Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-02
I[PYARD WASTE
ELIMINATED.
&nsed Materials Which
Formerly Meant Loss
y Converted Into Cash
|RC CANIZED SALvAGING
lsey & Jones Company First
to Introduce Systematic
Saving

e IN the construction rush that was nee
eesary to get the new shipyards down
10 a ship-production basis much was
heard on all sides of the great waste of
6umber and other materials A remedy
s mas been found at most yards. SO that
pow by systematic effort everything of
value is being salvaEed and things that
can no longer be used or are unadaptahle
4 20 any local use are converted into cash
The Pusey & Jones Company. at
Gloucester. was one of the first shipyards
- apply this remedy.
Across the tracks just north of the
f New Jersey lumber yards c. j. Reese.
superintendent of maintenance and his
Z assistants are doing a junk business on
- grand scale. This work Is being car
fied on under the salvage department
prganized a little more than n month
ago
IS For the first two weeks after the idea
: of this department was conceived no real
york was done. F rst. a model of the
QrEanization of the yard and department
was drawn up and a system of accounts
adopted During the second week obser-
yaticns were made and plans developed
- that when work actually started the
organization was complete.
Nothing Is Wasted
h
sup to a broken-down, ramshackle en-
sine can now be utilized and turned into
cash by this department. All the waste
paper picked up around the plant is
baled and sold; old rivet barrels are
taken the slaves knocked out and sold
Tor kindlng and the bands sold for
9Scrap iron Copper wire is stripped, the
insulation sold for rubber. The ends of
broken eleetric-light bulbs are valuable
because of the copper in them. The large
pools or drums around which wires are
wrapped are returned for rebates. The
revenue from the sale of baled paper
more than meets the cost of collection
and therefore the yards are kept clean
Without expense to the company.
Old bolts, burnt rivets. punch balls.
lathe turnings, odd pieces of scrap iron
and steel and odd pieces of lumber are
taken to this yard. where they are care
fully sorted out and placed in bins or
piles. Many bolts are retreated. nuts
retapped and sent back to the stock de-
partments. Many pieces of lumber too
short for one purpose are utilized for
others. All stock sent back to be used
over again is credited to the account of
the salvage department.
Sell shavings for Ending
Pieces of lumber which cannot be
used at all are sold for kindling wood.
1his wood is sold to any and all comers
and brings from $3.50 to SO load, ac-
cording to size. A constant stream of
buyers wagons keeps coming and going.
Plans are under way to utilize shavings
from the joiner shop Refuse which has
no value at all is burned in an in
-elnerator.
Whenever superintendent of any of
the three yards sends in a request to
have this or that place cleaned up a
rang is first sent out to gather up all
refuse for the salvage department. What
may be junk to everybody else is fire.
quently turned into cash by the salvage
department..
Morris F. Grayhorn is foreman of
this important department; Harry Car
many. assistant foreman. and John D.
Angeli, clerk. About fifteen men are
engaged in the work. By means of a
waste journal the foreman keeps in close
touch with the highest market prices
for all kinds OF junk. After less than
month of actual operation the net re-
coipts for last week were above $4,000.
Not only has the new department justi-
1ed itself in this way. but it has proved
itself of great value in keeping the
yards free of rubbish.