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and Pneumatic [Tools Chief Aids in Rushino to Completion < i a WOOE&I V£3J£L/FM&#&CCMGL£R/OFF " s|IP mr iî ^S33 F**\ * * * * 4L-4fc#4w • • t a f i i . fv i -} yrr. -- ~ WORK < UILD ships while thfe suit shines! Bund ships, rain or shine; in fact build them night and day, to make certain of beating the eneniy." Such is the spirit that has gripped Amer* lean shipyards', whether working la y wood, steel or cement, and It looks as If we $ should, indeed, have 3,000,d00 tons of trfei&ht- ai|; ers afloat before the end of the year, •ft, A few weeks ago the hatioii was thrilled when news came; ,from the Pacific coast that ft steel cargo carrier of 8,Sb0 tons was put over- gp board 55 working days after the laying of her , keel and was delivered to the Emergency Uleet corporation ready for service 12 days later. But the record thus set by the steamship West Llariga, built at Seattle by the Skinner & Eddy company was fated to survive only a short while. On April 8> the keel ot %the filler Tuckahoe ^ jWM laid at the yard of the New York ShlpbulljS- thg company at Camden, N. J. , Twecty-seven * ty; days afterward, on May 5, the ship was launched Igjlj 85 Per Cent toward total completion, and on May 15 she was in all Respects fit to be turned over to the government authorities,: Her con* . tract did not call for her delivery until the middle | of June. N i The West Lianga, it should be borne In mind. Is a ship of 8,800 tons dead weight capacity# while the Tuckahoe is of 5.500 tons, and this dif­ ference brings the two achievements much closer to equality than Is commonly recognised. For instance, -the--Skinner - * . Bddy steamship probably has in her g^up_ substantially 800,? \f, 4, 000 rivets, while the collier built on the Dela- - .<* ware called for substantially 500,000 rivets. When all is said and done the rate of prog- **-' L&* a shlp undier consttuctioa is pretty -ae- %l V tttrately judged by the number o| rivets driven because the ultimate factor is the riveting gang, and muscular effort and human endurance on the part of these men determine the speed AT assembling. The driving of rivets cannot be dodged or itn- J perfectly done if the craft is to be put together properly, and while exceptional records have been made of late in flvet driving these performances ̂mc In the main isolated and by jio means an In- dex of everyday and universal occurrence. Some of the especially expert gangs have driven any­ where from 1,500 to over 7,000 rivets in a day's work, but the majority of them do not average more than 400 rivets during a regular shift How then was it possible to put the Tuckahoe I together between April 8 and May 5? Jf New York Shipbuilding corporation v,; aJ*>at 19 y«ars ago Initiated the standardised «*, If, *hip with the idea of producing economically and \ | rapidly numerous vessels of identical form and I ,M. , f sfy Just before the Tuckahoe was taken In hand, * 'jN*° 14 13 sa!d- « sister ship was constructed and * "I „ "Imnltaneousiy the materials for the Tuckahoe * " were prepared and accumulated so that they -would he *11 ready for what might be termed a \ | record-making undertaking. Wl* the sister ship out of the way and with" a Tofre of care- fully chosen workmen, the keel of the coHier was > laid and assembling rushed. - - The men were keen to make good and thet labored with unflagging zeal. Not only that but they forked in three shifts and speeded up the buflding continuously night and day. There­ fore they were able at the end of 27 days to put the craft overboard. This makes It plain why In ordinary limes Three or four months were required to advance a "ishlp-far enough to warrant launching and why it took two or three months to install her eh* gtnes and bolfefa and to get her otherwise out­ fitted and finished for active service. In the case of the Tuckahoe her builders found it pos­ sible to acoucQulate ail of the materials needed and once she was started to forge ahead to htr as­ sembling without a bitch. 1 But even though the pace set by the West Lianga and the Tuckahoe cttnftof be maintained generally by old-line shipbuilding plants, still most of these are in a position today to produce faster than heretofore because of mechanical aids now at their disposal. And what was done at Camden in turning out the Tuckahoe is doubly Interesting because tike practice there may be likened In a measure to what is now termed the fabricated ship. - The fabricated ship, was offered as a, solution of a very vexations situation that had a number of-aggies. First, for ship construction It was needful to draw upon steel workers and allied labor who were quite unfamiliar with ship­ building.' Next, It was essential that steel pfcthts > that were capable of producing the ma­ terials for bridges, the framework of great office buildings and the steel parts of other land struc­ tures should be made available and their ton­ nage utilised In the construction of the manifold parts for oceangoing cargo carriers. Finally, con- venicui ijGiuis Oii ue«p water hau to 5>e olioseri for the assembling of these elements, which were manufactured far and wide and delivered at the places of building to 4 mora or less advanced "stage of fabrication. ' t ; * ' • .. i>r The fabricated ship is not, strictly speaking, ®4iype of vessel, but rather a standardised order or construction which depends primarily upon a measure of advanced preparatory work done at plants remote from the shipyard and done so well and accurately that similar parts are Iden­ tical" and can be put in any one of a group of type hulls of corresponding dimensions. Intel* changeability is the paramount requirement. The three distinctive fabricating yards on- the Atlantic seaboard are__ the Newark bay plant of the Submarine Boat corporation, the Hog is­ land plant of the American International corpor­ ation, and the yard of the Merchants Shipbuild­ ing corporation 'at Bristol, Pa. Because of the way in which these establishments are laid out and because they receive their materials ninety- odd per cent ready for erection and assembling and therefore need proportionately fewer men on the spot per ship than otherwise would be re­ quired, It Is practicable for them to handle at one time an unusually large number of vessels. While the materials are manufactured at some score of different steel mills they are so true to dimensions, thanks to drawings of excep­ tional accuracy and fullness of detail and pat­ terns that are exact in every particular, that the independent concerns can be retted upon to fur­ nish Just what is wanted. Chairman Hurley of the Emergency Fleet cor­ poration has told us that we should be able to turn out annually quite 2,300,000 tons of wooden craft This means not only exceptional indus­ try on our part, but it represents the surmount­ ing of seemingly mountainous obstacles. But his confidence is so far justified in the scores of our old and new timber plants that he has re­ cently ordered approximately 200 additional (i'. . ;-•? v- ^}} f. wooden freighter* each of 4,700 tons deadweight capacity" ' ' A year ago we had in this country only a^hand- of qualified shipwrights, and the yards en- Caged itt the building of wooden vessels were few •ana rnr between, of modest equipment and anj* tlilng but up to date compared with their steel competitors. How, then, has it been possible to 'iftjdertnke so Imposing a program and to prom­ ise deliveries within periods unpreeedentedly brief? The story is one to make every American feel proud, for it Is a record of Yankee ingenu­ ity and native adaptability at their best It was plain to the men concerned In direct­ i n g t h e E m e r g e n c y F l e e t c o r p o r a t i o n t h a t ' l l * would be quite out of the question to recruli shipwrights or to train new men in the art with- In the time available. The shipwright In his fin­ ished form is the evolution of long years of prac­ tical application, and this means an acquired cun­ ning in the use of a very few hand tools. ' ' Just Hie same we are launching timber ve» ̂Mls after very short building periods, and these Undeniable results are the consequence of skill­ fully directed efforts following new lines. The Emergency Fleet corporation first set about recruiting labor from a wide range of wood work­ ing trades, and they showed how these men could be employed, by reason of already existing me­ chanical aids and others developing, to do virtu­ ally what had previously been done only by the expert ship carpenter. We are turning out by the new method ocean­ going timber cargo carriers to which the under­ writers do not hesitate to give A1 rating; This achievement Is the outcome of a studied effort to cut out lost motion all the way from the forest to the building plant and thence upon the finished product Where the shipwright used to hew and cut and liatiently carve the various curiously formed structural units out of relatively raw material, his leas expert brothers, the house carpenter, the Joiner, the wooden bridge builder and the like now accomplish astonishing things through the agency of the sawmill. The sawmill in fact rep­ resents today to the wooden ship what the steel mill stands for In the case of the fabricated freighter. By means of planers theft can be set at any angle and saws that will operate when tilted to different degrees. It Is possible for the present day substitutes of the master wood worker, the shipwright, to shape and to bevei pieces of all vlzes and thicknesses and, besides, to do this in a few minutes, where the ship carpenter re­ quired probably as many hours. The pneumatic drill commonly used In struc­ tural steel work has been modified so that It will answer for the boring of holes in the tim­ bers of a wooden ship; pneumatic hammers, adaptations of steel riveters, are driving the bolts, treenails, plugs, etc., that bind a timber craft together; and portable planers and kindred air or electrically operated tools finish off sur­ faces and smooth joints so that the adze and the other tools of the shipwright are wellnlgh dis­ pensed with. Further, these portable power- driven aids are doing their work at a speed ut­ terly unattainable by the traditional ship car­ penter and his fellows. As yet the concrete ship is too much of a nov­ elty for predictions to be made as to-the ultimate maximum of practicable tonnage, nor are we yet sure that the big concrete freighter of 4,000 tons and more Is going to prove enduring and economical. However, concrete craft of more modest proportions have already established their durability, their technical correctness and the feasibility of constructing them rapidly. The Emergency Fleet corporation, bearing these facts in mind, Is going right ahead to supple­ ment our mercantile squadrons by substantially encouraging the building of some scores of freight­ ers and other granolithic boats. ; ' -- ADOPTS TANK SYSTEM 1 TO FOIL HOLD-UP MEN j 8t Louis.--Four men in a jj small car Stopped directly In the ]j path of a Belt Line trolley car. j All had revolvers. One started i for the rear door of the car. n Motorman Charles O. Wray de- j cided on qu>ck action. He slg- 4 naled Conductor Cecil Bayner. S "It's a hold-up," he called. 4 "Get away 1" said Rayner. j Wray did. He charged the car a la "tank," knocked It off the track and escaped. The men, righting the car, climbed in and rode away. UFT OFF COWS! Drop Freezone jgt a touchy corn, then liffthat Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a 11 Freezone on an aching corn, instai that, corn stops hurting, then you lift It right out. Yes, magic I No humbug I # MK/i A\ I-. V r» CrfppledfnBatt!e, Loves Kim Just the ;• *-•: Same* • ItwjhAl'. y. Y.--Wes­ ton, a pretty young girl of this city, .will marry her war he^o, who was In­ valided home from France a month ago with the cross of war and other citations for bravery. But he Is not the strong and handsome youth who left her two years ago, with the prom­ ise that upon his return, a war hero, she would wed him. Merwin Blrdsell, the hero, lost both arms and his legs, but his crippled condition ^s to make no change in their plans for the fu­ ture, Miss Weston declares. The pair met at a summer resort In tfee Canadian Rockies and fell in lov« at first sight Some months later their engagement took place and they intended to marry the following June In .Rochester. When young Birdsell made a hurried trip to Canada to close his cottage in the fall he found many of his friends in khaki, and a few days later Miss Weston received a telegram stating that he had enlisted in the Canadian army and was on his way to France, She was proud ol him and promised to wait until he came back--a hero. Blrdsell came back a month ago, minus arms and legs. The girl, spend­ ing her days and nights working at a settlement house In Chicago, learned ol*hls arrival and prepared to return East Aty first Bttdsell would not 1XSX- HERO IT $ f il' i * A tiny bottle of Freeaoea costs but a ifew cents at any drug store, but Is suf­ ficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses, without Soreness or irritation. Freezone is the sensational discov­ ery of a Cincinnati genius. It Is won- tafnLr-A4r, •Z&TSST - voatefiQ*. Wi MB waMii nscnaa-is to MM .Mocct IMQMTOMtt TM M*. Farmerettes Rallied in 177* They' had farmerettes during 'the revolution, says a writer In the Phila­ delphia Ledger. Nothing new under the sun, it seems. Here is a para­ graph which appeared in the New Eng­ land Chronicle September 5, 1776: "Philadelphia. -- Since the depar­ ture of the able-bodied men from the forks of the Brandywine in Chester county In the service of their country the patriotic young women, to prevent the eVil that would follow the neglect of putting In the fall crop In season, have joined the plows and are prepar­ ing the fallows for the seed, and should their fathers, brothers and lovers be detained abroad in defense of the lib­ erties of these states, they are deter­ mined to put in the crop themselves-- a very laudable example* and highly worthy of Imitation." FROM NEAR AND FAR ®P*cles of ferula or giant fennel Igjfrom Europe, Asia and Africa furnish pSasafetlda, now a high-priced commod- I.jlty, Tpj Spltxenburg apples Just from the fytree weigh 44 pound* to the heaped ..ptaM. Golden russet is the heav- t|l'iset at 53 pounds.' > «- A California inventor's wave power |.:jinotor utilizes the horizontal motion of "ie water Instead of the vertical, usu- the jpasa ia pteli . divhwpi Changes In Modern Faei, The tendency of the modern face, according to Prof. James Keith, lec­ turer on anthropology at the Royal Institute, London, England, Is to be­ come wedge-shaped, with a longer, nar­ rower and more prominent nose. Prom­ inences above the eyes are disappear­ ing, and the brow is becoming smooth and of an even contour. These changes In the human face, declared the scien­ tist fcre due to changes In methods of mastication from the earlier' days of racfc- rib, k, Value of a High Aim. A glorious aim reacts in vitalising ministry upon the entire being. It Is curative. A big holy aim is very hos­ tile to the petty ailments of the mind, as it Is also very destructive of the mean diseases of the heart. And through a healthier mind and heart we give ourselves a chance of more ex­ uberant physical health. Perhaps It is true, In a larger way than we usually think, that "He shall quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwell- y®"1* ' ' I •' <r ̂ * - . • " TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES Nine-tenths of Russia's gold mining is done on lands formerly owned by, the czar. For home consumption Great Britain Imports about 3(1000,000 pounds of cof­ fee annually. ' A metal clamp to hold two pieces of wood together at light angles has been patented. ' A new clamp to hold a cover cm a milk bottle also serves as a handle t« carry the bottl* ^ '> £7 * TV/- j Net the Strong, Handsome Youth Who Left Her Two Years Ago. listen to her--his misfortune had re* leased her from her promise of mar* riage, he told her again and again. She shook her head and wrote the sentence that brought the promise of Birdsell to meet her at her New York MOujo. "The soldiers of Belgium love their devastated country as dearly as they did the smooth fields and comfortable farms, don't they? It istheir coun­ try--and they love It You are as much, yes, much more, to me today than you we?e when I Ittet you three years ago.* ^ Blrdsell, fitted with th# wonderful artificial limbs that are * or the war, has a government appoint­ ment, and the young couple, following their marriage, expect to make tbelr home in Washington. 0UJM BABES FOR JAM THEFT •tatsn Island Couple Sent to Prioon * for Brutal Punishment of Youngsters. •i ^ i * , t Jfcfcr Xork^--Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strang, recently convicted in the court of special sessions, Staten Island, of burning the hands and faces of their children, Raymond and Elizabeth, as punishment for stealing candy and Jelly, were sentenced to six months In the penitentiary. Sentence was im­ posed by Justices Mclnerny, Herrmann and Murphy. The justices acknowledged the re­ ceipt of many letters testifying to the high character of Mr. and Mrs. Strang and pleading for mercy, but said the torture of the children had been proven and could cot be condoned. Strang took his sentence stolidly, bui his wife broke down completely and had to be attended by a physician bo- taken to prison. ' ton Suss Fattier. San Francisco.->--In the case of Clyde Simmons versus G. N. Simmons, the son, Clyde, is bringing suit against his father for the divorce of his mother. Clyde was appointed guardian for his mother. He has now instituted suit acting as her guardian against his fa­ ther, charging cruelty. He asks, besides the separation oi his father and mother, the division oi the community property valued at over $10,000, so that he, as guardian Of hit mother, will be given half. ,<5» ' Get New Kidneys! 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