Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-17
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Vermont Association of Sealers
in Session at Hotel Vermont.
Need of Standardization Pointed Out
by National and state officials
increase in Size of Butter
Pounds since 1910.


The Vermont Association of Sealers of
Weights and Measures met Thursday aft
ernoon at the roof garden of the Hotel
Vermont. The meeting opened with the
welcome by Max l.. Powell, president of
the Burlington Merchants association,
who welcomed the sealers on behalf of the
city and association and particularly for
the fact that the cooperation of the as
ISOLATION was invited, which he assured
them would be given. He closed by say
ing that the lack OF numbers present sure
ly was not due 10 lack Of enthusiasm.
S. w. Stratton. director of the bureau
of standards in Washington. y. c., was
the next and principal speaker. He gave
a brief report of the work Of the bureau
of standards In general and showed that
this bureau. besides handling the work
of ordinary weights and measures, stand
ardzed the measuring Of light, electricity.
etc He also spoke of the work of test
ing materials Of all sorts, from steel and
cement down to paper and thread. He
told of the growth of the bureau from its
inception I'm 1901 up to the present time.
Then there were only four assistants,
now there are $50, occupying six or seven
buildings. They were treated from sci
entihc standpoint. and not subject to the
spoils system. He expressed the nope
that Vermont and other states would
soon recognize the slehincance Oh l's ue-
partments OF weights ana measures Inc
work OF the bureau Oh sla,luaruS hnu
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hoa, t., nt,,.no a,,,, yeor He smoke of
- ,a,.oi,nr,or, l., go. dan,rtment dur
inc, .ho mot voar ana said that the work
In that state was done bv over 300 local
so,,ers sunerv,sed nv his department,
which was now equipped with automo-
biles. built especially for the work of
testing weights and measures Among tho
new lines taken up by his department was
the testing of apothecaries weights and
balances several thousand of which have
already been inspected. Almost " per
cent. of these We're found unit Tor use
The next speaker was state forcS'e'
a. F. Halves lie spoke OF the multi
plicity Of rules used for the measure
izing their measure. He gave examples
OF the relation between actual "a" mn
measurement and the dlirerent rules anu
showed that by the Use or the DoyIe
and Scribner rules, farmers VINO so'o
logs had been defrauded sometimes out
OF 90 per cent. or the correct measure
He said that the Champaign rule follow
ed the actual sawm1ll measure more
closely than any of the others and that
the Vermont rule was Wen adapted 10
all but the larger diameter logs.
Prof, A. l.. Daniels Formerly or the
University OF Vermont stan, originator
OF the Champlain rule explained THIS
rule to the members and presented very
interesting chart when depicted the IN
conslstencies and inaccuracies existing In
the present rules for measurement OF
logs as compared with the actual sawmill
measure.
/ J. w Atwood and NJ. Soules, Vermont
state inspectors spoke on the work or
the department In this state
! F. H. Hedwal! of Boston. slNervisor
! of scales for the Boston & Maine rail-
road. told of the growth Of his depart
nent, from two assistants to corps or
90 assistants. with a full-fedRed work
shop with four shopmen, all this taking
place in year or two.
| Other speakers were n. c. Palmer OF
Boston, special agent for the Standard
Computing Scale company, n. ]. Moyni-
han of Boston. eastern manager Of the
Dayton Moneyweight company. and John
Theohad OF New York, eastern mana.