Show WAR HUGE WASTE ii qa ryphe world is is le learning hearving the ike int im Jp lance ortance of saving scraps millions lion s of 0 Ld dollars ollars worth of maternal mater jal has he been reclaimed fi from ox americas elas duni dump p heaps in bi the last year or so AR all stops top waste paradoxical ps perhaps p w lint but true it is th tha new principle of eco economics amb th the apotheosis of at the junkman junkin Is at hand a aas a writer I 1 in the st loute louis post dispatch toda today y there is invest ed ad 1 tn the bid industry oty ot of me makin ki ing gover scrap crap material the vast so bum of t the firms fi alm ilm interested t it do a hab business ot of more 1 than a year it is a business of little things with what most peo pea pie cou consider suder things thing ol of such scant met value as not being worth think thick ing about at all yet tet a hundred tail 11 lion a year and bow the war has boomed their particular bus business east prices 11 haie axie been sent snaring this has made mad it possible to transport waste irom brount tar d distant points point that we never usable unable bolero before despised junk la is now rich raw material matei tenal ial V Aby hy wool wol tTa en an rags are war worth almost t their heir weight 1 in ald gold they cost abrea pro times as much before A aa they did before the war some rags rag have bar a gone up per cent and fio a we get the strange anomaly that some rag rags far fetch it more than raw wool why because they have been dyed and dealers dealer w baut t 11 those precious aves back again lard and them V ith be germany rally blockaded no dyes ot of man many y ot of which they lia have a monopoly can cal come a out shod shoddy y lou ion to turn your year nose none at it IX do you yen r realize call z that shoddy Is the only thing that b has enabled the poor to w wear ear woolen clothing at all or that without d deception to the tailors tailor a it ft is used to face borne am ol of the firest 1 mlis in which the beau brummels today b be tog fog themselves this because it makes a better finish bluish look n at I 1 th the mina romance tire of 1 coal tar drolc once dumped into vile smelling heaps ot at im refuse rose or r pumped d into the river to dav it yields yield more thau than two thousand colors besides drugs drug preservatives medic medicines I 1 des explosives flavors san sv n th thetla tic sugar eager and quinine perfumes che chemicals feel and what not and there is ia a bind business B of more the than 1 in coal tax tar by products today and this la is ge not at a part ot of the business ot of utilizing waste either to tor r coal I 1 tar or la IS no an longer counted led as waste ste but as a useful pratt product net from baking coal and mak ing curnin illuminating bill I 1 gas gaa et 0 it the pounds pound of tar imin s every cry ton I 1 is the most precious pre cloua ot of all the yield from coal germany is 11 doing bc economical won adling Z ders with th ita is w war we waste t today the sammel Orma latell I 1 la the chief point of I 1 in terest at to th the io visitor letter who can get behind the R lines nes collection point it would be in plain english junk juk pile re really lly it contains the gleanings of th the battlefield every elery conceivable on ob jell from bits of rubber to broken bay bayonets ot am and pieces of exploded shells are re collected and sorted experts run over ever eve thing car fridges are sa saved sad d out and water hot bot ties and clothes still lit to wear or are piled up the bayonets go to one a place to be made over the tha rifles rids are overhauled very every kind of make and come came back bach like new ripped and ad bulted auto urea tires go to the melting put pot and mine come back as sound ud white ons ones A big laundry cleans garments very every mouth month damaged ar tillery goes to shops where it ft to Is re paired W heels heel are remade barrels A now new gun is ia often made out of the undamaged parts of several gun guna c collectively allot I 1 vely put out ot of business fals leather thris a is set to other uses shoes are repaired and straps that are torn are cut into other widths and lengths anre and it put to other tasks task and what do we do here along sim tin lr ili lines in these piping peace days day well to tor r example a wa work over tin cane cana a perfect min alna of wealth and irl aroa crop and ad set get bar back k worth or of useful in metal age again our or tin tic la used ad oer or and over before the war crap iron brought 10 75 a ton now it ft has ban go gone up to IS 18 SO 50 melted back into elneta ingots it I 1 ia q quite u itus t aa good as ever r steel rails raila dia discarded r de d by the big rail 11 roads read bre are rem re rolled tied into ralla rails tor for less important ifft lines w hee lighter ugh tor ones will do or aie bo lit by contractors for the tha use ot of their ervice line on b ig I 1 joba scrap crop copper today la I 1 worth almost metal I war b boosted led aa much as an new a 1 te tha p price we regularly so HO that by the bird of 19 1915 15 new stuff atut brought 23 cents a P pound aund and the old fetched 19 cents cent aad d a hus buBi i bess of f 1 a it scrap x line t as once or a drug d r all 0 on a the market or ked 0 at i 4 centa cent a S pound in ia 13 cents to at this thia writing save it here are the figures tn in tons of re c covered metal from uncle sam 9 8 junk pile for or just a bear sax breas brass 09 9 no copper p der 58 spelter speller 43 lead 60 zinc 3 ash tin 12 antl anti tanny mony 5 aluminum 6 the recovered ob metals totaled 57 T true ta a indeed the statement of a hold busl ness 3 gerle that our next great for or tunes form will be taken take dimic the junk help heap NN ith crude rubber at 1 a pound now low and all the warring barring nations gob bling every ounce they can box beg or sair seize a or buy no DO wonder there them Is a steady demand for old garden hose rubbers tires ar ettes tubes auto peel peal logo ings car springs home sao ahoe pada ad matting and picking packing air limit brake hose fire hose and tubes prices price I 1 in th these discards dinc iode ot of life fluctuate dally daily just as stocks and bonds do all go to the mez me Z pot at from I 1 cent to 10 cents a pound and come back brand new you haven I 1 a pound of old antimony lying around the shop perhaps T the foxy chinese her have cornered it b because use of its great dere demand for munitions of mafte andoor w war tu to say aay nothing of f ty type pa once it was worth a ton ion now you pay floo gold I a to too for the same ance wayt bemuse because it I 1 mixed with steel for shells hell making it more bri brittle axe thia it breaks breake into smaller pieces as who when it explodes nice thought tor for the men in the trenches what so they are working over old worn out type here and abroad and ad exploit ed ad shell hall fragments fratt ments to get back this near precious metal at tungsten is used in making tool steel tor for which there is an enon noua demand before the war it brought 60 cents a pound today it I 1 is fo 0 o a pound and a ton of oro ore brings 3 so precious prec louB is this metal that even the base offices are being secured scoured tor for all caimens and eiery ounce of it is being r reclaimed clil that can be found brokers do not sneer at a trade tn in one pound lots and to quote the waste trade journal the purchasing agent ot of the crucible steel company is very g grate ate in tul I 1 it if somebody can ghe he him one hun a dred pounds and says the editor there a an overnight fortune tor for the mn man who can reclaim it from old tools pool and ad such h A lot of clever men are trying but noth ing doing yet rags rag aia the bethlehem steel of the junkman a trade two million do dollars worth have just juat gone eon to england to make shoddy race that brought tour four celita cent a pound now new bring 14 tailors clippings once quoted at 7 cents cent or are now naw il 21 cent cents black worsted worsteds worst eds aristo i crate ceato or of the fetch 32 cents cent S pound england alone can use up pounds pound or of raga 9 S a year thin country imports 2 worth of waste want rea 9 every ear just to make writing paper about 1400 1 00 to tons of no flax tar ethaw w b have ave been burned or allowed to go to waste wants I 1 in this country every year net tor for B much tich lel specialists in the employ ot of the department of arll turn ture have shown that it mu can be used for making paper and fiber board at al ready a demand for 1600 1 worth of flax straw has sprung up once it wax was clear waste now how it la in gold time was waa when acu yellow brass turn ings were a entirely ri now how they average 12 c ento centa a pound old tint brings 30 cents and siphon tops are worth a quarter a pound when V hen tony gets get ahr through a g h with his shoe bus rag raab lie he can sell the them ra for 4 cents a pound and you may see eee them next I 1 in some fine bond writing paper bones fetch 25 a ton ion after everybody a pi picked eked cm am now how hear arthur D little ot of the united states chain chamber b of C commerce we w naste set 00 0 of fl tons ton of wood abear a year 1 feet ot of natural gas a day 1000 1 tons of flux flax I a year our coke ovena van flame for or miles mile la in pennsylvania welding wasting pro precious cious am monia and exciting no comm comment t while lit the burning of a 1 house would draw a mob some experts have got the waste down fler finer than even mr little we waste wast 13 feet ot of lumber every year in old lead pencils by throwing ing away the stubs two girls earn tor for th the government times time their air sal and art adriea just by going through the waste paper baskets I 1 in the treasury trea aury depart ment meat at Vv washington ashington their prize find bad was a 10 united states gold bond old corn or ab coba S are row now made into fuel briquettes and railway ties pot ash mi mighty g lily useful tor for war 1 is made from the moldering heaps of seaweeds tossed up upon our pacific coast oil to now low pressed from used cotton waste renovated and ad used over or again got it has been figured out by a junkman expert th that t this country 1 loses oses ah 0 oiw W a ye year r in cotton w wastage a stage alone after th the last sh shred d of the ober fiber has bell been saved that can be and this Is how vi rapped dujam bagging and strapped with hoop iron last years year s bales aver aged pounds apiece just 5 of these balea bale went to american mills actually there was as spun into cloth and yarn the equivalent of 4 bales bale because of 15 per cent loss Thiis this is dl di aided vided into two fee chasn classes raw material waste naste and manufacturing waste the lint counts count the bagging and iron straps trap included in the weight the shrinkage and three V pounds its torn him off I 1 in transit for samples the sewill second in eludes flying cotton lint lilt cotton dam aged in processing and the quantity that remains remain that ls la tot not spin table lahui i the left latter I 1 Is one of til the new a rings now suppose a two inch tannin length I 1 la require ir cT some 1 la not that long this a coarser yarn to a another oth er m mill and the residue there go boea to abill t author another for even coarser products and 1 in the tha step down from mill to mill the final residuum residue lands ad in a factory making abig mop map yr yarns st etc actually though there them Is a 16 pox per cent call theoretical waste want in a hot bale of out cot ton the total loss lose 1 B reduced to a mini aum ium and only 3 per cent goes boea to the junk dealer to sort son out and sell beell in all the b seea through which a bate bale go boea but 2 per par cent IB irrecoverably 0 bably lost in flying lint added to abe h 3 per der cent which 1 la the jok junkman a share her there 1 la aper B per cent lost in manufacture 1 ing 19 9 and it I 1 10 0 per par r cent act to in r raw w material a wrid in other words t the manufacturer loses just juat 9 16 to the but bale |