The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1917, Page 10

M. H. HOUSER GRAIN AND COMMISSION BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING PHONE MAIN 1670 Milling Wheat ————AND- Brewing Barley A SPECIALTY ometer seldom registers 32 degrees in Seattle, and sel- above 83. Phone Sidney 104 Res. Phone Sidney 1113 National Steel Construction Company Contractors Estimates Given on the Following Classes of Steel Work Construction and Erection of Ships, Barges, Steel Water Mains, Water and Oil “Tanks, Stand Pipes and Every Kind of | Structural Steel Work ALBERT KELLY, ‘AC ST ¢, WASH. Ship’sRanges In use by all principal steamship lines on Pacific Coast MADE IN ALL SIZES Most durable and economi- cal Stoves for canneries, bunk houses, camping outfits. F. S. LANG MFG. CO. SEATTLE, WASH. for every purpose 'He Plucks Space in Air to Make More Room for the Construction of Shi They're using the alr to make more room for shipbuilding in Seattle. David Rodgers, wise old man of the sea, is the one who showed builders how to turn the trick, His “aerial shipyard con- veyor” is revolutionizing the industry. It has speeded up construction at a time when speed means life to a world erying for cargo carriers, With a tifelong experience at shipbuilding, Rodg on the lookout for new | He was in a motion picture theatre when he “got the hunch” for the new conveyor. | A picture flashed on the screen, showing the use of a single line joverhead cable in logging opera tions. Rodgers looked at the fleet- ing film, chuckled and rushed from the theatre, surprising the audi ence with his sudden burst of en-| thusiasm. David Rodgers, genius at shipbuilding, and a picture of his “Aerial Conveyor,” which has revolutionized shipyard methods. STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1917. PAGE 10 S | co Pe - = ee es ae | cables hoisted high in the air over) the building slips by immense up- rights. It is controlled by elec tric stations on the ground, being lowered and ralsed by holsting cables, | Tho device picks up a ten-ton plece of steel with the ease of a| man handling a baseball, huatles {t feet into the alr, carries it 200) feet and drops it handily at the |point of construction required, all lin the space of two minutes by stop watch. That's the trick Dave Rodgers turned to speed up building of ships | While he was busy erecting his conveyors, rival builders smiled and kidded him about wasting money. | They're all using his device now. Knows Game From A to Z Not only in the Puget & region, but all along the t Coast the Rodgers conveyor {s now in use. | Rodgers was born at Carrick Fergus, in the North of Ireland, 62 He worked for a week with|years ago. He served his ap night-and-day energy before he sur lcessfully adapted the idea to ship. building. Then he spread his blueprints before D. EB. Skinner and J. W. Eddy, of the Skinner & Eddy plant lhere, of which Rodgers is superin | tendent. | Soon a forest of spars sprang up jcountry he has # prenticeship in the famous old Har lan & Wolf yards, at Belfast, and as a boy, was sent to sea for added training During his experience tn this intended the | building of cargo carr and bat itleships from New York to San Francisco, to Seattle, with work for ‘tn the Skinner @ Eddy yards. The|Great Britain, Russia and Japan| conveyors were soon in operation. How Conveyor Works The conveyor, with {ts grapplt mechanism, is ‘operated on wi thrown fn for good me: rom A to Z. “Mystery Ships” Slip Past | Subs; Latest LONDON, Aug. 25 (By Mall). —Not until Germany has been floored for the ten-count, will the world have a peep at the ious odd-shaped figh beating the submarine In England they are referred to vaguely as mystery-ships” and hush-boats.” Imaginative people give them fantastic shapes and en dow them with powers beyond the dreams of the greatest naval de signers. So perhaps the land-far jing folk will be disappointed when }it's all over and the hush-boats jcome out of the haze to be looked jat by sea-port visitors. Privileged visitors to the great naval bases are extremely reticent about the hush-boats. For weeks |the newspapers have been hinting about something they know, but have crossed their hearts not to SE rea it the new and| READ STAR WANT ADS* | tell—something mysterious sea-rowdies, which de War Invention! yspise naval foot-work, but prefer to rush in headlong and scrap it out with the U-boat till one or the other goes down | The mystery-ship ranks with the! structic guardia King types of 1s during his June visit to the nd Fleet. They were in a class their own and the class was never mentioned to the public, Sea - monsters, mystery - ships, | |hush-boats—they account for some of the high honors recently confer. red on naval officers | Women made a rush on bargain sales of furs at Cleveland, O., the other day, with the mercury around 96. a * Manufactured In “America’s Finest Flouring Mille” and the Largest Mille West of Minneapolis —by— SEATTLE FISHER FLOURING MILLS COMPANY COLMAN DOCK Colman Dock Company, Lessee One of the largest passenger and freight docks on the Pa- cific Coast. Equipped with modern facilities for handling three million passengers per year, together with the freight tonnage, of a big fleet of steamers operating on Puget Sound. ard & C (INCORPORATED) W.A. Shipping and Commission Merchants Canned Goods a Specialty AGENTS FOR CARLISLE PACKING COMPANY Canneries at Cordova, Alaska, and Lummi Island, Puget Sound. VANCOUVER, B. 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