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"My Crown-Shrunk Overalls ] Were Washed 83 Times 7IJithoulSh,inlling " The Crown Overall Mfg. Co., Cincinnati, Ohio "I am mailing you a pair of Crown Shrunk Overalls which, in addition La eighty-three trips to the laundry, were subjected to extremely hard wear at all times. Only the very best overalls could suffer such abuse. And they did not shrink in the least." Like George Carlson, hundreds of o_verall wearers Chief Engineer walk past many stores to do all their huying at the Hotel Roosevelt, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Syndicate Clothing Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It is known as lithe place to buy Crown Shrunk Overalls, a new pair free if they shrink." No Wonder Crown Guarantees A NEW PAIR FREE IF THEY SHRINK! EORGE CARLSON'S remarkable experience G shows how overall wearers everywhere have said goodbye to overalls that shrink. For a remarkable denim-and a liberal guarantee--has settled the "shrink" problem. If Crown-Shrunk Overalls shrink, you get a new pair free! Up to a few years ago, no one dreamed it possible to make overalls that would stay the same size despite repeated washings. But The Crown Overall Mfg. Co., largest in the world, believed it could be done. So they bought two denim mills-an entire town, in fact-and finally succeeded in creating Crown Shrunk Denim, a quadruple dyed cloth, extra heavy and closely woven. It not only resists shrinking but wears like iron! The Hotel Roosevelt, where In addition to this shrink-resisting feature, Crown Mr. George Carlson holds Shrunk Overalls are the most comfortable, durable, the responsible position of economical and best appearing overal1s ever produced. Chief Engineer, is one of the They have more pockets and more special features than leading hotels in Iowa. any other overall. Without question, Crown-Shrunk Overal1s are America's outstanding work garment. Don't expect to see Crown-Shrunk Denim in any other brand. It is an exclusive fabric of Crown's own mills and available only in Crown-Shrunk Overalls. Ask your dealer for Crown Shrunk Overalls-compare DEALERS them with any other overal1s. Crown-Shrunk Denim and Look for the Crown trade the Crown guarantee are the mark and guarantee-A NEW only distinctive and exclu PAIR FREE IF THEY sive features in overalls. SHRINK. Write today for full details. The CROWN OVERALL MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO ' Send for your copy of the Crown Railroad Time Book, F R E E • used and praised by railroad men everywhere. PACEMAKERS of PROSPERITY RAILROAD electrification means moving more FOR THE HOME-General Electric and its associated companies manufacture goods,. more quickly, with less spoilage, less many electric products, including G-E refrigerators, fans, vacuum cleaners, storage, less expense. 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GENERAL ELECTRIC Join ItS in the General Electric Hour, •broadcast every Satm'day evening, on a nation-wide N.B.C. network PageOne -- --- --------------------------- CONTENTS .~, Scene in Point Defiance Park, Tacoma Front Cover The City of Tacoma, Washington Paul G. Wilson... 3 Fire Prevention L. J. Benson 6 Accident Prevention 7 Safety Records 8 Employe Solicitation 10 Appointments 10 Joseph W. Stapleton-Obituary 10 1 Milwaukee Employees Pension Association , 10 Agricultural Development Section 10 Why Railroad Employment Has Declined..•..•••.•. •Samuel O. Dunn.• 11 Their Golden Wedding '" 11 Try. It .......•...................................• E. M. 12 Raising Peonies for Pleasure 13 Prosperity in Five Years on Five Acres 13 Help Wanted 14 No Hurry Every Man to His Trade George E. McKay. 15 The Milwaukee Road Goldie Bross 15 Western Dakota Conditions " 15 pipe's going good! The Agricultural and Colonization Department..••• R. W. Reynolds 16 Current News of the Railroad 19 1:: DGEWORTH fits right in The Milwaukee Railroad Women's Club 21 At Home · 23 g. E with those little waits while Special Commendation 25 IT the boys get the next switch On the Steel Trail : 27 F ready. Engineer J; Delaney ofthe New York Central's 60th Street yard knows it does. Edgeworth keeps its place in the pockets and O' It pipes ofmenwho know whatthey MILWAUKEE TYPE ci .a: want. Slow-burning, cool and '1\ benevolent, with a fla BLOW-OFF -COCK a; vor all its own, Edge with its worth stays friendly. Joint-Ring-Strainer With first consideration for If YOU Mn', know Edge worth, mail the coupon fOT ~:iiiiilt safety to those responsible for a geuerous free packet kJ the handling of locomotives try. Let Edgeworth show you how ~ood it is-you be and with further consideration the judge. Address LaTUS & for efficiency in operation and Bro. Co., Richmond, Va. economy in cost, the Milwaukee Road has standardized on the EDGEWORTH locomotive blow-offcock shown. SlUOKING TOBACCO The attention of terminal forces is called to the absolute necessity of mounting this blow-off cock on its joint-ring LARVS & BRO. CO•• 100 S. 22d St., strainer (shown.) Richmond, Va. Attention of engine men is called to the fact that in case of leakage, the valve may be ground in under boiler 'pressure and without any delay to the service by merely putting a wrench on the square of the valve stern extension and giving valve stern a quarter to a full turn. The valve is held solidly My name closed by boiler pressure and cannot be opened inadvertantly. My street addreea And tho town and state NEW YORK CHICAGO ST. LOUIS Now let the Edgeworth come I The Bird-Archer Company, Limited, Montreal Page Two THE MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE Volume XVIII September, 1930 No.6 ~ ...:....-_------------------ The City of Tacoma~ Washin.g1ton Paul G. Wilson, D. F. & P. A. TACOMA, Pierce County, Washi~gton, very favorably with the best. T~er.e are Our city has 145 churches of almost is a city of 107,000 people, 'Ylth a thirty-eight elementary schools, SIX mter every known denomination. Many of the suburban district having a populatIon of mediate and two high schools with an larger congregations have as their places 30,000. The city, founded 62 years a~o, enrollment of over 20,000 students. A of worship some of the city's finest and is located on Commencement Bay, which comparison of the number of students most beautiful buildings, which have been is a deep water harbor of Puget Sound, actually enrolled with the number of built in the last five years. that wonderful body of salt water which children of school age (four to twenty Nature has been wonderfully kind to reaches inland from the Pacific Ocean one) shows an exceedin~ly. fa~orable us who live in Tacoma and the rest of for over two hundred miles and provides condition exists here. ThiS cIty IS also the Puget Sound country. Our climate commerce with the finest harbors in the the home of the College of Puget Sound, is mild and even-tempered. Severe world. a non-sectarian college of liberal arts, storms are almost unknown and thunder established originally by the Methodist The harbor it has provided for Tacoma and lightning are rare indeed. In spite Church, with an enrollment of 650 stu of the general idea that it rains all is one of only two in the United States dents; the Annie Wright Seminary, an which is rated by the Government as winter here, one would probably be safe ·exclusive day and boarding school for in telling a friend who made such a com capable of -accommodating ships of any girls, and the Pacific Lutheran College, draft and this has naturally turned the ment that it rained less here than in his with a Normal Department, are also lo own home town, unless that home town thoughts of all on development of ocean cated here. Tacoma has fine parochial, traffic. This feature will be referred was in one of the southwest states. This elementary and high schools and a col~ege to later. is because Weather Bureau records show (Bellarmine) maintained by varIOUS an average annual rainfall for Tacoma Tacoma has a Commission form of Catholic Orders. of forty inches. These records go back government with a Mayor and four Com The metropolitan park system includes to 1885. The year of 1929 brought us missioners heading the departments of only twenty-seven inches which is less Finance, Light and Water, Public \yorks seventeen parks and fifteen playgrounds, exclusive of the school playgrounds. than that of many larger eastern and and Safety. Our prese~t Mayor IS t~e middle western localities. head of an important mdustry and IS Point Defiance Park, containing 638 committed to a program of development acres, with eight miles of waterfront and Our Climate and governmental efficiency. beaches, is the largest of these. This At the risk of being called a c1imateer, park has been used a, a model by park The limits of the city embrace an area I am going to quote a few more statis authorities of other cities and is one of tics on this subject and then tell you of fifty-four square miles four and one the finest in our country.