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FILE NAME: Household Contact (HC) DATE: 1925 May DOC#: HC101 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Magazine Article - Change of Clothes and Showers Provided for Workers Using Deadly Chemical ThisMisotnhoseafniattdost"vokCiIciaThneaedtfoimbnfosiliinescJ--dhaootulhhWfDsWnietnshaoFwGoenra.nfockfrQisahlhn,dluoeila--syetie;goshnMSbakyeudtrnt,t.opLarcQhnrokieduosueasediisssdepu,tdneaionroyrLnitwtstsehaniBaasnooslhTdlfsyeitsomwtlHgavheipeoreectgrlaesyerbsrubiutg!rBpengs,ey"btenoescaetbkt-eihn.aodtSleudntseterrwioesfatrhte F. OHN QUEENY was working at his desk in St. Louis one day in the year 1897, when the telephone rang. He took the receiver from the hook and said, " Hello." In an agitated voice, the man at the Jother end of the wire reported: " M r. Queeny, your sulphur plant hard substance got into the rolls, it was likely to strike sparks, and these sparks exploded the sulphur dust which hung suspended in the air. This was probably what had happened in Queeny' s plant. At any rate, Queeny was broke. Under the circumstances, he might have thrown down his pencil, pushed back his Sixty-five years have whitened his hair and his close-clipped mustache, but time has not lessened his fighting spirit. The same man who refused to be whipped at forty reestablished his claim to unbreaka ble courage nearly twenty years later, when he was in his sixties. I will tell you all about those two fights further on in this caught fire as soon as it started to operate. work, and gone to brooding. Some men article. It 's burning fiercely now. Nothing can would have rushed to the scene of the Queeny's face tells nothing unless he save it!" fire and vented their disappointment and wishes it to. Words come from him Sueenv hesitated a moment, then he ied, ^ All right," and hung up the re ceiver. He turned back to his papers and bitterness in complaints to others. Queeny did none of these things. When ne got the news he said, " All right," and went meagerly and slowly, but every syllable has a punch in it. Consideration and re flection are powder; words are bullets. resumed work. Every dollar he owned in on with the work for which he was draw Queeny isn't loaded for anything but big the world was going up in smoke. He ing a salary. game. was nearly forty years old. He continued to work until his usual As purchasing agent for a large St. hour for leaving his desk. His wife had T T H E N h e to ld me about the fire which Louis wholesale drug house, Queeny, in arranged a little party for that night. * Y in a few moments had wiped out his the course of years, nad become familiar Queeny said nothing about the fire, either first business venture, I asked, " Why with sulphur. In those days it all came to to his wife or to their guests. He took didn't you tell your wife what had hap this country from Sicily in lumps, just as his usual quiet part in the evening's pened ?" it was taken from the mines. Before it gayety. I f he had a weight upon his He considered my question, and then could be used it had to be refined. There mind, nothing in his appearance or in his replied slowly: was a good market for refined sulphur, and actions betrayed it. " I suppose I didn't want to spoil her Queeny decided to go into business for The next day he was plugging away at evening." himself. Accordingly, he invested all his his job again. It took him four years to " Why didn't you say something be money, a few thousand dollars, in a re save enough money to make a new start; sides `All right' tojthe man who called you fining plant. and saving was only a mild preliminary to up and told you about the fire?" The money he had was sufficient to the real fight of getting established in " What was there to say?" he countered. purchase apparatus and a stock of crude business. " I knew that there was nothing to be sulphur; but nothing was left for op done, so there was no use talking about it." erating expenses. So Queeny kept his job as purchasing agent, intending to de vote part of his salary to his plant until IN T H E language of the prize-ring, Queeny lost his first bout with fate by a quick knockout. In his second, he was " Y ou're a good loser," I remarked. " Not too good, I hope," he retorted. " When you meet a backset it's all right the new business should begin to pay its twice beaten all over the ring, but he won not to whine about it. But this business way. out. At no time did anyone ever hear of being a `good loser' can be carried too Nights and Sundays he worked on his John F. Queeny " holler!" far. You can get in the habit of losing. plans, wrote letters to prospective cus He is now president and chairman of You can resign yourself to a loss, and tomers, and scanned machinery cata the board of the Monsanto Chemical then, the next time something upsets logues. At last, his new plant was ready Works, Incorporated, in St. Louis. The your plans, why, you sort of take it for to start. The night before, he had gone value of the plants owned by this com granted. Finally, you get so you expect over everything, talked with his em pany, in which he is the largest stock loss. And we usually get what we expect, ployees, and satisfied himself that all was holder, runs into millions. It is one of the don't we? No, I don't want to be too well. The next morning, with the first largest industries of its kind in the United good a loser." turn of the crushing rolls, the plant had States. " Well, at any rate," I remarked, " you burst into flames. Through the window of his office, where. don't talk about your losses. Why not? Sulphur is very inflammable. In those I talked to him, came intermittently the Sometimes it does a man good to unbur days, the refining process consisted of rattle of motor trucks and the soft breath den himself." crushing the sulphur ore to a fine powder ing of some giant machine in the works. " I know it does," he replied; " but did between heavy rollers, and melting the The room in which we sat was a very you ever think about what it does to the powder in huge kettles. The impurities large one. In the corners were gigantic other person? Isn't it a selfish sort of sank to the bottom and the pure sulphur vases of pierced and carved bronze, the relief--to unload your troubles on some was drawn off at the top. Then it was work of old Japanese craftsmen. On the body else?" cast into molds, and became the product walls werejmany paintings. " Where did you get that idea?" I asked. commercially known as brimstone. Queeny sat at a big mahogany desk, but He considered again, his blue eyes fixed It was a hazardous business. In the the man dwarfed the desk. He is more on vacancy. When Queeny thinks, he de crushing process, if a nail or flint or other than six feet tall and he is strongly made. votes everything (Continued on page ip j) 37 " It's Dangerous To Be Too Good a Loser!" by H arry A. Stewart 193 The Art of Dusting j B y Mrs. M ary Ellen Lang | 3 Every particle of dust sticks to my home-made -in-One Dust less Dust Cloth until I shake it out doors. 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When the answer comes, it is always complete and sufficient. " W ell," he said, slowly, " when I was six years old I had my right arm and leg broken. I was playing tag at school, and, without looking where I was going, I ran out in the street directly under the feet of a team of truck horses. " It was a pretty painful experience. They got me home and set the broken bones and made me as comfortable as possible. M y mother hung over me, doing everything she could. I did a good deal of crying and fussing, which was, perhaps, not unnatural under the cir cumstances, but it hurt her. " Finally she burst `out, *Please don't cry so, bon! It just breaks Mother's heart to hear you!* " I stopped crying and began to think. Dimly I understood that my complaints were actually hurting my mother. After that, when the pains grew severe, I just set my teeth and kept my mouth shut. I 've been doing it ever since. " Probably I got well the quicker for it," he went on, with a half smile. " I've no ticed that if you keep your troubles to yourself you will try pretty hard to remedy them. Sometimes a fellow who gets into a little difficulty"enjoys the sym pathy he receives from his friends so much that he doesn' t get out of his difficulty as quickly as he might otherwise." TWO conflagrations have played an im portant part in Queeny's life. One of them I have told you about. The other occurred in Chicago-- where he was born --when he was twelve years old. His father was a contractor and builder who had made a moderate fortune, and re tired. His savings were all invested in houses. The family lived on the rents. On the night of October 8th, 1871, oc curred the great Chicago fire. People say that it was started by a cow belonging to a widow named Mrs. O'Leary. The story runs that the cow kicked over the lantern when the good woman went out to the bam to milk. At any rate, when the smoke stopped rising, John Queeny's father was penniless. 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Like many another man, as soon as he was married he began to save. He was drawing a high salary, too. But children began to come, a boy and a girl, and savings accumulated slowly. It took him until 1901 to gather together fifteen hun dred dollars. Then he decided to make a new start. A t that time, saccharine, which is three to five hundred times sweeter than cane sugar, was made only in Germany. It was discovered, however, in America, in 1879, in a very strange way. A German stu dent, who had come to Johns Hopkins University to learn what he could under Professor Ira Remsen, the famous chem ist, had been working all day with coal tar, seeking a new chemical compound. When he left the laboratory that night to go back to his lodging, he had to cross a bridge. A high wind was blowing. The student, after the fashion of those days, wore a long, flowing mustache. As he opened his mouth to breathe, a gust tossed the end of his mustache over his tongue. To his surprise, he tasted an in tense sweetness. He turned round and hastened back to the laboratory. On the table were all the chemicals and reagents he had been using in his experiments. He began to try all sorts of combinations, seeking the cause of that sweetness, and eventually he dis covered saccharine. With characteristic German canniness, he said nothing to Professor Remsen about his discovery, but took it back to Ger many, where he patented it. B y 1884 the process had been so far perfected as to make commercial manufacture profitable. There was a good deal of saccharine used in the United States. Queeny de cided to undertake its manufacture. He " It's Dangerous To Be Too Good a Loser!" by H arry A. Stewart 195 did not know the process, for the Germans guarded the secret carefully. But they were willing to start the process, carry it to a certain intermediate point, and ship the result to Queeny to be completed. The late Jacob Baur, founder of the Liquid Carbonic Company, was a large buyer of saccharine. Queeny went to him, explained his plans, and Baur let him have thirty-five hundred dollars to add to his fifteen hundred. With the five thousand dollars, Queeny rented a small building in St. Louis, bought what apparatus was absolutely es sential, and incorporated his business. He chose his wife's maiden name, " Mon santo" for his firm name. As in the time when he started his sulphur refining plant, he had not enough capital for operating expenses. Therefore he kept his job, ana worked nights and Sundays on his new venture. Queeny's real troubles, however, did not begin until nearly a year after he had started. B y almost superhuman indus try, he had succeeded not only in holding down his iob satisfactorily but also in ex tending the market for saccharine until the business should turn the corner and begin to show a profit. He had just begun to feel that soon he would be able to re sign his position and devote all his time to his own business. Then the Germans threw a bomb at him. They were envious of the profitable market that Queeny had built up. So they sent a man to tell him that they had decided to limit him to a certain number of pounds of the intermediate, and that in the future they would supply the surplus themselves. This meant that Queeny's business would be so limited that he would be working for practically nothing. Queeny replied that he would accept no such terms. T H E N the struggle began. He discov* ered in Switzerland a newsourceofintermediate. Then his Teutonic competitors built a factory of their own in the eastern part of the United States, and began to cut prices. When Queeny started to manufacture saccharine, it sold for six dollars a pound. Before the price-cutting was over, it was down to sixty cents! This lasted for three years, during which Queeny was so constantly on the edge ofbankruptcy that it became an old story for him. Every cent of his salary which was not necessary to keep his family going went into the business. But he nung on and he hung on! And he told nobody how near to ruin he actually was. " There were times," he told me sim ply, " when I was so near failure that one more little punch would have sent me over. But I kept a bold front and, some how, they never delivered that final shove!" Queeny won his victory by strictly American tactics. He so improved methods of manufacture that, at the end of four years, he was able to meet at a profit the lowest prices his competitors were willing to make; and the tide began to turn. Prosperity began to come his way. His few employees were increased to hun dreds. And, as soon as the battle was won, the Germans capitulated completely. 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The future looked rosy. Then came another explosion, which looked, for a while, as if it would wreck beyond hope of repair everything that Queeny had done. You must remember that, although by this time Queeny was manufacturing caffeine, vanillin, phenacetin, and other products, in addition to the saccharine with which he started, nothing originated in his plant. I he German manufacturers were supplying him with intermediates for all of them. In the latter part of 1914, after the Great War had been going on for a few months, Queeny got a letter from the people who were supplying him with in termediates. In substance it said: " Unless you stop selling to England, and unless you agree to combat in every possible way any stories you hear that are /" to the discredit of Germany, we are going to cut off your supply of intermediates " It looked a good deal like a smash to me," said Queeny; " but I would rather have been smashed than to have ac cepted such terms. I told them to go to blazes." Other manufacturers were offered simi lar conditions. To the eternal credit o f the chemical industry, they refused. Of all the products of which the supply was in this way suddenly cut off, the two most vital were phenacetin and phenol. The other name for phenol is carbolic acid. It is one of the strongest disinfec tants and germicides known and, in time of war, vital. While it plays a useful part in the manufacture of medicinal products, it is also the base for a high explosive, picric acid. Phenacetin was also important. It w*as then being used extensively in the treat ment of influenza. And nowTthe supply of these vital products was cut off. Fur thermore, not one man in the United States knew how to make them! T h a t was the situation that con fronted us, " said Queeny. " It was up to us to discover those processes from the ground up. " We decided to start with phenacetin. We had only a small amount on hand, and if a flu epidemic should break out the sup ply would soon be exhausted. " VYTe started to look for textbooks containing the laboratory formulas for the different stages of the production o f phenacetin. A strange discovery re sulted from this search: w'herever such books were kept in libraries, or in other places to which the public had access, the leaves referring to the coal-tar derivatives had been cut out! " You may drawr your own conclusions about that. Evidently, the situation had been anticipated by months, perhaps by years, and every obstacle possible had been thrown in our way. " However, it was not difficult to work out the formulas. But there is a big dif ference between producing a chemical in small quantities in the laboratory, and in manufacturing it on a large scale. " We built and discarded one unsuccess9$u|I apparatus after another. We spent thousands of dollars on metals alone, " It's Dangerous To t e s t in g to determine which particular a l l o y could best resist the action of the d iffe re n t chemicals. You must remember t h a t the Germans had been very careful t o keep their manufacturing processes s e c r e t. They had done more than that: t h e y had left in the way of the experi m e n te r a pitfall, into which we fell. It n e a r ly defeated us. What happened was th is: " In my plant, the men engaged in this w o r k suddenly began to sicken with a m ysterious disease. Three died and twen t y - fiv e were in almost a dying condition. o cto rs examined them, but could not d isco ver the cause of the illness. The s ic k men had no symptoms of any known d isease; but in the men who died it was n oted that the blood corpuscles had broken down into a sort of watery serum. T h e y had literally bled to death without a wound. " For a time we were completely baf fled. Men who w'ould have faced bullets w ithout flinching recoiled from the mys terious terror of the chemical laboratory. It began to look as if we were going to be beaten. " Then it was discovered that the poison w as entering through the skin. Chemi cals would slop over containers and get on the men's shoes and clothing. At a certain stage in the manufacture of phe nacetin, we found that the product was in tensely poisonous if allowed to remain on the skin. It penetrated and destroyed the blood. " The remedy was easy: We installed shower baths and, when the men finished their work, they were bathed and treated under the scrutiny of physicians, and they were provided with new underwear, socks, and shirts every day. The strange sick ness at once stopped, and from then on our only difficulties were those always connected with the production of a new ch em ical." Queeny passed his hand over his fore head. Even after the lapse of ten years the remembrance of this fight in the dark moved him deeply. " That was the hardest thing I ever had to go through," he said. " M y struggle with poverty and adverse business con ditions was as nothing compared to it. In my earlier battles I risked no man's life, and only my financial welfare." D H E N O L , or carbolic acid, the other * great coal-tar product of which the supply was shut off by the war, was first produced in America by Thomas A. Edison, and, second, by John F. Queeny. On the wall of Queeny's office hangs one of his most prized possessions. It is a certificate from the United States War Department, testifying to the distin guished service rendered this country in its war against Germany by John F. Queeny and the Monsanto Chemical Works. Queeny now is sixty-five years old. His company has emerged unscathed from the throes of the reorganization which followed the war. His son is assisting him in the plant. 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