THE ORDER OF THE SHELL. Employes of the Krnpp Works can j easily be distinguished, even when attired in their Sunday clothe*, j Every workman, on his enrolment, is] presented with a curiously-fashioned)] scarf-pin, composed of miniature! artillery shell made of platinum and' set in silver. After twenty years’; service he receives a second pin, modelled on the same lines and mounted in gold. The higher grades of employes, including thfi engineers and those employed the counting-house wear their shells in the form of sleeve-links. The workmen are very proud of this distinction, which they call the Order of the Shell, and wear on every possible occasion.
If the water be too pure, fish cannot live in it; if people be to exacting, fellow beings cannot stand beside them.—Massayoshi. The principle of conscience is in every heart, but the pendulum often requires a touch from without to make it do its office.—C. I. Yorke. The only true secret of assisting ehe poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition.—neo. Eliot. X 767.
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Northland Age, Volume VIII, Issue 11, 3 November 1911, Page 8
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