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Carpenter's Letter
(Continued from Page Twelve.)
much or too little the whole caldron of
dye may bo spoiled.
As I went through these works I loarncd
that dyemaklng Is an exact science. Every
thing Is the outcome of experiments, and
the work is based on chemical assays and
chemical combinations. There arc about
eighty chemists employed in the labora
tories. They test tho materials ued, and
experiment on new combinations. When a
man discovers anything It is at onoe re
ported to the firm aud patented, and ac
cording to tho contract all such discoveries
belong to tho firm. Consul General Guen
thcr tells me that new patents are applied
for almost every week, und I understand
that these people have n monopoly of some
branchos of the buslnoss. Thesa chemists
go to all parts of tho world to study the
dyes used there. They analyze the native
dyes and imitate them. i
Not only the Casselia firm but all Gerraaa
firms aro very particular as to their con
tracts with employes. The luws here are
largely lu favor of the employer, and a
clerk has little opportunity to go into an
establishment to learn the business and
start au opposition business of his own.
Every contract provides that the employe
snail not hlro himself to firms engaged la
the Rama business for a certain number of
yenrs after he has left, and that he shall
not establish a competitive branch.
Such contracts aro made with most em-,
ployes and business secrets are carefully
protected.
In this factory I found the same desire t
better tho condition of the worklngmen
that exists at the Krupp works and at th
other German establishments I have vla
Ited. The Cassellas have built houses for
the best of their worklngmen. They have
factory kitchens at which meals are fur
nished at Just about cost, and they havo
showrr baths where their men can have a
hot or cold douche when the day's work
Is over.
I was at the factory at noon, when the
soup was served. It was taken from cal
drons, each holding hundreds of gallons
being ladled into bowls and buckets. I
asked as to the pricee and was told that a
man could have a bowl of soup with meat
and vegetables once a day at the rate of
2o cents per week.
The wages here received for common
workmen rauge from $2.50 to $3 per week
There Is plenty of labor and the factory Is
not troubled with strikes.
FRANK. G. CARTENTER.
Progress in Fish Culture
The latest statistics as to fish culture
In the United State are given in the North
American Review for April by Charles H.
Stevenaon of tho United States Flan com
mission. From this paper It appears that
millions of pounds of tlsh are caught in wa
ter originally stocked by the commission,
that thousands of small lakes and streams
have been supplied with food and game fish
entirely new to those waters, and that ou
the Pacific coast the nonindlgenous fiah,
had and striped basj, have become abund-
TRUE TEST OP THH CATFISl
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ant. There are thirty-Ova hatcheries In
the United States. Two stations In Maine
are devoted to the propagation of laud
locked salmon; two In Massachusetts to
cod, lobster, and flat fiuh; stations la Dela
ware, Maryland, North Carolina and Wash
ington. D. C, to shad; six hatcheries on
the great lakes to white fish, pike perch,
lake trout, and lake hen lug; twelve hatch
eries in Vermont, New Hampshire, Virginia,
Tennessee, Georgia, Michigan, Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri, Texas, Colorado, South Da
kota and Montana to brook trout, black
spotted trout, grayling, rainbow trout, and
black bass, and six stations on tho Pacific
coast are given to the cultivation of Pa
cific salmon.
The output of the hatcheries last year
was 1.4S8.673.000 fish fry and eggs. Of the
eggs and fry distributed 5H4, 411,000 were
whlteBsh, 237,099,000 pike perch, 212,001.000
cod. 168.133.000 fiat flah, 104.VS6.000 shad,
81.020,000 lobster, 53.699,000 salmon, 27,257.
000 lake trout, 8.142,000 brook trout. Of
yearling and adult fish 6,870,000 were dis
tributed. When tho fish commission was organized.
In 1871, the hatching and distribution of
fish were not contemplated. This depart
ment, however, soon became the most ex
tensive branch of the service and the most
popular. The results hava been most en-
CLEANING THE CATFISH BEFORE COOKINQ.
couraging in every department of the work.
For example, the Increase In the shad catch
since 1SS0 is 8,000,000 annually, the annual
Increase having a value of 2.000,000.
The success of the commission operating
under national law has been so marked as
to form an argument in favor of national
legislation on Irrigation and other ques
tions relating to water distribution and
forest culture. The experiments In fish
culture were successful from the first be
cause the commission was not restricted
by state lines or influenced by state inter
ests. The white fish of the lakes, the shad of
the Atlantic coast and the salmon of the
Pacific were propagated and distributed,
not with Ohio. Michigan or Illinois, or
Massachusetts, Maryland, California or
Oregon In mind, but with the wants of all
sections In mind. The result is a largely
Increased home consumption of fish and a
fish export trado amounting annually to
J7.000.0o0. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Ventilation of the Hat
"Some customers have nonsensical no
tions about the proper way to ventilate
a hat," said a fashionable hatter. "In fact,
they are so whimsical about it that we'
make the hats without a ventilator and
try to suit the wishes of the customer after
he has handed his money to the salesman.
Many customers will not have a hat venti
lated at all. Well, they miss a great deal
of comfort and take long chances for bald
ness in old age. The English style, and
the only one that some buyers will adopt,
i3 a ring of perforated holes in the crown
of the hat. In my opinion it Is'Just as well
to have no ventilator at all as to put it
there. The best way is to have two holes,
one on each side of the hat. Just above tha
baud. Then you get good circulation all
the time. There are ways of punching holes
artistically so that they do not detract
from the appearance of the hat. But you
would be surprised at the number of men
who will not have them, some because It is
not fashionable, and others because they
thinU the hat will not wear so well.
New York Times.
Their Touchy Points
"These scales are always out of order,"
said Fethers, as he studied the Indicator;
"they make me appear at least ten pounds
lighter than I really am."
"That's so," remarked Waggles; "they
must bo out of order. That fat man who
was on them Just before you declared
they made him twenty pounds too heavy"-
Philadelphia Ledger.