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May 23, 1913.

THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN.

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BOOK NOTICES.

Kelly's Directory of the Engineers, Iron and Metal
Trades, and Colliery Proprietors, 1913. London:
Kelly’s Directories Limited. Price 80s.

Another of Messrs. Kelly’s most useful directories.
First issued 44 years ago, it has since been published at
intervals of four years, each edition having increased in
bulk. The present extends to-no less than 1,940 pages,
or 76 pages more than its immediate predecessor. The
directory comprises every calling in any way connected
with the profession and the industries specified and
connected with metal, or having any connection with or
affinity to engineering, from the first raising of the ores
from the mines in this country or their importation
here, through all the various processes to which the
metals are subjected, until the immense variety of
articles composed thereof have been produced in their
most finished forms.

Reorganisation and Costings. By Harvey Preen

F.C.A. New and enlarged edition, viii. + 188 pp.
4J in. by 7 in. Price 2s. 6d. net. London : Simpkin,
Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co.

This book, which is addressed to manufacturers and
merchants, lays down the principles that should govern
successful manufacturing, by means of internal reorga-
nisation, the elimination of waste, proper testing systems
of raw material, useful interior factory accounting, and
by the introduction of efficient costings, without parti-
cular reference to classes of trades or manufacture.
The author covers a wide ground in an epigrammatic
style. Such headings as “ the plague of sons,” “ the
canker of useless shepherds,” and “ diabetic capital,”
are earnests of a racy text. After all there is no reason
why the manufacturer should be compelled always to
take what the author calls his “ medicine ” in a
nauseous form, and this little book is not only incisive
but genuinely instructive.

Colliery Office Organisation and Accounts. By J. W.

Innes, F.C.A., and T. Colin Campbell, F.C.I.
xvii. + 118 p.p. 5| in. by 8J in. Price 5s. net.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Limited.

This treatise, whilst intended for the student and
accountant, has been written in a style rendering it
suitable for the general reader who may take an interest
in the coal trade and its financial side, of ever-increasing
importance as the weight of legislation grows.

The book is suitably divided into three parts, with an
introduction dealing with the general considerations* of
organisation, correspondence, filing, &c. Part I. is
devoted to sales, and a model method of recording and
checking coal drawings, coal sent to screens, washers
and coke ovens, wagons, deliveries by rail, river, and cart,
&c., is set out, with examples of the necessary forms.
Part II. deals with costs, including the purchase of
stores, &c., and the payment of wages, whilst Part III. is
a short section outlying the method of preparing the
balance-sheet, trading and profit and loss accounts.

Practice varying so greatly at almost every
colliery, not only as regards the terms of employment
but also as respects the management of the sales
department and commercial custom, it is, of course
impossible to lay down inflexible rules; whilst the authors’
however, have kept this fact in mind, the methods
which they recommend are capable of a wide applica-
tion, as very typical conditions have been selected.
Special circumstances at times demand special treatment,
although even here the value of system is too frequently
ignored ; and in any case it would be too much to expect
that a book of this class should cover in detail every
unconventional phase of business. On one point, how-
ever, we should have liked the authors to have given us
some information, namely, as to the variations in pay
sheets entailed by the Minimum Wage Act; had they
done so the double purpose would have been served of
assisting the student to an understanding of duties
that are comparatively new, and of giving the general
reader some notion of the labour involved in satisfying
the conditions laid down in the awards. This is a point
with which the authors may feel better able to deal
in a subsequent edition.

The value of the book as it stands is undeniable; it is
to the perfection of his commercial department that the
colliery owner must largely look to meet the burdens
showered upon him by Parliament; and a practical and
well-written book such as that before us will prove an
invaluable aid. Having regard to the excellent printing
binding, and general style of reproduction, the price is
very reasonable.

On the twenty-ninth anniversary of the foundation of the
Junior Institution of Engineers, Monday. June 30. 1913, at
the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Victoria Embank-
ment, the second Gustave Canet lecture will be delivered
by Dr. Dugald Clerk, F.R S., who has chosen as his subject
** The Working Fluid of Internal Combustion Engines.”

CATALOGUES AND PRICE LISTS RECEIVED.

Messrs. John Wells (56, Moorgate-street, E C.) send us a
bulletin describing the application of the Compayne
(Hele-Shaw) power transmission system by oil under pres-
sure for providing power for operating bailing and mine
hoisting engines, also for operating drilling rigs and slush
pumps.

Leaflets received from Messrs. Donovan and Co.
(12, Barwick-street, Birmingham) relate respectively to a
25-ampere D. P. china tubular replacement fuse, regulating
resistance and no-volt release starting and regulating
switches, self-starting switch and resistance for tanks, and
a 5 ampere D P. china replacement fuse.

Messrs, the Uskside Engineering Company Limited
(Newport, Mon.) have favoured us with one of their new
mining plant catalogues. This recapitulation of this old-
established firm’s specialities covers steam and electric
winding and haulage engines, expansion gears with positive
link motion, high lift ram pumps, Capstan engines, the
“Stevens” patent fuel machine, hauling drums, flexible
couplings, crank shafts, forgings, &c.

Four issues of the Draeger Bulletin have been sent to us
by Mr. Richard Jacobson (70, Shoe-lane, E.C.). The first
describes the Draeger diving self-contained tubeless
apparatus and a new pattern of pneumatic helmet lining
made in one piece, which has been adapted to the 1910-11
model rescue apparatus. Extracts from the contemporary
Press record the rescue of six men after an explosion at the
Italianka mine in South Russia, and several instances of
the successful use of the Pulmotor resuscitation apparatus.
Bulletin No. 2* is also devoted to the Pulmotor. No. 3
illustrates Draeger's combined testing apparatus, by which
it is possible to measure the suction and pressure of the
injector, the air circulator, and the supply of oxygen. The
typical feature of Bulletin No. 4 is an account of a submarine
sled for Draeger diving apparatus.

The “ Machine Mining Monthly” for April, issued by the
Diamond Coal-cutter Company (Stennard Works, Wake-
field), is devoted to a discussion of the respective merits of
single and double motor coal-cutters. It is pointed out that
the double-motor machine is much more economical in
power consumption when in actual use, notwithstanding
that the totally enclosed single-motor machine may show
better results when tested in the workshop. This is
attributed to the imperfect distribution of power and weight
in the latter machine. Nevertheless, it is considered that,
with the improved inter-polar direct-current motor, or the flat
type alternating-current motor, enclosed gear coal-cutters
will ultimately displace the double-motor semi - enclosed
machines. It may be added that the Diamond Company
supply both types of machine.

SSINING AND OTHER NOTES.

For the meeting of the British Association in Birmingham
in September next, Prof. Gisbert Kapp has been appointed
president of the engineering section, in place of Mr. J. A. F.
Aspinall, whose resignation (owing to considerations of
health) has been already announced.

Estate valued at .£162,252 was left by the late Mr. Edward
Beck, 79, of Isleworth, Middlesex, and late of Warrington,
where he was a founder of the Dallam Forge Company
Limited, afterwards amalgamated with the Warrington
Wire Company and Messrs. Pearson and Knowles as the
Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Company Limited.

The annual business meeting of the West of Scotland
branch of the Association of Mining Electrical Engineers
was held on the 16th inst. in the Royal Technical College,
Glasgow. Mr. Matthew Brown, general manager of the
Banknock Colliery Company, presided. The following
office-bearers were re-elected for the ensuing season:—
President, Mr. Matthew Brown; vice-president, Mr. A. B.
Muirhead, Lenzie; secretary, Mr. D. Martin; treasurer,
Mr. D. Landale Frew.

In connection with the Durham Aged Mineworkers'
Homes Association, the foundation stones of 12 homes were
laid at Sherburn on Saturday. The site on which the
homes are built was given by Lord Joicey, and, in com-
memoration of the late Mr. George Parkinson, who for
many years was connected with the Aged Mineworkers’
Association, they were named the George Parkinson
Memorial Homes.

A new open-air public swimming bath was opened on
Saturday afternoon at Eastwood, Notts, by Mr. T. P. Barber,
of Messrs. Barber, Walker and Co. The swimming bath,
which is in the vicinity of the company's Moorgreen
Pit, will be much appreciated by miners in the district. The
work of digging out and preparing for the bath was largely
carried out by youths connected with the Eastwood Cadet
Corps during the coal strike. The greater part of the
expense has been defrayed by Messrs. Barber, Walker & Co,

Mr. James Gillespie, one of the best-known colliery
managers in Scotland, has just retired after 20 years'
service in the employment of Messrs. Wm. Dixon, at Carfin,
near Motherwell. It is some 45 years since Mr. Gillespie
first became associated with mining, and before taking up
duties at Carfin he held appointments in Niddrie and
Tannochside. In view of his retirement, the officials and
workmen have presented him with a well-filled purse of
sovereigns.

Messrs. James Oakes and Co. have just commenced to
open out a new seam of house coal at their Cotes Park
Colliery. The quality is regarded as being good, and when
the seam is in full swing employment will be found for
about 300 men and boys.

At the Swansea County Police Court last week, Isaac
Cole and Dd. John, two pumpmen, employed by the
Dunvant and Penlan Colliery Company, were prosecuted
for absenting themselves from work, and £8 damages were
claimed from each. The manager stated that, as a con-
sequence, the colliery was flooded. The defence was that
Cole was taken suddenly ill, and that John worked for more
than the statutory period, and had he continued to do so it
was questionable whether the magistrates could not fine
him for a breach of the Eight Hours Act. The defendants
were ordered to pay £4 and costs.

A meeting of colliery under-managers and officials was
held at the Portland Arms Hotel, Ashington, on Saturday
night, Mr. W. Leebitter, of Usworth, presiding. The
meeting was convened under the auspices of the Northern
Under-managers and Colliery Officials' Mutual Aid Associa-
tion, and to a certain extent partook of a propagandist
nature. A paper was read by Mr. Parkinson, of South
Moor, on “The Working of Thick Seams,” and addresses
were delivered by Mr. R. Nuttall, West Mickley Colliery,
and Mr. James Lawson, Dunston Colliery. Mr. Nuttall
pointed out that although only formed in November last
they had already 200 members. They wanted a right of
appeal to the coalowners' associations. That was something
possessed by all other workers in the mines, even to the
humblest grades, and they wanted at least to be on an
equal, footing to other grades in that respect.

The new stretcher that has been designed by the
St. Andrew's Ambulance Association for use in mines
consists of the ordinary standard pattern stretcher, with a
detachable jacket and trousers in one piece. The jacket is
made of strong flax canvas, tanned, with six strong stee^
clips for adjustment, adjustable leather stirrups for foot
rests, and security loops for arms. Ring bolts are attached
to either end of the stretcher for slinging purposes. The
object of the stretcher is to enable an injured man to be
carried either in a horizontal or a perpendicular position, or
at any angle. The stretcher can be built to any measure-
ments, and, if desired, can be hinged, fitted with telescopic
handles, springs, and an adjustment for the axles of bogie
wheels. The weight of the standard stretcher, with adjust-
ments, is 32 lb., and the price is .£3 10s.

The expansion of the South Staffs coalfields westward
and its industrial importance, was referred to by Sir Arthur
Boscawen, M.P., at the last meeting of the Staffordshire
Iron and Steel Institute. About 3,000 tons of coal per week
are now being obtained at the Baggeridge Colliery, and a
seven-feet seam has been discovered as the result of the
boring operations conducted near Wombourn. Further
borings are contemplated north of Penn, and it is believed
that the imminent extension of the Great Western Railway
to Bridgnorth, and the intervening district between there
and Wolverhampton, has in view the possibility of a great
mining development in that part of the country.

Mr. John M‘Nally, J.P., of Cookstown, obtained a mining
lease some months ago of a large area contained in the
townlands of Lislea, Cratley, Soran, and Leek, situated
about 3 miles from Cookstown, county Tyrone. These
townlands form the Crawford estate, the present owners of
which reside in the United States. It has not hitherte
been mined, but it adjoins Annaghone, on the Loughy
estate, which had one of the most famous seams of coal in
the Tyrone coalfield, and was worked many years ago by
Mr. John Lindsay. To the south, Messrs. Duff and
Thompson, of Coagh, had a pit in the townland of Temple-
reagh, and the Annaghone field was worked out by the late
Mr. Henry Gunning. The Annaghone coalfield was the
subject of a report to the Royal Dublin Society in 1818 by
Sir Richard Griffiths. Here the Crow coal, a 3 ft. seam of
impure coal, was reached at 96 ft., and after 6 ft. of fine
clay, 18 ft. of sandstone slate, and 36 ft. of grey shale, the
main seam of Nine-feet coal was reached. The Nine-feet
coal sometimes thickens to 11 ft., and in the centre is about
2 ft. of splint coal or cannel. Mr. M‘Nally formed the-
opinion that this Nine-feet seam which was worked on the
Loughy estate might be tapped on the adjoining Crawford

1 estate, and at 222 ft. he came on the Three-feet seam of
impure coal.

Hamilton Town Council are now making substantial
progress with their scheme for the acquisition of the Town-
lands Pit. The experiment of a colliery being financed and
run by a corporation will be watched with unusual interest
by mining men throughout the’country.

Trimming charges at Grangemouth Docks have been
altered as from May 1, 1913. The rates chargeable on
cargo shipments of coal, gum or duff, fireclay, mill-scale,,
and slag are now as followSelf-trimming vessels, Id. per
ton, one-decked vessels 2d., two-decked vessels 2|d., three-
decked vessels 3d. The rate on cargo shipments of coke,
gas cinders, pitch, and manure, in bulk, is 3|d. per ton.
Where extra labour is required, Id. per ton is chargeable in
addition to above rates. The following rates apply to ship-
ments of bunkers:—Coal: Ordinary constructed bunkers,.
6d. per ton; self-trimming bunkers, 3d. per ton. The
charges for levelling of coal for separation of parcels of coal
or for general cargo, range, according to the capacity of