A WELL-KNOWN COMBINATION OF NAMES

is cut it passes to the hands of an expert grader, who lays out each particular board for the edger and trimmer, exactly the same as a tailor would lay out the cloth for a suit of clothes.

This is a very important item in the successful operation of a mahogany mill, because a miss of one-sixteenth of an inch on edging these boards would cost the mill at least thirty thousand dollars a year.

One of these illustrations also contains a view of the Band Saw Log Deck Cut-Off Machine. A circular saw in this position would waste more lumber than the Otis Manufacturing Company would care to pay for, and the introduction of this band saw cutting-off machine has been quite an acquisition to the mill.

In the Filing Room four expert filers are employed. There are fifty-two band saws required a day of twenty-four hours' work for this mill, and each saw has to be put into the very "pink of condition," because no miscuts are tolerated.

Under the able management of Mr. Clem Barthe this mill runs all the time, and it ACTUALLY RUNS, for in two and a half years it has only lost eighteen minutes' time on account of engine trouble or other breakdowns. This is what might safely be termed "100 per cent. efficiency."

The engine operating this plant has a regular factory rating of two hundred and eighty-eight horsepower, but through improvements placed on it by Mr. Barthe it is developing five hundred horsepower. In view of the fact that so little time has been lost through engine trouble in the last two and a half years, it is certain that these changes substantially increased the efficiency of the engine.

The main floor, as well as the lower floor of the mill, is of solid mahogany, an extraordinary thing for sawmill floors.

Mr. Frank G. Otis's private office is built of solid mahogany, and the wood was taken from one log of a very beautiful pattern. It is indeed one of the handsomest offices the writer has ever had the pleasure of visiting. The mahogany in it is dark, rich in color and is, of course, often used as an example to demonstrate what effects may be obtained by the use of good mahogany in an office or a living-room.

The firm has very little trouble with employees. They have a system of payment that seems to keep the five hundred employees happy, and they have a lunch-room connected with the establishment at which they furnish meals at less than cost. When other people during the war time were howling for labor, this mill was able to run on steadily, and this again speaks of the efficiency of the management.

We offer our congratulations to the Otis Manufacturing Company for what they have done, and it pleases us greatly to be able to say that in this mill of such high efficiency DISSTON SAWS are used almost exclusively.

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Officers' Collar (Silver) Devices-Worn on Blue Service Blouses

Officers' Sleeve (Gold) Devices-Worn on Blue Service Blouses ollowing branches wear colors between gold braid on shoulder marks and sleeves: Medical, maroon; Pay C.. Prof. Mathematics, green; Naval Constructor, violet; Civil Engineer, blue; Dental C., orange. Chaplains black braid.

Petty Officers' Distinguishing Sleeve Marks

These Marks take their places above chevron bars in Rating Badges, as shown below.

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Midship

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TAKE HIM WITH YOU

Take him with you when you go,
Let the little fellow know
Proper sports and proper joys,
Be a comrade of the boy's.
Take him swimming, now and then,
Let him learn the ways of men;
Take your Sunday walk with him,
Seriously talk with him,
Teach him how to be a man,

Take him with you when you can.
Never days were quite so glad
As the bygone days I had
Chumming with the Father, kind,
In the years that stretch behind.
Even now in dreams I see

Happy hours he promised me;
Eagerly I'd wait the day

Hand-in-hand we'd walk away;
Even at his office grim,

I was proud to be with him.
More than pleasure fine, it meant,
When somewhere with him I went;
Little things I couldn't see

Father pointed out to me;

Showed me men erect and true,

And sometimes the false ones, too.

And the while we walked along,

Talked with me of right and wrong,

And for all the years to be

Opened wide his soul with me.

Take him with you when you go,

Teach him what you'd have him know,

Let him have the joys you knew
When you owned a Father, too;

Walk with him and let him find
What is hidden in your mind.
Talk with him of men and things,
He will need your counselings.

Take him with you when you can,

Teach him how to be a man. —Edgar A. Guest.