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& THE CHAMELEON plant for the manufacture of Lead \eetate--a product used in the manufacture of Dry Colors. Three new dry kilns for drying Dry Colors, which are the inven tion of Mr. Goodell, Superintenlont of the Dry Color Department, Have been installed. Their effiicncv is 100 per cent better than lie old kilns that we were using. Five new Grinding Mills for >ry Colors of the very latest type and many thousands of dollars have been saved with this extra equipment. A new equipment for the manu facture of blues has been put into operation in the Dry Color Depart ment proper. Our Chicago plant now manu factures all the important sizes of tin cans, making it unnecessary for them to have their cans sent to them from Cleveland. ili I No. I Southwesterly View of White Lead Stack House. No. t Bird's-eye View of portion of Chicago Plant. No. S Easterly View of Chicago Plant. Insecticide Department in Foreground. i.ive been put into operation with lust collecting apparatus attach ments. Our facilities for the man ufacture of Chrome Yellows and Hues has also been enlarged 25 r cent. A salvage system for the recoviing of materials formerly escapug in the wash waters from the iry Color Department has been .mailed, and considerable saving ..is been made in this connection, A Cooperage Department for coopering of barrels, and also a department for the manufacture of boxes from knocked down shooks has been put into operation. Additional equipment has been added to the Paint Department to make this department as efficient as possible. Three new chasers have been added in A Department for the manufacturing of Heavy Paste Paints. Four new mills in J THE CHAMELEON D Department and ten large thin which we have ning tanks for the manufacturing Cleveland plant of Varnish Paints have also been latest methods added. A 10,000 gallon under nishes. ground tank for the storage of al We are now s cohol has also been added to the of a new four- equipment of this plant. In the basement 100 f H Department, full equipment wide, which wil has been added for the manufac ing and for the turing of Bras-Brite, also extensive factured goods, equipment for the additional manu ern in every res facturing of Shellac, and an auto tric elevator ha mobile filling machine for filling one of our four- stains has been added. partments, in Another labor-saving device is quicker action i the installation of a system for freight. transporting of White Lead and New service m Oil through pipes to our Paint De/>y>vhereby we now partment, thereby avoiding the]^supply of Lake M necessity of handling this material]^deep well, whic in the dry form. This not only repjlJicpended upon fo suited in a large economy, but ie'is^jjh'ah now been a more sanitary method. ( EAlr,:new and much In the Varnish Department'.,l"2.'P.,te'mihas been pu new 25-barrel and 3 new 10,000 ^sidewalks have gallon oil-tanks have been installecL^le'ngth of 117th The centrifugal filter is nowte- of our proper ing installed similar to the one Street. A Successful Life Winning Essay of Get-Together Club By O. A. Hasae Success--real success--is nor merely the ultimate accomplishment of a life's ambitions. It is more than that. When our struggles are over and our work is done, many of us will have "succeeded," but few of us will have tasteq of the crowning glory of a "truly successful life." It is not only the end, but prim* arily the means by which that ena was attained, that determines real success. He, who in his strivings for his cher* ished goal, considers not his fellow man, nor counts the co9t; who hesitates not to crush and blight the hopes of others in his onward course; whose sole ambi tion is to "win out," and who in the end does win out, he of true success. He, however, w among those who and against him i feeling of admirat who can look ba ments with the in he has helped othe whose deeds as w made himself and better men; who is desire to do better ways a little highe er away; who nas than he found it; said--he has led a 0007-  s THE CHAMELEON Then and Now in the Printing and Sampling Department . By F. F. Hesse I-.: '!>; r! 4 T\WENTY years ago the en hour. The Gordon. Colts, Harris ri*tnirge office staff of the Print and Advertising Depart ment cnonsisted of two men. Now i hose two branches of our work ' >rm separate departments--the and two-color Miehle Presses are equipped with individual motors, and all presses with the most modern safety devices. You can realize the immensity 1 Advertising Department having of this department, as the average : a ken on the Decorative Depart annual capacity is 31,776,000 im ment work and all being under the pressions, each impression contain upervision of the Advertising ing from one to thirty-seven in Manager, while the Printing and dividual pieces of printed matter. 'sampling Department has a Gen There are two paper-cutters in the ial Superintendent at its head Stock-Room--one 40-inch and the with a complete office staff looking other 55-inch. The latter is one ifter all details of the work. of the largest machines of this kind The Press-Room was formerly made, all parts being electrically quipped with two Drum Cylinder operated. 'Vosses, 20 x 29, two Globe Presses. The working force in the Press 14x22, two Gordon Presses, 8 x 12, Room consists of the Foreman, five i n d one 40-inch paper-cutter. pressmen, ten feeders, two stock- \low we have one two-color Miehle cutters and an errand boy. The ; 'rcss, of recent installation, which Composing-Room force formerly irints from two to five colors at consisted of the Foreman and the no operation, and takes a sheet most necessary adjunct to any 8 x 50 inches. This machine has printing office--"The Printer's. .A in average daily capacity of 5000 Devil." !, It now employs a Foref.Vhjl perations ,or.i-110,Qj^Jlijn!jfmmppressions. man, eight Compositors, one Proo(jl,:|ii,~ f we were, 11 Efp!qi-` press on' . reader and two apprentices.'* 'reif.year. the i The Bindery which was formerly^M otalfptitpqj ' l$'356- operated: by one woman1 is > now/g * located on the floor above the Com'r.il npammoth posing-Room. where we Smpl6y|y,i * 'ne-color upwards from five to fourteen girlsi'.p !A M30x44 having a Forelady as its head. i8,.In' -I .iches.fanda 'ylidders, this department we have a modernj|4 j',| ire 22 x 3Q inchS^SJ^oTsix Gordon folding machine, which has an an-''! resses, lQ'lx'j 15r inches, "and one nual capacity of 18,595,000 folds, ordon Press, 8 x 112 inches, one and two stitchers with an annual olts Armory Press;' 14 x 22, and capacity of 5,480,000 pamphlets. ne Harris Automatic Press, 15x18 This department also has a modern -which has a maximum ca 40-inch paper-cutter and one Multi ducity of 10,000 impressions per graph machine. THE CHAMELEON In the Painting Department was operated where all the color samples for our painters and color-cards are painted, we employ now have a a foreman and five men, and have where all ou installed a machine, which has a are applied daily capacity of 1,625 sheets 25'x consumers 38 inches, or 795,000 the size of our years ago w "C" samples. The paint is spray- Stains and ed onto the sheets with a machine, consequently which has taken the place of the Finishing D hand painting to a great extent, partment em so that our output on hand sheets finishes abo averages about 200 sheets 25 x 38 nually. inches, or 120,000 samples daily. In our Ad In addition to the paper samples we ery Stock-R complete about 500 "F" paddles Stockkeeper daily. /'ivgnd stock a In our Sampling Department \ve $?and 2,000 employ a Forelady and from twelve'i/rThe Stock-R to fifteen girls to operate nine hand^Uavside issue and one power machine, \vhich7\is-tiow a dep have a daily capacity of 11,400''^ |ROttr Adve color-cards or 405,200 individuatARpittifient ha samples--an annual outpuf,ipfVfive.little bin 126,422.400 samples. The PaintingA^shipments a and Sampling Departments were , sions each n not long since one department afidj ment^are ma New Superintendent of W Department--Chicag ' ' We are N. Marsh h pleased to in resignation. troduce to Mr. Rock the readers of for this respo The Charnel- had eleven eon, Mr. John ience, in the D. Rockwell, . lead, beginn who Was ap-.| diately. after pointed May1,'. ^Chicago Ma , 1st t,o the 1 an3 working ! Superin- ious stages to I tendency of intendent. ; the White tions, youth j Lead Depart speak for Mr i ment at Chi and greater s cago, Mr. 0. tion. 0007 -S