Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-03-28
MRNS MODH FACTOR-T HAS TEN ACRES Of AMERICAN MACHINERY

featuring center You can find lots Of
them In Birmingham and SNtlield.
They are used In Paris, St. Etienne
and Lyons and also in Berlin, The de-
mand for them Is so great that this
factory was built to supply IT,
TEN ACRES OF AMERICAN MA
CHGNERY.
1t Is strange to find 10 acres Of Amer
lean machinery in Germany but this
is what these buildings contain. The
founder of the works. Ludwig Loewe,
was a young hardware merchant in
Berlin, who sold. among other things,
our sewing machines. He saw the ma
chimes were better than anything the
Germans could make, and In 1870 went
to America to learn how II was done,
He visited the sewing machine factories
and our works for making machine
tools, and came back determined TO get
a share Of this trade He brought a
complete outfit Of American machines
with him, and gradually built this fac
tory, which Is one Of the model ones
OF the world. II is made Of brick, ron
and glass, a large part Of when came
from America, The buildings are floor
ed with American lumber and six
acres of the 10 are covered with Amer
lean boards, This is so. notwithstand-
ing Norway Is just across the borders
within easy distance of Berlin, The
boards are % hard maple, three inches
wide, nailed to a pine flooring, which
rests on another floor Of cement and
steel The maple will not splinter
and II can be kept cleaner than any
other floor
! examined the A-chinery as ! went
through the shops Nearly every tool
was American, There We're great plan
ing machines ana milling machines
from different parts Of the United
States. our steam engines worked
away side by side with those Of the
Germans, and most Of the saws and
lathes were Of American make, ! asked
my guide which machines did the bet
ter workouts or the Germans. he re-
piled that he could not say-a pract teal
concession that ours We're the best.
During my stay In the factory the men |
left for lunch ! noticed that each re- |
corded his time with a Rochester time |
recorder. In other rooms German inn /
have been added to some Of |
our machines, and in some | found fore |
men who could speak English and who |
had been to America,
TEA AT ONE CENT A PINT.
| cannot describe the cleanness OF
This factory. IL Is like Dutch kit
hen. There Is no dirt anywhere. the
lust being carried away through pneu-
matte tubes by drafts. Even the foun-
Tries and tool grinding rooms are free
rom dirt. and In many respects the ar
angements are better than In our
american factories,
The company has showerbaths for its
rorkmen. IL has a surgeon to treat
hem for accidents, and Il supplies its
men at noon with tea In bottles az one
ent pint. This Is 90 keep them from
rinking beer for the managers think
hat they do better work without beer
or lunch. | was told that the tea had
ecome very popular and that 800 out
the 1000 employees now take tea in
tead OF beer with their midday meal.
he tea Is prepared In a tiled Kitchen.
eing brewed In great kettle heated
y steam. The men were bottilng the
"a when I entered the kitchen each
ottle being corked like a beer bottle
TALK WITH AN AMERICAN EX-
PERT
I was shown through the factory by
ne Of its American experts Mr. J. $.
aaske, who had been brought over to
clip the Germans capture the Amefi.
IN trade. This man is a Norwegian
no got his technical education and
aiming In the United states. and who
now travelling for this company sell
IL IT'S machine tools lie knows the
nited States and Europe well. and is
'qualnted with almost every factory
Germany. Said he:
THE Germans are now making bet
r machine tools than the americans.
ar tools are stronger and more beau
fully finished and better suited to the
erman market Wages are lower and
costs US less TO make them. II the
nietd States would enact recipro- \
~ treaty with Germany by which the I
70 countries should charge equal du- Y
as. we would food the United States /
ith our products As q Is we already /
I'VE the most OF the trade OF Ger
any" q