The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-05

of Accidents to Workmen has a mem
bership of 1000. They employ half a
million workmen in the eighty-six de-
partments of the country. The asso-
citation has established international
competitions for the best inventions of
new safety devices or the perfection of
those already in use. A similar or
ganization in Italy for the last ten
years has been vested by the govern
ment with the authority to inspect
factories and workshops.
Those behind the present movement
believe that America, the leading indus.
trial nation, should have the greatest
Museum of Safety; that it should
serve as a center for the display of
simple and inexpensive safeguards
which will not interfere with the out
put of the machine. elf such safe.
guards do not exist at the present
time, - said DIR. Tolman, 81 have be-
lief that the inventive genius of Amer
lea will focus its energy in this direc-
ton. - The desire is to build such a
museum in New York. In addition,
the work is to be carried into the
schools and universities so that in the
coming days it may not be new thing,
tional work for showing the practical
bility of these appliances, not alone for
the machine, but for the hygiene and
sanitation of the workmen, the pro-
lection of his home as well as his shop
One important feature of the museum
will be an inventor s laboratory. The
Munich Museum of Safety Devices has
one that has been in successful opera
II l.
lens will be taken up and investigated
under the direction of a committee. The
laboratory would also serve as a help
to the poor inventor lacking in means
to secure material and a place where
he might develop his ideas.
An interesting exhibit was a mine
gallery installed by the Carnegie Steel
Company 1t showed how the construc-
ton of steel instead of wood. is being
used to make the galleries of mines
safe and strong, The steel beams. the
logging and the track were all of nat
nral size. Another exhibit attracting
much attention was that of an auto
matte railway signal, by which the
dispatcher in the seclusion of his own
office, with the train sheet in front of
HIM, indicating the whereabouts of ev-
cry train on the line. can at will at any
minute talk with any engineer in his |
,ab at any point on the line, warning |
nm of the peril in the block just /
ahead of him. If this warning be not |
needed. the dispatcher by the simple |
urn of lever, can shut off the power |
n the locomotive so that it will come |
o full stop. A recording device on
he locomotive shows when and where |
danger signal was given, how quickly |
IN engineer responds, and the speed of
ne train among other things.
A new fire fighting device for use at
'ea was also exhibited. It resembled |
IN umbrella stand in appearance and
vas filled with sixteen speaking tubes
with as many pipes going
o different parts of the ship. IN ease
Il fire. the suction fan on top of the
UMBRELLA stand will draw the smoke up
he pipe from the compartment where
he blaze IS and through the tube. thus
making it possible to locate the fire at
nee. This being done, the officers in
harge merely screw a cap on the tube
nd by the turn of a valve, let in live
team, which very soon quenches the
ire
There is model press, with an arm
T small bar operating at right angles
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