BADIN BULLETIN
VOL. Ill . O’CTOBER, 1920 No. 1
-S!" A*- OF GENERAL INTEREST sff sff
A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MACHINE SHOP
(Fon Beginners; in Words of One and Several Syllab )
thp^^ was \written by the author of ^owu^wlw^rea’d that enter-
tno article in our\September issue. To those with develop-
above information^ is sufficient. Bo ^ ihat happy fac-
ulu Z ^he Tallassee Power Company, and the f ^^ fiction cMd humor,
t y of makingi history- an interesting, story. He ^ f readers have sus-
a most delightful piece of reading. he did. And
ed that “Joe” Taylor wrote the history of the . f^om time' to time,
hope to have‘ the privilege of presenting more of hi 9 gpj,pQjj’g Note
No
Wheiii a Man Works
No one knows who founded the Ma-
^ Shop in the beginning; but it was
ound by Uncle Jesse Smith and Elmer
sgadone, in September. 1913, B. P.
^Before Prohibition), in a half found-
®^6d condition. They immediately set
^ out putting it on a producing basis,
much it costs you to spend a nickel. Good
old bygone days! Well, we can’t live in
the past-nobody does and makes a liv
ing at it, except archeologists maybe,
and they have to work in Egypt or some
other unventilated place a long ways
and ^ producing basis machine shop.
therefore regarded Russell was in the store room
"C in old da; a.d whi.e not .tHct.y a
What the; had to start with wasn't member of the
™«ch. Victor Hugo, in “Les Misera- all little pals ”1 ^07°
tells of some small cultivated plots think of one without rest of the boys
»" the banks of the Seine being not quite being recalled ./hey te 1 the jarn
‘»rge enough to be called gardens and about Genie and Fitz ,ji,iect of
jot , telephone n on the^sub.ect^ot
was something like this with the Ma- a stove. Fitz Har ,
'hme Shop in the early days. You thing of a kidder, called up from Whit
^ouldnf say that they had a !kit of tools,
ut still they had a little more than a
*^y Scout pocket knife. Their head
quarters were in a little shed located
^®ar the intersection of the Albemarle
^oad and the railroad spur leading to the
^arrows.
Jhe shed has departed long since,
the little knoll it rested on dis
appeared down the gullet of a steam
oyel these many ,'years ago. It was
^ simple old>-f aishioned little shop, and the
output was mainly anchor bolts; but
ere wasn’t any calculagraph in those
^ys, nor any flossy time-clock to be
^^ging, and the iclocking in and out of
.every time they shifted thjS. cut !of
Town’s Mule” from the port to star-
oard side of their mouths. There then.” +;tyip wa?
any Carbon Plant Factory led- The material man at ‘^at time was
ft. and “overhead” meant the sky and G-G-Guy G-G-Gerrish who ran amuck
"ot some foolish ’figures relating to how (Continued on Page 4)
a bLUVC. J. ' TTTl^’J.
thing of a kidder, called up from Whit
ney and asked Genie to send him up a
small wood stove of the type they had
“G^nie’replied, "Mr. Fitz Harris, we
® Fit^Harrl's said, “Well that’s all right,
Genie; send it up. tt
Genie insisted, “But, Mr. Fitz Harris,
we got ary one.”
Fitz said, “Well that ary^one will do
all right; send it up, Genie.”
Genie implored, “Mr. Fitz^ Harris, we
aint not got ary one, nohow.”
Fitz remarked, “Oh, you haven t any,
eh, Genie?’'
Genie said, “No!” „ • i,
Fitz hung up, saying “Oh, all right
Genie; never mind about sending one up
then.’
Brief Sketcii of President Davis’ Career
The photograph appearing on the
cover page of this issue of the Bulletin
is that of our president, Mr. Arthur
Vining Davis. The achievements of
Mr. Davis should be a living example to
the employees of this company as to
what can be accomplished by ability, un
failing courage, and confidence in one’s
self and ,his fellow men.
For a long while Mr. Davis* energies
have been concentrated in the important
development of the aluminum industry,
and it is to his foresight and unerring
judgment that the present industry has
achieved the prosperity it now enjoys.
From the year of his graduation from
college he has been identified with the
corporation now known as the Aluminum
Company of America, of which he is
president.
The rapid strides which the aluminum
industry has made as a result of the
creative work done by the Aluminum
Company of America has placed the
United States • in an enviable position
from the standpoint of aluminum pro
duction.
To Mr. Davis belongs the credit of
having placed this business on its pres
ent footing. The secret of his; success
is explained by those who have known
him for many years, in that he is as
active today, both mentally and physi
cally, as he has been at any time since
he became connected with the corpora
tion. The principle which Mr. Davis
works on is that a day ican never be re
called, and that the best you have in you
must be put forward each and every day.
Arthur Vining Davis was born May
30, 1867, at Sharon, Mass., the son of
Rev. Perley and Mary (Vining) Davis.
Through both lines of his ancestry he
is of English descent. He received, his
preparatory ^education in the public
schools of Hyde Park, Mass., and the
{Continued on Page 9)