The evening world. Newspaper, June 28, 1915, Page 7

SENSE” seomd slack. Then when a job was By i. J. Barrett. ready, several of them were asked to Reale ony, he te SS Re a lower price than the busy This Man Makes a Living Out eee bis nls ne aces ed Oe renee: e of Old Magazines. Buanagement, "ne At To enter a certain high-celled room! ,,yuriwermore, In these cases, great were exerted to turn out a good on the third floor of an ancient build- Joo Freed from the pressure of rush ing in one of our largest cities, far from the hurry and bustle of the busy streets below, is to turn back the hands of the clock about a hundred Pears. All about you lie stacks of! magasines—magazines covering every subject under the sun; dating from the period when an “s” in type looked very much like a mod- ern “f"—literally thousands of them piled up in stacks which seem to reach to the empyrean, And the cour- teous elderly gentleman who presides over the destinies of the queer inati- tution seems part and parcel of his environment. The late F, Hopkinson Smith might do justice to his old- school manner, No contemporaneous writer could hope to. “Yes,” replies the proprietor, in re- Sponasé to your inquiry, “I'm the only ‘ man in this line of business in the city. Second hand magazines are all I handle, I buy them from private owners, from magazine clubs, some- times from book stores, 1 sell them wherever I can find « market; often to libraries which are in need of cer- tain back numbers to complete their files; sometimes to actors and man- agers who are staging some play, the scene of which is laid in a former era, and who, in designing their cos- | tumes, wish to study the illustra- tions, Then there are people with various hobbies who find my stock 4 treasure trove. Historians, Ripe Reig 4 writers on all subjects in to find material for their pena. I receive orders from all parts of the English speaking world; Cal- cutta, the Philippines, England and every State in the Union. ' “Here, for inatance, is a bound vol- ume of the New England Magazine dated 1802." The visitor studied it interestedly. “Printed for the Pro- prietors by Hosea Sprague, Printer, 44 Marlboro Street,” was the insignia it bore. erand N. ed in this the New ork Ledger.” ocracy! find a market for them.” presses, $10." creased service, case of its salespeople. When this commission tablished, Printing Jobs. partment. when we —IN— Victor |in which for the time bei: business DUPONT POWDER, $700; | Syndicate’s Investment of $20,000,- “And here's an issue of the North American Review, dated 1415," tinued the proprietor. “And here are copies of Godey's Lady's Book, Glea- son's Pictorial, Peterson's Magazine, Ballou's and Grabam's—the latter for November, 1842, containing an instai- ment of ‘The Spanish Student.’ Coop- Villis are also represent. aus. And here are files of ‘The interviewer handled the ancient relics gingerly. He could not restrain a smile at the bloodcurdiing titles sented: “The Hidden Hand,” Doom of Deville, or the Maldei Vow," by Emma Southworth; ‘ @Qucen's Plot,” by Sylvanus | Cobb. And Mr. Owen Winter in the current Atlantic Monthly deplores the quack novels fostered by the growth of dem- “So you've really created a profit- able business out of marketing these old magazines,” ventured the visitor, “If I hadn't I wouldn't be handling them,” was the reply. “I've been at it over fifteen years. It was a hard pull getting established, but now I've o regular cilentele all over the coun- try. Yes, there’s money in second- hand magazines if you know how to/? And the interviewer took his de- parture, marvelling at the enterprise which could find a method of profit- ably exploiting this seemingly worth. less by-product of this age of printing A Piece-Work System Applied to Office Employees. “A great many of our typists could do a lot more work in a day If they wished,” reflected the office manager of @ concern which employed svores of etenographera and typists, they won't for fear that it won't be appreciated. I wonder if the picce- work plan couldn't be applied to our problem. The average wage is now He installed a system whereby exch received $8 per week for so many square inches of typewriting ond 26c, @ hundred inches for all in ox- cess of that amount, Produxtion promptly increased by leaps and bounds, The house soon found that the average wage had Increased to $12 per week and that the avernge {mereased output amounted to far more than the twenty per cent, ad ditional cost. All concerned were d lighted with the new system. girls received $2 a week more; the house more than its equivalent in Ir- A large department store finds that supplying an incentive in addi tion to the regular salary pays in the It pays @ salary based on a mint- mum of a certain yolume weekly. A commission is added to all gales in excess of this amount. earned regularly for a certain num- ber of weeks the basic rate is raised and commissions paid again on sales in excess of the new minimum es- Getting a Rock-Bottom Figure on Taylor was the newly installed man- ager of the booklet and direct matl branch of @ big store's advertising de- He found that the concern had been patronizing three of the city's beat printers. Bids were generally sub- mitted by the trio and the job went to the man who offered the lowest figure. “It seems to me.” thought Taylor, “that this 1s a mistaken policy. there are many more good printers in the city, What if all three of these concerns are filled up with business sk for a quotation? Supreme Service Knabe3,\x:"* & very low price from be = ery Dl HF adopted the practice of ted Plants of many of the local prii | sre He noted carefully the concerns jobs, there was plenty of time to Attend to all the details. Taylor figures that by pursuing this policy his printing bills have been reduced twenty per cent. RISE OF $500 A SHARE 000 Five Months Ago Now Worth $70,000,000. WILMINGTON, June 28.—Common stock of the Du Pont Powder Com- pany is reported to nave sold here on Saturday at $700 a share, This is a new high record for the stock, which | at the beginning of the year sold at| about $200 a share, About five montns & syndicate ny’s officials | shares from Pont, paying| with Euro- Been, nations aggregat about $100,- 000, on this pusiness the stock sensational investme: value of $70,000,000, a TWO DROWN AS AUTO PLUNGES INTO CANAL Berkshire Tour Ends Fatally for) Mr. and Mrs. R. D, Miller of Athol, Mass. TURNERS FALLA, Mass, June 28, —An automobile in which Mr, and Mrs, Robert D, Miller were returning to their home in Athol after a trip| through the Berkshires plunged into} a canal here to-di Mr. Miller was drowned and Mrs. Miller, who was rescued from the water by her son, | E. W. Miller, principal of the high | school at Maynard, Mass, died of| shock a few hours after the accident. | The younger Miller and Miss na | eke of Winchester, Mass., who were | 0 in the car, were not injured, ‘he machine was operated by Miss Locke, The guard rail of the bridge over the canal had been removed for construction work, and in the dark- ness of the early morning the outo- mobile shot into merhorn raigned to-da: y His. hend | curbing and he died in the business. oC | eed - G a CY ~ meg = part Specialists in Apparel for Men, Women and Children $15.00 buys this small, long-service trunk which will outwear the bulky, clumsy kind. heretofore used. 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