THE

DISSTON

CRUCIBLE

Some Excuse!!

I should have written you long ago, George, but the remaining reasons why I have not written before are: that I have been held up, held down, sandbagged, walked on, sat on, rolled over, flattened out, and squeezed, etc., first by the U. S. Government for the federal tax, war tax, excess profits tax, Liberty bonds, and the bonds of matrimony, by Maine for the state tax, highway tax, insane tax, auto tax, chauffeur tax, lead, iron and carpet tax, personal tax, school tax, taxi cabs and the syntax (sintax) and by every society and organization the inventive mind of man can invent to extract what you may or may not possess, from the Society of John the Baptist to the society to prevent the interference of husbands from maintaining other men's wives, including the G. A. R., the Woman's Relief corps, the man's relief, the stomach relief, the wifeless, the husbandless, the childless, the fatherless, the motherless, the homeless and the conscienceless, the Red Cross, the Green Cross, and every other cross of all colors, shapes and sizes until I feel that I am on the cross and get cross, and by the Y. M. C. A., and Y. W. C. A., and the Y. R. U. S. O. D. A. R. N. M. E. A. N. And because I will not sell all that I have and then go out and beg, borrow and steal, I have been cussed, discussed, boycotted, talked to, talked about, lied to, lied about, held up, hung up, robbed, ravished and nearly ruined, and the only reason that I am still clinging to life is to see what the H- is coming next.

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HE views shown on following pages are of the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company, Grand Falls, N. F. The

photo of the trainload of paper was taken by Mr. W. E. Bell at Batwood, where all paper is loaded on steamers for England or America. Many thousands of tons of paper are stored at Batwood for shipping.

Batwood is about twenty miles from Grand Falls. The AngloNewfoundland Development Company have their own railroad for hauling. This makes regular trips every day and has one passenger car, and also carries mail.

This mill is considered one of the largest in the world. When running to capacity, can turn out over 200 tons of newspaper print per day, in addition to making about 250 tons of sulphite pulp at the same time.

The company has extensive timber limits, and runs a saw mill that cuts about 5,000,000 feet of lumber each summer, mostly pine.

Lord Northcliffe is head man, and has very great confidence in all his employees, who seem to even have a greater amount of respect for him, mostly due to his kindness towards each individual.

Harmony prevails through the entire force of men.

Grand Falls is located about the center of the Island and has a population of some 7,000, all of whom are employed in some way in the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company.

The company owns everything and has furnished the people with churches of each denomination, also good schools for each.

They have a nice up-to-date hospital that is well looked after. Mr. Scott is General Manager; Mr. Tom Judge, Assistant General Manager; Mr. Mark Davis, Superintendent of Wood Room; Mr. I. Morgan, Purchasing Agent.

The company usually carries a half million dollars' worth of supplies in its general store.

They have used many other kinds of knives and saws, but it is acknowledged by everyone in connection with the cutting up or chipping wood, that best results are obtained by Disston Saws and Knives, the kind they now use.

As time creeps on, one by one our old and faithful employes pass away.

It is with extreme regret we announce the death of John Paul, on Thursday, January 24, 1918, at the age of 81 years.

For sixty-four years John Paul was on the payroll of the Disston Works.

In 1854, when seventeen years old, he entered the employ of Henry Disston, the founder of the Disston Saw Works. In the course of time he advanced from benchhand to foremanship of a department, serving continuously until 1908, at which time he was pensioned.

Of the Paul family, six were in the Disston employ for years the fathers and sons giving up to that grim reaper-Time-but leaving a grandson to represent them in the work of saw making.

It is to the men like John Paul, loyal, conscientious and skilled in their craft, whose very reliability is embodied in the goods they make that credit is due and given for the high prestige achieved.