Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-06-09


ermakers. asked the management to
give them an opportunity of beat
Ing Schock's record, and the effort
was made, yesterday by selected
squad of riveters under Robert Far
rant. -.
THE yard set out to do 1850 rivets
in nine hours. but Farrant passed
that total in six hours. Going on, he
hammered in 4,2s7 rfvets In nine
than AIS, an hour. or. one rivet every
seven and. half seconds This Is
claimed. to be:a worlds record.
AT the finish. Farrant's squad re-
workers. Farrant looked as fresh at
the finish as at the start. Represent
atives of the ministry. of munitions
and other departments were present"
Following the London record. a
prize was offered by a paper there of
twenty-five pounds sterling to the
An,erican riveter beating the 1857
mark. And hardly had the announce
IT,. o t,'rs ~. been made in
this country before Riveter knight.
roo e. Of the Baltimore Dry Docks and
shipbuilding Company. hung up a
record of 1875 lets in nine hours.
thus winning the prize. And now
comes Tom Horn. at the Oakland.
Cal. yard of the Moore Shipbuilding
Company. with his wonderful accom-.
plishment of $500 rivets in day,
and the boast that he can beat even
that.
The making of these records has
unquestionabIy done much toward the
general speeding up o. hip~produc-
ton One official at a shipbuiiding
plant said that while the record of
single gang could not materially
hasten the completion of ship. the
general contests throughout the coun-
try would undoubtedly raise the aver
age days work 40 such point that
the weekly and monthly totals would
be greatly affected. II is the t,,taIs
for these longer periods that really
count in the work of sending ships
into the water. the number Of rivets
driven home by all the gangs at
yard. ALI riHaing is tested by gov
eminent inspectors just as all other
work in connection with ship con-
struction must have an official o. X.
before acceptance. And all the rec
ords made by riveting gangs through
out the country have been examined
by government officials. and the work
tested.
Three schools have been established
throughout the country at which men
already versed in the art of shipbuild-
ing are trained SO that they can re-
turn - their respective yards and
become instructors, there aiding in
the work Of building UP the force
ard maintaining it at high stand
ard These schools are at Newport
News. Hog Island and Chester, Pa.
The men sent to the schools are from
the shipyards having contracts with
the government. While students they
receive pay equal to their average
earnings in the shipyards, the ship
building companies being reimbursed
by the government
What has actually been accom-
plished by this equipping old ship
builders to break in "greenhorns" can
best be shown by the experience at
a single yard. At least two months
had heretofore been required to break
In riveter. The method had been
to put novices to work on old plates
where they were allowed to grops
their way to efficiency. the plates not
being used in the construction of any
ship. Today this yard is turning out
good riveters in ten days, and no novice~
Is expected to waste time. air or rivets,
but goes straight to a real job and is
taught to do real work step by step
BY man who was trained at one of
.hese schools.