The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-03-20
WHAT THEY DO.
And Who They Are-0. A. {. Grad
yates at Schenectady. Electrical
Works.

=
yates at Schenectady, Electrical
Works.
At the greatest electrical works
on the face of the earth, a place
where $4,000 men are employed,
and at plant that covers acres
of ground, there are number of 0.
A. c. graduates. Among them are
Bert Bower, Joe Henkle, Albert S.
Hall and other well-known boys
who are a part of the new history
of the college. Recently the TIMES
asked Mr.. Bower for an article re-
specting the Electrical works at
which he and his fellow graduates
are employed, and the very excel
lent and very interesting letter that
/ follows, is his contribution:
EDITOR TIMES:
DEAR S1R-If l undertook to de-
scribe the General Electric Co. or
lust plain &c. E." as it is called in
Schenectady, certainly would have
| a good btg job on my hands. A
walk. out Summit avenue, from
which good birds eye view of the
works may be obtained is classed
by the young electrician as equal to
viewing one of the seven wonders,
and the &c. E.'' certainly is right
ly named "The Armature of the
4 World" Such a walk and such an
experience, l had the pleasure. of
enjoying upon the arrival of The
Terrible sSwede'' in Schenectady.
Escorting him to where splendid
panoramic view of the &c. E."
might be obtained, I said, "All this
will I offer you, if you will but, -
With set teeth, contracted brow,
1 and fercer expression Of do or
de- than ever darkened his fair
brow on the football field, he meek
i ~ exclaimed, .What sight to feast
the eyes upon"
+ Seven members of the 'o5 class
: o. A. G., have come singly and in
! sIpairs 10 this same spot, and not one
|. but rejoiced that the opportunity
; had come TO show the mettle they
) / are made Of. :
E :. Sleeping peacefully in the little
historic valley of the Mohawk and
on. the banks of the river of tha
. name, this little town was, a few
: years ago one of the most crooked
.. crowded up little old Dutch settle
: ments that God ever kept the In
dians from destroying. Through
!. the town runs the historic Erie ca
:. nal, where Noah's arc and Balaam'.
ass are still utilized to draw the far
). !. mer's produce from Buffalo to ths
!. Hudson. The G. E. company ha
also large plants at Lynn, Mass.
Pitts6eld, Mass, Madison, Wis.
: Ft. Wayne, Ind; New York Cit
!. and St. Louis. Schenectady bein!
S the head Office, here their plant Gov
), ers nearly $50 acres of ground, ba
g 165 buildings, So acres of foo
- space, which would make a build
ling so feet wide and 10 IL mile
S long. I has "a miles of wide guag
Oh railroad track and FIVE miles of mar
$ row guage. In the shops are 600
n machine tools, consis: ing of lathes
b drills, and planers. The rated co:
e Of these tools being s. 500, 900.
l. On hand they have $4,000, oo
II worth of material. Raw, partly fiji
ished and finished. At present the
# have 12,ooo, 900 men and wo me
y employed with pay roll of SITS
s eee per week, exclusive of thos
+ paid by the month, such as ofht
- help, etc. The total payroll amoun
# to $o, 900 900 per year, the requis
4 tions or orders for material amount
:, ito I4oo weekly. And from 9 to I
: t7million dollars worth of raw mater
It al is used from all parts of tt
:. world.
=. Every imaginable sort of electr
), cal apparatus is manufactured her
q. and not only those electrically ii
:. clined, but the mechanical studei
- may also enter the shops as an al
= prentice, and begin career whe,
+. the field for experience and in
:. provement is unlimited.
A. The testing department or, "St,
1t Edents Course" as it is sometime
,ef called. is where the finished m
chimes are brought and given
run similar to that for whio
D. they were designed. and a rigid te
k for defects. There are IL differel
ut departments where different sori
a of electrical apparatus are teste.
a and the student stays in each frol
nd two to three months. Studen
IN pass through each departmental n
b. tatiou. That is. they enter as ne
ul linen, and are expected to do he'll
la ing and funkying, or "Hunyacl
ed ing, as it is called here, until SON
i'd newer man relieves him OF the di
ct tinction, and he is given a table ar