Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 8, 1916, Page 17

How They Fiil Up the Gaps Made by the Men Who Have Gone to the Front—The “Frauenim Verkehrsleben” Group. Woman Street Car Conductors, Elevator “Boys,” Mail Carriers, Ticket Punchers, Win- dow Washers, Readers of Gas Meters—Wom- en Deliver Telegrams. Women Nicht Watch- men and Cab Drivers. Epectal Correspondence AR Tannot be waged by men one’ They must be helped and encouraged by the women. Perhaps in no other warring country have the women done so much as 1 They seem willing and capable of doing almost every kind of work that fs done by a man. Tn all the continental countries of Furope, even in times of peace, the peasant women have done much hard work that is considered a man's work Germany in America. In the 1 districts they plow and till the 2d hay into the wagons and cs great bundles of sticks for the fires. h there have always been ers, and most of the omen. These wom- [yrolean costumes and look almost jaunty with a bright feather sticking in thelir caps. In ways the morta steep ladders. But since the war there has sprung up in Gern a new class of women, known as die frauen im verkehrselben, or the women of the life in trade. These a not peasants, but a class of nd girls who are willing and brave enough to do the work a man should do, to fill up the gaps made by th ho are on the battlefield. It i lieir aid and co-operation e for the business life to be carried on. The men who have as yvet not been 1 g ar en dress in peasant girls have al- helped to build houses, mixing d carrying hods up the women callcd to war have in the most cases 4% TREES mLUI bLecn detailed to other work, for there m Lm‘ S TS &.‘ is an immense amount of bullding going on in Berlin. Among other thincs there ing built a new un- dergiound railway. that will connect e two main cenicrs of the great city: | Amertcn e other Sunday o Unter ~den Linden and Lelpsiger | same el el e b strasse. It runs under Friederich |cor® 0% ed her motorm: £trasse, one of the main streets of the | city. Another large building that is going up is an addition to the univer- sity. - * x The first in the group of the Frauen Im Verkehrsleben is the street car con- ductor or the schaffnerin. She stands on the platform of the cars all day long, just as the men do, and she rings up the fares and calls out the streets. This Is really the best paying job of all Im Verkehrsleben, because in Germany | It is customary to tip the street car conductors 5 pfennigs (a little over a cent), especially if you ask many questions or get a transfer. Tt Is easy to see how the tips will mount up in and the schaffnerin carries a ag with two pockets, one for and the other for the tips. is rather a cold job, for the Ger- man street cars are not inclosed as in e fare Tt the car alc again. § pushing, as it was her duty to do s The fahrstuhlfuhreri elevator “bo: all the wome among the V. it is a warm, department store Wertheim's these girls w ing suits of dark blue, w that she has a _p. vator. They swing the dc and call_out the floors i and man Berlin are women. rie; badge which show {heir post machen carries ber black bag at her side of course just as reli apable ing a letter as is a = not very much,. only & so it could be e did not mind the wo elevator runne cap_to tch. Each wi 2’ b rmit to t ces. Most of them : are pretty About one-third the mail o hey have uniform, as do the but they do wea fers in WoMen Layy STones ! prennigs (about hree marks t showing | Fece : cents) per da ele- | h easa | ir high quite younsg | ) in summer, i e other girls are the turschit 123 FROEEsSIONAL Winpow EANER Ar WoRK. Remarkable Story of Discovery of the Oil Flotation Process of Extracting Metals From Ore — The Missing Woman—-Her Principle Commercially Applied. Question of Patent Rights on Process Now Up to United States Su-; preme Court — Activi- ties of the United States Bureau of Mines. Epectal Correepondence WASHINGTON, D. C., INING interests at this time, when Europe is calling for every last pound of copper, zinc and lead, are concerned over the oil flotation process of ex- tracting the uttermost pennyweight of these metals, as well as gold and sil- ver, from their native ores. It seems a very singular thing that, without Interfering with the laws of specific gravity, these heavy metals can be induced to float upon the sur- face of the ore pulp merely by the in- troduction of a little oil into the mix- ture. = * * If one had te find a needle in a hay- stack his task would be difficult, al- though perhaps not impossible; but to extract from a ton of ore the frac- tion of an ounce of gold distributed throughout its bulk is impossible with- oll came graduall seemed to her impossible that gold, w she knew to be nmearly twice as heavy as lead, could float. Nevertheless, there was the precious yellow metal—which she co rectly surmised had come in minutely smail quantities from the interstices of the sacks—resting quietly on top of the | water. out the aid of the chemist. and silver supplanted the older meth- ods and gave a positive value to low- grade ore purposes at least, tion proces for several years and saved millions and millions o The Colorado Scientific Society, the western press and mining interests are searching in every possible way for a woman, that they ma living; or erect a fittine memorial to her honor if she has no trace of her has been found. Thirty-five year: Denver, Col, an of Everson, engaged then in the prac- tice of his profe took to his home concentrates in smail sacks made of heavy muslin. His S- ter, Miss Carrie J. Everson school teacher by profession, so the story runs, had joined her brother at Denver, and was making her home with him. Very little is known of her, except that she was keen-minded and took a great interest in her brother's work. It is also said that she had reached an age and acquired such a reputation for punctilious cleanlin that she was sometimes called a prim old maid. but now it must, for some ield to the oil flota- h has been in use W dolls rs. reward her, if ssed away; but ago there lived in ver by the name on, who incidentally who w * * * Be that as it may, she undertook to keep her brother's things spotlessly | clean; and when she saw that the sack in which he carried the samples had be- come sofled by contact with oil on which dirt had settled, she promptly put them to soak in a tub of water. A little film of to the surface, and| she was completely staggered when she saw in it traces w brother’s teaching, she knew to be gold. h, thanks to her She could hardly believe her eves, for it ich It is not recorded whether she thought that, like the axe of Elijah on the waters of Jordan, a miracle had taken place, but what she really had seen was the of ofl in the film gold themselve: the still smaller partic poss; the gravity of the resulting tiny m: less than that of the W the suriace, to the great amazement cf the overparticular school mistre: rticles about s of zold which s the peculiar quality of attracti 1 to and about them. The spe: ter, it floated to Apparently che ue of this accidental discovery, although not reai- | SAVING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN GOLD AND OTHER METALS BY MEANS O took out lettdfs patent covering a proces: - | fiotation to low grade ores tents have lon since expirec value which make Midas pale with en most successful have made ht kind to car her process on for apparently one Criley, to extract gold from pulverized successful pound of copp: |some effort to test commereial attempted ground ore pu If the right ki 1 of ofl he stirred into em from the grind the ore applied by so much oil that they enterprise on account of the expense. primitive method way of lessening the quantity of oil or of recovering a sufficiently large per- centage of it to put the operation on an economical basis. abandoned the | to this company, when groun provided no tion proces alone might b cover but little of the v als from the slimes wh ng the ore for treatment inter- | ests not only marketing step or two farther, she might have floated the gold to the surface with quart of oil to a ton of ore. All = ad to do was to make a froth of the mixture by a stirring apparatus or by pressure heavy These steps, between a pay privilege of throwing a dash of oil into proposition the use of only a flotation tre froth from its great holder United States bureau being ioned, and the mining are enormous deposits injecti i made by one of its engineers, injecting air enough to make bubbl if taken, should have made her one of the weaithiest women 5 The later history of Miss Everson is spite of most her course after she e ot | perfect ofl flotation to the recovering in the world. - or so crystallized that school mistress, economical ountains | s to follow ve expired, the public has use the process without limitation. dumps of mines ions of tons of ore which may, slimed and treated by oil flotation, be made to pay. In commercial the mines call the ground ore c: of dupps and tailings th after the failure of the business ven- no trace of her ture with been discovered. ssert that their practice ntly ap- this bu- ing and aerat » H. Manning, went to Cali- have taken an . defined the position of practice the pulp, what part e state she went to or became of her after she reached it. she has died, which seems probable, as otherwise she would honor of her great discovery ord has been found_ unless the present agi information, the location or end of this lady will remain a mystery. t is, said he. thout funds to car-|arown our basis of a the in the lab- |8 looked for with consider- able interest, experimen ed with proper claim the gating ways and means ciency, doing = pertaining stirred or beaten, like eggs for a mechanical de will be affected by tion brings new |a custard, by market- but solely for| oily scum or s swept by a moving arm the benefit of the public. to work low-grade ore responding the ore pulp into the next tank, where the operation is repeated; series of thr £ scum is collected, the oil extracted for further use, and the conc One of the most prominent of those the development of oil flotation is T. J. Hoover, a graduate of Stanford position with the people who were try- ing out Miss Everson’s process, later went to Australia. Several years ago some Australians, »ut not proven, mineral production ates alone, at_over $2.,000,000,000, tallic products being valued at $690,- later engaged four tanks. University, ntrates sent t being - Our 1913 the production of copper No one wil amounted to 1,224,154,000 figures for is known ate of the value of this proc- based upon the re- this countr: advantage. financtal inability to try things out on neces- it is surmised nd another com rolds patents under which company is operating its hat the production fell . > the year previous, and in the early|sary that we should allow some con- |potn on the copper months of 1915 it had fallen even low- cern Lo do this; but it must be done time or git out. | yosE 1¥ aipiomat | | speak with two millions by mu of the ak shrilly th The boy, whose pleas room, angri ~ “Take s RTINS The Two Voices. >H H. CHOAT e allles hinder our we are too proud to We speak with two voices. like the lad of fifteen who visited the neral store the day before Ch The general storekeeper s | back room at the time sorting raisins. voice was | rollea out in a thunderous bas hus, 1f Mr. Ralston discovers a bet- | “‘Gimme 4 quart of cranberrips and ter method of applying oll flotation, it | 10 cents’ worth of walnuts will be patented; but any one will be changing, “But here the boy's voice of |and he concluded in a high treble . two pounds of best “The general storekcepe over his raisins, roared time! at oncet, can i7 Take yer