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T 0007-SWP-000132596 0007-SWP-000132597 The Chameleon. Voi.. I. CLEVELAND. FEBRUARY iS, .897. So. 1. FOREWORD. it will be withheld, but no anonymous communications will be admitted. ONE evening early in December Ust, in a sleeping car on the way from Perhaps we have taken upon ourselves too much in starling this paper; but never Cleveland to New York, the General Su mind, we do not promise at present any perintendent of onr Company, who was regularity of publication or its size. We with me, suggested that the representa will do the best w'e can with it. tives of this Company, especially those 'Hie Executive Committee have elected who see the executive officers only once a me Editor-in-chief, promising they will be year, could be kept more in touch with come my editorial staff. Thus, with your the live issues and tip to date features of help, we may make a go of it. the business if the President would occa 'Hie list of subscribers has already been sionally and more or less regularly com made up and only includes the traveling municate with them. representatives of the Company in the The suggestion met a hearty response United Slates and Canada, the principal on my jurt and led to much thought and officers and heads of departments in our conversation with others on the subject, offices and factories. the result of which is the little sheet now The number reaches about sixty. No in > our hands. extra copies will be printed and each copy- It must he apparent to you that prompt will ho numliered and receipted for so we and direct information on subjects more or may by a simple system see that none are less vital to the business will be helpful. miscarried. None of us can know too much about his The above is by way of explanation, own business and I believe it is the duly other matter in this and in following issues of the officers of this Company to give all I will not sign. the help of this kind that is possible. The With the hope of your approval and my purpose will be to do as much as is practi host wishes always, I am. cal ile through this publication, but it is not Yours very truly, the only way such means of communica H. A. SHIIRWIV, J>rei. tion may be valuable. f*ti SurKHiN-Wn l ia ms Cm herhaps the larger value nuy be in the inten hange of thought, information and Some who read this may not understand inquiry. livery person who receives a the meaning of our reference to the Execu copy of this paper is respectfully requested tive and other committees. By way of a to speak freely through its columns. If brief explanation: Early in January of for any reason you do not wish your name this year we succeeded in starting what attached to your contribution say so, and has for a long time been contemplated, the T THE CHAMELEON. organization of committees, in each of our departments and centralizing them in an Executive Committee, which meet' daily in the Cleveland office. It would take too much space here lo explain the objects to lie attained by this method of business management, hut in the main it is logel the advantage of more heads than one on the more important daily routine of business, and unifying the work of the principal officers of each de partment. We can already see very much that has been gained, and are encouraged to keep on with it. We dip the following from the Canadian hardware Journal of a late date. It ex plains itself: "The Walter H. Cottingham Co., Ltd., having accepted an olTer from The SherwinWilliams Co., Cleveland, to consolidate the Canadian business with the American, in order to facilitate the increased trade, the business in Montreal will in future be car ried on by The Sherwin-Williams Co. Mr. Cottingham has been appointed a director of The Sherwin-Williams Co,, and will manage the Canadian business. By this arrangement The Cottingham Varnish Co. is also acquired by The Sherwin-Wil liams Co., so all will be under one manage ment. Mr. Cottingham says this arrangement has been consummated to enable them to enlarge their growing business, and that their future operations will be pushed for ward even more vigorously than in the past. The Vice President of our Company, Mr. E. P. Williams, with his wife and two daughters, sailed from New Vork for the Mediterranean Saturday, Feb. 15th. They expect to land at (lenoa, and will be a bsent several months, returning by way of England. S. W. 1>. IN CANADA. Jt may be of some interest to the read ers c>f Th e Ch a mei.eo n to hear something of our progress in the Dominion of Can ada. We have so far this season added 106 new agents, and almost every day this number is being increased. Better than this, the agents we secured last year are all with us, and in most cases with larger specifications, and in every case with greater confidence and enthusiasm. The outlook for a good sale in all of our lines is very encouraging, notwithstanding the fact that general business is not thriv ing. We have a department here which you have not--our "French Department." Two-thirds of the population of the Prov ince of Quebec is French, and in order to do this trade efficiently we have had all of our advertising matter printed in French. We might mention we are the first house here to do this. To thoroughly- appreciate the mighty "K" you must see it in French. Our French representative, Monsieur Jos. Lacnssc, says you cannot half express in the English language the great merits of S. W. P., and to properly describe its many excellent jjoints it requires the elo quence of the French longue. We can assure you M. Lacasse can put it very for cibly1, and as a consequence we have many active and successful French agents. The "Covers the Earth" poster is now as familiar in Canada as it is in the United States. We intend that the Paints shall lie as largely sold here at a very early datc as they are on y our side. It's only a matter of time--a short time. Speaking of the "Covers the Earth" poster, at one of our fancy dress carnivals here this winter, at our principal rink, we had a young man dressed to represent the poster, and he was a great success, both 9*1 m ** SSSSSSSm 0007-SWP-000132599 1 THE CHAM El.EON.' 3 ns an advertisement for us and entertain ment to llie onlookers. Keep your eye on Canada. It is a good rounlrv and we're proud of it. True, she has suffered in the past for the want of paint good paint. That has been reme died. We have supplied this need, and . now she will go on and progress and be pro'|ierous and S. \V. ?. goes with her. We'll attend to that, WALI1.K II. CorriXCIIAM. In an artiele which appeared in The demand Leader, of January 2$, 1K97, re garding the great Bicycle Exhibition in Chicago, we note the following: "The Sherwin-Williams Company have a display in the north end of the room, showing birv< le enamel in more colors than there are letters in the alphabet." APHORISMS. When prices are lower, expense accounts look larger. Of all cheap things, cheap paints are truly dear at any price. A good window display of Paint will help c.itih Paint Buyers. "larid and oil" was known to the an cients but the world has moved since then. A. M. P. now i,o.Nc; wn.i. t j ii: s t ic k c f r a mk s 111' TVI.I, III Il.lllMIS CAST? I rxui New YirL What is occurring or what will occur to the metallic portions of the many tall buildings that are in process of erection at the present time, under great dissimilarity as regards temperature, humidity, and other climatic conditions, but of one char acteristic sameness, viz., being sealed in solid masonry or other coverings beyond the ken of inspection ? Probably no engineering question today is entitled to more serious consideration than tins one. In discussing it recently before the Am erican Society of Mechanical Engineers a member maintained that while inspection of some of the buildings now in progress, as well as some of those lately erected, re veals possibly a slight improvement in the means of preservation adopted over those apparent a short time ago, yet the improve ment is a hollow mockery, and will bear fruit for repentance before many years have passed. These structures, though more carefully painted than those erected before, with more and heavier coatings of some kind of stuff called paint, do not appear in a single case to have received any attention or consideration as to the condition of the metallic surfaces before applying the protective coating beyond a possible sweep with a dirty broom to get rid of the rough dirt from the workshop yard, and a [tossible wipe with a piece of old sacking to remove the grease due to machining processes. There has been nothing like a washing down of the parts with soda ash or lye water to remove the grease, and then pickling with weak acid to remove the mill scale, and a subsequent washing with lime water to neutralize the acid bath, wanning the work before paint ing it, and taking care to apply the paint only on clear, bright days, when no sweat ing can occur, or applying the paint in warm paint rooms. It is safe to say that not in a single case out ot the many skele ton structures of modern sky-scrapers can this be found to have been the procedure. There would seem to he no better pos sible assurance than all this of trouble ahead for coming generations. 0007-SWP-000132600 4 THE CHAMELEON. THE MIlCRWfN-Wir.UAMS ESfl'I-OYEKS' MVIX'AI, BENEFIT SOCIETY. E'iih'r " The Chivneteen '' In accordance with your request for in formation regarding Th e Sh e h w in -Wil i.ia ms Emp l o v e w ' Mo il -a l Uk n e f it So c i e t y , I beg to submit below a brief sum mary of facts pertaining to this organiza tion: The Society was formally organized December 24, 1887. The abject ofthe Society, as stated in pre amble to Constitution, is to aid memliers in case of sickness, accidental disability or death. The memliers of the Society shall consist only ofcmployeca ofThe Sherwin-Williams Company, the only other qualification necessary being that the applicant shall lie in good health when received into the Soci ety, and free from any physical infirmity that would tend to make him a burden to the Society, The benefits paid by the Society are fifty per cent of wages of any memlier, provid ing the average wages of any member do not exceed ten dollars per week: (the aver age to be taken according to the four week's record on pay roll previous to daf-5| ing of a benfit.) In case the wages of any member should average more than ten dol lars per week, benefits will be paid for ten dollars only. No benefits however, are l>aid for less than one week, nor for more than twelve weeks within a year. Acci dents or illness occuring to members of the Society from intoxication,immoral conduct, or from any disease or disability contracted previous to joining the Society shall not entitle them to benefits. N'o person shall be entitled to benefits until such person has been a member two weeks. The Society also pays a death benefit of twentyfive dollars, to the heirs or assigns of any person, who dies while a member in good standing. In case of death The Sherwin- Williams Co. makes an additional payment of seventy-five dollars, thus making the total death benefit one-hundred dollars. The dues of the Society, as stated in the Constitution, shall be one cent on each dollar of the weekly wages of a member, providing the wages do not average more than ten dollars per week. All dues pay able in advance. Should the wages of any member average more than ten dollars per week, dues are collected for ten dollars only. All dues are collected by the pay master of The Sherwin-Williams Co., in accordance with the list furnished by the Secretary. The total receipts from all sources during the nine years ending December 31, 1896, were $3,236.26. The number of benefit certificates issued for this period of time was 380, aggregating a total amount of benefits paid$2,787.34, leaving a balance in the treasury, January 1, of the present year, $448.92. This has been increased up to the present writing to approximately $500.00. The highest sick benefit to any one member was paid to John Bradley for ten weeks illness, $50 00. Since its or ganization there have been three deaths of members connected with the Society, as follows: Henry Varnes, March, 1890. Chas. Tatro, August, 1894. Emil Goldbach, November 16, 1S96. The membership of the Society is now one hundred and thirty-five, and at the present writing the -affairs of the organiza tion are in a very satisfactory and flourish ing condition. Yours truly, A. W. FRANK, Treaa. The S.-W. E. M. B. S. February 13,1897. 18 0007-SWP-000132601