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battle or a captain of industry in the crises of modern


industrial competition- was that a little thing might really


be a big thing.


The subject of conversation was brass- bushed


filling bobbins for Northrop looms. His answer was just


as given above, short, sharp and decisive, every word


monosyllabic and Anglo- Saxon.


He had reached a snap judgment- perhaps on


someone's chance remark or an unthoughtful decision of a


subordinate, accepted without question, because bobbins


appeared to him to be a little thing of no great moment in


his manufacturing methods.


The man to whom he made the remark was also a


successful manufacturer. He was moved to tell a story.


He knew it was a good one, for it was a story of actual


experience, a story of difficulties met and overcome; it


would prove that little things like bobbins may become big


things through improvements that effect large economies.


AN EXPERIENCE STORY


" I was not getting as large a production," he said,


" and was making more seconds than I thought should be


the case in my mill, which was modern in equipment and


well organized. I called in my superintendent and put the


proposition up to him. This is the substance of the report


he made to me.


" The weaver blames the spinner, naming soft


bobbins, bobbins only partly f1lIed with yarn, bobbins with


yarn wound on the butts, and bobbins with yarn started


too far from the butts to allow his feelers to function


properly; and defective bobbins, some with loose rings


and others with small butts, changes effected by the


regular mill processes.


" A glance at the uneven standing of the bobbins on the spindles on the side of any


frame showed me the blame did not belong to the spinner. "


" A few minutes in the spinning room and a glance at


the uneven standing of the bobbins on the spindles on the


side of any frame showed me the blame did not belong to


the spinner.


" I tried the brass- bushed bobbin- designed as I was


told to overcome this trouble; found the spinning and


weaving troubles of which complaint had been made had


disappeared; and secured my desired increase in production


and decrease in seconds. Only bobbins with brass


bushings are now used in my mill."


IMPROVEMENTS IN FILLING YARN


Modern competition, national and international, makes


it necessary for manufacturers to watch for chances to


improve conditions in every way that leads to either


reduced costs or greater production per unit of labor and


per dollar of wage expense.


The advent of the Northrop loom aroused the textile


industry to the great possibilities of improvements in the

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