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Show OE" , TYNAN "GREA TEST SHWBUILDWMYm WORLD" T,r. Is. && X v 4. ' '-Mfcl fl - - - - . - the construction of a monster 12.000- lC aOijLV f.HA , . ' j ton steel conunerce-carrytiiB steamship ' wS-Jf " V. ' ' "' " '' " ' " ' ' " V y 'V:4' 4 in the remarkable time of twenty-four V ftr S. ?C , ' - '! . """-V, i working Uays. This was in the yard ' 'l!iP t; ''" '' ' .- y tjv . .:.' ' .. - of the Cnion Iron Works of the Beth- day and in the pretence of Director citUen of Monire-I. II- came wul a watched the submarines slip Into the ' ..tv ' t V' -' - : lfhem Shtpbu-.Uir.g torporatton. Ltd., cicneral Schab and Vico Ihesidcnt pass and uot into the ard. but tho V-Mers ot ,ilc Lawrence In th f . ' 1 " sltv'pVarwho dipped av to fj'"'" - ' " Emergency Meet Ujnannte t.-Kt he earned never ex- c1K,lMn Vl,,kcrs a,d at Montreal. " ' ' i '-"" ' ' ' Ca La 'cverat velrs a -o and qui'etlv CrpPia-!on' who were lhe "". for Tnan .- on the job and c haJ m(lcd as hc 8tood that 1 THIS is the story "Jos' Ty nan. He is The man who broke till world's records in shipbuilding by supervising the const ruction of a monster 12.000-ton 12.000-ton steel eoTr-.merce-earrying steamship in the remarkable time of twenty-four working days. This was in the yard of the Union Iron Works of the Beth-lfhein Beth-lfhein Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd., in San Francisco. He ii- the man who slipped away to Car.ada several ears ao and quietly pjt together a flotilla of submarines that crossed the Atlantic and Joined the French, and English navies in the nar against Germany this very tav ip. advance of th;- isU lo America o" the Deutfchland that the. Hun glo.-i-tei a 'a, rcir.arl;ab!e feat.' "Greater", shipbuilder in the world" i Charles M. Schwab's laconic tribute to Joseph J. Tynan, general manager of the Union Works, a master shipbuilder ship-builder who is workins miracles with his fellow shipwrights in the construction, construc-tion, of that bridge of ships across the Atlantic that is to keep the boys over there in intimate touch with the home fires over here. And the world at lre g-enerally grants that the director direc-tor general of the Emergency Flee: Coration knows a good workman -hen he sees him and speaks truth- fully when he calls him a wonderful shipbuilder. "Let's Beat Tynan!" Tynan's record m launching the ship Invincible in twenty-four days after the laying of the keel i3 hkely to stand for soms time. After the war it will be referred to as one of '-he epochal turning points in the overthrow of the Hun, for. taking a cue from the example of the Union Iron Works, every shipyard in America Amer-ica has leaped to the front ranks of white-heat endeavor. Every riveter, every heater boy. every shipyard director di-rector is yelling to his "buddies," -Let's beat Tynan!" as they put lo-gether lo-gether the millions of new tonnage under construction on. the ways of America. Fifteen hundred loyal shipbuilders, their brows dripping with the perspiration per-spiration of a hot August morning, ttcod in U:c yard of the Union Iron Works in the City of the Golden Gate on August 4. It was just 11:30 by the shipyard clock and every man took off his hat with a grand hurrah at the announcement that the Invincible was completed and ready for launching. This was scheduled to take place at noon. The men were standing about laughing, chatting and smoking while awaiting the supreme moment when they would behold their cherished hopes realized. Along came Tynan. He had heard the hammers in the big Alameda yard stop their pummeling and pounding, and marked the quiet and inaCion of the yard. "What's the matter, boys?" he asked. A foreman, stepped up, saluted and reported that his men were through, V, awaiting only the arrival of the noon Nur to push over the Invincible for her Initial dip in the waters of the Oakland inner harbor. "Well, the ship's done; I won't hold her back," said Tynan. Ahead of Schedule Time A peremptory order was given, the .knocking away of the stays began, a charming woman with a look of splendid splen-did determination in her eyes Mrs. Tynan cracked a bottle of wine across the bow of the Invincible, there was a creaking and a slipping, a crash of the "Star Spangled Banner" from the shipyard band and the great- ship dinped away into the water. It was just 11:40 twenty minutes in advance of the scheduled launching. Ho came about the launching of this record-breaking ship. Joe Tynan, realizing every moment saved in the battle against' the Hun meant that many more Yankee lives saved and the war brought to a conclusion that much sooner, sent the Invincible away twenty minutes to the good. When 12 o'clock arrived, the shipbuilders had Jtf the keel plate of another new on -he spot vacated by the Invincible! In-vincible! "No use wasting a minute," snapped Tynan with squared jaw as he directed the energetic army of hustling Hun-hitters. Hun-hitters. The keel of the Invincible was laid 5l-!y -I' amid tiie hurrah of the natal day and m the pretence of Director General Schwab and Vico 1'residcnt Charles Pic. of the Emergency licet Corpora Lion, who were touring the Faciric coast shipyards in the "speedup" "speed-up" program. The Defiance, which had left the tame way on which the Invincible In-vincible was built, had broken all records rec-ords up to that time, in that she had been bunt in i'orty-even iUs from the laying of the keel. But along came the Invincible to cut the Defiance's time nearly in half. Fifteen hundred men had been put on the Invincible, working in three eight-hour shifts day and night. One hundred riveting crews under "Jim" Kicrnan had worked as riv eting crews never worked before, while picked men under the direction of "Dave" Moua'.t, superintendent superin-tendent of hull construction, had put the plates in place In uniform coordination co-ordination with the mighty effort being put forth to make a great record. Invincible sne was well named! Built in record time, she now carries 1600 Yankees to stack against the Hun every time she crosses the Atlantic At-lantic Ocean from America to France! "Let her go, boys! This is America's Amer-ica's wonder ship, and wo can't wait for schedule." Tynan had remarked as his associate3 were sawing away the stays holding the Invincible. "Associates" "Asso-ciates" they arc, too, for Tynan throughout his career has worked with his men as his men work "with him. not for him." "I cannot help but fee! that the leadership and loyalty being displayed dis-played by the men in the Union Iron Works is the same as that being shown by the men who are orivii back the Huns on the western troS said Edward X. Hurley, cbyirjnt the United States shipping boaid. . message of congratulation to Tynan titanic teammates. Ahead of the Kuti Co back a bit further and get that other marvelous chapter ou'. of the recent works of Joseph Tynan. Germany Ger-many has been a "copycat" of everything every-thing American for many years, and the "exploit" of the Deutschland in crossing the Atlantic, a feat heralded by the Hun as "the first transatlantic voyage by a submarine," pales before the feat of Tynan in building a fleet of ten submarines up in Canaaa a year before the Deutschland arrived spectacularly spec-tacularly at Baltimore, and dispatching dispatch-ing them across the Atlantic under their own power. Some of them, continued con-tinued on past Gibraltar and brought up finally with the Allies' East Mediterranean Medi-terranean fleet before coming to a fetOD. It was Tynan who took a picked crew from the Alameda yard and stole away quietly from the shores of the Pacific early in the year 1915. No one except "Charlie" Schwab and a few of the Bethlehem steel kings knew of the mission of Tynan and his crew of experts. Not even the men's families fam-ilies knew where they were going. Quietly they proceeded to the yard of the Canadian-Vickers Company, five miles outside of Montreal. Three thousand men made up the crew of shipbuilders who labored for five months in the Montreal yard. In three eight-hour shifts they kept the hammers ringing and the forges at white heat. But for the eternal vigilance of Tynan the Hun might have circumvented circum-vented the whole deal. Crafty spies, pursuing their espionage along with the campaigns directed by Bernstorff and Boy-Ed and Von Pa pen and the other ringleaders in the intrigues that prevailed in this country until Uncle Sara went into the world war .and kicked the whole bunch of spies overboard over-board into the Atlantic, learned 'of the shipbuilding feat in progress on the St. Lawrence and tried in every way to get at the coveted submarines. A bold German emissary who had by patient craftiness tvnhiod a letter that assured him admittance to the fenced-in and heavily guarded shipyard ship-yard was trapped at the last minute by the quick wit of Tynan. He had, been recommended for a position of some responsibility by a prominent citizen of Mon:real. came with li pass and KOt into the a i d . but the d naimle thai he ca rrie 1 never exploded, ex-ploded, for T nan w a.s on tho job and 'busted' the plot right in the bud. At night desperate Germans wormed their w a y across the frozen St. Lawrence Law-rence and tpe-l by force to cn"e-t an entry into the ard. but nan', guards turned them hack. Mihua were spaced ofT c !;.- fp-v fc:t. Tnan acquainted ac-quainted hinitfif with every Amcrlin shipbuilder brought over from the Spates and kept cloe tabs on each and every hull, idual workman. With tireless tire-less energy he pushed the construction construc-tion of the ten submarines. Tho anxiety from day to day and from night to night, tho suspense, the forethought fore-thought and anticipation demanded almost al-most hourly, the many difficult and crucial situations all these were met by big Joe Tynan, who carried tho load through to a successful end. Xaunchings in Secret The British Government lent valuable val-uable aid. A huge bonus was paid for turning out the submarines within a required time. When Ti nan reached Canada he w as met by Sir Sam Hughes, the Minister of Militia, who aided him in directing the works within with-in the Canadian-Vickcr3 yard. The Duke of Connaught. Governor General of Canada, took a great liking to Tynan Ty-nan and was his clT-e ally. He promised prom-ised him that the Duchess would come to the launching and christen the first' boat off the ways. Finally, after many perplexities and a few adversities, the submarines were ;eady. Tho launching was In tccret. s was the whole shipbuilding program. pro-gram. The Duchess of Connaught was lot on hand when the moment to launch the first undersea craft had arrived, but rather than hold up the program Tynan commandeered the services of Mrs. Tynan, and she performed per-formed the honors, adding the final touch of American genius to the achievement. Off they went one after the other, until all ten were in the water. So quietly had it all been done that not even the British Admiralty in Canada knew aught of it. So secretly had the project been accomplished that a tragedy not: scheduled on the program occurred after the first launching. A trial trip had been ordered by the British Admiralty. The course was to Murray Bay and return. A military mili-tary patrol on duty in the St. Lawrence Law-rence very nearly "had a fit" when i'j saw a submarine moving stealthily through the water. It Immediately jumped to the conclusion that a German Ger-man U-boat had made its way into the St. Lawrence bent upon an errand of destruction and death. Forthwith the patrol set out to intercept in-tercept the "U-boat." When the commander com-mander of the submarine saw the sudden sud-den attempt to thwart his progress on the trial trip he inferred some hostile hos-tile ship had bobbed up and drove ahead, rammed the patrol and sank it. Several lives were lost and a naval court of inquiry was ordered. But the world at large knew nothing of the incident, for it was not disclosed to the public. Typical of Democracy Nor was the feat that followed spread broadcast to the corners of the earth. One summer in the early dawn the ten submarines, each under its own power, built with a cruising radius capable of carrying it afar, moved majestically ma-jestically out of the St. Lawrence. Picked up by French and English men-o'-war the flotilla set its course eastward and after a safe and successful suc-cessful voyage marked by no untoward incident arrived over there. Quietly the submarine units were dispatched to their posts of duty and put into action against the Hun. Some time later newspaper reports had it that a fleet of American submarines made in Canada had crossed the Atlantic, Atlan-tic, but there reports -verc denied. Back in fran Francisco, safe home again after the completion of his arduous task, Tynan just smiled at the reports, as he had smiled the day he watch wl the submarines slip into the waters of the St. Lawrence in the Canadian Vickers a d at Montreal, iitid as hc had tnillcd an hc stood that summer day in 1913 watching the fleet tet under way lor iU long transatlantic transat-lantic voyage. Fut Tynan laughed !a:t and loudest on the r:iy the Peutschl and chugged up Chesapeake Bay. and tho German propagandists grabbed their ni"?!-phones ni"?!-phones to tell the Yanks how a Hun shipbuilder and navigator had put one over on the "enterprising American?! Ameri-can?! " Joe Tynan is typical of the democracy democ-racy of America, a boy who started at the lowest rung of the ladder and mounted only by his own individual efforts. A poor Irish Immigrant boy when he arrived In America to carve out a place for himself and a home for his widowed mother, he has persistently per-sistently fought his way upward, step by ptep, until he has come into his niche in the Hall of Fame through ruegpd prtrsf vcraiice, t-elf-heln and hewing to t ho lino of truth, hone?ty and ;ard work. While yet a small boy in County Tyrone. Iiclaod, his father died, having hav-ing him the sole support of his mother. As a mechanic he worked in the Sion mills in County Tyrone, but growing up a bit and getting a vision of the hard row ahead he must hoe to get to the top of the heap, he smilingly announced an-nounced to his mother that he was off to America, "the land of opportunity." Arriving alone one night in New York in April twenty. seven years ago without friends and limited means, he eiarted for Philadelphia, where his mother had friends. It was 0 o'clock at night when he arrived in the Quaker City, and the family at Twenty-fifth and Pine streets, whom he hunted up, had retired when he arrived at the Chii be11 t-tbwati and Joe Tynan meet in San Franci' o on 5rciiv.-ab''e tour of the American ihip arols on the 0 . Faunc Coat ! '.lire. hold. seventeen yc-ari. old. he had made the oceanic trip alone. Thus he began his career. Next day he went down along the Delaware lliver destined in thc( years to pro e such a predominant part In the shipbuilding program to save civilisation and asked for a job with tho old Philadelphia Engineering Works, at Front and Mifllin streets. After a while he went to the Baldwin Locomotive Works. From there the youth went up to Cramps' shipyard, in Re; ington, and landed another job. Here was the pivotal turning point of his career, for here he learned the arts a nd sciences of shipbuilding. Twptve yars, from 1S?4 to 106, he remained at Cramp?', and went from titer" to the Union I --on Works, in Cahforma. 1 "ate hold him there for the triumphant fat in 131S of building a 12.000-ton bteel vessel in twenty-four working days. Four months after his arrival in America Joe sent for his mother and set up a home ou Moore street, in Philadelphia.. Having forfeited an early education becaure of tiie turn of fate that sent him early to work, he set out to acquire a "self-made" education edu-cation in the land of the free. While in Philadelphia for many years he attended night school at the Franklin Institute and absorbed all the technical techni-cal knowledge he could acquire. Fourteen Four-teen years agu his mother died. Seventeen Sev-enteen years a go he . married an American -girl of Irish descent, the daughter of a Philadelphia family. Th ere are three junior Tynans tO'ia Mariret. Jo-ephir.e and Joseph, Jos-eph, Jr.. known to all the friends of the family as "'Buster." One ear af'.er arriving here Tynan took out his citi-ienhip citi-ienhip paper-:. .Men c!ol-cj1;' a-ocu'.ted w:ih him s'.y he is a great handler of me:':. He has a tenacious memory. He never makes a note on paper, but cari.e-s his facts in his head. It is said that in this connection he once wont his way through twenty. seven pages of questions ques-tions in testimony before a board of inquiry in Washington without once referring to r.ctes. His decisions are always made on the instant a nd his Judgments are accurate and efficient. H is a hustler in action: in tiie shipyard ship-yard he is inually on a jog t'"ot rather than a saunter. He can name o e ry man v. ho ever has come in contact v-ith him in a bui-in-"- capacity, and knows their first names, even to the riveters and the Waterboys. ILls Many Faints Cramps' workmen tell of a recent ' liit paid by Tynan to the b;g Hog I? land shipbuilding plant, w here he met many men whom he had not seen for years. He recognized them on the instant .and addressed them by their fir?! names. He goes on the plan of getting the maximum amount of work out of his men by cheerfulness, and has the faculty of retaining their good will at all times. His office always is open to the humblest workman, work-man, and the laboring man knows that m Joe T'. r.an he has a sincere friend He has the typical Irish tense of humor. In a come he invariably eg cspec through his adaptability and v.-,t. They say that one time while he v. a:-; a beginner at Cramps he was assigned as-signed i:i charge of the loading of is tores on a vesr.c-1. He had never been in charge cf such work. Men came along with boxes cf food and tore3f and would auk: "Joe. where wilt I put this?" Joe didn't know at all, but hs coun terel with: "Where were you going to put It? "Aft, sir," the man would reply. "Well, sir: put it aft you're right, Jce replied with an authoritative wava of the hand. Tyna.n has taken cut many patents of hi7.- own. The first v as for a Pipe bending machine. This turned out zo important that he took out patents in Great Britain, France, Germany and Canada. Another of his b3st pat. ents wasr a pneumatic caulking n& chine that did away with handwork and speeded shipbuilding, the first of it-- kind and now generally hi use. Another patent was for an annealing furnace. He had patents on port hole cutters and fue!-o:l burners and for other improvements in connectioa with pneumatic tcohs. He early learned the business of saving his money, always making it a point to spend less than he earned. Keep out cf debt and debts won't worry ycu, he constantly tcils your.3 men. |