The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1916-12-14
The Shook Factory

onto the east side Of this building,
the plant is provided with water and
rail shipping facilities. From ware
house to car or ship the finished
shocks are quickly and easily loaded
by means Of the gravity carriers.
The Hobby Man
One feature of the local branch Of
the Texas Company which is espec-
tally interested in the Filing Room.
Visitors from great saw mills both
near and far come to this plant for
pointers in saw filing. Presiding
over the delicately adjusted automa-
tic filters is gentleman named
Hobby, and he is an important factor
in the perfect operation of the entire
plant. His is the brain and hand and
eye which sets to the thousandth part
of an inch the flying wheels of emery
which sharpen the teeth of the saws
that are used in every department of
the factory. With an unusual knowl-
edge of his craft, Mr.. Hobby has
heightened the life Of the great,
hard driven band saws, worth near
~ two hundred dollars each, from
two months to six months. His
value to the plant is most apparent.
Besides from his name and his de-
votion to filing teeth, Mr.. Hobby has
a hobby for pictures and one side of
his large work room is nearly cover
ed with pictures which seem to have
been collected from calendars, fash
ion plates, magazine covers or other
sources Of highly colored Autographs.
However, his hobbies seem in no
manner to conflict and he hammers
and grinds and works away with the
greatest of skill and keeps the big
plant humming under the touch Of
tools that his busy fingers have re-
adjusted to the utmost perfection.
The Company "Hog"
Apart from the power rooms and
the factory building stands build
ing which houses the Hog" Here
one finds tall, cylindrical, roaring,
grunting machine called "hog."
Whether the machine derives it's
name from the noise it makes or
from its Unsuitable appetite is matter
for conjecture. Both the noise and
the appetite are quite apparent The
"hog" receives all waste material
from the factory and masticates it
into small pieces. The lumber scraps
are carried to the hog by overhead
chain carriers and, after passing
thru the voracious monster, they are
blown by powerful fan thru long
winding passage into the fuel house.
There the refuse is received into a
cyclone over the roof and whirled in
to every nook and corner Of the
building. Automatic conveyers carry
this refuse, which is used as fuel, to
the boiler room where it is automa-
tically fed into the fiery maws of the
furnaces. More than enough refuse
is made in the factory to supply the
fuel needed to operate the plant.
The Office Building
Located IS feet west of the fuel
house and facing the right-of-way is
the neat two-story building used as
office and dormitory. The Office sec
ton is handsomely furnished
with modern Offices equipped and
ample desk and filing room is provid-
ed for the immense accounting de-
tails which the busy plant provides.
A part of this building is also ele-
gantly furnished and equipped as
dormitory for employees and visiting
officials. Handsome furniture, made
in the factory, makes these living
quarters most inviting, and the steam
heating arrangements, the hot-and-
cold-water bath rooms, the generous
~ appointed cuisine and dining
rooms and the wide, screened-in gal
leries are impressive testimonials of
the broad and humane scale on which
the business of the Texas Company
is conducted.
Over this magnificent business
which represents multiplied thous-
ands in investment and expense of
operation, the Texas Company has
placed the directing influence Of one
man. The smoothly running methods
employed in every department of the
huge industry proclaim the efficien-
cy Of the superintendent, Mr.. C. S.
Beard. With an understanding of the |
business that covers every detail of
the operation and construction, Mr..
Beard is in sympathetic touch with |
every phase of the intricate bust
ness which has been placed in his
care. His five years of service with
the Texas Company demonstrated his I