The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-09-24
AUTO
Engineers Visit Local
Manufacturing
Plants
FINELY ENTERTAINED

The automobile engineers composed
of twenty-five members arrived in
Canton Saturday afternoon and the
greater part of the afternoon was
spent in making visits at the plants
of the Timken Roller Bearing Axle
company and the Cleveland-Canton
Spring works. The party had attend
ed the quarterly convention of the So
ciety held in Cleveland last Thursday
and Friday and on Saturday morning
visited the plant of the Goodrich Rub
Der company at Akron. At an invita-
tion extended from the managements
of the local plants the society came
to this city and were shown through
them. They were received by w. r.
Timken, e. w. Lewis, A. e. Demory,
II. w. Alden and several other mem
bers of the Timken company.
After leaving the Courtland hotel
the party was taken in autos to West
lawn cemetery where they viewed the
Mckinley monument The party then
journeyed to the plant of the Tim
ken Roller Bearing Axle works where
a close inspection was made, special
attention being paid to the manufac-
ture of the roller bearing and of the
Timken axle.
In commenting on the local plant
Thomas ]. Fay, consulting engineer,
of New York city, and also president
of the society of Automobile Engi-
neers, said: I'VE are amazed at the
work your Canton people are doing.
We were all familiar with the product
before seeing the plant, but the plant
itself has been a revelation to us.
You may say fo me that in my estima-
tion the geatest improvement as yet
made in the manufacture of automo-
biles has been fostered right here in
your city. refer to the Timken rear
axle, made of one piece, thus eliminat-
ing the old-fashioned stays and
braces" Charles B. Hayward, TECH
nical editor of the Automobile" and
secretary of the society, expressed
himself as immensely pleased with the
Timken roller bearing. He stated that
1t was fast subplanting the ball bear
ing of formers years.
The plant of the Cleveland-Canton
Spring company was next visited
where they were met by Manager H.
C. Haight, Edward S. strayer and
Superintendent Roth. Here the party
witnessed the making of springs, pay
ing special attention to the new style
spring known as the "separable leaf"
spring, one of the company's employees
being the inventor Springs made by
United Steel company, of Canton,
were also inspected with interest. Be-
fore leaving the factory district the
party was shown through the club
house at the axle works. The party
returned to the city we'll pleased with
the well spent afternoon. In the ev-
ening the visitors were royalty en-
tertained at the ICourtland hotel.
The following members of the soci-
ETY. made up the party: Thomas j.
Fay, of New York; Henry Hess. of
Philadelphia; Charles B. Hayward of
York; Harold B. Anderson, of Cleve-
land; r. C. Carpenter, of Cornell Uni
versity, Ithaca; Burton G. Ellis, of
Boston; G. e. Franquist, of New York;
B. d. Gray. of Providence; Henry X.
Holsman, of Chicago; M. G. Krarup,
of IIew York; r. 3. Northway, OF De-
troit; F. b. Stearns, of Cleveland; ].
G. Sterling, OF Cleveland; H. Wander
beck, of Hartford; e. e. Allyne, Of
Cleveland; H. nj. Jerome, of Detroit;
Marcel de Jarney, of New York;
Claude e. Cox. of indianapolis; Scott
Van Etten, of Elkhart; G. Won Guilder.
of Plymouth. H. w. Alden, mechanical
engineer for the Timken company,
who is a member of the society, was
also present.