The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-24
individual Electric. Drive

AhotHcF leclGed innovation. and +
one which the textile trade should
appreciate Is The manner IN which
these pioneers have Introduced IN.
Individual electric drive. Aiuch the !
DRY had been supported To show that
looms could not be driven electrically !
individually. but Mr.. Shrine thoueht
they could lie. and he encouraged the
electrical men :" show him what they
had He accepted their guarantees
mat their machines would do the
work. and $50 looms are proving To-
day that mis- Judgment was sound.
In the big mill are installed many
things that were theoretical q year
ago, or which were doubted as being
practical on a Ing scale ever though
accepted as all right in small units.
Shrine Is not a man OF small units.
or OF limitations If a thing Will work.
Belts in this biz mill are an almost
unknown agency. \ few are in oDer-
alton, but only & few. Here is one
of the most valuable lessons that mill
men have been wondering over for
years. Along with being the last word
in everything pertaining to cotton
mill efficiency il VIII be seen that the
Erlanger mill is the frst word in some
things equally important.
Naturally l expected to see the mill
driven by the power from the wires
that traverse this whole State OF
North Carolina. Il this / was sur
prised. \ steam turbine. generating
2,500 horsepower, is installed in the
po~wer-hOuse, and there IS the motor
for the whole concern. The turbine
IS conncted directly with a big dy-
namo which is the medium for trans
ferrin9 the power to the various ma
chimes, and the power plant Is eff
cient. rs il WAS guaranteed to be by
the General Electric company before
il was bought.
The mill has been running now for
some months. The floors are kept as
neat as a rining room table, walls, ana
machines are as trim as the freshly
hoIy-StOned deck Of a WarShip. Moth
ing seems to be out Of place. The
whole note of the big institution Is
efficiency. and anything that is not
working for efficiency IS barred
y Modern Model.
7 looked this big mill over with 81
amazing interest from the time
caught the first sight Of the grounds
until | had the last glimpse of it ~
my shoulder as ! went away, and !
said two or three things to me. one
is tina in itself it is n modern model
[ Another is that it is a lesson to tn
cotton mill trade Of what is to be tht
: type Of factories for the new day tina
is daWning III the textile horizon. An
OlI1tI is mat the ItW lildl1 vi 1
2 coming into the cotton mill world /
bringing with him a boldness of con
: ceptiOn that indicates the speedy re
e tirement Of old things and old prac
; tees.
l In my way of ~cataloguing causes
t put the Erlangers, MontcaStle an
G Shrine in a grOup Without the broa
gauge of the Erlanger brothers thi
e mill would not have been possible
T Without the keen DpTcnDt1OnS an
n broad gauge Of Mr.. MontcaStle
would not have been possible. With
e out the confident skill and construC
|, tive ability of Mr.. Shrine it woul
not have been possible.
Now that this group Of men hav
done this thing. the example is a
open one for all the world. Thes
men have moved the entire cottO
mill basis q long step forward. The
: have pointed the way to greater e.
fciency in big units. n big units al
to be the units Of tomorrow, for bi
:. units are powerful. and being powel
- full they are economical.
10 Leads the United States.
d This big cotton mill tells a story
to prosperity ahead for Lexington. Tn
TO model cotton mill tells a story Of te1
tile advancement ahead for the who
m United States, and particularly +
OF the State of North Carolina. Viii
i'll the cotton mill folks would not GU
line their plans it does not take
very gifted man to put two and w
together and make fou out Of II.
IN We may dismiss the Erlangers al
of Montcaetel and Shrine from u col
r sideratiOn when we cipher out VIII;
this mill means in an economic wa
to and write it down this way. Here
ed a big of cotton Weaves.
ed supply their demands and be 81
RS thai they will have what they wa
when they want it they try the expe
he iment Of a mill.
of A blind man can See that 9th
consumers of big quantities Of SPY
lis and woven goods will be bulldil
te, mills. and that the mills will be /
IN ones because it is not worth while
ed build a little mill TO provide for I
he wants of a big
IT. The big mills will come to the c.
is ton fields. for where the cotton
,1v and the power. and the hands, and I