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Title: Canadian forest industries 1916
Identifier: canadianforest1916donm (find matches)
Year: 1916 (1910s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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48 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER August 1, 1916
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Important Additions to Graton & Knight Plant In the fall of 1914 the Graton & Knight Manufacturing Company, oak leather tanners and belt makers, Worcester, Mass., decided to commence the erection of the largest addition that they have ever made to their extensive plant. The time was rather unpromising for such extensions, but their foresight has been amply justified by the results. The Graton & Knight Manufacturing Company's business has been steady and solid from the time of its inception, 65 years ago. The company now occupy a plant consisting of twenty buildings which are so joined together that, in the aggregate, they represent one en- ormous building having over half a million square feet of floor space. The two latest additions, known as buildings "D" and E," are of concrete construction, and have a total floor area of about 110,000 square feet. These buildings have made it possible for the concern to install some improvements which they had been developing and have also enabled them to increase their production as the business war- rants. The first floor of building "D," known as the new "Beam House," is 225 feet long and 115 feet wide, and has enabled the concern to double its capacity for preparing hides for the initial stages of tanning. The arrangement throughout is designed so as to keep the hides mov- ing in one continuous direction from the moment they are brought to the beam house from the connecting hide cellar. The hides are thor- oughly cleaned, soaked, the flesh and hair removed and then sent along to the tan yard. The entire construction is of concrete and steel, concrete floors and walls, vats and pits, and everything possible has been done to promote the convenience and comfort of the work- men. The three floors above the beam house are 225 feet long and 70 feet wide. The second floor is used as one of the "setting out" rooms. From this floor the hides, after being washed, bleached, split, oiled and smoothed, or "set out" by the latest type of machinery are conveyed to the stretching room located on the floor above. The fourth floor is used by the lace leather department and is equipped with machinery of special construction made and designed by the company. Building "E" is 225 feet long by 65 feet wide, and is four storeys high. The first floor is used for storing hides. On the second floor is located the electrical department and the extensive supply room. The third floor is used as a general maintenance department with car- penter, machine and pipe fittin» and stock rooms, where belting strip> are sorted and matched and where an extensive stock of finished lea- ther is maintained. The company have also put up a number of smaller buildings during the past year. A completely new heating and power plant has been erected. The buildings, although of fireproof construction, are equipped throughout with a sprinkler system and there are innumerable fire doors, staircases and fire extinguishers throughout. The employees are provided with plenty of light for their work, over 40 per cent, of the total wall area being of glass. The search for new uses of wood is widespread and far-reaching; but the Turks have scored last. The army which they sent to Egypt to fight British and colonials at the Suez Canal was supplied, in part, with wooden bullets. They had been painted a metallic lustre, and the unfortunate soldiers doubtless supposed the cartridges were stan- dard. We captured large quantities of these wooden pegs which passed for bullets when thev came from the contractors' factory. The pool Turk sets if cominp and going!

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