Cañon City record., 1907-08-29
WHEN THE TANK GANG Dimes
m PUZZLES THE CHEFS

IS .
Tulsa, 1. T.. Aug. 25.-A New Yorker
In search of sensations. took dinner
with the tank gang down in the oil
field the aother day. and says he got
several times the worth OF the cost
of the trip to the Indian Territory.
and that thereafter. instead OF going
to Europe he IL coming here to drive
away that tired feeling. The dinner
was not q course affar. 1t did not
start out with anchovies and wind mp
with vim. It was just grab and
scramble sort Of . meal prepared by
the camp cook.
They were all seated at long table
ON the crest OF ridge. There were
twenty-five "tankies" and the New
Yorker. There was no grace and NO
preliminary ceremonial. The New
Yorker could not see anything out OF
the ordinary camp meal. But long.
lean, hungry looking fellow yelled:
Send the top plates down this way"
The New Yorker shied because he
expected to see few sheets OF steel
floating along. Nothing more harm
less than a plate with sliced bread
came down the line in response to
the order.
In a few minutes more the boss OF
the bunch commanded the waiter to
bring him some rivets. Here again
the New Yorker expected something
and was surprised when q big dish OF
steaming potatoes was get In front OF
him. And another man wanted the
rivet-heater and got coffee and an
n..A 1.sf-
ter and another wanted top plates
and angle irons and got pie and
doughnuts. And 80 on and SO on and 80
on. There was q technical tank name
for every dish on the table.
1--WE learned a new language" said
the New Yorker when he got his
breath. Here I've been spending my
money travelling around the world
looking for new things and hnd about
twenty-seven distinct kinds OF sensa-
tious away down here In the woods.
Why, those fellows ought to be In q
book. KplinG would make them i'm
mortal
There's more TO II than the the
strange new language Why, those
men were working on steel tanks with
ku0 AGAuHCi oSutC UNnh0AA6 ~ AAS NC
xrees In the shade. and the steel was
20 hot II blistered q mans hands to
touch It. They worked hAlf-naked.
sweating and swearing but putting
the plates together and riveting them
hard. II was like 4 picture OF the In
ferno to see them. One would drop
out here and there overcome by the
heat, and the Ice water boy was kept
busy all the time from morning TIL
night
the theory with me has always
beea that Ice water was heating To
Tie system and that men could not
staAd mp under much OF It.. but Wisea
I gently suggested this To the fore
man he told me had besn talking to
some Doctor man in New York who
did not know more about building a
tank or what the people handling
hot steel 90 through than the man in
tho moon. And the foreman must have
been right because with the sweat
rooling Oh him In streams he raised
Q big bucket Of ice water to his
mouth and II did look ~ II he were
ever going to turn II loose.
you flnd out several things dur
ing q visit to = gang like that" he
said. You md out what the men
Who make the divtdends for us have
to 80 through. You and out that these
nsn working In the boiling sun last
only ten years after they 20 into IT,
You fnd that they live ON the fronuer.
~ It were. that they sleep on the
ground oftenumes. that they are
away from home and family for the
greater part Of the year. that they
20 In the deserts and the mountains
all over the world to build tanks for
the Oil people and for the mines