. Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1909. lene and oiltorches for tinners and plumbers also shows other lines of plumbersspecialties, such as metal pots andwrought iron ladles, the concern maltingthese along with closet screws, bolts andwashers, sewer cleaners, etc. Those us-ing this class of goods will do well tosecure the new catalogue. Tn towns where difficulty is found inenforcing sanitation ordinances, thehealth inspector will find the work great-ly facilitated by the use of the is difficult to combat the evidence se-cured by this means. PLUMBER AND STEAM


. Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1909. lene and oiltorches for tinners and plumbers also shows other lines of plumbersspecialties, such as metal pots andwrought iron ladles, the concern maltingthese along with closet screws, bolts andwashers, sewer cleaners, etc. Those us-ing this class of goods will do well tosecure the new catalogue. Tn towns where difficulty is found inenforcing sanitation ordinances, thehealth inspector will find the work great-ly facilitated by the use of the is difficult to combat the evidence se-cured by this means. PLUMBER AND STEAMFITTER TALES OF THETRADE BASEBALL AND CHEWING GUM. A. L. Macdonald, vice-president ofMacdonald & Sons, Montreal, of theStandard Ideal Co., and the Toledo &Jardine Tools, is a very popular memberof the supply fraternity. During therecent plumbers convention in Mont-real, he was an energetic member of theentertainment committee, and owing tohis mighty baseball arm he supplied alarge company at Dominion Park withchewing gum from a ball throwing gal-. A. L. MACDONALD, MONTREAL. lery. While his pitching ability may notbe a sign of a mis-spent youth, it is evi-dent that his school hours must have tosome extent been encroached upon. A. L. has had years of experiencein the manufacture of boilers and radi-ators, and few know more than he aboutthese subjects. An article he wrote sometime back in The Plumber and Steam-fitter, caused a great deal of comment,it sugesting the advisability of the boil-er manufacturer of Canada making around boiler for house heating purposesto burn soft coal, one manufacturer com-1112: back with the rejoinder that theyhad been making a boiler for many yearsthat would burn soft coal with justas good results as the present hard coalboilers, a statement which Mr. Mac-donald considered a good joke. Mr. Mac-donald, who was born in Detroit, has hadin his varied training in the States a thorough schooling in the manufacture ofboilers and in the science of


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