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Updated: May 13, 2025
Farnum, if I hadn't told you?" "Probably not, Jack. It's one of the things that are too simple to guess at easily." Passers by the Melville yard were now able to hear the hammering of the riveters daily. It looked as though the new yard must be pushing a submarine boat to rapid completion.
Then the troubled beating of the gong carried the order to take up everything and bear it beyond highwater mark, and the flare-lamps broke out by the hundred between the webs of dull iron as the riveters began a night's work, racing against the flood that was to come. The girders of the three centre piers those that stood on the cribs were all but in position.
"Call the roll count stores sit on your hunkers and pray for the bridge. That's all I can think of Good night. Don't risk your life trying to fish out anything that may go downstream." "Oh, I'll be as prudent as you are! 'Night. Heavens, how she's filling! Here's the rain in earnest. Findlayson picked his way back to his bank, sweeping the last of McCartney's riveters before him.
So, barrin' the fussing of Farnum and Pollard, I guess Josh Owen is the real boss of the job, since the riveters' gang came an' put the hull together, an' went away." "Then I suppose Mr. Owen " began Jack. "Ja-a-abez! Jabez Holt! Come here!" rang a shrill, feminine voice from the interior of the hotel. "Must be goin', for a few minutes, anyway," grunted Jabez, rising and leaving the two boys.
With men trained to work with ropes and tackle collected from an Indian seaport, and native riveters gathered from another place, Mr. J.C. Turk, the engineer in charge, set to work with the American bridgemen and the constructing engineer to build a bridge out of the pieces of steel that lay in heaps along the brink of the gorge.
Moses dropped into Yiddish. "I am looking for work. Peradventure have you something for me?" "What can you do?" "I have been a riveter." "I cannot engage any more riveters." Moses looked disappointed. "I have also been a clicker," he said. "I have all the clickers I can afford," Baruch answered. Moses's gloom deepened. "Two years ago I worked as a finisher." Baruch shook his head silently.
There were labour contractors by the half-hundred fitters and riveters, European, borrowed from the railway workshops, with, perhaps, twenty white and half-caste subordinates to direct, under direction, the bevies of workmen but none knew better than these two, who trusted each other, how the underlings were not to be trusted.
My father worked all his life in the dockyard at Portsmouth, and I myself as a boy have been a holder-on in a black squad of riveters. I can make no conditions, but if you will leave yourself entirely in my hands, and in those of my superiors, you may be assured that there will be no attempt made to crush you, to break your spirit."
The thunderous drumming was continuous; sometimes it faded into a background for clattering storms as of thousands of machine guns, thousands of riveters at work at once upon a thousand metal frameworks; sometimes it was nearly submerged beneath splitting crashes as of meeting meteors of hollow steel. But always the drumming persisted, rhythmic, thunderous.
And 47 per cent, of the Merchant Service have already been armed." The riveters must indeed have been hard at work! This crowded scene carries me back to the Clyde where I was last year, to the new factories and workshops, with their ever-increasing throng of women, and to the marvellous work of the ship-yards.
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