The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-02-13
THE MODERN MOLOCH.
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churchyard The great broad belts
nung limp The monster iiywheels
seemed to be SO many Instructions bar
ring the light The long shafts that
transmitted power to the hundreds of
machines looked like cold rays of light.
The machinery had grim look Much
OF IT was as forbidti1ng as the teeth that
grin In the Jaws of skull That was
the impression it made on DR. Jayne as
ne accompanied John Dow Jr. through
department after department.
How many people do you employy
Nearly SUI on our pay roll men and
boys
Keeps you pretty close. | suppose
you never get a holiday
dow .lr laughed On the con-
trary my father goes away whenever
ne desires Il change go off every fall,
hunting and fishing stay away two and
three weeks been away six and the
shop never missed us
Doctor Jayne's look of wonder in
vlted the explanation, given with par
dunahle PRIDE ge
System method doctor If | do
say II myself DIR Jayne you won't find
factory In the country giving employ
ment TO as many hands where every
thing runs IA smoothly as at Dow's.
We do everything methodlcally here
all the departments divided upon system
attic lines regulated like clockwork.
ies. said the doctor / have been
told thousand miles away from home
that Dow Is regarded as the model es-
Enlistment of the country.
The only way to run factory" said
Dow DR.. IN matter OF fact way that
impressed the doctor. who was making
a round Of the workshops in quest of in
formation ne deemed essential to the
con. pieteness 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
tlves
Dow Jr took ont his watch, glanced
from 1t to d clock at the end of room
they were IN aud SAID
Just wait 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
in droves by twos and threes s1ngly
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 tlinekeeper q Office the doctor heard
the tIinekeeper ami MS assistant repeat
ing IN monotDnOus tones
Thirty xix seventeen three hundred
four forty i've eleven seven hundred
one two nine twenty one five hun
dred rs 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 fywheels re-
VOWED the long line OF pulleys over .
mead whiried the machines. big and
little chatnped as they seemed to whet
their teeth on red not and cold iron.
munching II IN theii VIZ like rayenous
monsters and tossing the iron out again
like 30 many husks or empty shells after
Tney mad absorbed the kernel The
sound that filled the room IA iron met
iron welding cutting shaving and
pounding was deafening the whlrIing
pulleys and eccentric movements of the
machinery added to the confusion
Seven o clock precisely and to sec
ond every man woman and boy IN BOWS
factory was 81 work
doctor JAYNE readily excused Dow
Jr who WAS called away by a hand
some young fellow a friend evidently
and looked wonderingly at the opera
lions OF a 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
nsensibiy associated nm with the ma
cnine 1t was difficult to tell where the
machine ended and the boy began The
small BOY nefsr made false move. The