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INTERNATIONAL STEAM PUMP CO.
NAMES GENERAL SALES MANAGER.
At a recent conference of the branch offices sales
managers and the general officers of the International
Steam Pump Co., the announcement was
made that Mr. F. H. Jones, formerly manager of
the air compressor department, would assume the
duties of general sales manager and take up the
organization of a comprehensive and thoroughly
co-ordinated general sales department, similar to
those recently organized by several of the large
corporations. The International Steam Pump Co.
controls the business of Henry R. Worthington,
having new and extensive works at Harrison, N.
J.; the George F. Blake Manufacturing Co.. and
the Knowles Steam Pump Works, located at East
Cambridge, Mass.; the Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon Co.,
whose manufacturing plant is at Cincinnati, 0.;
the Snow Steam Pump Works and the Holly Manufacturing
Co., both located at Buffalo, N. Y.; the
Deane Steam Pump Co., of Holyoke, Mass., and
the Clayton Air Compressor Works, of Brooklyn.
N. Y. These plants supply a large percentage of
the pumping machinery used in this country, including
water-works pumping engines, steam
pumps, centrifugal pumps, vacuum pumps, air
compressors, jet, surface and elevated condensers,
cooling towers, feed-water heaters, marine pumping
apparatus, water meters, and many other
types of hydraulic and pneumatic machinery.
The appointment of Mr. Jones to the general
managership of the consolidated sales department
follows his successful experience of five years as
manager of the air compressor and power pump
departments, and in charge of special government
work for this company. Mr. Jones is a graduate
of Cornell university class of 1880, and immediately
after leaving school entered this branch of work,
engaging in the manufacturing, selling and sales
management of pumping apparatus up to the present
time.
THE GERMAN FACTORY SYSTEM.
In view of the widespread discussion over the
employment of child labor in collieries the following
information concerning the German factory
system is of interest. The German factory system
is governed by rigid rules, the most stringent
of which are those affecting children and women;
and herein the state clearly has in view the interests
of the community, as represented by the
employed. Children may not be employed under
the age of thirteen, and at that age only if they
are no longer liab'e to attend school, a condition
which is decided by the school inspector. For
such children—that is, those from thirteen to fourteen
years old—the hou-rs are limited to six a day.
with half an hour's interval for meals.
At fourteen boys and girls may go into the fac­
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tory in large numbers; but up to sixteen they are
called "young persons" or (together with those
under fourteen) "youthful workers" and are subject
to special regulations. The number of "young
persons" employed at the last census was 325,912.
They may not be employed for more than ten
hours a day, nor on Sundays and holidays, nor
during the hours appointed for religious instruction,
for confirmation, confession and communion,
nor in certain specified trades; their working day
must not begin earlier than 5:30 a. m., nor contine
lated than 8:30 p. m.; they must have
an hour's pause at midday, and half an hour both
in the forenoon and in the afternoon, unless their
working day is not more than eight hours, and
no continuous spell exceeds four hours. During
the pauses any participation in the work of the
factory is forbidden, and even to remain in the
rooms is allowed only when their own department
of the work is brought to a complete standstill
or it is impossible for them to go elsewhere.
Women must not be employed between 8:30
p. m. and 5:30 a. m.; on Saturday or on the eve of
a holy day they must not be employed after 5:30
p. m. Their daily hours of employment must not
exceed eleven on ordinary days or ten on Saturday
and on the eve of a holy day. They must have
at least an hour's pause at midday, and those who
have a household to look after may claim an extra
half hour. The number of women Over sixteen
employed at the last census was 847,386,
Brennen & Woodburn Coal & Coke Co., Pittsburgh;
capital, $200,000; incorporators, S. D.
Livengood, C. B. Burston, Hugo Lorentz, H. F.
Woodburn, P. J. Brennen, James Murtha, Frederick
Rowe and George Keitzer. The company will
operate 5,000 acres in Preston county, W. Va.,
about 15 miles South of Uniontown, in the region
now being opened up by the Wabash railroad.
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St. Clair Colliery Co., Eagle, W. Va.; capital,
$25,000; incorporators, Louis W. Atkinson, Houghton
A. Robson, Laura P. Atkinson, Lewis Prichard
and P. M. Flournoy.
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Puritan Coal Co., Cambridge, O.; capital, $30,-
000; incorporators William A. Lucas, Lloyd B.
Birney, Oscar V. Wells, Jeremiah M. Valentine and
Robert yJ. Joiles.
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Halley Coal Co., Etna, O.; capital, $20,000; incorporators,
David Halley. Morgan Evans, I. W.
Allord, G. S. Morgan and D. D. Davis.
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Central Cahaba Coal Co., Montgomery, Ala.;
capital, $18,000; incorporators, J. J. Cahalan, W. T.
Dillon, D. H. Brown.