Evening journal., 1906-08-02
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fui poisons IN many a branch OF manu-
facture: they expose themselves to the
dangers Of fredamp In the mines. to
the dangers OF disease 10 many forms, to
peris unsupported by the users OF their
products IN order that the world may
progress. Perhaps It does not occur 10
the reader that the printer who set the
story now being read did his work az a
machine from which arises constantly
the fumes OF deadly gas used to heat
the metal from which the type is cast,
and from which, 10 cases OF disorder, has
squirted molten metal sufficient TO cause
death. And the Illustrations which
ndorn this page-what OF them7 The
photographer who got the photographs
Of the structural ironworkers was him
self perched upon an iron beam 10 stories
from the ground when be took the pic
ture. In order to get the photo Of The
fire horses in action he had 20 walt un-
~ the team OF piunging equlnes was
almost upon him, snap the shutter and
jump. One false move and he would
have been trampled under the feet OF the
excited beasts.
The taking Of the pictures was not sun.
Client to insure their production. From
the photographer they went to the photo
engravers. Here again men are Drawing
death that newspaper readers may be
amused. The process OF making a half.
tone cut can be simply described as a
process OF taking a photograph through a
screen and printing II on metal instead OF
the ordinary Photographic paper. The
men, In developing the negative, use FOR
purposes OF cutting out and more sharply
defining the figures on the film a solution
Of potassium cyanide, or, 70 be more ex.
plicit, Prussic acid, one OF the most dead.
ly poisons known to science. a splinter
OF this, SO small as to be hardly discern
ible to the naked eye. will kill dog In
stantly, while a particle smaller than a
little green pea viii kill man before he
can walk five steps or utter 10 words.
Its action Is upon the heart.
Recently IN Chicago several photo-en.
gravers were eating their lunch in one OF
the large newspaper engraving plants.
One OF the men suddenly spit out his
food and said
My God. boys, there's cyanide in my
pie"
He started for the sink but fell. When
his fellow.workmen reached his side he
was dead
Each cut, after It Is printed from the
negative upon the metal-in most cases
zink-is etched away With another deadly
| poison, nitric acid The effect OF nitric
acid is upon the lungs and half tone
etchers who remain IN the business long
usually die Of tuberculosis. as the result
Of constantly lnhaling the fumes OF the
ncid with which they work.
Every occupation that involves the hand.
ling OF heated metal or the operating OF
machinery is fraught with a certain spe.
cihc danger 20 life and limb, and the news.
paper plant is no exception, so that not
only the photographers and the cutmakers,
but the sterotypers, the pressmen ami ali
other mechanics employed 10 the plant Of
an up-to-date newspaper like this take
their life In their hands daily that YOU
may have your news served hot with your
coffee.
Another Kind OF Hero.
In even so prosaic an occupation as tn,
canning Of meat or the making OF sau
sage heroes move daily in a solid phalanx
never pausing or showing fear OF the dan
gers that beset them. The fearful ex
posures Of conditions that existed II
Packingtown. Chicago. and other grea
centers OF the meat packing trade hav,
forcibly drawn the attention Of the coun
try, not ony to the dangers in the DALI
occupations of those who work In th
packing houses. but TO the dangers tina
menace the innocent In all parts OF hi
land who eat OF the canned tuberculosi
and the pickeled disease. Working IN poor
" ventilated shops, breathing the fou
air, standing up to their ankles IN waite
7 aud slowly inhaling and exhaling tubereu
losls germs, this branch OF the great arm
Of labor is surely entitled to a position n
the right Of the column under banners es
pecielly emblazoned Specific instances 4
which men have fallen into the rendering
watts only to become part OF the content
before rescue could reach them are nu
merans. and one who claims 10 be an nu
thority recently told OF a case where
man fell from exhaustion at his work In
certain Western packing house one day
was carried out. carted home and died tn
next day OF consumption. This latter inc
dent Illustrates not only the unhealthfu
conditions under which the employees o
the slaughter houses were compelled {
work, but adds a striking note 70 the soun
! OF warning to those tlsrgs numbers anon