The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-29

Paris exposition a few years ago this company gave them a special excursion | from Paris to Berlin to see our works They were given luncheon at the facto- ry steamboat ride on the river Spree and banquet and all without charge" Other Americanized Industries. The Loewe Company manufacture light machine tools only and they work on the interchangeable system so that they can supply parts at any time. There are other machine tool works here. The Niles works has a large branch which Is con- nected with the Loewe works. It makes its tools from American patterns and de- bends for the larger machines upon its American connections. The Luxfer Prism Company of Chicago has a Ger man establishment and also the Worth ington Pump Company. The Nesting house has a branch electrical establish ment in Berlin, and the Union Elektrische Geselschaft Is the German connection of our General Electric Company.
 The Union Eletrische Gesellschaft has factory in Berlin and another at Riga, in Russia, and 1t does a big continental business. When its factory here Is in full working order 1t employs 2,500 men, and at present the number Is little less. The works are buidt of brick, iron and glass. They have about twenty-five acres of floor space, filled with the finest of electrical machinery, and the most of the machines are American.
 I went through this factory the other day. It is cleaner and better kept than most of our factories, and 1t Is as well equipped as any. It makes all sorts of electrical machines, from enormous generators for the city street car systems to little electric meters, which are sent by thousands to Russia. The factory has It's own brass and iron foundries, its own machine shops of all kinds. its photo graphic establishment. and its printing presses, where 1t can turn out Its cata- lougues In color It has been built on the American plan, and 1t Is run after American methods. This is the company which has equipped most of the Berlin street railroads, as well as those of other German cities. It is already doing e large export business, and deals with South America, Africa and Asia.
 German Workmen vs. American.
 walked through the works with the as- slstant manager, MT. Cotton, who was formerly with out Westinghouse Company in the United States. and as did so chat ted with him about the difference be- twen the German and American work man. In reply to my questions he said:
 T have not been here very long, and may have occasion to change my opinion but so far don't think the Germans can do more than 50 per cent as much work as the Americans We pay our laborers about half as much as similar men re- ceive in the United States, and we work them more hours. but proportionately the Americans do as much for the money Take the man over there who is filling at that piece of machinery Notice how carefully he works, and how he keeps at it until every tooth Is exactly right and beautifully shiny. He turns out fine work, but he wastes time in doing It. The machine Is no better for the extra finish. An American would give that machine a dozen strokes of the file and smooth 1t up we'll enough for all practi- cal purposes, The German Is not con- tented with anything but perfect finish. His work looks better. but 1t is no better