The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-01-02

have come into common use in Ameri- ca, the inventor has friction draft gear not unlike blunt pointed shell in shape, which will absorb a pressure of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds to the square inch by yielding a few inches, and will have minimum
 recoil Such gear is not yet wanted in England, because We have no heavy cars, but it cannot be supplied fast enough for America. At the time I went through Wilmerdlng an army of men were busy turning out eighty thousand of the new gear appliances for the Pennsylvania railroad alone.
 Did space permit. a score of similar instances could be given. The intelli- gent anticipation of the future is one cause of George Westinghouse suc- cess. Another is his manner of training men. Besides inventors, he year by year takes in numbers of the foremost technical students from the American colleges. These are put at practical work for sorne time. They go through every branch of the factories,-a and are carefully watched. Those who are use ICSo nlC NLSpPGus Dul 1I lS LOuuu Wllul the good men are best suited for, and they become the captains in this indus trial army.
 Every one among the thousands in | these works Is expected to keep his brains alert and to suggest improve ments when he sees them. "If a man is Il charge of bit of work for some time and can think out no way of doing it better than in the vast. he Is not much good to me-" said the head of one of the departments. If my office boy l has suggestion to make I'll weigh it well, I want him to think, and think ing will pay him."
 The method with the workers is to pay by the piece and to encourage the men to earn large wages. The Ameri- can worker obtains high pay, and he
 has to compete with some who have very little. How this is capitalized can best be shown by practical instance In the arbrake works there is a great platform running the full length of the building. Around it is constantly mov- ing line of mold frames. Clean earth for the molds is poured down at one end, and each empty frame is filed as it passes. A little farther the frame is caught under great pressure cases, and the earth in it is autOma tically stamped into shape At the same time hot lf- quid metal has been swung around from the furnace on a running over head rail, and as the frame passes q little farther on a man standing at 8 given point nlls the molds. Still it moves.
 The frames are so times and ordered that when they reach g. point two- thirds around the circuit they can be broken. The casting is torn out by giant pincers and thrown into a heap near by. In another revolution the hot molding earth is tipped into a pit, played on with water cleaned and cooled and automatically caught up to the ceiling, sucked along the top of the floor, and shot down at the place where it is wanted for fresh castings. And little electric narrOw-gauge railway stands ready to receive the castings when they are cool and convey them to the various manufacturing depart ments. Human ingenuity could not go further in derucing labor.
 There is another section typical of the new way of doing business. MT. West inghouse has a thorough intelligence department running independently of all The field of this department is to learn everything which may affect the business. The press of the world, tech nical and general, is searched by trained men. All important informa- ton is carefully filed. A weekly paper IS issued for the heads of the different branches of the works, telling them of things happening in their line that they ought to know. Should @ brief note ap pear in some obscure Vienna paper re- vealing or shedding fresh light on a minor technical problem, the man who has to do with that at the Westing- house works finds it pointed not to him in the office sheet he receives on Satur- day night.-F. A. Mckenzie in the Lon don Mail.