1925

"Beloit Iron Works"

Paper Machines:

#153 Morris Paper Mills #2     84" Cylinder         Illinois                   300 f. p. m.

* #182 Crocker Burbank         200" Fourdrinier    Massachusetts      400 f. p.m.

#183 Northwest #3                   98" Fourdrinier     Minnesota            600 f. p.m.

#184 Castanea #1                   198" Fourdrinier     Pennsylvania         400 f. p.m.

* First 200" machine produced by Beloit Iron Works.

Comments:

Designed the first Beloit Iron Works cantilever suction couch

roll for Louisiana pulp and Paper Company October 1, The ideas

of Earl Berry were projected upon paper by Harry Krause,

Mutual Aid Association organized during the month of January.

Traffic department organized under the supervision of J. J. Phillips.

Iron Works added 10.04 acres to their South Beloit property 

The entire South Beloit plot encompassed a total of approximately

46 acres.

The Mutual Aid Association adopted for Its creed;

"Exiployees banded together in an association

for their mutual assistance and protection in

times of stress and need,"

The benefits payable under approved conditions were for sick-

leave consisting of $1.00 per day if employee had worked for six

months or less and $2.00 per day for a longer period of employment

with a termination period of thirteen weeks. At death family of the

deceased was to be paid a sum total of $200.00.

The advertising of the period stressed the manufacture of the

following:

Stuff Pumps

Double Drum Winders

Uniform Speed Reels

Two Drum Upright Reels

Cutters

©Duplex Slitters

The creed of the Beloit Iron Works was:

"Meeting the exacting requirements of paper makers

the world over has given the Beloit Iron Works a

working knowledge of mill problems that is held as

authoritative by mill owners and operators."

Arthur D. Little of Boston, Massachusetts, installed a 30"

fourdrinier and cylinder machine for experimental purposes.

The Department of Agriculture installed an experimental

16" paper machine in its Forest Products Laboratories in

Madison, Wisconsin,