April, 1933 an Unsurpassed Record
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PUBLISHED AT DECATUR, ILLINOIS SPRING IS HERE APRIL, 1933 AN UNSURPASSED RECORD THIS MACHINE WAS THE FOUNDATION OF Mueller's WATER WORKS BUS- INESS—TODAY IT IS THE FOUNDATION OF DEPEND- ABLE SERVICE CONNEC- TIONS AT MAINS OF MORE THAN 95% OF UNITED STATES WATER WORKS What makes the Mueller Water Main Tapping Machine so GOOD? So EFFICIENT? So ENDURING? The answer is simple—to begin with, the correct principle upheld by the highest grade materials and perfect ma- chining. That the Mueller Machine is RIGHT in PRINCIPLE, in MATERIAL, in MACHINING, is proved by its general acceptance by water works. Mueller Machines 50 years or ;>lder are still in use—another proof of their SUPERIORITY. But it is not proof that they are as good as our machine of today—MANY IMPROVEMENTS have been made. We do not deny our 50 year old machines are still doing their work—they would not be Mueller machines if they did not. But we know the Mueller Machine of today is the ONE MACHINE that will do BETTER WORK. Send in your old machine—let us bring it as near up to date as possible—or better still— MUELLER make you a liberal trade in allowance on a new Reg. U. S. Pal. Off. machine. DON'T DELAY. WRITE TODAY. MUELLER CO. DECATUR, ILLINOIS THREE-QUARTER OF A CENTURY OF PROGRESS The little shop In this m O'd c s t in Decatur in building in 1857 1857 from which II. Mueller be- grew the Muel- gan a lifetime of ler industries service to health pictured below. and sanitation. Below is riant 2, East Eldo- The main plant on Cerro G or d o Street, rado Street, where all M ueller roof is Mueller Club House, in- black and galvanized iron goods where all plumbing, are manufactured, including water and gas brass goods are made. The service boxes, service clamps, Below: Our Canadian factory, etc. mam office is in a three-story building on College Street. Mueller Vitreous Ware Plant where toilet combinations, lavatories, drinking fountains etc , arc manu- factured. This building is approximately 60Vx20V, west of it is a big warehouse and shipping room. PROTECTION! REGULATION! ECONOMY! SAFETY! Four things that every home owner wants. Four things Mueller strainers, pressure regula- tors and relief valves give wherever installed— they give it with a minimum of attention and practically no upkeep. Include these necessary and valuable devices in every specification. Once an owner understands the functions of these mechanical devices and their automatic ac- tion he will demand them, Regulators made in %" to 2,y2" sizes inclu- sively and suitable for inlet pressures up to 250 pounds and delivery pressures of 5 to 125 pounds. The Mueller H-9045 Water Relief Valve conforms to A. S. M. E. Boiler Construction Code and is approved by the Underwriters. Trade Mark MUELLER Reg. U. S, Pat. Off. Write to oar Regulator Division for full description and prices of these values. MUELLER CO. DECATUR, ILL. New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles Canadian Factory: Mueller, Ltd., Sarnia, Ont. OFFICERS ADOI.PH ML-ELLBK MAIN FACTOHY AND Pres. and Gen. Mgr. OFFICE RoBioiiT MUELLER Decatiu', Illinois V. P. in Charge of Putt. Rel. W. B. MuiCLLEtt MUELLER Executive V. P. and Trean. Seventy-Five Years of in charge of Finance. V. Service to Hcullli 0/irmn. Ex. & Budget Com. and Sanitation LUCIEN W. MPELT.BH V. P. in Charge of Works BRANCHES Management (C- Kntjineertno RECORD New York. San Francisco .T. W. SIMPSON V. P. in Cliarge of Selling PUBLISHED AT DECATUR, ILLINOIS Dallas .T. W. WBLLS BY MUELLER CO. Sec. of Company and Asst. CANADIAN FACTORY to President Plumbing, Water and Gas Brass Goods Mrioi.i.ni:, LTD. It. II. MUKLLKR Chief Engineer ~fith Year in Business Sarnia, Ontario Vol. XXII APRIL, 1933 No. 240 EDITORIAL Chicago's great exposition—A Century of Progress—is soon to open. We might re- WANTED mark in passing that Mueller Co. has just God give us men. A time like this de- completed three quarters of a century of mands progress and is now headed for the century Strong minds, great hearts, true faith mark. and read}' hands : o Men whom the lust of office cannot buy, The art is not in making money but in keeping it, a truism which many of us have Men who love honor, men who cannot lie. learned during the past few years. —I. G. HOLLAND There are two things to which we never grow accustomed—the ravages of time and the injustice of our fellow men. answering telephone calls. Business efficiency o demand it. Inside telephone systems are in- AUTO FATALITIES STILL LEAD stalled for one purpose only—to speed up The total fatalities from accidents in the business by saving time. A house telephone United States in 1932, so far as reported was should never be used for anything but busi- 90,500 as compared to 100,240 in 1932. Auto- ness. Therefore the person called should mobiles still lead, but the fatalities were not know instantly that the call means business. so large—29,500 compared with 33,740 in Delay in answering calls is a waste of the 1932. This is ascribed to two reasons—bet- time of the person calling. Keep these facts ter street and highway supervision and fewer in mind: When your telephone rings answer cars driven. The home, which seemingly promptly. All telephone calls during the clay should be a place of safety, contributed 28,- should not only be answered at once but 000 fatalities. Industry, with its machinery there should be no unnecessary conversation. and thousands of men exposed to danger, The same courtesy that suggests a prompt is the smallest contributing factor, the total answer to an oral question should likewise number of fatalities being 15,000. This is en- suggest a pleasant answer to a telephone couraging. Safety supervision and safety question. A tone of impatience does not help education must be given credit for this en- in the least. couraging showing. Personal care and cau- tion on the part of workmen will Off hand the average radio fan achieve a better result in 1933. would say Amos and Andy were Remember that. the most popular entertainers, but as generally the case the off LOST TIME hand answer would be wrong. A Just plain every day courtesy careful poll of 150 cities in the Mueller Artcraft should suggest promptness in Sink Combination United States and Canada (Continued on page 4) THE MUELLER RECORD THE MUELLER RECORD Published at Decatur, Illinois, by MUELLER CO., Look for the Good Manufacturers of Vital Spots Products for the Plumb- ing, Water and Gas Industries. You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to gain virtues. Do not C. N. WAGENSELLER, EDITOR think of your faults; still less of oth- er's faults. In every person who comes WHITE WOLF KILLED near you, look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it; and as you can, try to imitate it, and your Murderous Marauder Escaped Guns, Traps faults will drop off like dead leaves and Hunters for Years when their time comes.—John Ruskiu. Charlie Cochran of this organization is in receipt of a letter from his brother, Lee Cochran, who lives in Stensville, Montana, enclosing a newspaper article telling of the SAN FRANCISCO'S BIG BRIDGE killing of White Wolf. One might think the name applied to a red skin. Not so. It There is to be a tidy sum of money spent applies to a wolf with white hair. For ten in and around San Francisco this year and years the beast has been a terror of the next. Work has commenced there on the ranches in the vicinity of Stanford. The suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate wolf raided barn yards and pastures, killing and connecting Fort Point in the Presidio cattle, sheep and swine. The news article of San Francisco and Lime Point in Marin says the depredations of White Wolf have county. The cost of this gigantic improve- cost ranchers thousands of dollars. ment will be $32,000,000. Of this amount, contracts amounting to $23,288,294 have al- Roamed Radius of 10 Miles ready been signed and work is now starting. Nearly every rancher within a radius of The only other major contract remaining un- ten miles had suffered a loss and for ten signed is for paving the main side and the years or more, ranchers had resorted to approach spans. The completion of the every trick they knew to catch or kill the bridge is to come in 1936. bloodthirsty beast, but of no avail. It seemed The main suspension span of this bridge immune against traps, guns and poison. is to be 4200 feet, center to center of piers White Wolf weighed eighty-three pounds with side spans each 1125.41 feet long. and was unusually powerful for a wolf. Developed length on center-line is 9217.05 One Wound in Fifteen Years feet from the bridge end of the San Fran- It is believed that he was about fifteen cisco toll house to the shore end of the years old. His feet were not crippled, which Marin approach viaduct. There is also 9000 shows that he was never caught by a trap. feet of road through the Presidio, including His right hind leg did have a bullet hole in one concrete viaduct 3000 feet long and one it which was inflicted four years ago by the steel viaduct 1500 feet long; and 5200 feet same hand that recently fired the fatal shot.