LARGEST CHAINS IN WORLD.
Links Which Are Almost as Big as a
Man and Weigh More.
The record for size appears to be
held by the moorings for the two new
Cunard steamships Mauretania and
Lusitanla, which are being construct
ed at Pontypridd, South Wales. The
'common links of these mooring
chalns, an illustration of which is re-
Lenox mooring-anchora weighing 12
tons apiece will be used. The four
bridle-chains are 720 feet long, and
the main chains are made up of
square links, each about four feet long
and weighing four hundredweight
apiece. The swivel connection shown
In the figure weighs 4,485 pounds, and
each shackle weighs 711 pounds. The
links of the buoy-pendant are of 4
inch iron and weigh 243 pounds
apiece, while the end links, weighing
each 336 pounds, are of 5-inch
material."
This constitutes the heaviest work
ever done in the chainmaking indus
try. The makers, we are told, sup
plied the cables for the Great Eastern
in 1855.
REPAIR FOR CASTER SOCKETS.
Mooring-Chains for the New Cunar
ders. The Largest Chains In the
World.
produced from Engineering, are of
4-inch iron. Says this paper:
"These moorings . . . will weigh
altogether about 200 tons. Patent
How a Piece of Eight-Inch Pipe pan
Be Made to Do Good Service.
When the caster socket in an article
of furniture becomes worn or weak
ened, driH out
the socket large
enough to receive
a piece of one-eighth-inch
pipe
and after driving
the pipe In as
far as it will go,
cut it off with a
hack-saw. If the
caster has a large
shank it may be
necessary to use
a one-fourth-inch
pipe. A piece of
pipe fitted in this
way, says Popu
lar Mechanics, makes an excellent
bushing and Is much more durable
than the original socket.
iron Coated with Aluminum.
Iron sheets coated with aluminum
are very durable and likely to sup
plant galvanized iron for many purposes.
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A Great Marine Engineering Feat
Of all the odd, queer tales of the sea
and of those who go down to the sea
In ships, there is nothing more re
markable than the marine surgical op
eration which has been performed suc
cessfully on the 12,500-ton White Star
steamship Suevic. Caught in the
grasp of the treacherous Brandies
rocks, off the Lizard Light, at the
southernmost extremity of England,
the big vessel suffered the amputation
of nearly one-third her length for
ward, then, turning on her metaphori
cal heel, waved a scornful adieu to
the former component part of herself,
and started tor Southampton under
her own steam.
She was not a pretty sight, it must
be admitted. Her once graceful prow
was still fast on the rocks with a
large section of the hull attached. The
ea surgeons had patched up the sub
stitute bow to the best of their ability,
but It was a shapeless mass of tlm-
rolo remedy, the sea surgeons began
to prepare their huge patient for the
operation. Her cargo, consisting 'prin
cipally of rabbits and mutton in cold
storage, was thrown overboard.
All being in readiness, several train
ed nurses in diving suits descended to
the hold forward of the bulkhead and
with saws and other implements pro
ceeded to cut away as much as they
could of the huge timbers and weaken
the plates beyond the protecting bulk
head. Other men behind the partition
worked with equal energy to brace
the walls of the vessel to receive the
shock. This labor took the better part
of 18 days. Several capsules of dyna
mite were placed in orifices prepared
for them, electrical communication
was made and everybody withdrew to
the required safety distances. Cap
tain Jones and his men remained
aboard the Suevic, sheltered from dan
ger of flying fragments and ready to
rf z vy .mm" r i
mn flak
The Dismembered Suevic 8afe In Port.
' bers and jagged plates, suggesting the
front end of a trolley car after a head
on collision. Maine huntsmen deHght
to tell of instances where bears, foxes
or "painters" have gnawed off a leg to
escape from a trap; but this is the
first really successful case on record
where a ship left part of herself In a
rocky trap and got to port by her own
efforts.
The Seuvlc, carrying 500 passengers,
of whom 150 were children mostly
babies, from Australian ports, was en
tering the English channel. A dense
fog came up, and when near the Liz
ard Light the vessel, which had been
groping her way along, ran on the
rocks.
With the first gleam of dawn Cap
tain Jones and his men made an in
spection of the vessel. They found
the sharp rocks had pierced her bot
tom as far as the second bulkhead.
This bulkhead being closed, the water
could not penetrate further; but there
was infinite danger of the ship being
torn apart by the power of the waves,
which were swaying the big vessel to
and fro while the rocks held her "fast
by the nose."
It so happened that a body of sea
surgeons were in the vicinity. The
members were attached to a Liverpool
company which makes a specialty of
salving wrecks sort of marine ghoul,
as it were, vhich thrives on the mis
fortunes of vessels. These sea sur
geons went over and Inspected the
Suevic. They found her heart that
is her engineswere Intact, and be
jyond a few strained plates Just aft of
!the principal seat of injury, there
was nothing to prevent the vessel
from floating if she was separated
from that section held by the rocks.
Having decided In favor of the he-
rush forward after the explosion to
observe results.
At the signal the head surgeon
touched a button. There was a tre
mendous roar, and a cataract of water
shattered timbers, fragments of steel
plates and various articles of a ship's
equipment shot in the air: The big
hulk of the vessel swayed and plung
ed from the concussion; then, as the
water in the vicinity began to sub
si da, it was seen that she was sepa
rated from the former part of herself
and was several rods away from the
rocks.
The men assigned for the purpose
rushed forward and clambered down
into the hold to see the results. The
stout bulkhead had successfully resist
ed the force of the explosion, thanks
to the careful placing of the dynamite.
There were cracks here , and there
through which the water was pouring,
but they were easily patched up. The
surgeons came aboard, inspected their
work and pronounced the operation a
complete success. There were congrat
ulations all around and the wine room
was in the uninjured part of the ves
sel.
A few hours more spent In making
necessary preparations, and the re
maining two-thirds of the Suevic turn
ed her battered nose toward Plymouth,
Her own engines were at work, but
the surgeons Insisted upon an ambu
lance corps In the shape of a couple
of tugs, staying alongside to render as
sistance if necessary. Before night
the Suevic was safe In the dock at
Plymouth. Additional repairs were
there made and a day or two later the
Suevic pulled out, and, having dis
charged her surgeons and nurses,
made for Southampton, where she
now lies, waiting tor a new nose to
be built.
Bui fit
by
Brock
T
Boosted by Buyers
Plain Talk About the
of
Made Clothes
This is a statement of facts: No better
line of Union Made Clothing can be found
than the line we carry. There are few as
good. We brought from Brock of Buffalo,
and only after we had scoured the market
for the best. When we found Brock we
quit looking. "Eureka!" we cried. That
means, "We have found it." Only good
words can be said of this line of Union
Made Clothing. We have Suits from $10
to $25, and every Suit well worth the
money. You pay for the Suit, not the label.
The label is thrown in to guarantee the
wearer against poorly paid workman, poor
ly made goods, unsanitary working condi
tions and long hours of labor. We are
proud when we sell a Union Man Union
Made Clothing from Brock's big establish
ment. Nobbiest line of spring arid Sum
mer stuff you ever saw.
COffiBSllW Cood Clotlm Merchants
MUST HOLD ELECTION.
Present Officers of Boot and Shoe
Workers Union sustained.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court
has handed down a decision in the
case of Thos. B. Hlckey and Chas. Mur
ray versus the General Board of the
Boot and Shoe Workers' International
Union, in which the action of the Gen
eral Board is sustained. The petition
ers sought to have set aside the action
of the board in ordering a new elec
tion to be held for international of
ficers. The petitioners were candi
dates for -president and vice-president,
which positions are now held by John
F. Tobin, of Rochester, N. Y., and Col-
lis Lovely, of St. Louis, in the recent
election held by the organization,
which was declared null and void
by -the General Board on account of
evidences ' of fraud. The court says
the petitioners have not exhausted
their full rights under the laws of
their own order and therefore denies
their petition. This means that the
present officers will continue and a
new election will be held.
degree be chargeable to lack of persis
tent, intelligent and assiduous work in
its behalf on the part of its originator,
Will M. Maupin proprietor and editor
of the Wage worker, the enterprising
labor paper of Nebraska's capital.' He
is pushing it with all his force, and we
hope sincerely that the most abundant
success will crown his laudable en
endeavors. St. Paul Union Advocate.
SWEAT SHOP ANTIDOTE.
MOFFITT RE-ELECTED.
At the quadrennial convention of
the United Hatters of North America,
John A. Moffit, or Orange, N. J., was
re-elected president for a third term.
Out of the forty-seven delegates in
the convention, Moffit received forty
one votes. J,
DOING OUR LEVEL BEST.
And Live Union Men Are Taking Hold
in Real Earnest.
The trade union organizations of
Lincoln, Neb., are exerting strenuous
efforts toward, the erection of a labor
temple in their city, and the project
Is making steady and substantial pro
gress, although the pace may not be
all its most enthulastic supporters de
sire. If the undertaking should fail,
of which, however, there is little dan-
per, the lamentable result will in no
Explicit Directions Concerning How
to Eradicate the Evil.
There Is just one method of wiping
out the sweatshop, and that is to pat
ronize the union label. The mother
who insists that our label appear on
the suit she buys for her little boy
is doing her share toward preventing
the boy of some other mother from
being sentenced to a life of unrequited
toil in a (foul sweatshop, a tearless
funeral and a grave in the potter's
field. She 'is helping to give honest
employment under fair conditions to
an adult man or -woman and to drive
out the awful evil of child labor. If
we could impress these facts upon the
public mind with enough force we
would soon drive out the sweatshops
and ha.ve our children In the schools
instead of in the mills and tene
ment workshops. Eight Hour Advo
cate. V
HUGHES SIGNED THE BILL; .
Governor Hughes has approved the
Page child labor bill desired by the
child labor committees and the Con
sumer's League and embodying- rec
ommendations made In his own first
first message to the Legislature. The
measure provides that no minor child
ren under 16 years of age shall be
employed or permitted to work In any
factory of this state before 8 a. m. or
after 5 p. m., or more than 8 hours In
any one day. The permitted hours
now are 6 a. m., to 7 p. m., and a nine
hour day is allowed. The act will not
take effect -until Jan. 1, 1908. Advocate.
UNION MADE
A. BRANTHWAITE, Sol3 Agent
moved
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Now Located at
118 South llth Street
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Single-Comb White Leghorns
My hens lay as high as 800 eggs a year. I have a few fine cockrella
loft. They are beauties. : .-. -s . ; ,
EGGS 51, $2 nnd 3, SETTING OF 15.
Won more first prizes at Nebraska, State Poultry Show last February
than all competitors combined. Abo at Omaha, winning two sweep- ,
stakes and a loving cup for beet display. , Eggs are union laid, and sold
by a man who believes in trades unionlsin.
! Phone A 92So. Sand for Catalogue,
1L El HALL. SIS W. Greenwood SL. Unhrershv Place. Neh.