Show I T JEWELERS SAVE SAVEL L PARTICLES Great Care are Taken to Guardy Guard y l' l Against t Loss of Precious Pre Pre- r dolls cious Metal f MUCH LOST IN ATMOSPHERE f ii J f fV V P r- r Small Particle Pur-lides of Gold doltl Dust u t Fly Fir A Wit When WInd s Inelo arc a tC In lii Summer Open Jh There is no place Nn In tho the tt wor ll where economy la Is practiced quite as us closel closely find and where heru so much earn Cato is lal taken en of oC waste and refuse c matter matter mat mat- ter a as In lii tho large Jurge jewelry establishments establish ments and gold refineries of this city says tho the Providence Pro Journal Tournai every cry particle of or waste matter mutter no matter how Infinitesimal It ma may seem eem to the ordinary Is person carefully I looked after and new eV methods are be being be- be In ing Irig constantly adopted to recover reco 4 losses Josses which are arc so o small that they can call scarcely be he computed by experts in II the business The Immense alue value of oC the gold and other precious n metals used In the thc Jew Jew- r dry elry business mal makes eS' eS it Imperative that r 1 the fine mc particles s no larger cr than thaO specks pecks IH o of C dust be looked 11 after uler quito quite ao I U I ly h as is the finished product Loss in inthe the tue latter laller c can n n come through but on one If ff source dishonesty among tuc the ein- ein while the tho S from rom the 11 i i. Ings and other othel small particles of gold old I ml might ht come about In several oral ways was The rho small particles adhere to Iho the of or th the they fall Upon the floor an and mingle with the thedus dust dust dus t anti and thc they will even float away f 1 on fl Ute the air all I In Tn speaking of or the methods which I I have haAe been adopted I b by the proprietors of the largo laro concerns one ono of or the prominent nent manufacturers said i J Tho Tio opportunities for fOI losses Josses in the tho i f jew IQ Lh business are arc greater than In c any other line that I I- know of or When rhen iI r 1 the men are arc filing tho the rings or 01 lapping t them up upon n n a sort Olt of or If emery wheel the I fine ne particles of course get upon their hands and clothes domes Under the Inc old s system sj s 's j t tern tem m all of the filings Wings accumulated on r the machine fell roll the fl upon floor or or 01 t found foun a resting place Illuca on the clothes I Id of nf the tho workmen We Ve have have- remedied t t 1 this to s some me extent now nm and antI have ha each of the lie wheels fitted with a hood 11 f which collects collect all of or the tho small par jar 7 tides which are arl drawn by hy air suction 1 j to t. the tho basement the they are ure all aU k c collected d Under Und the time old wh Ich was In use in iii this e establishment until about two tx years yem's a ago o we lost considerable considerable consid consid- erable enable In waste Time The loss Joss mr might ht he be r due entirely to accident nt but oftentimes often oten- times dishonesty o on the part of emI em em- p o cs figured Cig prominently in the Ole mat mat- tot ter I kl For instance I was told of a n man who worked In an c establishment of i. i r r. r this kind who hail had a cr very bushy beard ft nd C hair While he ha was as filing the time r rif if 1 rings tho the filings s would accumulate on the bench hench and tho man would occasionally occa- occa run hla mis lingers fingers through h his Ji hair beard beald lie I kept this up several r day anU J wh when n n ho went to his home in the evening he with the aid of a a fine comb and a dish of water V. V iW be able to add quite a consider consider- d able sum to tho the amount o of his days day's r 1 wages wag The superintendent of the factory factor 7 or shop began hegan to suspect him because the amount of filings turned 1 In at the end ond of or the days day's worl was yas not a as I. I large e as itS it sli uld 1 be e Tho The system of or Weighing the rings when they were given to the worl workmen men in the morning morning- anel and o of weighing the rings and waste 4 at at- tho the end of tho days day's work was tried The rime man soon oon l learned une of or the sy- sy t tern tem m that was wa being tried to catch him and he began hegan to bring brass bra flings filings In his pocket Hocket which he mixed 1 with the gold filings s to tal take e the place pace of that f. f which he dally daily carried awa away in his i heard beard ni-mu ni and hair hah Under our present pre s system stem that could not easily he be done don f for fot the filings are arc now drawn into the I. I tubes to the basement and ancl are arc carried out of the reach of Ute the men who arc are running the tho machines Another source of or loss which has been remedied within a no few years is t. t in Iii Ute tile filings s that cling to the gari garments gar gar- i rt ments worn b by tho the workmen In I many I. of or the c establishments tal this was wai va dist dis- dis ls- ls t i some orn a ago ngo oJ and anti arrange araan arrangements e ments were made to to havo have the workmen workmen work work- men wash their o n Ja hi th thI the thi I shops The water which WitS s 's use used useI In w washing was then passed passe l' l through rl a 1 t trap and und the sediment collected W I We u Vc ell rollo that practice for 4 I years year car but hut solid some of or tho the workmen were careless cureless In washing the clothes and L w wo we have found Cund by lW experiment that It Ii 1 pays pas us to maintain a a. laundr laundry In th the thc 1 building where ti lit the clothes 01 of or r the time workmen n arc are cared eare for at the cx ex Nn pense e of he it the company COmpall The Time wat water r from the laundry Is accumulated ac ac- k cumulated the gold and and other base sInk t tl to th tho bottom This Thim 1 sediment Is IK thou then collected and amid the i Ii dirt Is burned out ul In this same me wa way tho the water which is IN used In washing r tho time floors Is saved ved sr f there thelO Is an any Indi cation of pediment In It ft About once onCi 1 e cr every year ear the walls Avails of or the rooms ar arc aro f 1 nil 1111 and It would really surprise you ou to see sec the amount of or gold old that tim t clings to them l I Men n arc sweeping sweeping- the thi floors all time the time limo and the sweeping s S aro are all nil burned 5 There are some lo losses cs which w wc L are aro unable t to overcome There Is a L certain amount which Is lost In th tho C atmosphere luring during tho the tiling filing and pol pol- operations and th re seems tl t to 0 r bo ho no ho vay to overcome It Tho The patti r des are so 80 small that It H Is Impossible C V. V to catch them In an any way and ancI when a time the windows are art open in the summer r h months month and warm weather the these e par par- s heat Hoat away In the air all Tho Time windows win win- loWs dows in lit an nn establishment nt of thi this S kind are arc not opened a great deal because bemuse be be- cause muse of oC this timis Then Timen there Is a loss In shrinkage c I. I Every Evory time the tho gold Is melted It decreases de IC l creases in weight because some Mome of or tim the C allo alloy Is la burned out but the gold Jold in increases In- In I. I creases In value These two sources source 9 I aro are the thC principal ones In which w wo- wo 0 I aro unable to stop the loss but hut the th a amount lost each year Is so small that tim t wo we dont don't know what tho the percentage o im Is This Y year we are aro keeping a n careful care care- ful UI record of or all lo losses and shrinkage shrink u age c and In Jim another r year AVO wo ran can tel tell II you exactly what per cent of or the gal gold I is lost Mn the time air ala and also what th the C average ax se shrinkage Is IR In working th tho 0 Into finished ll products As As an Illustration of how tho the gal gold ii escapes In the time air When the no new V I building of or the Barton Ostby-Barton company compan y was Avas erected on Richmond street a short time ago ugo the 01 old 1 structure wa was Avas pulled down to to tomake make room for or the theneA new neA neAThe Time The ot old chimney through h t I which the smoke from the furnace of or i the tho ol old factory escaped se wa was Avas torn down an and the bricks brIck were tre brush brushed I and washed There was Avas an Immense e I I amount of sol gold recovered by time the ic- ic liners from the soot sool and dirt from toni those these bricks Time Tho accumulation was that o of more than twenty years but It Jl si ho the gold dust escapes unless CI C every precaution Is taken Wo We 0 do not have o as us much trouble from dishonesty dishonest among amon the tho employees as you might expect One Ono rea reason on for this is time the check system which Is In force In every lall large e establishment In Inthe tho the business When a man working on the hung filing sizing or polishing machina machine ma mn- chine china goes oe to vOrk in the morning liei heI ho lie hoIs I Is- Is charged with a certain number O of pennyweights of Jol gold which Is delis deliA cred ered to him In the shape of rings When hen he has completed the time Job joh the weight ht of the rings turned in plus pius the time amount of or the waste from will Ili bo be almost equal to that with Avith which he ho was ch charged little dishonesty There Is Iser er very among time tho women employed due partly to tt the fact tact that AVO women men are arc I believe more honest honc t and ha have haAe haa a higher high high- er cr sense o of honor than men and partly to the fact that few tew of or them are arc employed upon work where the they could coul 1 easily steal stal the time waste particles of gold god u I in fl connection w L IL me Ule iii fl wasted asted In the tho refineries a story Is told l II by a no newspaper man which was re relate related related re- re late 1 to him by one of or the time men conc concerned con con- c corned a n number of years ago Along Alon In the tho late Into GOs William and und Joseph Smith both of this cH city ha ed I Isome some property tho the buildings on which consisted con of sheds where a a. man maim had con conducted tho the refining bu business After the Smith brothers secured the time land they h to 10 take up tho time hoots sweep the walls Avails an and 1 ceilings of or the rooms und and even een went so 50 far as ns to remove th the contents of the time drains and amid cesspools and anI the top soil soli within a number numb r of feet of tho ho buildings Allor All of or the soot In the chimney was Avas taken out find and after all nil of the gold hal had been extracted front from these unusual places it I Is said that the tho men r reaped a n profit of almost with Avith which the they started In business for them them- selves In man many of or the large buildings devoted dc- dc voted to the time Jewelry business the time water Is collected collect cd after the jewelers have extracted all of or the gold and silver po possible cible under their methods by bya a trap which Is owned by the owner of the building building- and In many instances the revenue Ic derived from this tills source pays almost as lS well as ns the rental of f fany any room in Iii the building Similar methods are adopted where a lar large c amount of nitrate on em chloride of sliver silver is used in coating coaling the wet Avot plate negatives The water us In developing dc and wa washing the thc plate pinto Is Ispa pa passed d through a trap where the sediment Is extracted and sold ol |