Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-01-14
PARKER-YOUNG CO.'S
WAR MATERIAL OUTPUT
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assembling of box frames and mailing
on bottoms was largely done with
mailing machines but lstapllng and
mailing rope handles was all hand
work. It certainly surprised some men
men to enter the factory and watch
the women who were taking such
mart in providing boxes, and any
man who had the idea in his head
that woman could not drive nail
without hitting her fingers got this
idea knocked out at once. Ihese Wo-
men became so expert at mailing that
on piece work they could earn $3.50
more than men on the same work, ana
| we believe that no crew of women
ever worked with more enthusiasm
than did these women.
When the contract was taken Mr.
Doe agreed to fix up mill, and turn
ont. within one week 500 boxes per
dav for the first three weeks, and af-
ter that 1000 per day, and IS proud
to saw that he far exceeded his eX-
pectations and went as high as $500
Der day. Each day the boxes made
| during the day had to be painted
dark grey color, and these boxes were
shipped, over 5000 in car.
Another department was turning
rolls from three inch squares, making
them round, clipping them to length,
and boring q hole through them:
Some were as long as 26 inches, and
down to II inces. Thousands OF rolls
were made 6 inches long with p
| inch hole bored through them and a
/ steel shaft put in them with each
end protruding y inch. These rolls
and shafts were polished, and oiled
and packed in cases. and so great
was the demand for them at New Jer-
sew shell factories that they were
sent daily by express, packages
weighing nearly one thousand pounds
each. Large quantities of these
rolls were used in the shell factory
that was blown up in New Jersey:
A great many automatic machines
were constructed for work on thus
war material. Two machines built
by Ephriam Choquette are machines
with which one could measure and
cut rope II inces long. All the
women operators had to do was to
set a basket under the outlet and as
fast as the rope protruded through
brass tube to the length of II inches
a knife decended and severed the rope
and returned to await another L
inches. Another machine construct
ed by Mr. ChoQuette was to cut p
inch rope "a and Sc inches long, mea-
SuTl0E the ScIlAS anu Ct4pB4AlS5 ~
act length These two machines saw
ed a mans pay every day. Few peo-
pie realize how much rope was used,
but when it is known that six car
| loads of Is inch rope done up in coils
| of 1900 feet each was used 1t can be
seen what it would cost to cut and
measure this rope by hand power.
| For the small boxes there were
over foufs carloads of scrap iron,. and
only two thin straps were used on
each box. Other departm ents were
manufacturing boxes for shipment OF
war material, such as hardware etc.,
and there was also manufactured
many thousand small boxes, large
enough to hold one gas mask and its
equipment.
Many carloads of lumber such as
siding, matched boards, etc, was
shipped for the construction of Camp
Devens The Parker-Young Co., also
United States Government at their
was manufacturing boxes for the
Lisbon, N. H. plant, and shipping
carloads of aeroplane stock both from
their Lisbon and Beebe River, N. ii.
plants