Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-13

his time he has had a hand in the building of between seventy and eighty steel-riveted ships, many of them have been steaming to and fro in the chan nels of ocean commerce for a score or more of years. He is a small dark complexioned man with face leathered by years of work in the open, but his brown eyes burn imperishable fires of energy. He began as a heater boy when fourteen years old in the famous shipyard of John Roach at Chester, Pa. He became successively driller, ream- CT, and riveter, and during his last twelve years at the yard he was in entire charge of the ways. !. In 1908 he went to the Boston Navy Yard where he served as a quarter man for more than ten years. While Boston he built fuel ships, target boats and coal barges for the United States Government. and did a lot of repair work
 When this country entered the big war and Uncle Sam needed a great merchanth marine in the shortest kind of notice, Wolf became one of the most prized men in the United States. lie knows most everything there is to know about building ships. He is ad- mittedly one of the great shipyard's powerful driving forces. In addition to being a competent shipbuilder, he is a natural leader of men.
 "Riveters," he said. were as scarce as monkey wrenches in a parlor when Uncle Sam opened the ball in the ship | kv,sT 1Nn~r | 'em, that's all
 Every one of my forty-three gangs of riveters were as green as fresh pine only a short time ago. I got 'em frcm the training schol which has been established in the yard by the indus trial relations group, United States Shipping Board emergency fleet cor poration.
 'T have worked like a coal heaver whipping this raw material into shape, and want to say right now there are
 no better working buddies in the world Any time of day or night I'll stack my huskies against the cream of the famous Scottish yards on the Clyde
 What is the secret of the success of my gangs? We'll it's as simple as ! the nose on your face. The first thing do is to put my huskies next to the big idea in the shipbuilding game. | hammer it into their heads that every rivet they drive is equal to a stout nail into the coffin of that arch child murder, the kaiser. In other words. l make their part in this war game so real that they pound rivets like the boys over across pump machine guns.
 ITO hit the bulls eye in a riveting drive, you've got to prepare for it like the Tanks arrange for a drive against the Huns on the western front. When General Pershing gets it into his head that he wants to give the Hun good hard bump he takes a few thousand Yank huskies back of the line, and puts them through a stiff course of sprouts in the way of intensive train ing. When the boys have completed the course they are as hard as steel nails and they can made through any thing
 T lined things up for my drive in much the same way. When things op- ened up had the holes all reamed and 4 the proper tools all in place. So when the drive started we had whirlwind start, and the way we walked away l from the other gangs was good to see. | According to my way of figuring | this thing called morale is blamed i'm ! portant in any game. I don't care rap whether it's soldering or driving rivets, you've got to have the boys
 mentally and physically up to snuff. l aim to keep my huskies standing right up on their toes most of the time. In ! the respect of keeping the boys in a ] fighting mood, I am aided by my boss riveter, Joe Diamond, who has been | in the game for more than twenty
 years, and has worked in shipyards all l over the country. How about it JOe?" | Wolf turned to a stockily-built mar ! in soiled overalls and jumpers who
 stood nearby.
 Joe shifted bashfully from one foto | to another, and said:
 I '1 try to do my bit, boss" he said,
 but all of us would go to I'll for you,
 John, you know that"
 Wolf grinned pridefully.
 You see the spirit of my huskies, | don't you?" he said "Why when the
 drive was the hottest even our super
 intendent, Walter Blandford, got the
 fever. He chucked off his coat, grab
 bed a riveting hammer and drove $50
 rivets. My hoskies have the spunk sand the ginger that counts"
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