The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-03-10
THE MODERN MOLOCH
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BOWS great factory was as silent as I,
| churchyard The great, broad belts
hung limp The monster fiywheels
seemed to be no many distractions bar
ring the ligh; The long shafts that
| transmitted SAEer TO the hundreds of
machines 1dxaked ike cold rays of light
The niachinery y-fsssa fssssaa a grin look Much
Oh II ~'ss ,l. fsrhifitiing as the teeth that
gr1h III the jaws of a skull That was
the impression it made on pF. Jayne ais
ne accompanied John Dow. Jr. through
department after department
How many people do you employT
Nearly 800 on our pay roll men and
boys
Keeps you pretty close / suppose
yon never get holiday
Dow .Ir. laughed On the con-
trary. my father goes away whenever
ne desires change: | go off every fall.
hunting and fishing stay away two and
three weeks been away six: and the
shop never missed u.s.
Doctor Jayne's look Of wonder in
vited the explanation. given with par
donabie pride
System method, doctor If | do
say it myself, DR.. Jayne, you won't find
factory in the country, giving employ
ment to as many hands. where every
thing runs as smoothly as at Dow's
We do everything methodically here
all the departments divided upon system
attic lines. regulated like clockwork.
Yes" said the doctor, II have been
told Thousand miles away from home
that Dow is regarded as the model es-
adjustment of the country"
The only way to run factory said
Dow Jr., IN matter of fact way that
Impressed the doctor. who was making
round of the workshops in quest of in
formation he deemed essential to the
completeness of book he had in hand
How do you keep track of your peo-
pie! So many coming and going | sup
pose you don't know your own opera.
tives
Dow, Jr., took out his watch. glanced
from it TO clock at the end of a room
they were in and said:
Just wait Il minute and you'll see.
Stand near this window. doctor
The doctor observed number of men
and boys coming into the factory yard.
All carried dinner pals or baskets in
their hands. They trooped into the mill
i'll droves. by twos and threes. s1ngIv.
laughing, talking, pushing and showing
each other, until they entered the de-
partment the doctor was in. There the
flow OF good natured chaff ceased as the
operatives took their places at the ma
chimes they attended to- AS they passed
the timekeeper's Office the doctor heard
the tiinekeeper and his assistant repeat
ing in monotonous tones:
'Fhlrty-six seventeen, three hundred
four. forty five. eleven, seven hundred
one, two, nine. twenty-one. five hun
dred, as the arrival of the operatives
was recorded
Suddenly gong sounded-the doctor
started; simultaneously the long. mar
row belts and the big, broad belts be-
came taut; the monster fiywheels re-
volved; the long line of pulleys over
mead whirled; the machines, big and
little. champed as they seemed to whet
their teeth ON red hot and cold iron,
munching it in their jaws like ravenous
monsters and tossing the iron out again
like SO many husks or empty shells after
they had absorbed the kernel. The
sound that filled the room as iron met
iron, welding. cutting, shaving and
pounding, was deafening; the whirling
pulleys and eccentric movements of the
machinery added to the confusion.
Seven o'clock precisely, and to a Sec
ond every man. woman and boy in Dows
factory was at work.
Doctor Jayne readily excused Dow
Jr.. who was called away by hand
some young fellow. friend evidently.
and looked wonderingly at the opera
tions of machine beside him. A very
small boy attended the machine. The
movements Of the small boys arms and
hands were SO regular that Doctor Jayne
insensibly associated him with the ma
chine. 1t was difficult to tell where the
machine ended and the boy began. The
small boy never made false move The