The Wingfoot Clan (Akron edition), Vol. 2, No. 23 (August 23, 1913)

              VOL. 2
:W PENNY SAVED
IS A PENNY EARNED"
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SALVAGE DEPT. MAKES STRIDES
It was stated in the Wingfoot Clan
some time ago that the Salvage Depart-nieiit
had 44 justi•ed itself in the eyes
of the Cost Department # " but since
then many improvements in system and
method have been made, and, from a
minor position, the Salvage Depart.
ment has become an important factor
in Goodyear prosperity.
All scrap rubber, with cured and un-eured
trimmings from the factory were
, formerly junked and sold to the junk
dealers for whatever price could be ob.
tained. The dealers in turn sorted the '
gum and probably got rich on the pro-ceeds.
All sorting of this kind is now
done in Plant No. 2 by the Goodyear,
the work being much more intricate
than most persons imagine. The scrap
must be separated into 4 • grades, " each
of uniform quality, so that, if used in
compounding, the quality of finished
product can be insured.
The scrap rubber collected in the fae-tory
aggregates a total of many thous-and
pounds per month. The uneured
scrap from the shop is cleaned and re-turned
to the mill room. Frictioned
trimmings- are-. treated with a chemical
which dissolves - the fabric and leaves
the gum, thus little uncured stoek is
wasted. The cured serap is not directly
usable, but may be ureclaimed" which
puts it into the form of a cheap gum.
This is commonly called 4 c shoddy. "
Gum from old solid tires and white
and red gum from mechanical goods is
ground up and made into springs. The
supply from the factory is usually in-sufficient
and a large quantity must be
bought from outside. Air bags are
treated in a manner not unlike the tires.
The plies of fabric are stripped and the
gum from the inner surface is removed.
The department has twelve men at
-work-in-the --factory to see -that the
scrap rubber is not mixed to any great
extent. This obviates considerable
work that would otherwise have to be
done in Plant No. 2. Three baling
presses are used steadily and take eare
of about 25,000 pounds of marketable
stock per day.
Owing to the passage of a reeent
federal law, the Goodyear Wireless De-partment
is installing s an auxiliary
transmitting outilt in addition to the
regular 16 K. W. set. The law states
that all stations within liearing dis·
tanee of vessels on either lake or ocean
must be so equipped that they can re.
ceive a 600 meter waver the standard
wave length for boat stations, in order
to •catch any possible signals of distress.
As the normal wave length of the Goocl.
yoar Station is about 1700 meters, this •
necessitated the putting in of a smaller
aerial of about two hundred feet in
length, running' from . the top of the
general omee to a shorb staff of Build-ing
11. The one kilowatt Marconi out-ilt
which had been used on the wireldss
experiments of the ill-fated dirigible
4 4 Akron " .Will be installed soon to be
used in connection with the shorter
aerial so that, communication may be
earried on by means of it without in-terfering
with the work of the regular
station.
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Like many another Goodyear motorcycling enthusiast, Guy McMinan, of the
Salvage Department planned to put his trusty steed to good use during his
vacation. It was on a most be-e-eautiful day that Guy started out to visit friends
in a small town somewhere on the other side of Canton, and the sun was nice and
bright-and hot. The mercury in the thermometer was trying for an altitude
record.
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But naught troubled Guy. Was not his machine victor over countless im-passable
roads? Was not hin trusty ' * Twin " bowling along without a miss?
The cooling breeze fanned his cheek, little birds twittered in the tree tops, never
had the world seemed so fair. BUT-even Napoleon had his Waterloo, and on
the other side of Canton, McMillan hit a long, long stretch of fine, dry sand.
Passing teams had pulverized it finer than sugar, and the slightest puff of wind
swirled clouds of it into the air.
-The•<fywixift made-a brave effort but-
W-w-w-wsh-sh-sh-sh--Sh,-1-she died,-the wheels spun round in vain.
It is on record that Guy's language enabled the mercury to succeed in ita
attempt It broke the altitude record.
PRESTON OUALIFIES
A novelty in the shape of an inter.
mediate landing was introduced in the
I fourteenth flight of the 4 4 Goodyear"
which took plice last Sunday iii*ht
from the grounds of the Gas Company
on North Howard St. The balloon was
i piloted by R. A. D. Preston with E. R.
Preston and J. F. Reddiek of the Gen-eral.
Office as passengers. The ilight
started.shortly after 12 o'clock and the
balloon slowly rose, hanging for quite
a while over the eity in the calm air. In
attaining a height of 700 feet the bal.
loon described a circle and then
floated southwest over the • Portage
Lakes, passing directly .over Albert-son's
Hotel at State Mills.
The ball 0021 also passed over the
town of Orrville and some time later
tlie eity of Wooster. About six miles
west of Wooster a ddscent was made at
5:10 0'elock and the passengers disem-
1 barked. The pilot, R. A. D. Preston
aseended again alone at 6:20 and eon-tinued
the -ilight•landit*-#ear ·Iiours
later about 36 miles west of Lakeville,
having .made a distance of only 16
miles in the four. hours. The air was.al-most
calm and it was the slowest trip
which the balloon has so far made. The
total time that the balloon was in the
air was about nine liours, during wbieli
time it covered a distance of, 45 miles.
The four hour flight which Mr. Preston
, ma<le alone completes the requirements
of the International Aeronautical Fed-l
eration for a licensed· pilot, and Mr.
Preston expects to reeeive his official
license shortly.
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••RIDE THE PLANK"
CHALLENGE ISSUED
KLEIN AND NEIGER WIN MEDALS
A 44 riding the plank" challenge has
been posted by E. Kline and N. A.
Neiger, foremen in the tire building de-partments,
who have just returned froni
a two weeks' sojourn at Long Lake.
The two, with Allie Braley, from 5 A-1,
kept bachelor's hall at a Long Lake
, cottage, and spent their daytime in per-suit
of the elusive plank. The 6 6 sTS.
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tem" is this: ....
A small plan]c is hitched to the rear
end of a motor boat and is mounted by
the would-be 6 4 broneho-buster. " The
boat is started and the man at the
helm puts the plank through its stunt.
It is no eineh to balance oneself on
the plank when it is going in a straight
line, for the swells from a high powered
I motor boat are not noted for their
gentle behaviour, but when the boat
begins to go 6 4 steady by jerks" and
swing back and forward and then
' around in a complete circle the land-seape
begins to look like a sample of
impressionistic art. Included in the
• challenge to the plank riding competi-tion
19 also a gasoline-consuming
clause, for Kline and Neiger managed
to use up' exactly 175 gallons of John
D.'s best in their chase of the wobbly
plank.
The part of the clay time .not spent 6
in eating was wholly spent in,the water,
• and the crowd looks it. If there is a
spot on their bodies not covered with
tan or of a firey hue tliey have not yet
discovered it. c c Riding the plank"
was the ehief diversion, and hour after
i hour they Spent in circling the shores
Representing the New York Evening
Sun, J. H. Mears recently completect
a round· the world trip in 35 days, 21
, hours and 35-minutes, lowering the pre-,
vious record of A. Jaeger-Schmidt 036
made in 1911, by nearly four days.
Transportation companies all over the i
world co·operated to produce this result
by means of speeial trains and en-deavoring
to cut out all needless de.
lays and accidents.
years ago that Jules Verne qtartled the
world with his daring 4 4 Around the
world in eighty days " but
methods have now more than halved
this .time: ' : Who knows how. soon.the r
new record itself may be lowered. But'
a few weeks ago a Freneh airman made
the journey from Paris to Warsaw, a '
distance of 933 miles, in one clay, flying
but· six hours and thirty-nine minutes '
of the thirteen hours it took him: to •
complete t he journey. By merely dupli-catilig
the ilight each day it would take i
only a matter of twenty-eight days to
complete the circuit, while continuous
• flying at liis average speed, 93.3 miles
per hour, would accomplish ·it in slightly
' over 11 r (lays.
Another use has been found for Serg.
bracBride 's oxy.weld cuttin• toreh.,
After the fire at Plant 2 021 August 1 ltli.
' it was found that the.door of the safe •
could not be opened on account of the L
great expansion whicli the conibiiiation
lock had undergone, so 4 f Serg. " went
on the job with his torcph and eut a i
liole throngli the door iii,out six inehev •
sqrlare.
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f the lake at expressspeed. Kline
laims h6nors as champion rider, for
n one trip the rope caught and the
lank started to explore the bottom of
he lake. For a hundred yards all that
ould be seen of Kline was the top of
is head, but somehow he managed to
tiek on and though it was accidental,
o hear him talk afterwards, one would
ave thought that he had planned it all
Ut.
Swimniing and fishing.were not neg-eeted
by these Goodyear exponents of
he simple life, and on one occasion
hey indulged iIi the gentle pastime of
ife.saving< K
 m0a3n 6and woman liad
otten out beyond their depth, and the
woman, who could not swim, grabbe<1
the man by the throat so that he was
1,owerless. Our heroes promptly swam
to the rescue and 1•nuled them out. It
was a prdtty pale looking couple that
walked away after several quarts of
water had been drained from their
hitigs, and the boys are still expeet-atitlb'
awaitilig the artival of the
medals. As ilsliing did not pan out
very well, Neiger 0a3f6ter discoursitig
luridly on their piseatorial lnek, startell
out one afterlloon . 1'0wing dire i en·
geanee on all the finny tribe. The
slaugllter he was going to cause was
friglitful. He returned, however, about
slinclown, tire<1 and liungry, with one
little pereli.
Great attention was paid tl,roughoiat
tlie entire two weeks to the eonditioti
of the ice box. In fact they even got
up in the 11 igllt to illvestigate. While
Braley, who served as cook, and Neiger,
wlio refuse,1 to wash dislies, both.eotil.
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