The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-03-26
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: BEAT GERMANS
Z OUR WORKMAN USES HIS Z
d HEAD AND BETTER TOOLS. I
x Dies in II Days as Much as a z
4 German Does in Month, Says 3
3 the Boss of the Lauchhammer x
= W0fks--A Matter of Progress
8 siyeness Rather than Skill. b
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

1t is not often that German udHl
| .facturer will admit when he come
| over here that there is really some
thing better in this country than hi
own country produces, but DIR. j
seph Hollenbauer, general manage
of the Lauchhammer company, whic
turns out bridges, structural steel TO
buildings and bronze monuments
says that American tools are ia
more up to date than German tool
and that American workmen use thel
brains more than do German work
men.
DR.. Hollenhauer arrived from E1
rope on his way to San Francisco, a
! he said, to learn something.
81 came over here the first TIM
| in 1866" he said, "and remained
two years at the La Sale Zinc Work!
| in Illinois, one of the proprietors O
| which is relative of mine. thinl
learned something then Then
came here again ten years afterward
and again and again, and each time
I have learned something.
Our works are not more than one
tenth the size of the Krupp concern
but in our rolling mills and steel
works we employ 400 men. We have
two plants in Prussia and two in Sax
ony. Our output per year amounts to
100000 marks, which is more than
$S,000,0O0 We have men working in
various parts of Europe, in Africa and
in South America, building bridges
and doing steel and iron construction
work.
I'VE also make machinery for iron
and steel works, and in our bronze
works we turn out a great many mon
uments.
You have a good number of our
the Schiller and Goethe in Cleveland,
and others in Philadelphia, Milwau-
kee and elsewhere.
Il have tried in vain to get our
ucated and to work in the spirit that
Americans work, to show some indi-
viduality and initiative. / talked over
my efforts in this direction the other
day with Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler,
president of the University of Cali
fornia, who has been making a tour
of Germany. He seemed to think
that German workmen are too much
hn hot al
safety and are unwilling to take risks.
Mind you, the German workmen
are very skilful, and what they do
they do WELL But the American
workman prepares his tools for a
week, and at the end of three days
he has done a weeks work, and he
sharpens them again. The German
workman sharpens his tools for
week, and he works with them
week before sharpening them again.
The German workman is content to
work with old fashioned tools. He
does not care for good tools of the
most modern make. The result is
that it takes him month to turn
out work that good American work
man would accomplish in eleven days.
why, few years ago / bought a
lot of modern tools in the United
States and made presents of them
to our workmen. Did they use them?
No. They were used to the tools
that their fathers had used and with
which they had been trained, and the
implements were quickly
And yet if you bring those
same German workmen to America
within month they will be doing as
much work as the average native
workman and of course earning more
money than they did at home. They
are skilful enough about their work
in Germany, but very few of them
work with their intellects.
"Now | have come over again to
do some more studying. have
brought over one of my head en-
gineers to study the transmission of
electrical power long distances, and
we are going to San Francisco for |
that purpose. / saw an example of |
hat out there four years ago, and |
we are about to make an application |
If the principle for ourselves. We |
nave decided to generate all the cleo
,ricity for our plants in one place, I
4auchhammer, and it will be neces- |
,ary to transmit it as far as thirty |
eight miles. New York Sun.