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METHOD OF HEATING COMPLETE SET OF TIRES AT ONE TIME WITH CRUDE OIL BURNER. This is the new method. Formerly a piece of red-hot gas pipe was placed around the tire to expand it. It was a slower process.

ran out of work she had to go to the pile and pull over the bolts until she found one of the kind upon which she was operating. All the girls did this and it wasted their time.

"I want a five-dollar man to take the place of Trucker O'Brien," said the efficiency man to the superintendent.

"What!" cried that official, aghast at the request. "A five dollar man to do trucking?"

"That's exactly what I want," said the expert, in a matter-of-fact way. "The intelligence of everybody in the room is subjected to the O'Brien intel. ligence. We need a fivedollar intelligence that can sort out the bolts and de

liver them quickly and properly to the girls."

The five-dollar man was put in the place and the change resulted in a great saving to the factory.

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PITTING THE FOREIGNERS AGAINST ONE ANOTHER. The gang that has the highest score or lowest unit of cost in bricklaying flies its country's flag.

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IMPROVED APPARATUS. FOR REMOVING AND REPLACING LOCOMOTIVE TIRES. SET UP FOR USE.

"I think I have found the reason for the very great inefficiency that exists in American plants," said Harrington Emerson, who since leaving the Santa Fé has been working to reduce cost and improve labor conditions in several industrial concerns. "It is the cumulative effect of small inefficiencies on an end

result. For instance, you have a printing press and a poor operator on it on black work turning out 800 good sheets out of a possible thousand and the other 200 are spoiled. Now if you had a poor press capable of turning out only 800 sheets and that man was working on it, the combination of poor man and poor

MASONS FINISHING A WALL ON A NON-STOOPING SCAFFOLD.

machine would run the result down to 600 good sheets. Then if you should invite in a scientific manager he would say: 'You have to improve your press and train that man so that he will know how to operate it, and get 900 good sheets out of his thousand.' After you have done this, say that you put your press on color work and have to print each sheet four times to get four colors. You get 90 per cent. good sheets out of each impression and the

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end result is that you have only 640 sheets out of the thousand. So that while the individual element for each impression represented by that ninety per cent. is very high the end would be only sixty-four per cent."

Mr. Emerson's point was that in this case the efficiency of the man and the machine should be still further increased.

Prejudice against innovation, the fixed habit and desire of master minds to do the same thing in the same old way, is the greatest obstacle to the introduction of efficiency.

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NON-STOOPING SCAFFOLD WITH BRICKS SYSTEMATICALLY SET UP IN A CORNER,

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APPARATUS USING CRUDE OIL IN PLACING AND REMOVING TIRES.

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efficiency engineer would be if it took this time something must be be wrong. And of course something was wrong. But railroad men of settled views are hard to convince and so are the heads of many industrial plants. They see nothing in the new system but "theory" and are against it because of that and because it does not provide a means for driving men. And the old-timer who thinks he is sufficiently successful nearly always a man-driver. But these hard heads are being won over and every day adds to the list of big activities in which the new science of business and industrial efficiency is being introduced.

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The low-priced man lifts the bricks two feet, so that the high-priced
man does not have to waste time in bending
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"Mr Ramsey's argument," said Mr. Going," was, that as it took this time this time was necessary. The argument of the

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When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,

Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least ;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising,

From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

-SHAKESPEARE,

Who Am I

by F. C. Walsh, M.D.

I

Are you always sure of your own identity? What is one's self, anyway? Everybody has two personalities, -a first and second in command, so to speak. In our waking hours, the first is on watch; the second appears only in our dreams, or, in abnormal states, the result of disease or injury. There are individuals who, even in their waking hours, are influenced by this "second personality," which, in reality, has become the first in command. The instances here shown are dramatic pictures of this elusive condition. Johns Hopkins Medical School, of Baltimore, has recently established a department for the study and treatment of such cases.

NQUIRY failed to throw any light on his history. Nobody seemed to care whether he had one. Yet he seemed to fill in with the ebb and flow of the daily shifting life of the tidewater city of Seattle. It was not very long after the first rush of the gold-seekers to the Klondyke, and he was looked upon by the old-timers of the city as a strange atom in the flotsam and jetsam which the back-flow had left stranded on the lonely shore of failure. To the new-comer, his story carried the conviction of reality; and even the experienced did not doubt that he had at least been to the North in that mad rush for the metal which represents the world's standard. The one element of justifiable doubt was his own admission that he couldn't remember the exact location of his discovery, the richness of which, if his story could be believed, would place the possessor beyond the wildest dreams of avarice, at a time and place when dreams, especially golden ones, required something very substantial to satisfy. With his Irish humor and dashing spirit of narrative, he would hold his auditors spell-bound. It was only after questioning him that they imagined they had been victimized to the extent of the price of a drink. Finally, like all oft-repeated tales, this one became so boresome that all who met him set him down in their minds as a monomaniac, whose reason had become un

balanced as the result of hardship and the stupendous stories of gold-discovery which made the sole topic of conversation. There was an uncanny glint of mystery in his eyes, an elusive something in his own inability to place his name and identity, which caused many to shudder at his approach. Who was he? The question, one of idle curiosity to most, was soon to find a curious

answer.

He was talking excitedly one night in a certain hotel-lobby, to a group of Eastern men fascinated with the glowing accounts of the new country. One of the party, who happened to be a surgeon, became especially interested, and after some moments' thought, asked permission to feel of the other's head; then passing his fingers over the unknown's skull, like a phrenologist feeling for bumps, the doctor turned to the others with a jubilant smile, and told them he had discovered something. The group was interested; a talk was held amongst them, with the result that they agreed then and there to do what they could to help him. As a consequence, the unknown was taken to an adjoining town, placed in a hospital, and operated on for an old fracture of the skull, due, in all probability, to some unknown injury. When he recovered consciousness, he seemed to be an entirely different personality. His memory returned sound. and clear; and he was able, for the first

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