Factory and industrial management . the firm restraint of his native land, the rapidgrowth of individual manufacturing plants as well as great industrieswhere immediate returns rather than permanence and stability arethe prime essentials, the carrying on of business with inadequate ma-chinery often involving overloading, the laxity or absence of State in-spection, the lack of a proper spirit of concern for the welfare of theemployed, the ignorance and carelessness of the working classes, andfinally the national vice of taking chances rather than observing properprecautions in providing and ope
Factory and industrial management . the firm restraint of his native land, the rapidgrowth of individual manufacturing plants as well as great industrieswhere immediate returns rather than permanence and stability arethe prime essentials, the carrying on of business with inadequate ma-chinery often involving overloading, the laxity or absence of State in-spection, the lack of a proper spirit of concern for the welfare of theemployed, the ignorance and carelessness of the working classes, andfinally the national vice of taking chances rather than observing properprecautions in providing and operating machinery, are equally char-acteristic of superintendent and workman. These reasons and manymore arc given for the condition of affairs mentioned, and it wouldappear that the whole matter could be summed up in the word indif-ference. Now to remove this indifference, education is necessary, andas the museum has been found the simplest and most direct way, suchan exhibition was arranged early in 1907 and was held under the di-. 33^ THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAFETY DEVICES. 2>2>2, rection of Dr. Tolman at the American Museum of Natural History,a number of manufacturers contributing exhibits of safety interest evolved was sufficient to induce the committee of direc-tion of the American Museum of Safety Devices and Industrial Hy-giene to arrange for a more permanent exhibition in quarters of itsown with the hope of arousing sufficient public interest to put theenterprise on a firm basis with some guarantee of its this end has been attained or not it is impossible to saybefore the close of the exhibition, but that the work otherwise hasbeen successful is evidenced by the intelligent appreciation of thevisiting public. In its general character the exhibition was a collection of devices,models, photographs and charts, obtained from manufacturers, in-ventors, foreign museums of safety devices, boards of health, casualtycompanies, and students o
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