Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1910-09-17
ONE MILLION PENS
Years Record For Waterman's
Ideal Fountain Pen Factory

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Ideal Fountain Pen Factory
The operators sat in front OF long bencl
ches almost shoulder &c shoulder, in from
i Of esch tiny copper wheel that revolVe'
| with such speed that it seemed it va
standing still
Il In the rear OF this grinding.foor stool
3 metal trough, 20 feet long, 8 feet wide
and IL or IA inches deep, and this wa
half filed with water.
As che five O'Clock whistle blew, thG
note of the humming wheels fell, and thG
men fastened toward she trough TO Wast
their hands in it. When hands wsrs
clean, each operator washed face and
hair in an enamel wash-basin and care.
fully added this water 10 that in The
trough.
"What's the matter +? Have you no run
ing water In this building ?" Q visitor
asked Of the foreman.
''Thst's not she point" the foreman
exclaimed. ''The water in that trough
is probably the most valuable waste
water under sunshine. From morning
| to night these mea sit grinding gold pens
until she very air they breathe is filled
with invisible gold-dust that settles on the
face, hands, and hair Of the operator.
Out Of that wash.tFough We take from
$500 to $500 worth Of gold dust every
month.
'Tnterestiug7 Here's another interest,"
ing fact: We buy Overalls and Jumpers for
our men every month; when these suits
are old and worn out We reclaim from
them about S. each, for they're literally
saturated with fine gold-duas.
"Why, bless you, the ordinary sweep.
iDgs from the floor Of our grindiBg-FOOm
we sell for $500 month"
Il would be difficult to And an Incl.
dent which would illustrate better than
this one 70 what an enormous industry
the manufacture Of the highest grade
Of fountain pens has grown.
Imagine thirtv tons Of rubber turned
annually into 50 many "baFrels" for
fountain pens. Imagine the block Of
gold II would take to balance five full
grown men weighing 40 pounds each,
and imagine this chunk-worth more
than 500. 900 turned into gold pens.
And imagine what it means when q COM
pany makes and sells /, ,0OO, 900 fountain
pens year aud when it can boast that
2O, ,000, 600 of ita pens are in use through.
out the world. This is the record Of the
company that manufactures Waterman's
Ideal Fountain Pen.
Few industrial stories are more inter.
esting than that Of the manufacture of
this high-grads fountain pen, for to make
q perfect fountain pen is like making >
high-grade watch.
The place where WGtsrmsn's Ideal
Fountain Pens are made is an enormous
ten.story, all.concrete, frepEoof factory
that stands on the East River front in the
shadow Of the Brooklyn Bridge in New
York Citv. In architecture there is
probably not another building like 10 in
the Unitsd States. for three quarters Of
the wsll.space of the structure consists
of windows. No buildings save those
where our. high.grade American watches
are built can begin totequal this one for
air, sunshine, and light. It is the latest
design in modern factory architecture,
up to date, not only 90 far asits own re-
quirementa are concerned, but providing
as well for the health and comfort of its
Woskmen.
But il is in the work that goes on in
this splendid building that the chief in
terest lies; for to build 3 Waserman's
Ideal Fountain Pen requires 30 distinct
operations, or at least so more than are
necessary to build an automobile.
The fret step in the making Of the pen
takes plaee on the floor Wbere are gas.
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