The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-09-03

makes it very pleasant to all who
/ come and go in the sightseeing of
this novel work.
-Four, five, and six trips a day this
crew makes from the woods into
the town of Bond. Here is the mill
proper, vast structure built with all
the modern improvements, adjusted
to every need of the firms wants and
managed by Mr.. Frank Patched as
orderly, Systematically, and success
fully as any body would want from
one who is thoroughly cOnversant
with every detail of such varied work.
The mill is located at the lower end of
the town, thus bringing its storage
yard up into the town proper. 1t
has capacity of fifty thousand feet
day, beside twenty thousand of the
lath turned out 1t runs full capacity,
employing thirty-odd men, not count
ing the eight or ten men exclusively
i'll the shipping department. Round
about the mill are the boardinghouses
and residences Of the private families,
the latter numbering some thirty,
and the former built and kept with
all the care and cleanliness for which
the establishment is celebrated. In
the mill itself the mass of machinery
is wonderful and complex. Every
thing is done by machinery. Then
men manipulate it, that is all. But it
takes expertness and quick-witted-
ness to keep on the constant go. A
slip up here or there would be as fatal
to the man who stands by to receive
what the machinery produces as it
would be to the machinery itself. Not
withstanding all the intricacy and
cOmpactness of all this machinery no
time is lost, nor is there any hesitancy
on the part of anyone in the perfor-
nance of each workman's duties, for
everyone has his place and his own
particular work to do, and each does
it instantly. In this great building
you see the raw material in the shape
of the great logs just hauled in from
the woods actually "grabbedn up
from the pond, hauled up the incline
by never ending chuck-chain, rolled
and some of us thought kicked" "
over on the carriage that flashes up
to the band saw, back and forth
again, until the symmetrically sawed
pile of planks go out at the farther
end Of the great structure on the way
to the storage-yard. In the mea r.
time what might be called the "refuse
wood goes on to its own particular
care-takers, some this way some that,
until slab and block, and chip and
scantling, and sawdust and lathing
all get their careful handling and
proper placing. The click of the
machinery keeps no truer time with
the minutes as they pass, than does
the regular partition of every atom of
the entering log to their proper use.
Even the sawdust and clippings are
looked after for a purpose, as every
particle of the refuse of the mill is us
ed to feed the great furnaces that fur
nish the power distributed by the
powerful engine in the basement of
the structure. Not particle of this
sawdust and chipping goes into the
Savage river or any of its running
streams. There is no pollution of the
water supply of nearby towns and
villages by this great enterprise The
management seems just as anxious to
prevent Inconvenience and trouble to
Others as it is DESTROYS Of succeeding
in its own efforts.
Connected with this is complete
electric light plant, so distributed
as to bring into service every part of
the establishment, enabling the man
ayers to utilize all the space, and pro-
tect their interests as they could not
otherwise do. In addition there is a
perfect system of fire protection.
Hose and hose connections are every
where where danger might sometimes
Turk. Telegraph and telephone con-
nectiOn with the outer world is .com
plete and regular. Even way out in
the lumber yards where millions OF
feet of planking are stored the ny
drants stand waiting for the moment
of use when they can demonstrate
their almost priceless value.
Out in these storage yards there is
ample space for about four million
feet of lumber, and hundreds of thous-
ands of feet of lathing. To the extreme
limit of the piling space the great
platform with its tramways runs. All
the time busy workmen are here sort
ing, piling, and loading the lumber
for shipping. As elsewhere here too
the system so prevalent throughout
all other departments is observed.
Every employee has his place and his
work, and Though there is crossing
and recrossing, piling and unpiling,
there is no confusion. The firm keeps
on hand in these yards about one and