Rock Island Argus., 1911-07-01
A BUSINESS BASIS
Warship Arkansas Will Have a
Perfect Scientific Man
agement.
EXPERTS TO BE IN CHARGE
About All Trades and Professions
Except Mining Engineer Will
Be on Board.

When the battleship Arkansas leaves
the yard of the New York Shipbuild-
Ing company at Camden, \. j., and
goes into commission, which will be
early in July, she viii start her career
on strictly business basis.
The term scientific management
has been applied to the Arkansas, and
Justly so, but 1t is not the first vessel
Of Uncle Sans armada which has
been scientifically managed. 1t will
be the first vessel, however. which has
had applied to it the best of all learned
in the other ships OF the navy.
The system to be employed on the
Arkansas will not be new, but it win
be improved Ever since the Spanish
American war the navy departments
experts have gradually been getting
the management of battleship down
to a real scientific basis. All the
Dreadnoughts now in service are man
aged under this system. 1t is due to
this admirable system that such re-
markable results have been obtained In
gunnery and engineering competitions,
in the selection of men who are quail
fed for special work and in the devel-
opment of the material required to
produce the most efficient condition of
the ships for battle.
EVERY MAN AN EXPERT.
There will be 1000 men and 100 off,
GERS aboard the Arkansas when she is
placed in commission Among these
men are seamen, machinists, electri-
clans, clerks, powder experts, ordnance
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officers, almost every profession in the
usual walks Of life, with the excep-
ton of civil and mining engineers.
There will be doctors, lawyers, den
lists, historians, etc.
Every one of these men will be an
expert. For years 1t has been the Gus
tom to select men for the kind Of duty
for which they are best fitted. The
men who go aboard the Arkansas to
ship will be better than that; they
will be Of this same class Of men, with
an additional training at the expense
of the navy on the other ships.
The assignment Of these men to their
specific duties each day without a
small army of foremen is another plan
worked out which has been but partly
in use on other battleships. 1t will be
in a perfected state aboard the Arkan-
sas. One bugle call in the morning
Will start all hands aboard ship to their
respective duties. One bugle call ct
noon will stop them for their meals,
while another will start them to work
in the afternoon and another stop them
again at night. The bugle will work
the same as the factory whistle or the
time clock. These men will have GER
tain duties to perform. and they will
perform them Just the same as in some
big factory.
In fact, the Arkansas will be the
modern scientifically managed city
afloat.
There will be big gun drills by ma
jority Of the crew and small arms prac-
tice by all the crew each day. In ad-
dition the men in the most modern
equipped machine shop afloat will put
in number of hours repairing ma
chinery and studying mechanics. The
same is true In the engine room and in
the fire room of the vessel. In the en-
gines the best OF the designs of the
other battleships. with added improve
ments, have been installed. The same
is true of the electrical appliances.
In time Of battle the machinists will
be able to make any kind of a repair
except to put on arInor plate OF replace
a big gun. Giant lathes, drills and trip
hammers such as are seen in the best
equipped machine shops on land will
be In operation daily.
In the Arkansas the system of DUR
chasing and caring for supplies will be
an improvement over that Of the other
vessels. including the Delaware, which
stands today as the most scientifically
ship in the world.
There will not be one single foot of
space aboard the Arkansas which will
be wasted. Neither will there be a
single effort of the men and officers
which will not count for something
Navy men are counting on |
being able to hoist the flag of perfec-
ton in management at the forward /
masthead Of the Arkansas when that |
vessel joins the feet.