL CREWS
Geo. C. Wing
CARPENTER SHOP
F. W. MacArthur
YARD—MACHINERY
Julius Zemple
JUGS
Capt. Walter Pepler Chief Frank Lamp
STR. CARL D. BRADLEY
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Capt. William MacLean Chief John Sparre
STR. W. F. WHITE
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Capt. Theo. Dahlburg Chief Thomas Suttle
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It gives me great pleasure at this time to extend to all readers of '"Calcite Screenings" our sincere and hearty wishes for a pleasant and most happy Christmas.
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We have added pleasure when we consider the progress made during the past year in our safety record, onr plant and boat activity and in our community, and of the congenial re lations we have had with our various customers.
Prospects for the future are bright and we hope thai your joys and prosperity for the coming year will be in great er abundance than in the past.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Merry Christmas! What a wealth of joy and gladness the words impart! Merry Christ mas! You hear it everywhere—in the home, on the street, at the factory—it's in the very atmos phere you breathe ! .Amid the laughter and happiness of the Glad Season comes the occasional, but age-old question-: "Is there a Santa Clans?" Does the
jolly old fellow with the beaming red face, flow ing white whiskers, and scarlet suit of fur and tinsel trimming actually exist?
Has he a toy
J -fl HOME, TOO
"SAFETY-IZE" THE The cobblers' kids, we've been told frequent ly, are poorly shod. We've also heard rumors that some safety workers forget to practice
safety principles at home.
The idea that home
is a place where you don't have to watch your step is responsible for several thousand deaths in American homes every year and an untold number of injuries ranging from slight bruises and scratches to broken bones.
Some claim that the increasing use of me
chanical equipment in the home is responsible
slum away up at the North Pole where he spends
for the high rale of accidents.
almost the entire year in making gifts for us all—to leave it just for one brief period in the whole twelve months to bring merriness to the
however, are as old as the home itself but no
body thought much about them until insurance companies and the National Safety Council be
world?
gan
If you have forgotten the sweet old story of St. Nicholas that yon first learned in your child
hood days: if you cannot remember those many
Home accidents,
collecting and publishing statistics.
homes, in spite of
electric
Our
washing machines
toasters and vacuum cleaners, are probably saf er than those of 100 years ago when weaving.
Christmas Eves when you expectantly hung up
soap making and other jobs now confined to the
your stockings around the family fire place, and
factory were done at home. The power wringer on the washing machine is not the safest device imaginable but the shaky stepladder. the icy pavement and the broken
then jumped excitedly into bed to await the coming of King Santa; if the Spirit of Christ mas and of Christmas giving has flown from your heart forever—yours is a dull, drab life in deed, and you are lost in this setting of toys and tinsel and happiness. But if yotl have so lived that the Yuletide Season brings a thrill to tingle up and down
your spine and then to come out and perch prettily upon your shoulder; if you take delight in giving gifts and in seeing the radiant faces
stair tread cause far more accidents.
Electric
ity lags far behind the match as a cause of fires. A home inspection carried out with the same thoroughness as a factory may reveal a surprizing number of hazards. In too many homes nobody feels the responsibility until some one gets hurt.
Some furniture dealers use the slogan "Your
of little ones; if Christmas means more to yon
home should come first."
than just a holiday—then there's a Santa Clans.
use, the safety of our families should be first
Twisting it to our own
For he lives—in the hearts of men.
with us.
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DEPARTMENTAL
ACCIDENT
PREVEN-.
ELECTRICAL CREWS: This department went the entire year without a single lost lime acci dent with a similar record last year. They
TION RECORDS Ten Finish Season On Honor Roll
have not had an accident charged againsl their
TRACKS: This department went through the
department since October loth. L925. Incientire operating season without a single losl dently their record of 781 days to December first time accident, or from April first to December of this year, without a single lost time accident, first, a lotal 244 da\ s. During a like period last is the best at the Plant since the beginning of year this department was charged with five lost/ ,our Safety program some three years ago. lime accidents which makes their record this \\ ACI11XE SHOP: Two lost time accidents year all the more outstanding. during the Operating season were charged TRANSPT. KELLEY: ftot a single lost time against this department. The first occurred on accident was recorded in this department tor April fourth when a workman was struck on the the entire operating season. Last season they head by a falling brick at the new Crusher were charged with two accidents ami their best
House, and the second when a workman acting
record was a period of LOS days without a losl
as a brakcman on a stone train was knocked
time accident.
down by a locomotive in the Quarry.
TRANSPT. LAFFIN: This department also registcrcd a perfect -core during the operating sea-
a similar period last year this department was
son with four accidents charged against them last year for a similar period. Their best rec ord for no accidents last year was 127 da vs.
SHOVELS KELLEY: 'This department had
Duritig"
charged with four lost time accidents. CARPENTER SHOP: Hot a single lost time accident marred the record of this department during not only the operating season but the en tire year. The last accident recorded in this
only one accident to mar their record this year.
department occurred on March loth. 1926, and
This occurred on Mav .i()tli when a fireman was
their record to December first is ()2? daws with-
watching a shovel while the plant was not in
out a single lost time accident,
operation and fell into the pit causing an injury
YARD MACHINERY: This department also
to his right side and as a result of which he attained a perfect score during the operating losl 3 days. season of this year. During a similar period SHOVELS LAFFIN: One accident was charg- |ast vear they were charged with three lost tinn ed against this department this season when a ..• ;u-cj(]c.nt_s.
erauer was struck on the arm bv a broken hoist
YARD LABOR: This department had two lost
chain on August 24th and as a result of which
time accidents this season.
he losl five davs.
occurred <>n July 27th when a workman was
DRILLS DKMI'.XY: This department register ed a perfect score during the season and
had
only one accident charged against them during _ last
season.
DRILLS KELLEY: This departmnet like their
opposite shift also attained a perfect score by finishing the season without a single lost time accident ami with only one ace ident against them last season.
The first of which
struck on the head with a stone while working
near the Open Dearth storage pile, and the sec ond on October 22nd when a workman bruised
his foot while loading scrap iron. This depart ment experienced the largest reduction of lost lime accidents this season of any department •'!• the I'lant. having had nine lost time accidents
charged ]risl vear during the same period.
BLASTING CREWS: X..t a single lost time ac cident in this department during the season and only one during the past three years. MILL HAGEN: Only one accident occurred in this department this season. This occurred on May 25th when a workman received a severely bruised and broken arm by having it caught be tween an idler and conveyor belt. Last season
they were charged with three lost time acci dents <luring the operating season. .MILL BELLMORE: This department had two lost lime accidents during the season. The firs' on April 21st when a dockmatl caught his fingers between a steamer's cable and a mooring pile,
TUGS: This department
finished the season
without a single lost time accident having had
only one accident charged against them last year and only one during the year previous to that.
MISCELLANEOUS: This department had four lost linn- accidents charged to them during the year winch occurred as follows: April 2nd. workmen caught finger between casing and bit on drill while operating same on dock work: October 14th. workman injured foot when cas
ing dropped on same while at work drilling tesl holes: November 1st. workman had leg crushed
when struck by bucket on derrick scow Jupiter; November loth, workman had arm bruised ami
bone broken when same was caught between
and tin- second on June 11th when a workman
belt and pulley on small crusher while testing
was
stone.
struck
on
the head and
face
with
a
car
dumping stake while dumping cars in crusher. They were also charged with two accidents dur-
, j ing the operating season of last year.
"The price of progress is everlasting effort.
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â&#x20AC;˘^.^SmrJSzLM^m,
Model of the Steamer Carl D. Bradley Presented to President Bradley
The fleet officers of the Bradley Transportalion Company together with officials of the Company and officials of the Michigan Lime-stone & Chemical Company and their guests attended the annual banquet held Wednesday evening. December 13th at the Hotel Fort She!by in Detroit.
The guests included officials of the Com-
loading steamers originated and while we say that execution of the idea was fortunately delayed. it perhaps would be better to say that it was fortunate that this was not completed until this time, thus affording an opportunity to make this model of the latest, largest and most
modern self-unloading steamer of our fleet. The new electric driven STEAMER "CARL D.
panics of our customers and officials and oper- BRADLEY" which boat was launched April 9th, ating men from various Transportation Compa- 1927, made her maiden trip on July 26th, arrivnies interested in the delivery of stone from Calcite.
ing in Calcite on July 28th. Licensed officers of the Bradley Transpor-
kepresentatives of our Buffalo plant and
tation Company fleet inaugurated the subserip-
our Detroit plant were present as well as rep-
tions for the purpose of constructing this model
resentatives of legal firms with which we have become associated in business.
and construction was begun in July. 1927. by Mr. B. 1'".. Poster of the American Ship Building
The banquet followed a two day business session, which is in accord with the practice of some years, and brought together operating men from both the Bradley Transportation Company and the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company and questions of mutual interest and benefit were discussed with much profit to all concerned.
Company. Cleveland. Ohio. The model was .completed early in December and was built to a scale of three thirty-seconds of an inch to the foot and is therefore five feet long with width in proportion. All appurtenance are fitted even to the radio direction finder and in detail is very complete with finish in our own colorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;limestone gray. The model is. of course, glass in-
matters of interest were discussed with a re-
-XIr- Foster who ua* present at the banquet and
most fitting and desirable closing of the vear's
small amount of attention in Cleveland and in-
The Purchasing Department and the Ac- closed and sets on a beautifully finished stand, counting Department were represented and ,l was brought from Clevenland to Detroit by
suit of better understanding for continuance of who deserves no small measure ot credit for the the past co-operation. The total attendance beautitul workmanship and schedule completion numbered approximately cue hundred thirty. ()l l'u> niodel. In the past these banquets, which make a During construction the model drew no
operation. have gone through more or less me- vitations to show it in prominent down town thodically. but this banquet stands out above all business windows had to be refused, regretably. past and'probably superior to any in the future because of the necessity of keeping the secret, in the unusual feature of the presentation of a model of the STEAMER "CARL I. I-RAD-
The presentation was a complete surprise to Mr. Bradley. The presentation address was
LEY" to Mr. Carl I). Bradley, I'resident of the Company. Years ago the idea of presenting Mi-. Carl
made by Mr. |-\ L. Leckie of the firm of Holden, Duncan & Leckie. Cleveland Marine attorneys.
D. Bradley with a model of one of the self-un
The model was placed in the banquet hall ami was completely hidden by flowers and
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screens. I'pon signal from Mr. Leckie the screens were removed by Fleet Captain. William
THE "MAKINGS" FOR A MERRY XMAS 'I he merry yule once more is here with mes sages of love and cheer. It softens those who grudges nurse: it loosens up the tightwad's
J. Macl.eau and Fleet Engineer Marry II. Moore and thereby this testimonial of the employees and of the friends and associates of Mr. Bradley purse. For who can help but feel the thrill of met his view for the first time. The surprise peace and friendship and good will that settle was complete and Mr. Bradley adequately ex down upon the earth in memory of the Christpressed his appreciation and surprise upon a child's birth.
completion of Mr. Leckie's address. Mis short addres> and the very touching moments occu
pied by this presentation will be long remem bered by those present. Although the subscriptions were
inaugur
ated by officers of the Uradlcy Transportation Company fleet ami contributions were for the
most part confined to this organization, it could not be limited to the employees of that Company. Many Michigan Limestone <!\- Chem ical Company men and many associates and
friends of Mr. Bradley insisted on being allowed to take pari in this unusual testimonial. Those
participating not only subscribed 100 per cent of the amount necessary to complete this under taking but were very liberal in their contribu tions and the total has exceeded the amount
needed by approximately 60 per cent. Many of the letters received from contributors have elid
ed expressing a sincere willingness to contribute further should the undertaking require it. Ad ditional contributions could not be used and the
surplus subscriptions will be returned to the donors on a proportional basis together with a
picture of the model as it is felt that those par ticipating would be interested in preserving this picture as a remembrance of this occasion.
A most enjoyable evening was Spent. Or chestra music was furnished by the Hotel Fort Shelby during tin- evening and entertainers
were on hand and enlivened the program with several interesting numbers. There were sev eral short talks by members of the Bradley Transportation Company and the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Company and longer ad dresses by associates of Mr. Bradley all of which were very interesting and very appropriate for the occasion.
The main address of the even
ing was delivered by Mr. Ralph I'arlette, of Chi
What makes the Christmas season gay? A man-size job with ample pay? A bank roll showing healthy gains? A body free from aches and pains? Yes. all these help the fes tive cheer; without them there'd be gloom 1 fear. Yo\3 cannot get around the fact that Christinas needs a lot of
jack: and accidents
throughout the year steal from the funds for Christmas cheer. If your digestion isn't good you can't enjoy the best of food. Yet these alone will not suffice to warm a
heart that's cold as ice. If you would feel the happy glow, some signs of Christinas spirit show. Forget the ill which you may bear; with those in n^^-d your blessings share. Then Christinas day will bring to you more gladness than vim ever knew.
cago, who has twice entertained us in Rogers City and this talk was pronounced by all pres ent, most interesting and enjoyable.
SAFETY COSTS ONLY A LITTLE THOUGHT â&#x20AC;&#x201D; ACCIDENTS COST MONEY PAIN AND POSSIBLE DEATH.
After the meeting the fleet men returned to their boats to complete lay-up and officials of the Companies attended to various business mat ters before returning to Rogers City.
SAFETY'S THE BEST BUY/
This aritcle would not seem complete with out an expression here from those actively in terested in the completion of the model.
The
wonderful enthusiasm and financial support ac corded the undertaking by employees of both Companies and friends and associates of Mr. Bradley made it a great pleasure to accomplish the completion of the idea.
Where you start does not matter so much as where vou finish.
The more a fellow talks about his good in tentions the less chance there is he's going to fulfill them.
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Department
1926
1927
TRACKS . . . 6 0 TRANSPORTATION—KELLEY - 2 0 TRANSPORTATION—LAFFIN 3 0 SHOVELS—KELLEY 4 1 SHOVELS—LAFFIN 3 1 DRILLS—DEMBNY 1 0 DRILLS—KELLEY .-10
BLASTING CREWS
-
MILL—HAGEN MILL—BELLMORE ELECTRICAL CREWS MACHINE SHOP -
-
-
1
0
-
3 2 0 4
1 2 0 2
.-00 3 0 9 2
CARPENTER SHOP YARD MACHINERY YARD LABOR -
TUGS
10
MISCELLANEOUS
-
-
TOTALS
ment and the cheerful spirit he displayed during his illness. On Sunday evening preceding his death, he was taken to Harper Hospital at De
troit in hopes of relieving his sufferings. He arrived there Monday morning and died Thurs
day noon. With him at the time of his death were his wife and C. W. Richards of our Detroit Dock operations. Mr. Ware was born in North Brookfield,
Mass., and at the time of his death was 41 years
of age. In his home town he received his schooling and after high school was employed by the Union Shoe Machinery Company and the Condit Electric Company of Boston. After sev
eral years of practical experience he went with the General Electric Company at West Lynn, Mass. Here he received very valuable school
ing and practical experience in the electrical line.
At that time this Plant was the largest
1
4
electrical plant in the world and Mr. Ware worked in various departments on Motors,
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Steam Turbines and Electrical Machinery. He made his home with Mr. Arthur Tripp who was
The above list represents the number of lost time accidents that have occurred in the differ
in charge of the technical instruction of the
ent departments from April first to December General Electric Company and who found him first or during the entire operating season of a most apt pupil. both years 1926 and 1927. It is most gratifying indeed to note the re
. C. R. Fisher who has for years headed the
markable reduction in lost time accidents dur
electrical department at our Plant, was also with the General' Electric Company at this time
ing the season just past, over that of last year.
and the two men became friends.
We feel that it is a record that every employee
later when Mr. Fisher became associated with
Some years
can rightfully be proud of. It also proves be our Company, he found himself in need of ex yond a doubt that accidents in most all cases pert assistance in the electrical department and are preventable when the proper precautions are it was at this time that he secured the services taken and when everyone co-operates in the pro
of Mr. Ware in the capacity of Power Plant Op
motion of Safety.
erator and Chief Electrician.
We appreciate the splendid co-operation that has been manifested by all our employees during the past year in the promotion of Safe ty, and it is our earnest hope and desire that when work is resumed next year each and every one will pledge himself anew to leave nothing undone to prevent accidents either to
has been associated with our Company he has been a hard worker, faithful to his job and a man of sterling qualities. He did much to de
himself or to his fellow workmen and that 1928 will be a Safe Year for Everyone.
This was in the
summer of 1912, shortly after the inception of our plant. During all the years that Mr. Ware
velop the younger men of the electrical depart ment and helped build an excellent organiza tion. He was regarded highly by his friends and associates and his death is felt keenly. Funeral services were held from the West
HARRY U. WARE SUCCUMBS TO LINGERING ILLNESS
It is with a feeling of deep regret that we
record the passing to the great beyond of Harry U. Ware, general foreman of the Electrical de partment, who died at Harper Hospital, De troit, shortly after one o'clock in the afternoon of November 10th, following an illness of some
four years duration. It has only been during the past several months that Mr. Ware's failing condition was generally noted altho close friends had known for some time of his brave battle
against heavy odds. He had the best of medical care and altho his case was considered one incurable, without
question his life was prolonged by skillfull treat
minster Church on Monday afternoon, Novem ber 14th, and were under the auspices of the Masonic lodge of which Mr. Ware was a mem ber. It was with much feeling that Rev. J. L.
Kennedy spoke of Mr. Ware, paying full tri bute to his excellent qualities as a representa tive citizen of the community and as a father.
He is survived by his wife and two sons, Frank and Bob.
"Calcite Screenings" joins with the many friends of the family in extending our sincerest
sympathy in this, their hour of bereavement. No amount of money, no amount of worry over the past will help the future. No regrets over yesterday will profit today.
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Buffalo Plant of the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Co. ;
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T
y& In 1915 the Michigan Limestone h Chem
The first operation in the mill is that of dry
ical Co. erected at Buffalo a small one-mill Pplant
ing the stone.
lor the purpose oi pulverizing limestone For ag
Vulcan dryers revolving at the rate of five rev
ricultural use.
olutions per minute.
The initial effort
made to sell
It is \c<\ into two 7 by 70-foot Fireboxes are located at
this product established the fact that there was a rapidly expanding market for agricultural
the discharge ends of the dryers and a strong draft maintained through each dryer by means
limestone and that our product was very well suited for this particular purpose. The demand soon outstripped the capacity of the small plant
of 70-foot smokestacks. Temperatures within the dryers reach 1200 degrees Fahrenheit, open ing lip the density of the stone and driving all
and led to the construction of a large and mod ern pulverizing plant at Farmers Point on the
moisture from it. About 35 minutes is requir ed for -tone to pass through the dryers, and from there it is discharged onto a pan convey
Buffalo
River.
Construction
work
was com
pleted early in 1918 and operation began im mediately. This present plant, having a capacity of §0 carloads per day. is the largest agricultural lime
stone pulverizing mill in the world.
Raw ma
terial in the form of screenings is brought down Irom Calcite and deposited by the unloader boat* along a 600-foot dock frontage. In order to accumulate sufficient stone stock to carry thru
the agricultural limestone peak shipping period of March and April, it is necessary to build a second stone pile on the dock in the rear of the first. For moving the stone back on tin- dock an electric crane with an 85-foot boom is used
which is capable of handling 1500 tons of screen ings per day. Recovery of stone from the dock front pile is made by means of a tunnel under the pile, while from the rear pile the stone is recovered
over an outside conveyor which is \^A by the crane.
or running at lie feet per minute.
This deliv
ers to an elevator, which distributes to seven bins, each of which is located over one of the
pulverizing mills. The pulverizing equipment consists of six Sturdevant Mills and one Stanage Pulverizer. These seven mills have a combined output of 80 tons of pulverized limestone per hour. They discharge into (levators which carry the mater ial up to the screens. The screens require the product to be ground to a fineness of 100 per cent passing 30-mesh, and material which fails
to pass this fineness is returned to the mills for further grinding. Particular care is taken to maintain accuracy in the screening operation as fineness in agricultural limestone is an import ant factor governing its effectiveness in the soil.
Besides the regular agricultural limestone,
a super-fine product is also required for supply ing special lines of business such as asphalt fill-
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Besides the regular district representatives two salesmen are employed who do general can
er dust, mine dust, and stock feed calcium car bonate. To secure this product a 9-foot Amer ican air-separator is used. This gives a mater
vassing in all the territories. They drive with
ial having a fineness of 85 per cent through a 200-mesh screen.
A 200-mesh screen has 40,-
000 opening to the square inch, which gives some idea of the extreme fineness of this mater ial,
--i
\
The agricultural limestone business is a
very seasonable one. There are periods of the year when the mill capacity will not supply the demand.
To overcome this a 15,000 ton stor
age building was erected in 1920 which permits the mills to grind to capacity in the slack season,
while providing an accumulated supply of finish ed product to draw from during the peak period of shipments.
All material is put into the storage in bulk.
the local dealer and call on the farmers in that
dealer's territory, to better educate him in the
advantages to be gained by use of ground lime stone.
As the average farmer cannot handle a
whole carload at once, it is necessary to com
bine several farmers' orders and ship them in
one car.
The car is shipped to the local dealer
who notifies the farmers whose orders are in
cluded in that car and they haul it to their farms. All field representatives travel by automo
bile. They average about 25,000 miles per year,
yet in spite of the large combined total mileage these men drive, none of them has ever been in volved in an accident causing personal injury.
Considering that these men drive on all kinds of
It is carried from the screens in screw convey
roads in all kinds of weather, through heaviest
ors, into a monitor over the storage building, from whence it may be discharged at 10-foot intervals. Recovery of stored material is made
may well be proud.
by means of screw conveyors located in the floor
traffic and over slippery, dangerous mountain roads, their safety record is one of which they
The heaviest shipping season for pulverized
Michigan Limestone is from December to April
of the storage building. Carloads of bulk limestone are loaded thru
with the tonnage reaching its
a bulk car is about five minutes.
are also heavy shipping months.
gravity chutes. The time required for loading In filling orders for sacked limestone, a bat tery of 10 sacking machines is employed, capaable of filling 35,000 sacks per day. A paper valve sack is used, holding 80 pounds of ground limestone. These sacks require no tying, but automatically close as they leave the spouts of the sacking machines. Sacks fall from the sacking machines directly onto a conveyor belt which carries them out to the door of the car
in which they are to be loaded. All sacks are carried back into the car and stacked by hand so
as to avoid the breakage incident to handling sacks by truck.
peak
in latter
March and early April. August and September
The purp'ose of applying agricultural lime
stone is to neutralize acid soil, ,a condition re
sulting from long-continued growing of crops on the same land.
It also has a further purpose
in supplying the lime requirements of certain crops which will not make satisfactory growth in a soil deficient in limestone.
According to a
survey made by the New York State Depart ment of Agriculture, about 3,000,000 tons of pul verized limestone would be needed per year to
check the yearly increase in acid soil in New York state alone. While this figure does not consider the economic factors which would tend
Trackage at the plant will accommodate 80 to qualify it, nevertheless the tonnage actually used is but a small fraction of the amount which box cars, with room left for switching and spot ting. All handling of cars in the plant yard is would be required to maintain maximum fertildone with a 40-ton locomotive. A track scale
itv of New York State farm lands.
weighs all cars "in" light and "out" loaded, as
quantities ordered vary from 25 to 50 tons and
must be loaded accurately. The shipping office is located at the plant and all cars routed and
billed out as soon as loaded.
The sales, accounting and administratiem offices are located for greater accessibility in the business section of downtown Buffalo.
Pulverized Michigan Limestone is marketed
IT'S SOME JOB
Getting out a paper is no picnic.
If we print jokes, folks say we are silly. If we don't, they say we are too serious.
If we publish original matter, they say Ave lack variety.
If we publish things from other papers we
are too lazv to write.
If we stay on the job, we ought to be out through an organization of over 900 dealers, covering the states of New York, Pennsylvania, rustling the news. If we are rustling news, we are not attend Ohio, and the province of Ontario. Eight dis trict sales representatives handle as many sub ing to business in our own department.
divisions of the general territory. It is their
If we don't print contributions, we don't
task to maintain and strengthen the dealer org anization in their territories and they are re
show proper appreciation. Like as not some fellow will say we swiped
sponsible for getting the tonnage which should
this from another paper.
come from these territories.
So we did.
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Foremen's Banquet a Huge Success JO ;.-* t At 6:30 p. m. Saturday evening December '
3rd, two hundred gathered at the Westminster Church for showing of the Labor Day Picnic motion pictures, followed by a banquet and then to listen to the unexcelled Ralph Parlette in his famous lecture "It's Up To You—Are You Shak ing Up or Rattling Down" from his book "The University of Hard Knocks." The two hundred included plant foremen, assistant formen, older employees and prominent officials, professional and business men of the village of Rogers City. Numbered among our guests this year were also the seven girls from the office. The main din ing hall contained some hundred and seventy seats at five tables and thirty more at one table
in the library. The tables were completely fill ed. The room was beautifully decorated in Limestone grey paper representing a cavern lighted with hundreds of varicolored balloons. The tables were well supplied with flowers and beautifully set and adding to the color, of course were paper hats in great variety. The pictures of the picnic consisted of two
thousand feet of film and being shown after this ninety-day lapse of making proved to be real enjoyment to all.
They were shown in the aud
itorium on the first floor of the church. Prompt ly at 7:00 p. m. the guests were taken to the din ing hall and with very little confusion were placed and sang "America" followed by the in vocation by Rev. J. L. Kennedy before being seated.
All were seated
and
the
orchestra
played throughout the meal and their novelty numbers added a lot of pep and enjoyment thru the evening. Of course, there was not quite as much outside space in the room after that wonderful turkey dinner as before but soon everyone was settled back comfortably with their cigars and listened to an address of wel come and a review of 1927 activities by Pres. Carl D. Bradley. Just prior to his address and during the meal songs burst forth frequently in great volume and more or less harmony un der the skillful direction of O. F. Ferdelman and
H. H. Gilpin.
Competitive singing provided in
terest and excitement and at the close of the
captivity—they were made in Rogers City, 23 inches over all—saying they were for the pur pose of cutting away red tape and producing simplicity and better understanding. But let it be said here that the recipient did not need an implement to further his aim in this direction but took it in the joking way in which it was intended and accepted the shears with an ade quate speech which was enjoyed and so closed another feature of the evening's entertainment. Twelve black silk toppers found their way to a dozen places at the tables and the wearers representing the "silk hat Harrys" almost made a change in the language of this entire article. They gathered at the piano and sang, (?) those that did not sing yodeled and the rest of the crowd made this number a howling, yowding, roaring success. Among the most prominent of the dozen were Hilarious B. Q'Toole, Honest Joe Penglase, Engineer Stanbrook and other well known stars. We finally got them seated again and proceeded. The real hit at this point in the program was a song number by our sev en girls and a response by the men with "Let Me Call You Sweetheart"—althogether unplan ned but never more appropriate. The number by the girls was enjoyed very much. The men with bated breath listened—one of the girls ap plauded—not so loud mind you—and then on to the next stop. Of further interest were two numbers by the Plant quartette composed of Messrs. War wick, Stanbrook, Zempel and Ferdelman. Their numbers were appreciated and freely applauded —not for the effort but more for accomplish ment.
This lead us right up to the talk by Ralph Parlette whom we have mentioned before as the
unexcelled, and all through this article we have been trying to think of another word more de scriptive, and although there are a dozen in our dictionary none of them seem to add much to what we have said.
Mr. Parlette talked on the
subject mentioned before: "It's Up To You— Are You Rattling Up or Shaking Down?" He
brought with him his famous jar of beans and
meeting the South side had the honors.
walnuts.
Following Mr. Bradley, Mr. J. P. Kinville delivered an address stating mainly that we had gathered here to honor another, along with our beloved President and with honesty and sin cerity mentioned the name of Mr. John G. Mun son, Vice President and General Manager. From then, striking a lighter vein he said the organization had wondered, worried, lost sleep and finally had developed a scheme at this most opportune time, to be of further help to our good friend Mr. Munson, at this time present ing him with a pair of the longest shears in
and the walnuts landed on top and he went on
The beans, of course rattled down
through the evening for an hour and a half with a wonderful story full of good reasons why each of us should try to grow and fit out jobs and not become rattlers and shake down.
Shaking
the bean jar, as simple as it was, proved to be a most interesting demonstration of what happens when unearned assistance pushes the little bean to the top and what happens when the big nut gets down to the bottom. The shaking begins and the little bean was not ready for the top and he rattles back to the bottom—even as you
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As the shak
ing goes on the big nut is out of place and he squeezes upward and finally lands where he started to grow and go on and on.
ANOTHER "GUESS WHO" In
Mr. Parlette
much to do with the ac
with our Company for many years and holds a responsible position and
Ernest Ross, Reverend C. T. Skowronski and
C. S. Covey, each of them making a short ap
is known and respected
propriate talk wishing the Company and its em good
will and good business. The mejeting closed with an expression from Mr. Bradley of his appreciation of the work- and results of 19.27. lie stated his hope for continued prosperity and wished all present an abundance of the good things, this season of the year brings to us.
visited at
the following employees and the
Tracks.
Leo
that he has just east his first vote.
Add a few
pounds to his Weight, a few years to his age and a pair of spectacles and then "(mess again."
Xo doubt many of our readers had very lit tle difficulty in naming the man pictured in our Richard
Lamb,
Yes. it foreman
of the pipe gang, taken at the time when he used to wear a very becoming moustache ami
the home of
smoked real houest-to-gooduess nickel cigars,
left baby girls: August Hilla of
picture was taken is perhaps due to the fact
was none other than
During the past month the stork
by all our employees. The serious look on his face at the time" this
last issue under tin- title "Who is it?"
BIRTHS
the
cumulation of the many cargoes that have left this port. I le has been
President Carl 1). Bradley then called upon Village President Rudolph Dueltgen, Reverend
of
of
since that time has had
real appreciation.
manifestation
wilds
tender age of Twentyone this young gentle man began accumulat ing material for "Cal cite Screenings" and
left the entire audience with many good thots to remember and recalled to us many of the simple fundamental rules of Life in just a little different way—in that true Parlette style—in the way that keeps them in our mind and be fore US to be often used and practiced. When he had completed his talk the aud ience arose as one man and applauded long, in
ployees the continued
the
Upper Peninsula at the
I'anil of
the Blasting Crew. Walter Santinio of the Shovel Dept. tr<&-s. i:m (Kelley's shift), and Morris Richards of the Mill Dept. (Ilagen's shift). Baby boys were delivered to the home of George LaMothe of the Transportation Dept. i Kelley's shift). Raul Wirgau of the Drilling Dept.. Geo. Bunker of the Yard Machinery Dept., and Steve
TOO MUCH BUNK
J got an idea, says Farmer Brown, There's too much buncombe floating around You can't go here and you can't go there, And you can't go travelin' anywhere, Hut what some feller is on your trail With a sure investment that cannot fail.
He tells you how you can get rich quick, And his method it sound pretty dog-gone slick; He tells you how to make dollars grow
Smolinski of the Tracks.
"Calcite Screenings" joins in extending con
gratulations to the above parents.
Until you will jes' be rollin' in dough.
He'll sell you mine stock for a song That's going to be double 'fore very long.
And he puts up such a winning spiel
MARRIAGES
During the past month wedding bells rang for the following plant employees: Richard
llaneckow
Transportation
Dept.
of
the
(Kel
ley's shift) to Miss Dorothy
Friedrich
of
Rogers
You feel yourself owniu' an automobile. A place in the country and one in town, And a private yacht—for a dollar down.
But hang onto your dough for a rainy day. And make your money in the good old way, Save up your dollars as true folks do, .And the poorhousc never will yawn for you.
City:
—Cob irado Candle.
Gustav Sehalk Jr., of the Yard Dept. to Miss May Rickwalt of Rogers City and Julius Ratzer of the Yard Dept. to Miss Bertha Schullack of Royston.
Many a man has to keep his nose to the grindstone in order to enable his wife to turn her's up at the neighbors.
"Calcite Screenings" joins with the many
friends ol the above in wishing them much hap piness and joy.
If you do right you will be criticised. If you do wrong you will be Criticised. You might as well do right.
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SHOOTING FRED V.
N. BRADLEY
/ Many times you have seen us rushing mad
ly with our movie camera into various parts of the quarry, plant, or town—have seen us set u\>.—"shoot" a few seconds.—pick up and rush elsewhere. And then—When are you going to see the picture-? Possibly next week—possibly never.
Why. then, are we constantly taking
movies.— what becomes of all of the film we are
using up.—why take pictures if they are not going to be usv<\.
Constantly
questions on all sides.
we
hear
these
Probably more ques
tions would have to be answered were it realiz
ed that it costs us over $10.00 per minute to crank the camera.
Industrial Motion
CALCITE
Pictures are taken with
one of several thoughts in mind: (1) sales: (2) education of human interest; (3) historical. Back in 1921, the writer, as a salesman in
our Agricultural Department in Buffalo, found himself trying to sell our product in competition with many inferior products which however sold at a lower price—and. generally speaking. Price is Paramount, Now could we hiring the
taken place which explain our tremendous in
crease in production. How interesting our 1924 picture will be in 1934. But our efforts have not been confined i"
the plant.
In 1923 we wanted to take all of our
local friends to Lorain to see the launching ol
the Str. R. II. Taylor, Instead we "brought" the launching home in a little can and for the first time many of us here "saw" a Great Lakes Freighter launched. And. by the way, that was the first time a side-launching had been success
fully photographed in motion pictures. In 1924. we produced a five reel picture of our entire operations. Feeling we were not ex perienced enough to produce a finished picture of that magnitude, we enlisted the service of the Alpha Motion Picture Company of Cleveland who turned out a splendid production. This picture has been seen by thousands of people in many different parts of the country. Lor ex ample, when the Str. T. W. Robinson was being built we were anxious to secure more co-opera
tion from the General Electric Company.
Our
customer to see our tremendous plant and quar
film was shown to thousands of their engineers
ry and so convince him that no where else could
and shop-men in Schenectady and Lynn and we received the finest of co-operation because then, for the first time, many "knew" us and appre ciated our problems. Again, in 1924. we were putting stone in the bottom of Lake Michigan for a breakwater
he secure a product comparable in quality and uniformity and, what was more important,
where else could he be so certain of delivery when he wanted it;
Why not take the quarry
to him ?
With these thoughts in mind, in 1922, we
at
Milwaukee.
It
was an
innovation
and
we
purchased a Universal Camera, equipped with
photographed it to show it to governmental and
three different size lenses mounted in a Turret Front. This camera takes standard size film, which, if desired, can be reduced to the narrow
other interested engineers. The picture was splendid. Cnfortunately however, it was de stroyed in the office fire in 1925. This taught us a serious lesson. Now we have our negatives stored in a fire-proof vault-
gauge film now being used in most home pro jectors. During the summer of 1922, the writ er took approximately 10.000 feet of pictures which were incorporated into a five reel film
in Cleveland.
If our positives, which are the
Farmers became educated to believe in "Michi
films used for exhibition, are destroyed, we can have new ones made at once. If our negatives should be lost, which is improbable, we can have duplicate negatives made from our positives
gan Limestone" until it has now become the
here.
and shown the following winter to thousands of
farmers in Xew York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. standard of comparison in the agricultural field.
In 1925 we made a unique record.
When
Our Buffalo branch has continued to exhibit
the Str. T. \\*. Robinson was launched, it was
pictures which are constantly being kept up to date with changes in our method of production. They also have sales reels out showing the bet ter results being obtained with our stone. Since 1923, with few exceptions, our plant
known we would photograph it. We did. then we rushed madly into Cleveland—forty miles
pictures have been taken more from an histor ical viewpoint. Few of us. if asked today, could describe in detail how we produced stone in 1922. Most, of US would say "Substanially the
same as today" but presto! push the button and \ on would be amazed at the changes which have
away—developed the negatives, made the titles, printed and developed the positives and showed them in the Hollenden Hotel at the Launching Luncheon, all within four hours from the actual
launching.
It
was
a unique
innovation
for
such functions.
This feat was repeated this year when the Str. Carl I). Bradley was launched, but we went one better—the launching was shown in Rogers
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City within thirty hours. An interesting part of this reel is the slowmotion picture of the actual launching. For years, shipbuilders have- inevitably experienced considerable damage when launching steamers sideways. This damage, not only serious and expensive to the shipbuilders and insurance com panies, usually caused serious delays in the con struction of the steamer. Many theories of the cause of the damage had been advanced and all
possible steps taken to prevent a recurrence but the damage continued.
Came the slow-motion
camera and officials of the shipbuilding company carefully studied the film over and over, picture by picture,
frame by frame.
When the
next
vessel was launched, there was no damage.
mediate use for them, possibly they will not lit in well in any of our present reels. Rut event ually you will see them incorporated in a new film. The film record will be here indefinitely â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the action is here today alone. Motion pic tures are needed only to record action. And that, by the way. is the lot of the cameraman. Action waits for no camera. Rather it is for the cameraman to be there when the action
takes place and "get it" regardless of weather and any other difficulties encountered. There
are no excuses for failure to "get the action" when and where it occurs. And yet. one never
photographs anything propelled by steam, be it boat, tug, dredge, locomotive, or steam shovelâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; that the fireman does not take a sudden notion
to fire-up. And cameras cannot penetrate smoke or fog any more than can the human eye. in fact less. Yet the camera must "get the shot" so "shoot" we do and continue shooting until the
smoke
clears
or
the
Then we have to make
action
what
is
all
we can
over.
out
of
it by cutting out all parts in which no action can
be seen. Again, possibly the action happens long after "good photography sun" has disap peared. There arc no "time exposures-" in mo
Taking the Launching of the New Steamer Carl D. Brad ley at Loraine, Ohio, Last Spring Another innovation came to our
tion pictures, everything is a snapshot, but again the "action must be shot." Then we em ploy an f. 1. 9 lens which is the fastest lens mad.. With it we can "get" anything the human eye can still see. It is. photographically speaking,
more than fifty times as fast as the average Ko dak.
lot
this
year. When the new harbor at R.uffiugton, Iml. was officially opened on July 9th. we installed
a complete laboratory on the Str. T. W. Robin son.
We photographed the event, and, finish
ing each scene as fast as it was taken, showed an interesting picture on the return excursion boat to Chicago. Several scenes, running into hundreds of feet, having been finished in the one hour and a half allowed in R.uffiugton. were included in the reel.
Possibly the most interesting film made this year is of the Safety Day Picnic. These pictures have been made up into a very interesting film which was shown publicly for the first time at the Foremen's Banquet recently. It will in all probability later be shown elsewhere in town. This picture is unique in the fact that but one camera was employed to take the entire film ol over 2000 feet, including over fifty different scenes, in one day. At various other times, we
Seaplane Used to Take Aerial Pictures in the Summer of 1924
Again comes the question of location. How can 1 get in the best possible position to get the best view of the action?
What view will ap
pear most pleasing to the eyes of my audience: Several times we have employed sea-planes for that purpose. Last summer, the Str. Robinson
employed as many as five different cameras and
was unloading a cargo far out in Lake Michigan
cameramen to take an important event ol that
for a foundation for a new Government Light
size in the limited time available.
house.
But what, you ask, is done with the many scenes we see taken but not shown? Are they
tin- writer fifty miles out into Lake Michigan
A plane flown by Raul Strashurg took
from Mackinac Island and we photographed the
operation from the air tor about twenty min stantly photographing interesting scenes an I ute.-. It was the only way to show the entire operation at one time. It was neee<sar\ 1 1 storing them away. Possibly we see no im useless,
wasted, or lost?
No.
We are
con
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stand on the seat in the plane and hang on with
with the changes made.
one hand, cranking with the other, while often
cult with each showing. A picture is made to show the audience once. The "editor" having seen it many limes knows each scene by heart
the plane was flying in a "vertical bank" for hundreds of yards. A "vertical bank" means
that the plane is flying directly on its side per pendicular to the water. Again "the action must be shot."
Tint it is not always necessary to "hang like
The task is more diffi
and each scene seems to drag more and more. The tendency is to cut still more, but to one see
ing the picture for the first time, the action may be too short. So the "editor" must constantly sit in the seat of judgement with the "eyes of the audience." An editor can occassioually
a monkey" to get the action. Often we can stay on the ground hundreds of feet from the action and get it with a telephoto, or long-dis
"make" but can always "break" a picture.
tance lens, even though the action may be far
is a difficult task indeed.
above us.
Finally the picture is complete. The nega tives are cut to match the positives in the fin ished print, cemented together, and a complete new reprint made to insure a clearer and cleaner presentation and reduce to a minimum the num ber of cemented splices in the finished product. Splices often break and cause those aggravating delays in the show. The picture is released and the producer watches the "premiere" wondering
Taking the pictures just begins the produc tion of the finished film. The negatives must be sent to the laboratory where they are wound on large racks in the dark room and immersed
in huge vats of chemical. After developing sim ilar to ordinary kodak films, they are wound on huge revolving drums and then polished and "timed."
dried.
They are
It is readily appreciated one does not always use the same exposure in taking movies any more than in taking snap-shots, but in "still" camera work each negative is printed separate ly. In movies two hundred feet at least is
printed at one lime, hence each scene generally takes different printing time in order that each scene ol the finished positive will appear on the screen with equal brilliance. Otherwise imag
I lis
if his efforts will be rewarded with ridicule or
applause. 窶認red V. N. Bradley BENSON BROTHERS GET FINE BUCK
ine the strain on the eyes from one dark scene foil*.wed by a light under-exposed scene. It takes a trained expert eye to accurately "time" a negative. The negative and positive are then run thru
a printer side by side in a continuous process by which each individual picture, and there are six teen to tile foot, is printed separately. Again the positive is developed in a similar manner to
the negative described above, dried and polished. Titles are printed on cards about 12 x 14
inches and photographed. Titles must clearly describe the following action and yet be short and terse for one goes to a movie to see. not
read.
Writing titles is a literary art of its own.
Next, the titles are cut and cemented in
ahead of their accompanying positive scenes and then conies the hardest and most tiresome part of the work. "Editing." The "finished film" is run through on the screen. Some scenes are too
dark or too light and must lie reprinted. The addition or changing of a color may enhance the scene and it is reprinted on a different colored
positive stock. Some scenes will appear too long, others too short. If too long they are of course cut down. If too short or poorly photo graphed possibly the action can be rephotographed but generally speaking "action does not repeat." Possibly a double printing of the neg ative <>r chemical treating of the negative will he]]..
Again and again the film is run through
R'homI and Norman Benson went out with a
party of friends near Harrisville and were for
tunate in bagging this fine buck the second day in cam]).
Rhoud claims the honor of firing the
fatal shot. It certainly is a fine specimen and we are mighty glad the boys let us get the pic ture. We hope you will be equally as fortunate next year, boys.
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'^SCREENING AND SIZING OF OUR
\ \
LIMESTONE
^
One of the principal units in the crushing, sizing, conveying and storing of limestone is the screening equipment. The original screening installation in 1912 was two rotary screens each consisting of a cyl inder containing graduated perforations. They were seven feet in diameter and thirty-two feet long, individually driven by a fifty horsepower motor. These screens were the largest known units of this type and separated the rock into three sizes. That passing thru holes less than one inch in diameter was unfit for flux and car ried to a fines bin where it was loaded into cars
and hauled to the dump. The second section of the screen had six inch perforations and the rock passing thru varied in sizes from one inch to six inch and was used as "Flux Stone." The oversize from the lower end of the screens was recrushed and delivered back to the screens.
but also low in power consumption and repairs. At the same time the grizzly tests were being conducted, other experiments were car ried on looking toward more efficient intermed iate screens and a dewatering system for remov ing the washing water from the fine sizes. The results of these tests lead to the sec
ond major change, when in the winter of 1924 the present revolving grizzlies and vibrating screens were installed. Two eight shaft six inch grizzlies, six feet wide by twelve feet long, prepare the openhearth. Limited space pre vented making these units nine or ten shaft. They are independently driven thru enclosed
gear boxes by a 50 H. P. motor. The material passing thru is delivered to two three inch grizz lies eight shaft, six feet wide by nine feet long. All material passing over goes to the flux stor age. The thrus pass to vibrating screens where all stone 2}4 inch and over is sent to the flux. Other vibrators remove the water from stone
Maximum capacity of this plant was about 1400 under 2y2 inches, preparatory to sending same
tons per hour.
The next step was the washing of the stone while screening, and greatly improved the pro duct. This was the first commercial washing of limestone and was developed by Mr. Bradley. Additional revolving screens were installed and other sizes produced until this unit consisted of four nine foot diameter by thirty-two foot long screens for producing flux and openhearth, two nine foot diameter by twenty-six foot screens for removal of fines and making of additional flux, three seven foot by twenty-six foot, and four five foot by twenty foot for the prepara tion of fines.
Investigation and experiments lead to the first radical change to the screening equipment in the winter of 1920. The revolving screens
for preparing fine sizes were removed and the present fines screen house provided with a bank of twenty-four vibrating screens. These units increased the efficiency at this point and great ly reduced the percentage pumped to lake stor age. Five sizes of stone were produced, openhearth, 10 inch to 6 inch, flux, 6 inch to V/2 inch, number ones, \l/2 to ]/2 inch, number two's
to the fine screen house.
Vibrators for screen
ing 2j4 inch stone are not entirely satisfactory, and methods are being investigated for improv ing this operation. This system while handling larger tonnage
occupies one half of the floor space required for the old method, and operating delays have been
practically eliminated.
Power consumption has
decreased from 575 H. P. to 225 H. P. The max
imum capacity increased from 2000 tons per hour to over 3000.
At the inception of this plant in 1912 only flux stone, one inch to six inches, was sold, there
being no market for fine sizes which accumulat ed rapidly and interfered with plant operation. To overcome this difficulty Mr. Bradley started
a vigorous campaign and was successful in get ting various companies to use fines for build
ing roads, cement, agriculture and chemical purposes. The sale of fines was a gradual growth against great sales resistance, but was finally developed until today, the shipment of fine sizes exceeds flux shipment for which the plant was originally designed. This condition has made it necessary to re
y2 to J4 inchÂť and number four's, 1-4 to 1-16 inch. claim what was once rejected material and at The revolving screens for preparing flux and openhearth had restricted efficient capacity and the up-keep and power consumption was high. Owing to the capacity handled and con tinuous operations, these screens were subject to breakage with resultant delays in production. In 1921 experiments were made with two ro tary grizzlies for preparing these two sizes. This was the first attempt to screen stone on
this type of unit, and the machines, while pro ducing satisfactory products, were not rugged enough for this service. Additional tests con ducted in 1922, 1923, and 1924 resulted in units
which not only operated with minimum delays,
the same time decrease the quantity of fines re
jections. These rejections in 1925 amounted to 8 per cent of the total stone produced. Changes in quarry, crushing and screening reduced this item to about 5 per cent in 1927. The fines material is especially adaptable
to cement making purposes decreasing grinding costs. Additional experiments are contemplat ed for 1928, looking to the recovery of all ma terial from one sixteenth inch to sixty-five mesh which will reduce the rejections to below 2J/2
per cent. Based on a quarry output of nine mil lion tons, this would result, if successful, in a
saving of 225 thousand tons.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;I. L. Clymer,
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I 'age Sixteen
By MARCIA MEADOWS
Courtesy ofMarshall Field & Company,V/hchsale, Chicago This is the time oi the year when most •>! ib feel very much like dear old Mrs. Santa Clans
attractive gift sets holding a compact and a
herself.
and blue.
The stores are -o crowded with de
small bottle ..f perfume beautifully boxed in red
lightful and particularly appropriate gifts that
Gifts For Women
my own special problem has been nol what to give bul what not to give. Vou may find it
Feminine gifts, of course, are always the easiest to decide upon. To begin with, there is always lingerie. \.< woman has too many pieces. As well as silk things, there are ex
diverting to attack the annual gift hunt from a
slightly different angle—giving people not what you think they think you're likely to give them. but what they would be least likely to expect or lo buy for themselves.
Very practical friends, for example, should be given something frivolous and foolish; they are sure to like it. A lacey boudoir pillow or
a negligee- are two feasible suggestions for gifts of this type, for. say the hard working bus iness woman and the school teaching aunt. I have found very attractive hand made boudoir
pillows of organdie and rayon made in the shape of in..ruing glories, sweet pea-, and chrysanthe mums nestling in green leaves. "Charm Pillows"
they are called, and they combine charm and comfort in a wholly delightful fashion. Among the newer things in negligees are coolie cats ol printed silk and fine Wool challie. .Many of them are most amusing with borders and cuff
trimmings in a vivid pattern of pagodas, lant erns ami busy little figures. Quilted robes, of course, are snugly warm, and luxuriously com
fortable. The newest ones are also very pret ty, for they are trimmed with collars and cuffs ni embroidered metal Colli. Others are ban.'.
painted in gold, and silver and pastel shades or whimsically hand embroidered in a large trail ing design. Long legged dolls, the kind that
fall
in
engagingly lazy attitude.-, no mailer how you throw them, will touch the funny bones of the most dignified person on your list. They are simply dressed in calico or elaborately gowned in period frocks of taffeta as you wish, and
some of them have bright gold hair.
Have you
.seen the Beverly pups, waggish, long-eared, flat
footed animals made of fast colored ginghams? Blue Rose and Flair dance sets make delightful gifts. They are compact little suede cases, yo.U know, holding a powder and a n>u^f compact,
lipstick, mirror and comb.
There are ai.-o very
quisitely dainty hand made Philippine Bonitb gowns and chemises of fine nainsook, and many extremely smart designs in rayon.. Rayon, by
the w-ay, has quite definitely arrived in the lin gerie world. It is no longer either a substitute or an experiment. Il is a fabric by itself, and such rayon lingerie as Field-Ray and Sunbeam are very satisfactory for Christmas giving. Jewel boxes. Italian and Chinese hand em
broidered shawls, fans, toilet sets, fancy aprons, and leather book covers are additional sugges
tions that may strike your fancy. The costume jewelry now so much in vogue makes charming and comparatively inexpensive gifts. Particularly nice are the Joan of Arc necklaces made of braided strands of tiny gold beads ami fastening with a jade colored clasp. Cunmelal colored pearl earrings and guards are also extremely modish and a bit different. Beau tifully fitted traveling cases are always a par ticularly joyful gift and make a most prized pos session. What To Give
Men
.Men's presents seem easy until you decide that you waul lo get away from the always ac ceptable but very conventional ties and shirts and handkerchief's. Nave you ever considered book ends, a Steamer rug. or smoking things— Christmas cigarette boxes are legion—lamps, screens, or newspaper racks: Magazine sub
scriptions, phonograph records, field glasses and golf club- are just a few of the available sug gestions on tin- liM of something for recreation. If you are at your wit's end. just think of his
favorite sport or hobby and give him something that fits in with it.
It's an unfailing method.
Camping equipment so many things come un der this head that the present can be very small ..r vi:vy large—makes .'m excellent gift for the out-oC<!.•.,-,- man or boy and one that will make
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your name blessed in vacation time. Dae. of my favorite stores has a most at tractive counter
book of jewelry and gift merchandise, really a magic book of gift suggestions. I found the most interesting smoking accessories in it in Chinese brass and Cioisne.
The whole book is
a happy hunting ground for the Christinas Shop per. For
Children
Toys of course, are the most fun. I advise the kind that enlists the imagination of the
child.
Bright Wrappings
The joy of wrapping your gifts is in direct proportion to the charm and originality of your papers and ribbons, and now there are so many brightly printed ami hand blocked designs that it is really easy to make each package a work of art. Tiny bells may be tied to Christmas packages, and you can find many effective pack age trimmings among the smaller flowers at the boutonniere counter. Tiny bunches of red
glass currants are particularly decorative.
If you cannot decide on the right toy,
try tools.
Children often like them just as well.
GET THEIRS IN UPPER PENINSULA
Pictures, lamps, china, small chairs, and fancy quilts for the nursery are a further suggestion if both toys .and tools fail you. Kindergarten supplies, sand boxes, cameras, books, or paints may be admirably suited to some young intel lectual id' your acquaintance. Beyond all doubt the nicest gift of all if it can Ik- arranged is a puppy or a kitten. I was much amused when
1 happened in on my nephew's pet toy store to buy him the red motor truck of his heart's de
sire to find a Toy Circus in full swing with toy clowns and animals set up in a regular three ring performance with a lot of interested dolls and many children in the audience. Wasn't it a jolly idea? The head of the Toy Department told me that a number of stores all over the
country are using the same ide.a for their Christ mas toy displays. If there is one in your neigh borhood, don't miss seeing it. For The Home
A present for the home is something the whole family can enjoy. A waffle set of bright ly decorated peasant china with a hatter jug.
a syrup jug, a half a dozen plates and clips ami saucers can be pressed into service for the Christmas morning breakfast. Tea sets, pieces of Venetian or
Murano
glass,
Chinese
brass
gongs and tea caddies, table linen, door knock ers, sconces, candlesticks, pewter bowls, and small rugs are .all suggestions for the home. Radios and phonographsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if the family needs new ones will be a source of enjoyment all year. Our house is giving itself a new rug for Christmas "'from the family to the family." It
has a soft taupe ground with conventionalized flowers scattered over it and an irregular bord er.
It's a llomecrest. of course, and so we feel
sure that the design is in good taste and that the rug itself will wear satisfactorily.
The above picture shows Carl and Ernest P.runing with a fine buck strung up at their camp in the upper peninsula. We understand
the third part) was Tony Wagner who was di rect h responsible for the deer being in the pic ture and who no doubt was behind the camera
when the picture was taken. Judging from the expression oil their faces the boys seem well
pleased with the results of their hunt.
The Small Gift
Many people have adopted the idea of tuck ing some tiny, trivial but amusing or useful thing in with their present proper. It may be simply a pretty handkerchief or a calendar or a tiny address book: or a gay little boutonniere of Sunlight yarns has a holiday look about it. It is done as much for the extra fillip of sur
prise as for anything else.
The place for a crab is in the ocean, not in the shop.
Only a traffic cop is paid to be disagreeable â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and not all of them earn their pay.
Most of the tragedies of the ages happened because people didn't wish hard enough.
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fever.
Notices have been posted at the Plant an nouncing the crews for the operation of the
Dump this winter.
This operation will not be
gin until January Kith.
The construction pro
gram for this winter has not been definitely de cided but it appears that there will not be much work started besides the Stripping Operations until some time in February. OBITUARY
We regret very much in having to record tin- pasiug to the ('.real Beyond during the past month, of the following plant employees: Harry
C. Ware general foreman of the Electrical de partment, and Jacob I'roma of the Transporta tion department (Kelley's shift). "Calcite Screenings" joins in extending our sincerest sympathy to the relatives in this, their The
Bunnies
didn't
have
much
chance
hour of bereavement.
against the sharp shooting of K. A. Schulwit/. and Ruben Schttltz of the office' force recently
as the above picture testifies. Apparently the boys know where to go when hunting rabbits but weren't so foruuate when they went out tor
bigger game
at least, we didn't hear of either
of them filling their deer license. PLANT PERSONALS
S. L. Wilcox of the Illinois Steel Company, wlio has been assisting Mr. Valentin in our Chemical Laboratory the greater pari of the season returned to his home in Chicago Decem ber 1st.
Charlie Sauvey of the Construction depart ment is in the limelight again.
It seems while
on his way out hunting recently his car became mixed up with a culvert along the road about three miles from town after which the car re
fused to go any farther. Having had consider able experience in the past in keeping the old Bus agoin'. Charlie has been taking the precau tion of carrying an extra ring gear and pinion With him. but apparently more extensive re
pairs were needed this time before it would op erate. Charlie says the next time he goes outhe is going to carry a full line of repair parts with him.
Can anyone tell us why it was that two
young gentlemen of the Storehouse bad their mustaches shaved off rather suddenly after hav ing nursed them along for several months and
just when they were becoming visible to the naked eye?
Seems to be some mystery con
nected with it !
LOST—A hound dog about five mouths old with white and black spots and tan head and ears.
Answers to the name of
I'al.
Reward
SHOVELMEN ENJOY ANNUAL BANQUET
The annual banquet of the Shovebneu held at the K. C. Hall on Tuesday evening. Decernlx..
6th, as in the past, proved to be another enjoy able affair and besides the shovchneu was at
tended by heads of departments and plant officials to the number of some seventy-five. After a very sumptuous dinner served by the ladies of St. Ignatius church. President Carl I). Bradley who also acted as toastmaster, gave a short address followed by many short talks and stories by others in which many pleasant and amusing memories were recalled of tin- days
when our plant was operating on a much smaller scale.
Kutcrtainmcnt furnished by the Blue White orchestra and a vaudeville troupe Detroit was enjoyed as were also the old •lances indulged in by some of the older
present.
and from lime men
Dan Beebe's accordion sOlos together
with numerous monologues, dialogues, imper sonations and community singing added to the evening's entertainment. The vocal trio by Messrs. Osborn, Hoffman and Henley was ex
ceptionally good.
The numerous songs by these
gentlemen became more harmonious as the eve
ning passed and they became warmed up to the spirit of the occasion. Much credit is due to Xeil (dosser, chair for the
man, and his associate committeemen
splendid work done by them in planning this banquet, the memory of which will long remain in the minds and hearts of those win. were pres ent.
Hunt for the good in the other fellow—he
offered. Fred Heythaler. We are glad to see lien bounds back on the
has to do the same in vour case.
job again after being confined to his bed for
Just because a road is well beaten does not prove that it leads in the right direction.
six weeks with a severe attack of rheumatic
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Prize Offered For First :•:•
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A prize of five dollars is being offered to the first Baby born to "Calcite" parents after mid night of December 31st. This prize will be in the form of savings account book with a
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five
dollar deposit as pictured above. We ask that all employes having new arrivals at their homes after the beginning of the new year will advise the Editor together with the date and hour of
its birth and the name of the attending physi cian.
The names of all such new arrivals should
be sent in before the first of February, The winner, which will be known as Baby Calcite, together with his or her picture, will be an nounced in the next issue of this magazine which will be about the first of March or April,
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THE BROWNS
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With the Boats of the Bradley Transportation Company
In the season just closed, which has been one ol the most active seasons thai tin- Bradley
1912 at the Detroit Shipbuilding Company. Her
Transportation Company has ever had. it would
length is 416,0"; moulded breadth 54'0" and molded depth 29.0"; her gross tonnage- is 3996.
not be fitting if a few remarks were not made
She is equipped with a quadruple expansion en
regarding the performance of tin- steamer CAL
gine.
CITE.
is 2000 and the number of revolutions of pro peller is 90. The fireroom is equipped with
This
steamer
delivered
99
cargoes,
the
larger part of which were delivered to custom ers in Detroit. This exceeds by several cargoes the largest number of cargoes delivered by any steamer of the Bradley Transportation Com pany during a single season. The accompany ing picture shows the steamer CALCITE on its arrival at Port of Calcite on June 26th, 1912. Considerable improvement has been made in the steamers and in the plant since that time. Com parison of this steamer wiih the Steamer
BRADLEY gives a good idea of progress made since that memorable day in 1912 when the first self-unloader cargo was shipped from tin- port of Calcite. There is no steamer of the Bradley
Transportation Company that has assisted so much in the development of the
fines
ments as the Steamer CALCITE.
This steam
ship
er, of smaller capacity and dimensions than the other steamers, was well adapted to reach the
more inaccessible points and to carry the small
The indicated horsepower of the steamer
three Scotch boilers with six furnaces and car
ries 200 pounds of steam.
The unloading equip
ment was built by Stephens-Adam^,u Company and is driven by two Wcstinghouse compound engines. CREW OF STEAMER CALCITE
Clayton A. Martin, captain. Arthur l.'rdal. chief engineer. Fred llayden, first asst. engineer. Axel Hoy. second asst. engineer. Henry Miller, third asst. engineer. Alfred Tyrell. first mate. Frank Hinegan. second mate. Donald MacLeod,
boatswain. Kmcry Derby, George Walters and Harold Xidy. oilers: William llornbacher ami Clarence Xoyd. wheelsmen: Donald Everett and
Donald Jacobson, watchmen: John Burns, John Costello,
Robert
Oliver,
Edward
McCahcrn.
Bert Walters and Joseph Callis. firemen: Ches ter Sawicki. Xick
Morukwski and Albert Sal-
er tonnages demanded by the screenings cus tomers in the early days. The Steamer CALCITE was built for the
nikowski. coal passers; Henry Herman, convey or engineer ; Gerald Haverstock and Holland Crsem. deck watchmen; Irvin Kemp, Lester I'annon. Lester Spencer and (ierald Scott, deck
Calcite Transportation Company
bauds: Roy Lloyd, steward: Adolph Toulouse.
in the
year
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seek a bouquet. But we feel we did our duty for which we drew
THE SHIPPING SEASON'S OVER
There's one more fact to mention belore this verse T close. And that is our "no accident" record which our
our pay.
The shipping season's over and the boys all wear a smile.
It's been a great success and their efforts been
We've kept the old ship going—f mean the steamer
safety bulletin shows.
That's a thing we're mighty proud of. for,
worth while.
while at home we're safely sleeping,
The lads on ship, we always feel, are in each
White—
The crew has been most steady and aimed to do
others keeping. — J- J. McKeuna. Second Asst. Lug.. Str. White.
Ihe right. Six deckhands on all season: our bos'n a sticker loo.
So when it came to "clean-up" time, these lads knew what to do.
You know it's quite an item to get a quick dispatch, The Mate would say "It's clean up. boys" and they'd rush, down the hatch. We've had co-operation on this good old ship, you know. Xow let us take a trip back aft and see the boys below.
At times all through the season our first Male. Mr. I'.eck.
Would call out "Can we pass that boat?
If not
we'll have to check."
To check was not our motto, on that it's safe to bet:
Just a kindly word to the fireman and the steam we'd always get. W'e know that short delays like that would bring us short on lime, To get in one more flying trip to I'ort Huron or Michigan Lime.
I think that this is quite enough as we don't
BOAT SAFETY MEETINGS Steamer Calcite
Meeting held on Xovember 28th, at seven o'clock p.m. with the following members pres ent: Axel Hoy. chairman: Frank Ilinnicgan. sec retary: Donald MacLeod. Gerald Hovcrsiock, Robert Oliver. Emery Derbv, Capt. Martin ami Chief Urdal.
Meeting called to order by the chairman and the minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
There were some very good suggestions made by all members of the Committee, and a
very interesting talk by Captain Martin in wdiich he complimented the crew very highly for their co-operation in regard to the promotion of Safe ty and in wdiich they were rewarded hv not hav ing a single lost lime accident during the entire season. He also expressed his regret in the serious accident wdiich resulted in the death by drowning of one of the dock men of the Union
Carbide Company at thd Soo recently.
This
man fell into the river when the ladder broke bv
Crew of die Str. Calcite —Insert (Right) Capt. C. A. Martin. (Left) Chief Arthur Urdal
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which he was descending from the boat to the '
dock.
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report a no-accident month and during the re
maining few days which are required to lay the
Boatswain Donald MacLeod suggested that boat up, everyone was urged to perform his du special precautions should be taken when plac ties in the safest way possible. No doubt every ing a ladder over the side of the boat and that one is anxious to get through and be on their men in charge of this work should be absolutely way home but it is much better to be a little sure that the ladder is in a safe condition and
securely fastened before anyone is allowed to use the same.
late than sorry.
With the hope that the season would be
completed without an accident the meeting was
Second Assistant Engineer, Axel Hoy, re adjourned. minded the men that it would soon be laying-
up time on the boat which requires the use of Steamer W. F. White stagings in the engine room and urged them to November. 28, 1927 be very careful in placing these â&#x20AC;˘ stagings in Date of meeting, Nov. 25, 1927. Present: order that there would be no danger of them falling over and possibly striking men who Wm. McDonald, chairman; John McKenna, sec retary, and Bert Moninger, Arthur Graham, might be working below. Watchman, Gerald Hoverstock, reminded us again regarding ice conditions on the deck, also when the hose is used in cleaning the cargo holds, men should exercise great caution as ice
Leon DePudry and Donald McKenzie.
Proceedings of meeting on above date were as follows:
Our eighth and last meeting of the season was called to order with all members present. may form on the connings making it very easy Our Captain and Chief Engineer also attended, to slip and fall into the cargo holds. and there was no doubt but that Captain DahlOiler, Emery Derby, calls attention to the burg was very enthusiastic about our no-acci
fact that all men working in the engine room
dent record, pointing out that it was no small achievement to operate a steamboat, with its many hazzards, and come out on top without a are working in the boilers, also that the card lost time accident. But regardless of how hazshould be particularly careful to see that the wrong intake valve was not opened when men
"MEN WORKING IN BOILER," be placed on the valves while work is in progress in the boil er.
zardous an occupation may be, it can be made
much less so with a little thought and care.
He also reminded us that a dangerous period Fireman, Robert Oliver, suggests that when had yet to be overcome, a period which we will flue caps are opened they should be hoisted up start shortly, the lay-up work, mentioning the
with tackles and not propped up with slice bars. Also that goggles should be worn by all men while at work cleaning: back-heads.
Steamer B. H. Taylor Meeting held on November 30th, with the following members present: Leo Moll, chair man; Stanley Dauscher, secretary; John Hegland, Niels Anderson, Harry Whitehead, and Alex. Feldman.
The following suggestions were made and are especially valuable during the lay-up period of our work.
1. All firemen should notify the engineer be fore entering boilers, also anyone working around machinery should first notify the man in charge in order that the proper precautions might be taken.
2.
Lanterns or lights of some kind should be
placed along side all mooring cables to prevent anyone from falling over them in the dark. 3.
Watchmen will continue to stand watch
so there will be someone around at night as well as during the day.
fact that upon the departure of the forward crew for home, the lights supposed to be placed at mooring cables and boom cables will prob ably be neglected more or less.
We have ar
ranged to have one of the engineering depart ment fulfill this obligation as a guard against stumbling over them in the dark.
Goggles have been supplied for all men en gaged in chipping paint, furnaces, backheads,
etc. This is to protect their eyes from possible injury.
A suggestion that is going to be passed along to the men for the balance of the season, the laying-up period included, is a request that things be done in a safe, sane and conservative manner, thereby doing justice to ourselves and not forgetting our employer, who relies on our care and economy. Our motto shall be "A safe, sane lay-up and a safe return home to the ones waiting there for us." Haste makes waste, so a little more time
and thought spent in accomplishing whatever we may be doing will get us home much more
quickly, as the boys in their anxiety to get home 4. Conveyormen were warned not to run any are likely to get reckless. So, pay attention to part of the conveyor machinery before notify the slogan: "Better slow than sorry." ing one of the Mates as the crew will be work After a word of thanks from Captain Dahling around elevator, etc. burg to the committee, the meeting was brought With November behind us we are proud to to a close.
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to observe whether or not there is ice at the ^
Meeting held on November 23rd, with the following members present: Gilbert Kemp,
foot of it, and if possible to do so, place it to clear the ice, and if it is not possible to do so,
chairman; Martin Birk, secretary; Robley Wil son, Archie Beebe, Floyd Gigax, and Bert Nolan. At the last meeting of the ship's Safety
danger, owing to the fact that in descending the
Committee called on the above date, all members
were present as well as several non-members, making it a general Safety meeting. All of the Safety suggestions and remarks appearing in the last issue of Calcite Screenings and the Lake Carrier's Bulletin were discussed.
All present were again warned and urged to warn their fellow workers against the dangers of fall sailing, icy decks and docks being the principal hazards brought out. They were also warned against carrying a large amount of mon ey on their person when they leave the ship as at this time of the season there are a class of
men wdio lay in wait for the all-season sailor to leave his ship to relieve him of his earnings. Play Safe and send your money home or to the Bank and you will be sure it will be there for you when you arrive. The members were also urged to be ex tremely careful for the very short time we have to sail in order that there may be no more ac cidents and that we might all return to our re
spective homes as we came. We will do better for it and will surely feel that the Safety Meet ings have proven a real benefit to us after all. It was suggested that a vote of thanks and appreciation be given to Calcite Screenings and the Lake Carrier's Bulletin for their timely and invaluable Safety suggestions thru-out the sea
son. We feel that they have been a wonderful help to us in the promotion of Safety and the prevention of accidents aboard this steamer. With all good wishes for the success of these periodicals the meeting was adjourned. Steamer John G. Munson
Date of meeting, November 19, 1927. Pres ent : Clarence Thorsen, chairman; Melvin Keyse,
secretary; and Clarence Hoy, Haakon Pearson, Eskel Reid and Harold Carter. Captain McQuinn and Chief Anderson were also present. The meeting was opened by the chairman at 7 p. m., then followed a general discussion of the care that should be exercised by each mem
ber of the crew, for the few remaining trips,
and to be very careful when "laying up" the
the member of the crew who is handling the ladder is to warn those descending it of the ladder one is facing the ship, making it more difficult to observe the condition of the dock,
than when climbing aboard ship. They have also been instructed to keep the deck free from ice, at the top end of the ladder, with the use of salt, ashes or any means they find best under the existing circumstances. Members of the crew have reported to our "Safety Committee" the danger in working on the cement dock on the "Open Hearth" side of the slip at Calcite at this time of the year. The dock is often covered with a sheet of ice, from
the ship's discharge of ballast water, and there is nothing to grasp on the dock in case a man
slipped, and there would be little chance for sav ing one if they did slide over the edge into the water, for there is nothing on the face of the dock close enough to the water's surface for one to reach.
Even though he may be an ex
pert swimmer the odds are against him at this time of the year for the water is so cold and the weight of the winter clothing would make swimming next to impossible. It is suggested that a guard be installed along the edge of the dock, made of a light steel rail, angle iron, or â&#x20AC;˘ anything best suited for the purpose. This is our last meeting of the season and
we hope to finish with no more lost time acci dents.
The meeting closed at 8 p. m. BOAT PERSONALS Steamer T. W. Robinson
The crew have been going around with a smile on their faces in anticipation of the
Thanksgiving dinner and our steward, Ed. Fawcett, certainly surpassed himself in preparing the Banquet for that day. The dining rooms were nicely decorated with appropriate colors and the menu was all that anyone could desire. The stewards department deserves a hearty vote of thanks for their thought and effort in
preparing such a wonderful dinner. Mr. George Sandiford who was here to re lieve Mr. Skelley thought the "T. W." was cer tainly a race horse, and after looking over our
boat at the end of the season, for there is so
log book on some of the trips we are inclined
much to do in a short period of time, and some are apt to take chances thinking by doing so a little time may be saved. Such men should be reminded that the "Safe" way in performing each task is the short way, regardless of the fact that it may require a few extra minutes. The men handling the landing ladders, from
to agree with him. We are all glad to see Mr. Skelley back on
the job again and feeling his same old self. Sorry to note that we haven't had a reporter on this boat, but for some reason or other they all seem to be afraid of the job. Here's an open ing for some ambitious young man. We all wish to express our thanks and ap
the ship to the dock, have been instructed, when lowering and placing the ladders on the dock preciation to the editorial staff of "Calcite
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Screenings" for the good work carried on this
We're thinking of a place out yonder,
f season in providing us with such a fine maga zine, and sincerely hope they will continue their fine work next season.
A place called Home Sweet Home.
A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Everyone.
Steamer John G. Munson
Steamer W. F. White
Bud Taylor, Reporter
Geo. Beck and 0. K. Falor, Reporters
We have adopted as our lay-up motto the
In this, our last issue for the year, we wish
following: Faith says, "It must be done." Hope to congratulate Mr. Ferdelman, the editor, upon
says, "May it be done." Love says, "I'll help do it."
This fine Detroit weather is giving us an
advance attack of spring fever. No wonder
above the near silence of Henry Ford's new
flivvers, the most common sounds are the slop,
slop, slop of the girls slopping in their new sloppy toped goloshes. Not only in Calcite does it mix the business of snowing with a down
pour of artic feeling rain.
his accomplishment. "Calcite
Screenings" is
indeed a most popular publication aboard this ship.
We all look forward to the date of its
publication because it so adequately brings us in contact with events of interest at the Plant, on the boats and on the outside. Highly in structive editorials have appeared from time to
time and are greatly appreciated by the men on
the boats. Safety editorials and cartoons con taining many good suggestions bear evidence of
"How about a little remuneration for my untiring effort on the editor's part to make our
efforts?" the vagrant minstrel asked.
"Sure thing," the Scotchman replied. "What
publication the success that it is.
Theodore Strand plans on going on a Deer
do you want me to sing?" We hear that one must wear a hat in Chi
Hunt as soon as navigation closes. We wonder
the Steamer White who tried to introduce the
neer's School this winter in preparation for ex
cess or what did you call that representative of
successful, Harry!
cago. It is rumored that the two young men of
anti-hat winter craze there met with poor suc the big town?
exactly how he spells Deer (Dear).
Harry Sloan plans on attending the Engi
amination as chief engineer. We hope you are
Wallace Soney has promised the Captain a Two things that a woman can never get off brace of clucks at the close of the season. The
right are a funny story and a street car. We are through for the season of 1927.
Captain designated the birds he would like while
passing Walpole on the last clown trip.
There is nothing else to do but say adieu. We understand that Mr. Beck plans on tak Christmas is coming and we wish you all the ing a trip to Merry England this winter. We
merriest and happiest greetings of the season wonder wdiat the attraction is over there for
and may the new year of 1928 contain prosper
ity and good luck to all. The crew of the steam
er Munson now signs off until whistle blowing time next spring. We thank you. Steamer Carl D. Bradley Ike Ranke, Reporter
We all agree with Bud Taylor of the steam
George?
Perhaps time will tell.
Allen Kemp tells us he is going to attend the Navigation School this winter. We hope Al re turns next spring as a Pilot unlimited.
Kenneth Falor anticipates making a trip abroad with intentions of spending considerable time doing research work at Saulsbury House in London.
er Munson in his statement in the last issue
that Calcite Screenings has "IT" (the personal touch) and next year we hope it will have it more so. We want to take this opportunity of thanking Mr. Ferdelman for his efforts in mak
ing the "Screenings" the good monthly that it is. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you.
A most wonderful dinner, one which only a steward of Otto Spar're's experience can put on, was enjoyed by everyone on Thanksgiving day, November 24th.
Thanks to Otto and his
A No. 1 crew for the efforts they put forth. Tis the last trip of the season,
That we've all been waiting for, We're longing for the good times, The winter for us has in store.
We're leaving our friends behind, Each one our way we'll roam;
ACCIDENT OF NORMAN LEVER
On one of the recent deliveries of a cargo to the Union Carbide Company at the Soo, there
was a fatal accident to one of their employees, a Mr. Norman Lever, who was in charge of their limestone unloading equipment. Mr. Lever was drowned clue to the breaking of a ladder which he was using when coming from the Steamer CALCITE to their clock.
We are advised by Mr. John White, Super intendent of the plant, that he was a very con scientious and untiring worker and it is only natural that he should go aboard the boat to check up unloading progress in order that he
might furnish us a maximum co-operation to the end that there should be no delay in unload ing.
In line with the very fine friendship that
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has existed between the Onion Carbide Com
MEET MISS MARGY SPARRE
pany and this Company, there apparently has existed the same friendship between the unload ing crews and crews on our boats and the fore men in charge of their work have for a long time
past been eating lunch aboard the boats with our employees.
It is only natural, therefore, that
there should be communication between their men and our men on the boat. This brings add
ed responsibility to our captains, for they must assure themselves that all equipment will be
used by men other than their crew and that great care should be taken to examine all parts
of the ship, where such employees of the dock companies or onr customers might go. to make sure they are entirely safe. The'ladder which failed was apparently a new one and would have been perfectly satis
factory as a ladder. However, in this instance. the boat was some distance from the dock, re
quiring the ladder to be closely approaching the horizontal and under these circumstances a per
fectly good ladder may have been transferred into a beam entirely inadequate to carry the load imposed upon it.
This accident to an employee of the Union
Carbide Company terminated a record of two years, ten months and twenty-three days, dur ing which time they had not had a lost time ac cident.
BOAT PERSONALS
We recently received a letter from C. W. Core, radio operator of the steamer Calcite,^ in which he comments on the splendid
working
conditions on our steamers as compared to some of the others on winch be has sailed during his
14 years experience as radio operator.
He also
made mention of the fine co-operative
spirit
To our many friends and readers we wish to introduce Miss Margy Sparre, the beautiful little two year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Sparre of Lakewood. Ohio. Her daddy is chief engineer of the new steamer Carl 1). Bradlev. BY OUR ACTS—
We can build a temple—a wonder Iul Temple of Safety.
that exists between officers and crew on thesteamer Calcite. We regret that due to lack ot
It will inspire the present generation and the generations to come.
Space we are unable to print his entire letter in
You and I can make the excavation;
these columns.
We note from a recent {fitter of the Lake Carriers Association that the steamer Calcite
finished third in the percentage of money bank ed from wages during the months from May 1st to October 31st.
While the Calcite headed the list with a to
you and I can carry the stone. Our determination shall be the strength of its steel beams.
Our ideals shall
be
the
mortar
to
hold together the bricks of its structure.
Every accident prevented will be a block of marble for its walls.
tal deposit of $22,223.00 during these months. her pay-roll was considerably larger than the
Every life saved will be a pillar to give
steamers Adriatic and John Sherwin. The wage
And it can be done!
saving of the steamer She-twin's crew being 88.6 per cent and that of the Adriatic 94.3 per cent
Whether we build this Temple of ma terial things or only in the ideals
while that of the Calcite was a little less than
of our dreams, We shall make this world a safer and a
80 pet cent. Other steamers of our fleet listed in the Lake Carriers Bulletin are the T. W. Robinson
with a total deposit of $17,840.00. the John G. Munson with S14.8J1.00 and the W. F. White with $13,126.00.
it strength
happier place in which to live. —Walter S. Smith. Mgr.. Safety Dept.. Milwaukee Assn. of Commerce.
A gentleman never says—-he is.
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iBfappg Qlljrtstmaa Sitttp CAROLYN W ELLS
YV7111- \ ihe turkey's mi the table and the candles mi the tree I'm iu-t abiuii as liapp\ as I i-vei ivanta I"-1 Al\ children gathered round iup an' m\ neighbors sittin" by, I couldn't be rio happier an' I don'l want i.. tn.
I like the pars< m's serjm »n - an' I like the i ingin' chin I like the dressed up freliiv that's around at Christmas lii I'.ut the best "I all the (loin's i-> the time, it seems to me. When the twri
th< table an'the candles on the tree! 4
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[•here's .1 lot of solid comfort get tin' rcadv for the dav,
A-makin' wreaths of evergreen an' holl\-berr\ spray : \n" mother she gets busy a-hakin' things in ••.-it
An* niakin' any kindn food that's savory ami sweet. An' we tie up little presents an' we make up little jokes. \ "ii know
with verses Ill-infill' in tin- names of all tin1 foil
lint it'- all a-worktn' upward to that «rn heighl of glee When the turkey's on the table an' the candles on tin- tree! 4
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You -< • ,; • ' hristmas ritual i- "Peace on Earth," an' then II also has another clause a bou I "(rood will i.. men."
The latter, a-- I take it. bein' doin' all \ i mi Call
ivc ;i bil ••' <"hrisl mas cheef to any fellow -man. So I start in Chrisl rims mornin' with the raisin' of tin- sun
\u' I slic'ls a! it till I gel my good will chores all done •. \\l linn I want ni\ "IVaCi' on Earth," au' thai i< wlim I .<•••
'I l:e tnrkev's "Ii the table an' Hie candles i.n the tree!
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(gmttnga HP O ALL Michigan Limestone dC Chemical
Company and Bradley Transportation
Company Employees, their families and all our friends who are reached by this publication,
"Calcite Screenings" extends heartiest greetings and best wishes for a very Merry Christmas and
a Happy and Safe New Year. As we enjoy this season of Christmas Cheer
and Good Fellowship, let us remember that the aim of Safety is Happiness, and in our daily life and labors let us all strive to avoid injury to our selves and our fellow workmen, so that the joy
and happiness of Christmas may be ours for all time.
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