-*»•* HAPPY DAYS AT THE BERLIN MUNICIPAL. POOL SEPTEMBER, 193O PRINTED AT BERLIN, N. H., U. S. A "DOG DAYS" By C. O. SAPPINGTON, M. D. BROWN BULLETIN Director, Industrial Health Division, National Safety Council PRINTED UPON NIBROC SUPERCALENDERED BOND One of our friends who has charge of a public health laboratory in a large city Vol. XIII. SEPTEMBER, 193O No. 3 has recently drawn our attention to the fact that the number of cases of rabies BROWN BULLETIN PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION or hydrophobia, resulting from bites by "The object of this organization is to publish a paper for the benefit of the employees of the Brown mad dogs, are almost as great during the Company and of the Brown Corporation in which may appear items of local and general interest; and which will tend to further the cause of co-operation, progress and friendliness among and between all winter as they are in the summer. The sections of these companies."—By-Laws, Article 2. experience of this particular laboratory showed 248 cases during the summer as KDITORIAL STAFF against 240 during the winter of the past year. Editor— J. M. McGivney Photographic Editor— Victor Beaudoin Assoaate Editors Louville Fame, C. H. The cry of "mad dog" used to strike Cartoonist-Alfred Laflamme Editor-Robert Murphy terror to our hearts. It still brings a Assistan Paul Business Manager— Jules Lanvee shudder and rightly so, for the bite of a Grenier, Kenneth Harvey dog suffering from rabies is usually pretty serious business. However, the eminent BOARD OF DIRECTORS Frenchman, Pasteur, did much for the President—O. P. Cole Secretary—A. L. Laferriere world in providing a specific remedy UPPER PLANTS SULPHITE MILL CASCADE MILL BROWN CORP. against the bite of a mad dog. Hundreds Walter Elliott J. M. McGivney John A. Hayward C. H. Mott of lives are saved each year through the John Heck Paul Grenier ' A. K. Hull W. E. Creighton prompt application of the famous Pasteur P. W. Churchill Louville Paine Kenneth Harvey W. L. Bennett treatment, which is given all over the PORTLAND OFFICE Milton M. Shaw world through the so-called "Pasteur In- stitutes" where not only treatment is rendered, but the protective serum is Items, original articles and photographs are invited from all employees of the company. These may manufactured. be handed to any member of the Editorial Staff or Board of Directors, or sent directly to Editor, Brown Bulletin, Berlin, N. H. All contributions must be signed. Youngsters should be cautioned against petting strange dogs. Dog owners should see that their dogs are properly chained SERVICE DIRECTORY and kept under observation if symptoms BROWN COMPANY DISTRICT NURSING DEPARTMENT (Established 1903) Supervisor, Esther Anne Ulschoeffer; Assistant Supervisor, C. Gertrude Kennedy; District Nurses, of any illness appear at any time. For Dorothy Goodwin, Eunice C. Studley. Office 226 High Street; telephone 85; office hours 8-8:30 a. m., this it is better to consult a veterinarian. and 12:30-1:30 p. m. Calls may be sent to the above office, to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, telephone 283, or to any Brown Company time office. Working hours, 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. A nurse In case of a dog bite, you should im- answers all first calls, but may not continue upon a case except a doctor is in charge. mediafely consult your physician. He will know what to do and see that proper BROWN COMPANY SURGICAL SERVICE measures are taken. L. B. MARCOU, M. D., Chief Surgeon, Office, 275 School Street C. L. GARRTS, M. D., Residence, Berlin National Bank Building. On daily duty in the Industrial SEEING AMERICA FIRST Relations Department, Main Street; Automatic 340 Mention Niagara Falls, Yellowstone E. R. B. McGEE, M. D., Office, 45 High Street Park or the Grand Canyon to the flivver NORMAN DRESSER, M. D., Office, 143 Main Street Industrial Nurses: Olive Hodgdon, Industrial Relations Department, Main Street (Automatic 340) owner who drove his car across the con- Bernadette Gunn, Sulphite Mill (Automatic 221); Florence Sheridan, Cascade Mill (Automatic 560) tinent, and he will probably recall having BROWN COMPANY RELIEF ASSOCIATION heard those names before. Ask him what Open to all employees except those eligible to Burgess Relief Association he saw on his tour and he will describe President, Peter Landers, Cascade Secretary, P. L. Murphy. Cascade it to the last detail: Vice-President, Olaf M. Nelson, Storehouse "A" Treasurer, E. F. Bailey, Main Office Visiting Nurse: Miss Martha Fagan (Automatic 379) The place where gas was thirty-eight cents a gallon. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE A. K. Hull, Riverside A. A. Morse, Cascade The polite traffic cop. Olaf M. Nelson, Storehouse "A" P. K. Ross, Cascade The thirty-four detours. Tohn Briggs, Salvage Geo. Doucette, Cascade cjuwuEdwinj Eft,. HoweAJUWC,, Tubj. uuec Milivj.nil NoAIU.. 2c* Johjonn A/\ . JjyncnLynch, , i^ascadCascadee The weather for twenty consecutive Executive Committee meets on the first Monday of each month at 7:00 p. in., at the Y. M. C. A. days. The mudhole he avoided. BURGESS RELIEF ASSOCIATION The mudhole he did not avoid. The eighteen cars he saw from his home President, Willis C. Plummer Secretary, Frank Moreau Vice-President, William Thomas Treasurer, Edmond Chaloux state. Visiting Nurse: Miss Martha Fagan (Automatic 379) The hot-dog vendor who short-changed DIRECTORS him fifteen cents. Arthar Montminy Philip Smyth The rusty nail that caused his one William Thomas George Rheaume William Sweeney Charles Pinette puncture. James Moody The other good driver he saw on the The Directors meet on the first Tuesday of each month at 4 p. m., at the Sulphite Mill road.—Pacific Coast Motorist. September, 1930 BROWN BULLETIN Page 3 AN OLD GANG SAWY1 TORY By FREEMAN H. SWEETSER AS TOLD TO LOUVILLE PAINE T will be interesting for Brown Com- single up and down saw, and a circular hauled away and burned. At one tme pany men as well as many others to board saw. The shingle and clapboard they were shipped away and sold for I know that there is now living in machines were underneath. The gang kindling wood. At another time they Milan, N. H., a "gang sawyer" of olden crew consisted of a gangman, a tail stock were ground up and dumped into the days. He is the sole survivor of several man, two edgers, and a marker. The river. Ten to twelve thousand feet of men who were once employed by H. logs were pulled into the mill by a chain lumber was an average day's work. Winslow & Company in that capacity. He over a 'nigger wheel.' They were fastened "William Moffett edged for me and I is Freeman H. Sweetser and he holds the to carnages that carried them by the saws, became very well acquainted with him. Boston Post gold-headed cane for being and it was so arranged that one log In later years I always made it a point the oldest man in the town. followed another with no stopping of the to visit him in his cobbler shop when I It required skill to run a gang. As a machinery. The top end of the saws was was in Berlin. Dennis York, later a trader young fellow he worked on all the differ- slanted ahead and when the saws went in Milan, ran the single up-and-down saw. ent machines, with the exception of run- up, a rachet «ffair moved the log forward "The day crew boarded in what is now ning the circular board saw, and in this just what the saws would cut on the called the 'Brown Company House,' the way became familiar with the gang saws downward stroke. Boards were taken off first frame house built in Berlin. The and was soon able to run them. There next to the slabs, and planks of different sleeping quarters were very limited in is a world of difference between the space. Like all young fellows, we got to primitive gang sawing of those days and roughhousing sometimes. On one of the band sawing of today. those occasions, the boarding master came This Is His Story: to the foot of the stairs with the com- "I was born March 20, 1845, on the Ord- mand : 'Boys, I want less noise up there.' way farm, on the east side of Milan. This The words had hardly left his mouth when farm was recently sold to the Brown a well-aimed rubber struck him full on Company by Corey Goddard. My father the top of the head 1 ran away when I was three years old, "Working hours were from 5 a. m. to 7 leaving my mother with three children to p. m. A half hour for breakfast at 6:30 support. We had no word whatever from and a half hour for dinner at noon. Alon^ him for twenty years. My mother died in the fall when the days became shorter, when I was six years old. My uncle, the time seemed very long when we had Dustin Ordway, brought me up. When I to light the kerosene lamps at about four became eighteen years old, we came to FREEMAN H. SWEETSER, MILAN. N. H. o'clock in order to see to run until seven. the agreement that I should 'shift for SOLE SURVIVING GAWG BOARD SAWYER OF THE The night crew worked ten hours, there myself.' Winters, I worked at anything I H. WINSLOW & CO, being no change of shifts. They boarded could find to do; drove an ox team for thicknesses out of the middle of the log. in the 'Night House,' now the Arch Mur- Perry Robbins logging over at Crystal one The 'edging' was done with a small circu- ray place, corner of Main and Seventh winter, and was chore boy for Simon Cole lar saw.