Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-16

At the Industrial Efficiency and
Welfare Exhibit held in connection
with the Pennsylvania Industrial and
Welfare and Engineering Conference,
more than sixty exhibitors have dis
plays arranged. Large crowds visited
the car barns in North Cameron street
last night and to-day.
The Alliance Machine Company, in
a neatly arranged booth, have framed
photographs of cranes in operation,
and large attractive catalogs showing
the various parts. plants in which the
cranes are used. together with a de-
scription of the power and other items
of interest to large manufacturing
companies.
Much interest centered around the
American Abrasive Metal Co. booth
where an exhibit of safety treads is
displayed Two sets of steps are
shown, one with plain ridged sheet
metal, the other with an abrasive
metal which will prevent slipping.
Nonsktd ladder shoes are also being
demonstrated.
Facts and figures on the harmful
ness of alcoholic drinks in all forms.
and the Importance of Temperance are
shown on large cards along the walls
OF the booth occupied by the Ameri-
can Issue Publishing Company. Minia-
ture graveyards with tombstones
showing deaths caused by intemper-
ance feature the display.
The Bell Telephone Company OF
pennsylvania has an eighty-line
switchboard with one of the girl op-
orators taking care of the calls from
the phones in various booths In the
barns. A public phone has been in
stalled for general use also. The rear
part OF the switchboard is enclosed
with glass panel. permitting the
crowds TO see how 1t is operated.
The latest type of adding machines
occupy prominent places in the Bur-
roughs Adding Machine Company
booth. The efficiency and usefulness
or the various machines is demon
strated convincingly
City Forester Mueller in the exhibit
of the work of the Department of
Parks of Harrisburg, has display of
mounted leaves, together with diseased
wood and tree stumps. Diagrams of
trees and methods OF trimming trees
are also being shown.
The Philadelphia branch of the
crane Company of Chicago have a
complete display of emergency valves,
SAFETY steam traps and sanitary plumb
ing work.
The Crispen Motor Car Companv
exhibit consists of chassis design of
the car showing all of the parts
Graphlte products, particularly
paint for steel are featured by the De-
troit Graphite Company, while the
Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, in
a graphite product exhibit show the
various grades of the product.
II. w. Dugdale, in charge of an ex-
mott OF safety elevator doors, had
seVeral models in the booth which he
demonstrated.
Aquariums containing large and
s,nali goldfish featured the exhibit of
the state Department of Fisheries.
while the rear of the booth was deco
rated with large framed pictures of
various species of fish.
Seven road models. showing various
processes for development of asphalt
roadbeds. Oiling systems and road
Ilacnlnery are placed in prominent
parts or the booth. A large man Of
the various highways of the State the
patrol stations and methods of locat-
ing equipment for use by the DEPART
ment, attracts the attention of the
autoiStS
Tables of statistics, photos of safe
and unsafe exits from buildings. fire
escapes and diagrams are the chief
parts of the Department of Labor and
Industry booth.
The exhibit of the PENNSYLVANIA De-
partment of Forestry in the center of
the north side of the building strikes
distinctly out-of- doors note. Part
OF the Dooth is thatched with a small
root OF hemlock boughs from the
South Mountains.
Under the thatch are displayed
three large cases of photogra phs
taken on the departments million-acre
forest reserve. showing timber stands,
forest fires and their effects. reforested
areas, the effects of forests on stream
flow and logging and milling opera
tions.
Separate mounts of the leaves of
forest trees, such as are used in the
study of forest botany, are displayed
on the walls, and four sections of each
or twenty or more of the common
woods found in PENNSYLVANIA are
SHOWN In separate cases. sawed SO as
TO bring out their natural grain to
best effect
The department has had a thousand
small white pines and Norway spruces
potted, and will give them away free
as long as the supply lasts, on condi~
ton that those who receive them
promise to plant and care for them