The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-15
MANY WAYS OF WORKING.
FRENCHsIAN, GERMAN AND YANKEE
TOIL DIFFERENTLY.

eraIfzatfon-They Lack the Ameri-
can Ingenuity and Don't Use Their
Heads so Much.
From the New York Press.
The little differences which, bound To-
ra-ber. make up the great distinguishing
tr9i-s of the various nations. Being funGa-
mental. show in every sphere of activity
FINDER a given set Of circumstances a
Freedman will do one thing, an American
another. a German third and vastly
different thing.
Not alone i'm politics do the mental habits
of individuals show, but in their ability
work. the Yankee goes about a job in a
yankee way. He generalizes and is a great
time and labor saver. The German does it
in a German way
These oddities of differing method are
amusingly treated of by Robert Grimshaw
i'm a la.e issue of Power and transmits
sion" Mr. Grmshaw has had long expert
en.e with European and American me-
ch8rics. and an excellent opportunity Of
comparing their national workmanship,
particularly i'm The line of metal working
III considers that, taking workmen all in
all-esnacialy those in France, Belgium
and Germany-they are manually more
."But- saws Mr.. Grimshaw when it comes
TO head work. especially when it is mat
fer of making from two to a thousand
things exactly alike, or in performing the
same operation from two to a thousand
times ON different objects, they are infer
ior to ours in far greater ratio-say only
oue-half as efficient. and in some cases or
Is one-fourth.
81 viii give an instance Of each kind. A
German locksmith win take piece of iron
and make from it every part of lock-
plates sides bolt tumblers, springs wards
stud and screws, and if there is any stuff
left over me Will make the key out of thai,
and then it there is any more left he Will
produce the hinges, and all viii be good In
shape, kind and finish. He will do all this
without the aid of any but hand tools II
need be. even to boring the hole in the key
shank Not many American workmen VINO
have not learned their trade in the Old
country can do as much. Not one OF our
WOrkmen would consider himself called ON
10 do such a thing or would be called on TO
do So but IF it were a question or having 10
do il to know whether or not he was a good
all round mechanic. he would probably fail
sigI ally, even If he should be induced 10 al
tempt it.
She With a few planks of hardwood,
frame saw or a sweep saw, plane, chise;s.
gOuge, mallet and little else, VIII lay out
true, strong and good, the seat square ana
well GOweled, the arms curved and offset,
the back well mortsed the legs nured.
the arms carved in scrolls and ornamented
with tracery, and the back carved with
bunch of flowers or coat Of arms. Next
NE viii sandpaper, fill in and Varnish IT,
then he viii take some webbing ana close
I'm the bottom sew in the springs II there
be any, bind them together at the top 10
keep them from cooking, round their tops
of at the same time so as to leave the
trlT oh edges II
vas to the seat frame so as TO cover the
spring tops, put on the petit point or
other stuff ard finish it off with the
proper border of braid, leather, or what
ever is called for. In other words, he
win make the whole chair by hand from
plank and other raw material. The ay-
erage American workman cannot do
this.
but give the German locksmith an or
der for a hundred locks all alike, and he
VIII make them al by hand the same
way, and perhaps make first one lock and
Key, and then the next lock and key, ana
SO on. The American would set to work
and make lot Of jiss and few special
tools and then rip out the hundred or
each part successfully. Give the German
cabinetmaker an order for dozen or
more chairs. all alike, and he viii proba-
bly make one. Varnish and upholster 1t,
then make another and uphOlster it, ana
so on, until all twelve are done. 1t sell
dom occurs to him TO clamp two pieces OF
plank together and saw out the right
mana and the left hand pieces at once, or
lHS5 ne VIII mark out one, hang up his
pasteboard templet Of he uses one), un-
hdhs has saw, mako one piece, hang mp
his saw, unhang, use and rehang the
!emplet, and so in regular Chinese fash
ion
The old world mechanic has handicraft
Well developed, and .headcraft--if the edi-
Tors OF the Standard Dictionary viii par
uon the 0inage-almost entirely undeVel-
oped. The American workman makes his
mead save his hand. He prefers TO do his
8Q
l will give an example of the French
way OF doing things. l had occasion to
make tWenty-fOur stiff pieces of stout COR
Iusated Wire, and left a sketch with di-
mansions Coming around the next day
round one piece done and q time bill at
Iached for two hours work, which was
PIobably correct, for the cOrrugations had
70 De an alike and to dimensions, and the
man had worked the whole thing out with
pHefs. At this rate it would take me four
working days to get all my wires. 1t had
never occurred to the man to cut few
IouI-lhch lengths of stout wire, place them
e4u9lslant and parallel in the wise and
s Ti4q the wire in and out among them
SululSS betimes. Doing this, we got the
second piece in fifteen minutes, including
cutting the pins, and the rest were made
III an average of five minutes each.
had occasion to tie knots in the ends
VI some spiral wire springs, which, for
sPeclal reasons, l had made by another
IAN a regularly ordained spring maker
aIli II never occurred to the mechanic to
make saw kerr as wide as the wire was
mick in the edge of fiat piece of iron
Jay 5X!2xA inches in dimensions, or TO
DoIe hole in the end of a round iron rod
ny SIX inches long and half inch in dia-
meier He did all the tying with pliers
9Hu TOOK no end of time at it, besides
saSnlng his hands in all sorts of patterns
me ordinary way of making double
vOIlcal wire springs is to wind them on
sWo-part douDle-conical mandrel winding
rom the big end of one part down to the
nls end OF the other-the spiral groove on
lne mandrel being right-handed, the crank
icing turned with the right hand and the
wire guided from the coil by the left hand
IN making single cone springs, it never oc-
cured TO the French manufacturer to
Orler the mandrel with a left-handed
splFNi. so that the workman might COM
inel.~ at the big end and hold the wire
~ ms left hand, so as to have his right
nahd Tree to turn the crank clock-wise
IAe result was that it took two men
one got around on the back of the ma
tlIne tWhere he could not draw the wire
rom the hung-up coil. but had to handle
= ID ten-toot lengths, and the other stood
~ the end and turned the crank back
WARD. q viii say that these springs arc so
small at ne little end that there is no
way of catching he wire at that end by
tue usual methods; besides which a kink
az the small end would be undesirable
ma the large end had to be knotted any
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