Star Tribune from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 41

THE MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY TL'IBUNE: DECEMBER 0 1017 lit, 1 1 He i 1 1 I Judge Torrance Greeting a Soldier of the Army of 1911 Bethany Home Again Happy; 'Mother' BaGk Residents Rejoice as Superin-" tendent Leaves Hospital After Illness. FAG JL If kit JijL NEA COMPLETE i rfTiirr tin T(. i ii i VIA -f 'r- i. An Interesting Story Descriptive of the Building of a Big Automobile Factory Phenomenal Development of a Great Industrial Enterprise Now Being Rounded Out I II. n.i i i.iim.ii i i i i i.i .1....

i i i.ii. WORK IS RUSHED DAY AND NIGHT Immense Building Program Now Under Way and Plans Being Made for Next Year-Fifty Homes and a $15,000 Hotel Being Built for Accommodation of Employes i Hetliany homo Its mother has returned. Even an ordinary home is dtsolate when its mother is away. Xo matter how well ordered the house nor how full of interest ami variety the life of its inmates, it larks the little touches of cheer and comfort, it lacks the sweet indefinublu something which only the mui: of a mother's step and voice and mule can give. It would be Lard to imagine a wed- come more touching in its intensity than that which Dethany home is giv- mg tnis wceK to Miss Marion i-acy, who for 30 years hns been its (superintendent, and who for the past aeven weeks has been ill in a hospital.

It 1 'es its mother, does Bethany's pathetic family. The young girls, whom life has hurt so pitifully that it is difficult for them to smile at all, never fail to emile at Miss Lacy. The fatherless babies, roy and crowing as any other babies, go first of all to Miss Lacy 's arms. Not only the part of the family which is still at home loves Miss Laey. The Bethany amity is constantly changing and scattering.

During her recent illness, inquiries and remembrances of various kinds came from all arts of the United States and even from across the sea. Fruit From California. One letter came from a woman in Denver who had been an occupant of the home 3 years before. A dainty basket of hand-picked fruit was one tribute from California. Flowers and visitors from many Minneapolis homes testified to gratitude which years had not lessened.

Young unmarried mothers are required to stay ft Befhany for a period of bii months. There is in that, Miss Lacy points put, a three-fold purpose. It gives the baby, even if he is later to be offered for adoption, a fair'start in life. It gives mother-love a cJiance to develop and usually leads to the motLcr refusing to part with her child. It gives to the girl who is to face life anew under such difficult circumstances, time to learn ome way of supporting herself.

Adoption is cot encouraged at Bethany. Many a girl has come there with the firm intention of offering her baby for adoption as soon as possible snd going back to the world with her secret locked in her heart, but has been influenced to take the more straight-forward course. Nothing is gained by deception, according to Miss Lacy's theories. A frank facing of the situation is always recommended. That there is a nobility iu motherhood which will be -ecognired and eventually win respect is doctrine preached.

Invited to Wedding. Nor does Miss Lacy consider that her obligation to these girls is when, their six months over, they go out from the home. She finds eonger.ial and remunerative work for them, in places where they can have the necessary amount of recreation. She ke-ps in the closest touch with them, sometimes for many years. Last week came a letter from a young physhian in New York.

Ho invited her to attend his wedding and offered to oend the money for her expenses if she would come. The pirl 1 was to marry, he said, had been in Bethany Home, 10 years ago, before he knew her. A little round white-haired woman, she is, the mother of Bethany home; so simple and that one would not readily suspect how many life tapestries have been woven from patterns of her design. She is a cheerful, chatty little soul. It is easy to see how she must open the springs of confidence in over-burdened young hearts.

And few, indeed, are the girls she fails to win. Yet she is always dignified. Her sympathetic intimacy is that of a friendly advisor, that of a true mother heart. Mrs. Willipm NVkersnn of Orwell, has a hen whhh in the last few weeks has laid two ege each with a double yolk, the weight of the two dozen bring six pounds.

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JUDGE bkETING A SOLDlP of 9y Army Club Proves Big Boon for Men in Training Camps Reading Rooms, Came Rooms, Shower Eaths and Cafe Chief Attractions. "Tbfy Iccp prcttv buv in camp, don't tbey!" quriH tljf ri neighbor of Jim'i futbr. J.m is a Minneapolis hoy in the National army Camp Po.lg", outline Moinci. "I hon-l ngv ropliej Jim' father, anj the daily piogrum kt eamp. "C)f i tin? lifiyp there got mie time bit, lon 't" they I Jim's father noMl'l affirmative xeaponM, Vrn," be "Jim writes that when he has anv length of time ttt be g'ld downtown." "Not itueh for a feiluw to df in a ton tlie sie of Jws titles," the frieniliy neighbor rpTilird.

"I've been wonderinff wlint thoc boy da downtown. lh-y coold do jnost anything," li eontimu'd, anwcrinj hi own query. "They eould ro to prayer wiecting or they eould raipe hell." "Jim vvoulda't bunt looij ffr a prayer tnetiup. I guen," fatter ai'i, "That'a it," retorted the friendly eighbor. lay." mid Jim's father, "you'va got it ull wroug.

They have ftrmy club in I-ies Monies and a war recreation bo.ird." "Beat It" for Army Club. "When Jim and the reft of the liunch po downtown, they beat it to the Army club. The khrinere turned over their big building to the aoldiera. It's a awell place, Jim writea me. Jt is fixed tip like a regular elub with reading rooms, came shower baths, places to take a nap, parlors where a hap ean meet hia best girl with a chaperon right there, a eafe where you an gft a square meal at a fair price, as information bureau and what not.

they have 'dance in the big ball room and all kinds of good shows. It's a mighty popular place, 1 tell you." Of course this is a purely fictitious conversation founded, however, on fact. There is aueh an Army club in Des Koines and it is equipped as "Jim's father" said. The bootleggera and immoral women are finding it hard to drum np trade in Des Moines. A campaign was begun in Minneapolis last week to raise this city 'a quota of for a national fund of $3, 750,000 for war camp community service in those cities and towns near the cantonments and training camps of the armv, naw and marine corps.

Stuart W. Wells is chairman of the committee of business men in charge of the local campaign. The other members of the committee are Henry Doerr, C. O. Webber, Charles S.

Pillsburr, E. C. Kischel, G. H. Warren.

F. A. Chamberlain, Perry Harrison, E. W. Decker and H.

B. Iron. Any One May Contribute, There won't be a general campaign to raise this city's quota. It will not be necessary. Tbis story was written that anyone who wants to contribute mar do to.

About $10,000 will be spent in Minneapolis this coming year to equip a clubhouse downtown for the soldiers at Snelling and the Dunwoody bluejackets, and provide other clean recreation and entertainment for the men outside the camp and training station. Mr. Web ber and the other members of his committee believe this work on the part Minneapolis citizens will help win the war. The smaller towns near the big training eamps are in urgent need of funds to provide recreation for the men In uniform. They haven't any buildings large enough to be tnrned into an army or navy club.

At Chillicothe, Ohio, for instance, (500,000 was expended in erecting and equipping a clubhouse. Because in most places near training camps, there are buildings which can be adapted to the soldiers' use, how srver, the War and NavyNiepartments' commissions on training camp activities believe that $3,750,000 will turn the trick. I Buglne! Men Interested. As a father of Jim or a frlondly Yieishbor, the Minneapolis business man Is interested in the mnbiliratinn of community recreation the benefit of the soldiers or tars when they arc awny from camp. War cmp community service is fighting two of the worst foes of the American army, navv and marine corps.

Thev are what Col. A. J. Bowley, commandant at Camp 'Robinson, said In his address before the business men's luncheon at the Minneapolis dub Inst Monday booze and immoral women. I i immi i i i i field on a big scale.

Tho company recently eulisted the sei vices of one ot the best tractor engineers in the country who is now devoting his time, together with his asi'ataits, in designing and developing the Pan tractor. The tractor field is Mill of great possibilities, the demand teiuj, almost without limit. Company expects to be in a position to avul itself of the industrial opportunities that arc now offered in this field. One of the important things that tho management has given very careful cousideration lus been the "matter of labor. Kecognizu.s the fact that skilled labor demands good homes, good schools and m-ideru conveniences, steps have been taken to insure that these things were provided.

While St. Cloud is an ideal clean town in which clean people like to live, its recent rapid growth has made the housing situation pooicm. On the Pan addition, which very close to the factory, there tm now being erected and completed homes for the employes. These houses uro ail strictly modern and every one is different. Most of them are e.f the bungalow type.

The building ef these homes is being financed outvie of the company's capital but for the benefit of the company. On the Pan addition, not only are these modern tomes being built, but concrete skU walks have been, laid and now sewer pipe and water mains are being put rtewn. The rapidity with which this wirrk is being done has really been marvelous. Modern machinery and equipment, are utilised and the construction work is proceeding nt such a rapil jr.ee that everything will be siiiig one tight for wiu-ter. Fast of Pan addition S.

C. Pan-dolfo, the president of the company, is building his own hrmo on a two acre tract. This vill be completed this month and he will occupy it immediately se that ho may be hear the scene of the many activities in which the company is now engaged. Near the factory, where the street car crosses Thirty-thir 1 avenue, which avenue runs betwe-'n the two factory buildings, a (15,000 hotel an 1 eating hoiiss is now being built for. the benefit of the employe'.

This also is being built independent of the company, but it is planned that it will, of- course, be in great ('eniand nv employes of the company ana really a necessity. Incidentally it will make a convenient stopping place for eejle in that section of the city dating the winter time while waiting f'r the street ears. The building will be a two-story structure on a cement Inundation and finished in stucco. A few words about the heads of the different departments, aside from the officers of the company, undoubtedly would be interesting in this connection and reveals the fact that men of tested ability and mature experience have evidently been chosen with great aru for the more responsible positions. A.

K. Smith, formerly of Detroit, is the general superintendent. Mr. Smith formerly was superintendent of all five drop forge plants of the United States Motors and be resigned a similar position with the An derson Drop Forge plant to come with the Pan Motor Co. Mr.

Smith has held various and responsible positions in connection with the manufacture of automobile parts and kindred industries. Mr. Smith built some of the first drop forgings used by such well known makes of cars as the Packard, Oldsmobile, Cadillac. Buiek and most of the others. In fact, he has successfully built parts nt different times for all of the leading makes of cars in the country.

Georgo Booth, works managing engineer, was formerly with tho liuick company as mechanical euginecr. lie has served in similar capacities with other concerns not only in the United States but in other countries. Mr. Booth is regarded as one of the ablest engineers in the country on tho arrangement of machinery and the installing of conveying and progressive systems. Mr Booth has a large number of assistants and draftsmen under his charge and has been engaged in an infinite amount of detail with his rce since Inst April.

Victor Ganvreau, jct designing engineer, was formerly in the designing This tunnel leads to the big power plant ubou 1,000 feet west of this building. Similar tunnels will lead to other units of the big factory as they are added. The power plant is designed to be near the center of the factory buildings when they are all completed. This plant has a very large and complete electric lighting equipment sufficient to light a city much larger than the eize of t. Cloud.

Besides this it will furnish heat and power. On the far west sido of the factory site, tho company plans to build its big drop forge plant and closely adjacent thereto the brass, aluminum and frray iron foundries. In fact, the building program of the company, as outlined at the present time, contemplates the covering of the entire acres almost completely with the factory, most of which will be under one roof and will simply be a continuation of the same form of construction as is seen in the unit which is now ncaring completion. In this first unit, there will be installed one of the most scientific and modern progressive assembly systems known to tho automobile industry. When the build'-sr program is m-pleted, the raw material will be unloaded from three railroad tracks, tne coal at the power house, pig iron and raw material at the drop forge and foundries, lumber at the wood working shop, etc.

The raw product is then manufactured into automobile parts and as it passes through the different stages in the progress of being made into automobiles, the different parts converge toward the assembly line. This assembly line, roughly speaking, is the present unit of the factory. The beginning of an automobile will be at one end of this long building, where the frame will be put on a conveyor and as it travels steadily, constantly moving all the time, skilled mechanics will attach to ft each a distinct and separate part. By doing one particular thing these" mechanics become very skilled, efficient, expert and speedy iii doing the particular thing that 'they are constantly trained to do. The different parts of the ear are si lied from stock piles along this line and reach this line from all parts of the factory, Blways traveling in the fame direction nntil, when the car reaches th- end of the a- m-bly line, it is ready for gasoline and oil An expert tester jumps into the machine and tho car is driven out of the factory into the road for its trial.

If it meets the test, it comes back to the wash room, is washed clean and is then ready for shipment. Three railroad tddo tracks will run along the south side of the factory site. These will be covered by an immense tram shed, so that both incoming and outgoing freight can he expeditiously handled in all kinds of weather. One of the most interesting units of the factory will be tho drop forge plant, which will not only be a large one, but will be one of the first in the Northwest. It will accommodate "bout 30 hammers ri in size from 500 to 5,000 pounds.

These hammers are operated by steam and they weld the steel parts to go into the automobile. So terrific is the power and the force of the blow that one of these hammers delivers that it is necessary that they be set upon a concrete base 19 feet deep and to absorb the terrific concussion, a five foot cross oak tie cushion is built between" this base and the anvils upon which they strike. Pesides the drop forge plant, there will, of course, be big finishing machine shops, foundries, woodworking departments, upholstering, each contributing its part to the finished product. From the point whei- the raw material enters the factory nt the further end of the site and passing through the different stages of manufacture to the point where tho finis! i car emerges from the assembly room is almost half a mile. All of the different departments of the factory are so located and the process of manufacture is so arranged that the various operations co-ordinate so as to work in harmony with a scientific, efficient, progressive system of manufacture.

Kverything is so arranged that all the different parts work to a common end and each is delivered at the point where it is needed. Not only will the Pan Motor Company make pleasure cars, but is making preparation to enter the tractor engineer department of the Dodge and lett 'he position as research engineer with the Buick to come with the Pan. Mr. Gauvrcau is recognized as one of the best automobile engineers in the country. He learned bis profession in France where he served after his graduation with Pugueot.

In tins country, he also designed the famous Frontenae racers with which Louis Chevrolet and his brother won their racing fame. He is a member' of the Society of Automobile Engineers of this country aud of France. R. J. fitness is assistant chief designing engineer.

He was -formerly in the engineering department of tho Dod0. anil one of the designing engineers of the Continental Motors Corporation. He resigned his position with tho Continental to come with the Pan cunsid-red a very able engineer. Chief designing engineer Gauvrcau with bis able assistant and a largo corps of draftsmen is engaged night and day in designing the Pan car. Ha i fH I ecu engaged in that work since last May.

Tho entire former high school gvmnasium building on Fifth avenue scuta is being devoted to the engineering department and some "0 h.gh-class men are employed there. Harmon Pecker, who formerly owned he Foley lighting plant, has accepted the position of electrical engineer with the Pan Motor Co. Mr. Becker is a self-made, mai and has made good in everything that ho has undertaken. Joseph Nelson, who was Louis CW.

rolet's mechanician in tho days of the Buick racing organization, who did all the mechanical work on these racing" cars and who has hun building experimental cars by md a great many years, is now building the 1918 complete Pan car from start to finish. This work is being done behind closed doors. Re is recognized as one of the very best automobile builders in the world. It is expected that this work will be completed bv New and that some time in jannarv he should be able to test out this ultimate Pan car. This car is to be tested out so that the company knows just what it is ioins before going into production on a big scale.

While these cars are being perfected the company will continue to turn out a number of sample ears. These assembled cars will be built of standard onits such as Continental motors, Borg 4 Beck clutches and other proven high class nnits. The Pan Motor Company is at the present timo negotiating with one of the best heat treating men to take charge of that department. It has also employed chemists, metalurgists and laboratory men. Wm.

Wavman is the production engineer of tho Pan Motor Company. He is regarded as one of the ablest men in this line. M. Sherry is purchasing agent. Like many other heads of the departments he comes from Detroit and has long been familiar with the automobile business.

F. A. Guslafson is foreman of the paint department. He held a like position with the Velie company for nine years. Mr.

Gusfafson has devised some splendid appliances it methods of painting and finishing automobiles. He has invented and patented paint machinery now in nse by some big concerns. This general description of what the Pan Motor Company is doing would hardly be complete without a mention of the general offices which are loe-at-ed in the Farmers State Bank. Here both the second and third floors of this building are entirely given c.p to the administrative offices of the company. About 75 people are employed in the general offices and this building a veritable hive of industry day and night.

The growth of the company has been so rapid, so phenomenal that it has taxed the ingenuity and tested to the full capacity the clear-headed, .1. t. i. narnvorKing men wno are at the head of the affairs of ti comf nny. The hardest working man of this aggregation of braias and ability, the man who never rests, slecrs or quits, the man who is on the job morning, noon aud nifht, th- man who is the Incarnation of work, a dynamo of irresistible energy, 's tho president ef the company himself S.

C. Tandolfo. Hundred of people to be exact, 330 are working day and night building the great plant of the Fan Motor Cempany in St. Cloud. Working like beavers, tbis small army of skilled mechanics are consuming thousands of dollars worth of material and labor every day in boilding what the trained engineers of the automobile industry declare will be the finest and most up-to-date in fact the last word iu a modern automobile factory.

Besides the monstrous reinforced concrete factory building which is now assuming shape on the Pan factory site, Factory Building No. which was completed in July, looks like a pigmy. Owing to the fact that the company had immediate use for Factory Building No, 1, it was built in a hurry of frame construction. It is SI by 81 feet, having a total floor space of 7,058 square feet. It has a saw-tooth roof.

This building is fully equipped with modern and up-to-date machinery for building automobiles. There is also in the same building one of the most modern pattern shops in the United States. It has the latest, most-scientific and efficient paint department whereby automobiles are painted by spray system, a coat of paint being applied in the incredibly short time of three minutes'. There is also a finishing department. On the east side of this building there is a brick and tile heat treating and forge shop.

The machinery of Factory No. 1 is operated by a complete, modern power plant. From this plant there is furnished the heat necessary for this building. In connection with this building the engineers are now installing a 0,000 gallon steel reservoir tank for oil. This tank ean be filled from the tank cars on the railroad track which passes Factory Building No.

1. This building is a complete automobile plant all withi-i itself. It is now being U9cd in building the first Pan cars, but when the immense factory building now under construction is occupied, and the company gets upon a big production basis, this building will continue to serve a verv useful purpose as it will then be utilized for the experimental and research work which the big staff of engineers of the company will be continuously engaged upon. The company here also has sunk a deep artesian well which has solved the problem of pure water for the factory and its employes. On the south side of the company's railroad track, which traverses the factory site alon the main line of the Great Northern railroad, an immense warehouse has been built in which are stored carloads of automobile parts, such as axles, wheels, rims, tires, engines, fenders, and in Factory Building No.

1 these parts will be assembled and such cars as are manufactured now will be turned out of this factory for the present. So rapid has been the construction work during the past few weeks that the first unit of the main factory is now noaring completion. The contractors, in order to be sure that they would beat tho winter to it, have been work ing double shifts day anj night. The work of pouring concrete and putting up the exterior walls has proceeded under the glare of electric lights by night. This building is absolutely fire proof, being built of reinforced concrete with mouitor roof design.

The architects and engineers of this building declare that it will be the most modern and up-to-date automobile factory in tho world. This building is of immense proportions, being 170 feet wide by 64 feet long, containing souare feet of floor space. To stimulate efficiency aid make working conditions ideal, the building is so designed that it will be flooded with light, not only from the monitor roof, but by utilizing a maximum of the wall space with glass which is set in steel sasb. The building is designed and is the product of the brain of the best expert that money could buy. The Pan Motor company was not satisfied to leave the matter entirely to its own staff'of engineers, but the do-signs, plans and draw-ings were submitted to men of unquestioned authority in the automobile industry.

Under the concrete floor of this modern factory building there will be a six-foot concrete tunnel which will carry the steam pipes, electric light and power conduits and sewer and water mains. 2614 AUTO 31 138 AJOGZ TORR ANCC AT' 17 HEN HE CNLItTED IN THE UNION ARMY WJ261 Hospital of Women Waits Call to FranGe Groundwork of Institution to Care for Mothers and Children Laid Close to Foe. The vanguard of an American all-woman hoj ital unit now la sntioned in the person of Dr Caroline Finley of New York iu that "guice where" which has been caild "the largest town in France." As soon as possible Dr. Finley will cable for her staff. In the meantime Alice Gregory is acting director "over here" until'the unit rejoins its leaders in the field.

This is the unit n-credited to the Xcw York infirmary for women and children founded by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, pioneer woman physician and pioneer suffragist. It is backed by the National American Woman Suffrage association ami was formally accepted by the French government in July, after having been offered to the United States, which reluctantly declined it, as women ere not eligible to the United States medical reserve eorps. Hundred Beds Provided. The hospital is to have 100 beds, and, in addition, small flying auxiliary units whose work will be directed from the base by means of ambulances.

The hospital, equipped with every modern appliance, will be conducted entirely by women, even to its electricians, plumbers, mechanics and laboratory technicians. Up to a short time ago none of the women plumbers of the vicinity had been free to go. At headquarters, 2 East Twenty-third street, where the 41 nurses and nurses' assistants are now being rapidly equipped to be rendy for Dr. Finley 's hurry call, secretaries reported there were plenty of women plumbers, but none available for France. One day the unit found the plumber.

Before the war she was just one of those natural-born woman geniuses who can mend everything from the coffee nrn to the rainwater spout with a turn of her band and a wire hairpin, but when the war began to bring out the industrial need of women as artisans she thought it time to take a scientific course in the trade she had been carrying on with such tools as "she had in the house," and she joins the hospital unit as a perfect plumber. Unit Kedy to Depart. Dr. Anna van Sholly, in charge of publicity for the unit, declares the unit now is practically prepared and is holding itself ready to depart on receipt of a telegram. The hospital will be stationed behind the lines in one of the most devastated areas in France.

While it will bo at the call of the French war departmont for the, care of the military wounded its direct objectivo is to build up the broken down women and children who have suffered from Inck of care during the occupation of their towns by war forces. The fonr women doctors in charge of this unit arc Dr. Caroline Finley, Dr. Alice Gregory, Dn Xeary. Edwards and Dr.

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