The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-23

Tho answer - easy painting
riisol tower. Sixty-five painters,
,yorklng together continuously, take
,brea months TO apply a single coat
and five of the siXty.five lose their
Ives I'm the work. At least. the num-
Nv. d. as low as five n fair weather
nrcyails on the work days. In a
''orry season the number is apt 20
run much higher.
work with life saving tackle
,b. management demanded OF the
oaintcrs. IT'S safer for you and
M safer FOR us
olye will not do H." the workmeu
rs-uonaed. their pride alone standing
4, ibe way. we are masters ~ our
line and know what We are doing
And 80 70 goes on, year after year.
decade after decade. In 1889 only
cye painters fell In 1895 the num-
her was eleven. In 1900 1t was eight
q ~ 1901 nine. i'm 1913 only five again.
Wbst will IL be now that 1921 has
,oiied around and the tower. having
ZONE unvarnished during the grim
Avs OF the war, is being dressed up
I'm rs party clothes again?
one painter fell the other day.
when his body struck the ground II
sunk five foct into flower garden.
How many foolhardy companions
viii 60 TO Join him-because the
Psria painters have pride that
even dread Elffel towner cannot
shnttCr7
The French paint the tower every
six Years, except In war times. AMI
tba matter Of the color CHOSEN Is a
mooted point OF discussion among
me Parisians months before the job
starts
~ the color is right the tower is
n thing OF beauty and Joy forever"
the natives explain. "But II the
shade is wrong-if It Is in1rtis.ic--
on sacre, how terrible It all is. Why
Imagine, the glory OF Paris be-
Comes an Cyesorc.'
The towers first shade in 1880.
was dead leaf When the sun III
IL hazy golden. II was beautiful But
when 1895 rolled around, the Pari-
SLAMS decided to try a new color,
probably because variety is the spice
Of lie.
Immense discussion took place, the
matter was argued back and forth
IN the paper, and at last orange
was the shade decided upon. once
the orange coat had dried on the
upon a.. the Parisians got "a bur
upon II. the Parisions got bur
nished copper effect that they prob
ably never had dreamed OF.
Noble 1t is noble" declared
oscar wilde. raising the residents
spirits = little bit.
Terrible" replied Puvis de Chav-
annes. the widely revered painter.
Il am going to blow the thing up
with dynamite
De Chavannes did not carry out
his threat, but In 1900 when the
tower needed painting again II was
unanimously decided not to repeat
the orange effect.
A Great Lightning Rod.
LET us make II sun color was
the popular clamor. and sun color
Il has been ever since. Again the
tower become the thing of glory
which il since has remained, al
though the city architect at the time
pointed out that the difference that
varied colors made in Is appearance
showed that the tower really was
not a masterpiece Of invention and
design.
The pyramids are beautiful in
their ruins was the way he put H.
The reason the tower needs paint
Ing so often, according TO Camille
Fammarlon. Is that the atmosphere
electricity eats up the paint.
1T is impossible to calculate the
y amount OF electricity that that mass
n OF iron receives" the scientist said
n gazing AT the mighty structure one
n day. There are conducting tunes
n inside TO lead the electricity down
Fl below the water bearing stratum,
. bu; the paint is destroyed, just the
u same. II doesn't crack or peal Off
n II Just disappears. The electricity
n has eaten it,"
That is why the tower sets up its
Il constant cry for new victimS--pe-
NJ cause where there must be moro
81 paint, there also must be more paini-
~ The job Is vast one, because
a Vi the towers open structure. Al
n though the cdifice weighs less than
4 eight thousand tons, its total surface
N to be covered requires nearly sixty
N tons Of paint.
Il The argument as to whether the
81 painters should or should not wear
N lte-saviug tackle has been going on
since 1895 when the tackle was sup
v Piled after three men had dropped
Ike plummets to their deaths.
Struck Against "Snfcty First"
& Wear this" the management re-
III qlested OF each man, proffering the
Fl device which would make the work
1 on the tower as safe as sucn JOB
III possibly could be made.
~ we VIII not 40 H. lHf llhlHN'' =
replied sorely hurt at this insult to a
e french artisans vanity and daring.
You'll do II or you won't work. -
~ NE management declared.
Very we'll" was the answer, I'VE
q Won't work
They didn't They declared n
arlhe on the tower JOB and kept
Nikebreakers away from the ulace
as zealously az ever American union
men have done. After weeks had
TX Assed the managent gave in and
& lN the painters TO go on and do the
M WORK without mechanical precau-
M uohs, II they were fools enough to
W sish 1t that way. Tho painters,
soritled by victory, Obeyed and nine
more Of their number fcll ln death,
was too bad, but--hadl't the men
won their strike?
81 ln 1900 the advertisements was for
M naihters experienced on the tower
me men turned out in mass, and de-
"anded quadrule wages.
~ We can't pay anything like that,
s su,, tower management. told them.
Nhere Is your native spirit? Don't
Iu See that the tower painted Is n
81 Sy 10 us, while, noglec.cd, II Is a
M me painters appreciated the point
y,u agreed to do the job NJ an ad-