Montgomery Ward & Co.'s New Pacific Northwest Plant HE new Pacific Northwest plant of Montgomery Ward & Co.the first unit of which is now in operation is a graphic indication not only of the growth of that company but as well of the business development of the great Pacific Northwest. Portland, Oregon, was chosen as the location for this extensive distributing organization. The site comprises approximately ten and a half acres close to the Forestry Building on the former location of the Lewis and Clark Exposition. The site is an admirable one, being at an elevation of sixty-five feet above the Willamette River-which flows close by-and directly connected with the Northern Pacific Railway terminal lines. As may be seen in the illustration of the big building here shown, the railroad tracks run directly under the structure, giving the most adequate facilities both for the receiving and shipping of goods. This plant will be used as a distributing center for the Northwest and Pacific Coast territory, including, in addition to Alaska, the following states: Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, Nevada, and a part of western Montana. The plans for the building contemplate a structure eventually 580 feet by 300 feet surrounding a court 56 feet by 480 feet in area. The first unit, now practically in full operation, is 280 by 300 feet, eight stories, with basement, and having at the main entrance a tower nine stories high and 40 by 100 feet in dimensions. The general offices of the company are in this tower, the top floor being used as an observatory for visitors. The view from this point is well worth the journey to the top of the tower. Fully ninety-five per cent of the clerical. force of some 350 employees consists of young women, and for their convenience and comfort recreation rooms, cafeteria and restaurant are provided on the third floor of the main structure. Recreation equipment includes a music and dancing room, library and reading room and cozily furnished lounging and rest rooms. The building is of reinforced concrete with windows occupying every foot of wall space not needed for the necessary supports of the various floors. There are 41,000 panes of Crane-Hulbert Installation arranged for Expedio Wall Outlet Closets in Double Batteries glass 12 by 16 inches in size used in the walls. The total floor space is 557,000 square feet. It is the largest building of its kind in the Northwest. Solid concrete roads and walks, with retaining walls, lead from the streets bounding the site and sweep gracefully to the main entrance, under which runs the rail showers to meet requirements. Crane valves and fittings are used throughout for plumbing and heating installations. The heating plant consists of 562 radiators with a total radiation of 46,000 square feet, "Peerless" wall radiation. Two 350 h. p. water tube boilers, nine pumps and auxiliaries, vacuum pumps, headers, condensation cooler, boiler feed pumps and pump governor, are part of the basement equipment. There are also an automatic pump and receiver for the cafeteria, and two oil tanks, one of 2,000 gallons and the other of 500 barrel capacity. W. H. McCaulley, Chicago, was the supervising engineer during construction. Wells Bros. Construction, engineers and contractors, were the general contractors, and the Dauch Heating & Engineering Co., Portland, installed the plumbing and heating. Reconstruction In France Ford type Drinking Fountain road. The grounds are being appropriately taken care of by landscape gardeners. In the chief essentials of health and comfort of the employees, the building is Crane equipped throughout, the material being furnished by the Portland Branch of Crane Co. The sanitary equipment includes the following fixtures: One hundred and ten Clermont vitreous china lavatories; 110 Expedio wall outlet closets, with CraneHurlburt drainage fittings; 36 Ford-type special vitreous drinking fountains with integral angle bubbler; twenty-one 24 inch Class "A" white porcelain urinal stalls arranged in batteries and flushed with Crane vitreous china automatic urinal tanks; nine solid porcelain slop sinks on enameled iron standards. There are also Crane nickel plated exposed temperature regulating valves made up in According to Eugene Schneider, a leading manufacturer of France, the French workers have refused to take up with Bolshevism, believing that it would destroy their work for their country. The French workers have shown the same steadiness and spirit that they did in the trenches. M. Schneider said that since the armistice 1,250 miles of railroad (to September 1st. last) had been constructed, 600 miles of canals restored, 60,000 buildings replaced and 60,000 more placed under construction, 80,000,000 cubic yards of trenches filled and 4,000 communities restored. Oil for Six Hundred Years When the problem of separating oil from the oil sands lying to the north of Edmonton, Alberta, has been solved, oil in sufficient quantities to supply the world for six hundred years will be released, according to the estimates of the principal of Alberta University, who has made a special study of them. Solution of the problem of successful separation is expected soon. Make your Pipe Bends with the largest possible radius. 1. Men's lavatory and toilet room. 2. Rough installation for single and double batteries of lavatories. 3. Crane-Hulbert fittings for double batteries, back to back, of closets. 4. Crane-Hulbert installation for wall outlet closets. 5. Section of basement lavatory and toilet room. 6. Manager's lavatory and toilet room; eight in all. 7. Section of men's lavatory and toilet room. 8. Ladies' lavatory and toilet room. The Month's Cover Picture The cover picture for this month is taken from a 20"x14" extra heavy Crane Cast Steel flanged special reducing ninety-degree bend with a 41⁄2" side outlet; and a 20'x 20"x20"x10" extra heavy cast steel flanged special side outlet tee with base. The fittings are to be used in the blast furnace of the Ford Motor Co. in the new plant at River Rouge, Michigan. Of the boiler equipment of this plant Power says: are The eight enormous boilers that being installed at the Ford Plant at River Rouge, Mich., are the largest of their kind and are part of the first really large power plants in the United States to use pulverized fuel. One of these boilers is already in successful operation. "An idea of the great size of the installation may be gained from the fact that eight Ford cars were lined up inside one of the furnaces. There is plenty of room, as the furnace measures 23x25 ft. and is 55 ft. in height. The boilers, which are being made by George T. Ladd Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., are of the water-tube type and have an effective heating surface of 26,470 sq. ft. Each one has two lower drums, two upper drums and one steam drum. Connecting the upper and lower drums are 1,467 tubes, 34 in. in diameter and having an average length of 20 ft. 6 in. Placed end to end they would extend a distance of six miles. "Pulverized coal and blast-furnace gas will be burned at the same time by firing the coal vertically from the top and injecting the gas horizontally through the side. The coal flame and the gas flame will unite at the proper point to give the greatest efficiency. It is planned to operate the boilers in the day-time at about 250 per cent of the rated capacity, although continuous operation at about 400 per cent will be possible. "It is estimated that 1,000 tons of coal will be consumed daily. From the time this coal leaves the Ford mines in West Virginia and Kentucky until it is carried away as ashes, it never is handled manually. All the operations are done mechanicallydumping, pulverizing, carrying to the bins, stoking, even to carrying the ashes away in small dummy cars. "Economizers will not be installed until some time in the future when it may be deemed advisable, but considerable attention has been paid to the superheater units. These are located in the first pass of the boiler, where they are protected by the boiler tubes. "There are many other interesting features about this plant; it is in almost every way a bold departure from established practice. It will be the first combined blast furnace, steel mill and foundry in the world, and will cover about 23 acres. It is designed so as to make possible the pouring of castings with uncooled metal which has come directly from the blast furnaces, a step never before attempted." Socialism and the Intelligent One of the slick things in the Socialist propaganda has been its sophistry in answering the appeals of ambitious persons. "What will become under socialism of the arts and sciences?" the Socialists are frequently asked. The stock answer has been: "We shall encourage them more than ever. All persons of talent will have opportunities to develop. The State will care for artists and writers, who often under the individualistic system are driven into sordid work." Mr. H. G. Wells, who is a Socialist as well as an artist, has been in Russia watching socialism's practical test. His first announcement on coming back is that unless the outer world provides a refugee colony for men of science, art and the other learned professions, the Russian intelligencia will be exterminated. Mr. Wells says Russia can never be regenerated or governed without the class he wants to save. But all that Soviet Russia promises them is starvation or execution. Another gold brick is tested.-New York Herald. Canada's Railway Business It is announced from Ottawa that with the merger of the Canadian National and Grand Trunk lines, the Canadian Government now owns the largest railroad system in the world. The Government lines control 22,000 miles, employ 70,000 persons, operate 2,000 modern locomotives, 1,800 passenger cars and 70,000 freight cars with carrying capacity of 600,000 tons. Operate large valves with gears, cylinders, or electric motors. From An Old Fog's Inglenook E MBEDDED in the matrix of a current short story, of no uncom mon merit, I found this Gem: "I am of the opinion that the sion is proved correct. It may be very unmoral of me and contrary to the approved teachings of the church, but I believe that if, like the Boy Scouts, we performed one good, generous, Christian deed a day we should be doing extremely well. Then, I think, we could forget our ninety and nine sins and smile like children, thereby adding to any chance virtues already in us that rare and inestimable one of cheerfulness." Rather a good religion, is it not? I fancy that if one lived up to this simple creed-the doing of one good, generous, Christian deed each day-one might save a tremendous amount of precious time now given to worrying over what the Judge may have in store for us just beyond the bounds of time. Worrying about anything is bad enough, but worrying about the hereafter is the absolute zero of mental wastefulness. Look well to the "Here," and leave the hereafter, where it always has been, on the knees of the gods. A Nominated for the Hall of Fame MAN in one of the Pacific Coast states has been nominated by his neighbors for the Hall of Fame, but I question whether that exclusive institution is quite large enough properly to enshrine the nominee. Summing up what his neighbors say about him, this man's qualifications for the Hall of Fame or, perhaps, more properly for a Hall all by himself-run about as follows: He is up in the '70's and with his good wife has worked hard all his life and raised a family of sons and daughters. For many years he fired a boiler and ran the engine in a woolen mill. He is not a socialist and has never belonged to any union or drawn money from the public treasury. He has just worked and lived within his means and saved a competence for his old age. He did not move to the capital city to give his children a college education at public expense, but taught his children to work, and they are all well settled in life and prosperous and not likely to come upon the public in the way of charity, or that near-charity, the public pay rolls. His sons own a farm apiece and have them all paid for, and each daughter is at the head of a family or sustaining herself at useful work. This man has no political theories as to what the state or the city should do for him and is well satisfied with our Government and American institutions generally. He has never knowingly added to the burdens of others or run for office in the pretended interest of the people. And one of the neighbors adds: "There are a few such persons left who are not engaged in the great adventure of dividing up what the other fellow has accumulated, in the name of governmental activities. As a self-sustaining, self-respecting citizen, this man deserves a word." I may add that the candidate was not |