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That Will Bo One of the
Holiday Duties of the
Electors of Pittsburg.
PLENTY OF WILLING MEN
Mentioned for the Consideration of
the Two Conventions.
K0MINATI0XS MOST BE EARLY,
As the J'eir Ballot &t Iteguires Cer
tificates Filed January 3.
THE FITE LEADING POSSIBILITIES
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A political contest of as much local
interest almost as the Prcsidental will
open after the November election. Pitts
burg will, on the second Tuesday of Feb
ruary, 1893, elect a Mayor to succeed H. L
Gourley, and while the contest is only re
ferred to in whispers now there is yet in a
decidedly quiet way come hustling among
the leaders of both parties.
The men who are likely to be the candi
dates of their respective parties have not so
far scored up for the word "go." Their
plans are being made within closed doors,
at it were. The leaders will decide, prob-
A. jS. Jle andlas.
ably within two week', who their candi
dates shall be.
The nominations will be conferred by the
people probably as a holiday gilt The
Baker ballot law provides for the nomina
tions for Mayor as follows:
"When Nominations Must Be Made.
Certificates or nomination and nomination
papers lor candidates for all other offices
(this includes the office ot Mayor), except
township and borough offices, shall be died
with tho County Commissioners of the re
spective counties at least U and 35 days, re
spectU ely, ueforo the day or tho election.
Forty-two days prior to the date of the
election, the second Tuesday of February,
falls on January 3. It is probable, there
fore, that the nominations will be made in
December, perhaps toward the close.
For the Republican nomination there are
so far but two candidates much spoken of
though dark horses may be in waiting.
Ex-Sheriff A.JE. McCandless has positively
placed himelf in the field. He has given
personal attention to his campaign and ex
presses considerable confidence in his pros
pects. County Commissioner Robert E.
Mercer is likely to be the other regular
Republican candidate ior the nomination.
He has yet a year to serve in the Commis
sioners' officej but his iriends have been
earnest in their eflorts to have him contest
for the Mayoralty. He has not yet defin
itely decided whether he will enter the
field.
On a Reform Platform.
F. C. Bcinhauer will be an independent
candidate no matter who is nominated bv
the other parties. He has been at war with
the regular political organizations of Pitts
burg lor some time and be will stand on a
relorm platlorm in whatever fight may de
velop. The Democrats of the city are more or less
J. M. Guffey.
at sea regarding a candidate for Mayor.
Several men have been mentioned as prob
able candidates, but only one or two of all
the list are likely to stand for the nomina
tion. The several factions in the Demo
cratic party have each indicated a
determination to spring a surprise on the
unsuspecting public, but the party as a
whole seems to be demanding .that one of
two men be nominated. The conservative
leaders of the Democracy insist that their
candidate shall be a substantial business
man, and either Captain Thomas B- Kerr
or James M. GufTey, the oil and gat pro
ducer, would suit them. Neither GufTey
nor Kerr has as yet decided definitely to
stand for the nomination, but the iriends of
both are confident that one or the other
will accept the nomination if extended
without a struggle.
Dr. BlcCandless' Fnbllc Experience.
Dr. McCandless has already filled the
offices of Sheriff and County Treasurer. He
wai born on May 5,1819, within five squares
ot where ne now lives on uenter avenue.
At the age of 16 years he graduated from
the High School. He then read medicine
with his father and was graduated from the
Jefferson Meilical College He was a me ai
mer of the fire commission during the Pitts
burg riots, and was elected County Treas
urer in 18St In 1887 he was elected Sheriff
and was filling that office durinir the Du
quesne mill trouble, the trouble at the
Edgar Thomson Steel "Works at Braddoclc,
and the Homestead disturbances three
years f go, and handled those troubles with
a good deal ot tact and success.
Dr. McCandless is a member of the
Central Board of Education. He is
active in the interests of the public schools.
He is an ardent lover of good horses, and be
keeps a valuable string of well bred anV
mals. He has always been a popular young I
CHOOSING
MAYOR
Dr.
man, and he has a delightful home and
a pleasant family.
Mr. Mercer's Official Record.
Bobert E. Mercer, whose friends insist
upon his being named as the Bepnblican
candidate, was born in Fayette county just
50 years ago. "When 3 years old he came
with his parents to the Soutbside, where he
afterward was a glass worker and then
a nailer, and was ior many years employed
at the American Iron "Work In 1872 he
was elected Alderman of the Twenty-fifth
ward, after which he left the milk He
served as Alderman part ot two terms, and
in 1873 he was elected County Commis
sioner, and is now serving his fifth term in
that office. He was a member of the Board
of Commissioners that personally super
vised the erection ot the Court House,
which is frequently referred to as the only
public building ever constructed without a
scandal or a job, or the faintest shadow of
complaint or suspicion.
Mr. Mercer is a genial, pleasant gentle
man ana he enjoys the support and confi
dence of many faithful friends among all
classes ot the people. He has not yet de-
Hubert E. Mercer.
termined whether he will be a candidate.
His iriends seem determined to decide lor
him, however.
Captain Thomas It. Kerr's Active Lire.
Captain Thomas B. Kerr, one of the Dem
ocrats prominently mentioned for the nomi
nation, was born" in Ireland on April 24,
1813. He came to Pittsburg with his parents
in 1850, and has been identified with exten
sive interests here ever since.- He was edu
cated in the Third ward school and the Iron
City College. Immediately after leaving
college he went into the wholesale liquor
and grocery business with the late William
Carr, and he continued in that firm nntil
Mr. Carr's death. He now personally man
ages the great Carr estate.
"Tom" Kerr, as he is familiarly known,
enlisted in the Union Army April 171861,
just five days after Fort Sumter bad been
tired upon. He was a private in Captain
John Kennedy's Company B, Twelfth
Begiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.
After a short service 'Captain Kerr came
home and recruited a company of infantry
and a battery of artillery and also a com
pany of cavalry. He went ont as second
lieutenant of the cavalry organization and
for valiant services was made a captain.
He was mustered out of service on June 2,
18G5. J. M. Schoonmaker was colonel of
Kerr's command and General Averil, the
commanding officer, in a letter to the War
Department, says of Captain Kerr: "He
was one of the best soldiers in the Union
Armv."
Identified "With Oil Developments.
James M. Gufley, the other Democrat
mentioned for the Mayoralty nomination,
has been and is now an interesting and
forceful figure in local, State and national
politics. In his business affairs Mr. Gut
fey has had unbounded success. He was
born in Westmoreland county in January,
1839. He was educated in the common
schools, and at the age ot 16 years he went
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Thomai R Eerr.
South, where he was employed by the Nash
ville and Louisville Railroad. In 1872 he
went to the oil country, and ever since then
he has been- conspicuous in the develop
ment of oil and gas territory. His energy
and money were early invested in the
Washington county field, and he is now ope
of the largest individual producers in the
country.
His appearance is striking, jd.li
hair and mustache are white as chilly-and
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THE
2TVEAGE SAVING A SERIOUS TIME OF
David B. Hill He should be repudiated by the party for its
he never knew the taste of intoxicating
liquors.
In 1878 Mr. Guffey wa the Democratic
candidate for Congress in the Clarion-Jef-lerson-Indiana
district The greenback
blue no tucu Bfjicuiug uror tuo uuuuiij,,
and, while Mr. Guffey ran 1,000 votes ahead
ot the ticket in Clarion county, where he
lived and reduced the Bepublican majority
in Indiana county to 1,700, Judge
Harry White was elected to Con
gress, defeating Mr. GufTev, the Democrat
and Mr.Cosgrove, the Greenback candidate,
At the time Mr. Guffey accepted the nomi
nation only to keep the organization of his
party in tack; He is now being urged as a
candidate for Mayor for the same purpose.
Two Other Democratic Possibilities.
Alderman McKenna and J. C O'Donnell
have been spoken of as probable Demo
cratic candidates for the nomination. Both
have positively stated that they will not go
into the fieht George Fleming, the drug
gist, has. within a few weeks, been talked of
as a candidate, but he, too, says he will not
enter the field if either Guffey or Kerr can
be induced to run.
The campaign for this place will open
actively immediately after the Presidental
election and under this law the conventions
will be held probably during the holidays.
Independent Running Made Easy.
Besides the regular party nominations
and those aspiring to them, as mentioned
above, there is much talk of possible Inde
pendent candidates. Among the combina
tions of that sort most spoken of at one
time was Eustace S. Morrow for Mavor
and H. T. Gourley for Controller. Whether
or not anything is to come out of that sug
gestion will perhaps only be developed
after the tickets of the Republicans and
Democrats have taken shape. In certain
contingencies it is said that a combination
like the one spoken ot will be effected. The
idea is that if the Bepubliesns and the
Democrats fail by their regular organiza
tions to give satisfactory candidates, then
tried men like Gourley and Morrow would
be successful. But whatever independent
candidates may come out for the Mayoralty
office, they will probably wait until it is
seen what the "regulars" propose doing be
fore formally taking the field.
The Baker ballot law makes the way of
independent candidates lor city offices much
easier than before. The names of "inde
pendents" must be printed on all the
tickets; and the voter is given a chance to
pick for himself. Before, the great diffi
culty in the way ot "independents" was
the expense and trouble of getting men to
F. C. Eeinhaver.
handle their tickets at the polling places
on election day. That is all avoided now,
and the running is on even terms tor all
duly certified candidates, whether inde
pendent or regular.
Grand Oprfhing of the Imperial Hotel.
Nothing adds more materially to charms
and attractions of a city than flrst-ciass hos
telrles, and the city or Flttsburs is fortunate
in having in her limits a hutel which is fast
gaining an enviable reputation and a larse
ana lucrative patronage; me bdovo is none
other than tho Imperial Hotel which was
erected last May and contains 21 rooms and
parlors on each floor and all modern con
veniences and elegantly furnished by its
new proprietors. Messrs. Eornman & Coll,
who took possession October 18.
The city of Pittsburg has long needed a
strlotly first-class European hotel. Messrs.
Eornman & Coll are to be congratulated by
their many friends and the traveling public
in general.
On the ground floor of their hotel are the
inviting and airy office and dlnins rooms, on
the second floor will be found a beautifully
furnished parlor and a large number of
spacious and well ventilated sleeping apart
ments, while the third and fourth floors are
utilized for sleeping apartments.
A leature of the Imperial Hotel Is its uni
formly large and airy rooms! the halls are
wide and handsomely carpeted. '
The entire building is heated by natural
gas and lighted by both gas and electricity.
The cuisine or the cafe is elegant and the
tables are anpplled with all the delicacies
the market affords, prepared in a delicious
manner by an accomplished culinary artist.
The bar, which Is Just off the offloe, is the
most handsome and elaborate In the State,
being fitted np with the latest World's Fair
fixtures, is supplied with the very finest
wines, liquors and cigars to be found in the
city of Pittsburg.
The popular Charles F. Eornman, who has
baen'wlth W. J. Wright for years, and un
derstands the trade, has the bar under his
own personal supervision, and cordially ex
tends to his many friends an invitation to
call. , .
Mr. Thomas J.' Coll. the genial clerk who
has Just returned from the Sast, where he
had charge of one of the largest hotels, at
tends to the wants of the traveling public,
and is aeservlngly popular.
With all, the Imperial Hotel bids fair to
become the most popular and welMcnown
hotel in Pittsburg. Bates moderate. Grand
opening November 1 Tuesday,
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own self-respect
TIN FOR THE WORLD.
America Has Enough Ore to More
Than Supply All Her Needs.
THE BLACK HILLS FULL OP IT.
I ncouraglng Report Brought ly an Ix
pert tent to the Alines.
A GREAT FIELD FOR AMERICAN LABOR
IWBITTEK TOR THE DISPATCH.!
The existence of tin ore in this country,
and in the Black Hills particularly, in
quantities sufficient to pay to work, being
called in question by interested parties in
certain quarters. The Dispatch and New
York Prat sent into that country a repre
sentative, an expert on mines and mining,
with instructions to visit every mine, in
vestigate thoroughly, and get all the facts,
and if he fouud that tin did exist in paying
quantities to find out why no marketable
tin has yet been produced by the Black
Hills mines.
He spent six weeks in the Black Hills in
his investigations. He went down into all
the mines that are open and being worked,
traversed every drift that has been run and
every crossing that has been made, and
brings back the assuring report that there
is tin ore in abundance, both at Harney
Peak and in the Nigger Hill districts; that
in the former the work of development is
being pushed with commendable energy;
that the new- mill just completed at Hill
City will commence the reduction of tin ore
and the manufacture of American pig tin
for the market as soon as the Burlington
and Missouri Bailroad has completed the
"spurs" now building to the mines. This
work has been unexpectedly delayed, but is
being pushed as rapidly as possible. Mr.
J. S. Childs, the experienced superintend
ent of the Harney Peak Company, expects
to be able to start the tin mill and com
mence to crush ore before the middle of
November.
We Have the Richest In the World.
After gold and silver, tin Is intrinsically
the most precious of metals. The produc
tion of it in the United States marks the
beginning of a new industrial era for the
nation as great aa that which followed the
first manufacture of the steel rail Until
the present time the value ot every pound
of tin used in America has gone to pay for
eign labor and enrich foreign capitalists.
This alone of the necessities of civilized life
was thought to be hopelessly absent from
the American domain. Not one pound was
produced in the United States uutil a few
months ago. Every ounce of the $36,355,
679 worth of tin plate, sheets, etc., used in
this country last year was imported. But
it has been proved beyond all possibility of
doubt that the richest fields of stanniferous
ore in the world are within the borders of
onr own country, and the necessity for pay
ing tribute to foreign lands is at an end.
We will in a short time be able to supply
every pound of tin plate used by Ameri
cans in canning vegetables, fruit, preserves,
fish, oils and other commodities, and the
United States to-day prepares the bulk of
the canned goods of the- world. We will
manufacture tin foil, of which the United
States uses the larger moiety ot the world's
supply. We will produce and manufact
ure tin in everyone of the necessary forms
and for everyone of the necessary pur
poses, and have a large surplus left for
export
The Tin Supply of the World.
A few figures will show the exaot future
value of the tin industry to this country.
The annual supply of pig or bar tin for
Europe and America is 4,357 tons of 2,224
pounds each. This tin is produced as fol
lows: Country. Tons
Cornwall 9,300
t Banka-. 4,177 )
Sonth Sea Islands I Billltorf. 4 700 V
lStralt8...2&3554
..37,138
Australia 6,125
Batavla (Saxony) 1,500
Total M.S57
Of this total amount of pig tin the United
Btates uses 14,616 tons, and. in addition, im
ports 336,692 tons of tin plate, which, at
present prices, is valued at $25,000,000.
This means a total annual consumption of
28,111 tons of tin in the country.
In the English tin industry there are em
ployed 6,120 miners underground and 6,507
above ground, or 11,627 in all; and these
people turn out 9,300 tons of pig tin an
nually, or an average of about eight-tenths
of a ton to each individual. Using these
facts as a basis of computation the produc
tion in the Blaek Hills, or elsewhere in the
United States, of the amount of pig or bar
tin actually consumed in this country in its
native state and in the tin plate imported
that Is, 28,114 tons would require the
employment of 83,143 men; all of whom, at
present scale ot wages in the Black Hills,
would receive from t3 to $4 per day that
is. f 1,093 to 1,660 per year for in these
mills they know neither day nor night,
Sundays nor holidays; the fires in the fur
naces are never qneuohed.and the machinery
never stops except for repairs. This would
give in wages expended annually from $&,
481,673 to (54,823,080, as against compara
tively nothing at the present time.
Wa Will Hake Oar Own Plate.
But the benefit to the laboring- classes
and the country does sot end here. The
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30.
manufacture of tin plate will follow the
production ot the raw article. Already
there are mills in sotive operation. Then
Instead of importing the 836,692 tons of tin
plate we will make that amount within our
own nation. Griffith' Guide, a standard
statistical work, shows that 600,000-persons
are directly and indirectly employed in the
480 mills in England, prodaolng annually
600,000 tons of tin plate. Fnpm these sta
tistics it appears that the labor of one per
son is required each year in the produc
tion of a ton of tin plate. Thus the manu
facture of tin plate in this country ior
home consumption alone would furnish em
ployment for 336,692 people, and at the
moderate salary of 1 per day this would
increase the pay roll of wage earners by
the handsome sum of $122,892,680. But
there is no doubt that the average wages
received would be at least $2 a day.
It has been estimated by a competent
authority that the home manufacture of tin
plate will "furnish in round numbers an
American market for the annual consump
tion ot 850,000 tons of iron ore, 300,000 tons
of limestone, 1,600,000 tons of coal, 23,000,
000 bushels of charcoal, 6,000,000 pounds of
lead, 10,000,000 pounds ot tallow, 8,000,000
pounds of sulphuric acid and about 10,000,
000 feet of lumber. In addition to the iron
and tin contained in the articles manufac
tured. Tho Harney Peak Company's Enterprise.
The Etta Company soon interested En
glish capital, including Lord Thurlow and
the Baring-Gould brothers in the enter
prise. The Harney Peak Tin Mining and
Milling Company was organized, and ab
sorbed the Etta Mining Company and all
its properties. The new company owns
over 1,100 claims, covering over 11,000
acres.
The energies of the company are concen
trated upon the development of five of the
most promising claims, the Addle, the
Coats, the Gertie, the Cowboy and the
Tenderfoot or Japanzy. These are produc
ing mines. It is from these mines that the
newly erected concentrating mill at Hill
City is to be first supplied with ore.
Miners are at work in all of these mines
and a great deal of money has been invested
in machinery at each. On a rough estimate
it may safely be said that there are over
100,000 tons of ore in the Coats and Cowboy
mines ready for stoplng at the present
time. Allowing for the lull capacity of the
new tin mill there is here sufficient ore to
keep it running for 400 days; and in the
opinion of Superintendent J. & Ohilds.
mining has just begun in these mines ana
he is an experienced miner and knows what
he is talkingabout In the upper levels of
the Addie mine, the most promising of the
lot, are 40,000 tons of ore. ,
Other Companies in the Field. -
Since the discovery of tin in the Black
Hills in 1877 qnite a quantity of "stream
tin" has been taken from Bear Gulch, Po
tato Gulch and Beaver Creek Gulch. Many
tin claims have been taken up in this dis
trict Besides there are several large com
fianies with properties in there also. There
s the Cleveland Tin Mining and Milling
company, oi wnicn ex-uovernor (Jornell Is
President, with a paid-up non-assessable
capital of 1,000,000. The company has
done considerable development work, has a
large shatthouse, a 20-horse-power boiler,
and a large ore vein. Then there is the
Nigger Hill Tin Mining and Milling Com
pany, of which a J. Finch is President,
with a capital of 11,250,000 and 20 or more
claims that prospect well. A third com
pany is the American Tin Mining and Mill
ing Company, of which Lewis F. Pavne is
President, with a capital stock of $2,600,000.
While the stream t'n or cassiterite is of
an excellent quality and produces white tin
equal to that found in any other locality,
yet it Is thought not to be equal to the
"albite" (the true mattrix of tin) found in
the lode veins in this region. In some of
these veins the rock is sprinkled with fine
specklike points of tin, and scattered
through here and there are large cubes of
the pure ore. These mines are mostly held
by placer miners and other men without
means to enable them to do more than per
MANY
By the
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28 - $28 $28
We have about 200
more Parlor Suits this
week that must part
company with us.
Prices and terms are
not taken into consideration.
HOUSEHOLD CREDIT CO.
414 WOOD STREET 14
PITTSBURG'S LEADING CASH AND CREDIT HOUSE
189a.
form the necessary assessment work on them
annually.
What Occasions the Delay.
The Harney Peak Company has for some
time been "preparing for permanent devel
opment and the mining and milling of tin
ore. Not a little unfavorable comment has
arisen among ignorant and vicious people
out of the apparent delay in producing
commeroial tin by the Harney Peak people.
The management has not "only been con
demned and the company denounced at
home and abroad, but many have gone sd
far as to declare that tin ore does not exist
in the Black Hills, or elsewhere in this
country, in paying- quantities. This does
both the management and the company in
justice, and slanders the resources ot our
country.
It is a big undertaking to get ready to
mine any kind of ore on an extensive scale.
The first superintendent was a successful
clerk in a commercial house, but entirely
ignorant of mining. Ho was supplanted by
a man who was and is an excellent railroad
engineer, bat is not a practical miner or a
good prospector even. Both of these gentle
men went at the matter in a bunzline man
ner, and their many mistakes have now toM
De rectined as lar as it is possible to do so.
Similar enterprises have been as long de
layed in getting started, and nothing was
said about it .Why then should there be
adverse criticism because tin concentrates
have not yet been produced in great quanti
ties? It is a private business carried on
exclusively by private capital. Simply be
came the question has been given a quasi
political aspect by the passage of the Mo
Kinley law and the effort to "take care of
number one" by protecting ourselves
against other nations.
.It Looks Like Business.
The Harney Peak Company have built a
dozen or more substantial buildings and
equipped them in the most substantial man
ner. The offices of the company, at Hill
City, are neat, comfortable and Ample. The
buildings consist of the superintendent's
office, that of his assistant, the mining en
gineer and his corps of assistants, the sur
veying corps and the assay ofSc:s. They
have a shafthouse, or hoist works, at the
Addie mine that cost over 6.000, and fur
nishes the basis' for the required power to
go down 2,000 feet
The Etta mill was commenced in the fall
af 1885 and completed in February 1886, and
operated for about two months. Fifteen
tons of cassiterite or b1ack(oxide of tin have
been produced, which yielded about nine
tons of metallic tin. In April of the latter
year the mill was closed down because the
machinery in it was not adapted to the
work required; it wasted as much of the ore
as was saved. The company got uew
machinery at once, and the result is the
erection of a fine new Hill City tin mill at
a cost ot little over 80,000. This is a mam
moth mill of marvelous operation and great
beauty. It has a present daily capacity of
250 tons of ore, and facilities for increasing
that capacity to 600 tons a day as soon as
the mines are developed and the ore output
will warrant it
Plenty of Material Progress.
I secured a few photographs showing what
is being done in Black Hills tin mining.
Five-of these I leave at the office of Tub
Dispatch a day or two for the benefit of
those who may be interested. One shows
the Hill City Tin MilL The building, which
is located on s hillside, is 161 feet by 12S
feet, with an average neight of 40 feet; but
the vertical height from the point where thq
ore goes in at the top oi the mill to where
the concentrates are taken out at the foot of
the hill is 120 feet This mill is furnished
with two 80-horse-power boilers and is run
by a tandem Corlissenglne supplied with an
enormous wheel 36 inches wide and 14 feet
in diameter, "Weighing 9 tons.
H. M. HAjTSOif.
TrtS Allots stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer, h o nta after first day's ate. Mar
Ttlou cures. TreUe and tz 00 trial Dottle free to
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Latest importations in Frcncii millinery.
Mux. E. Sbxteb, 6M Penn avenue
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greatest sale of Parlor Furniture
of the furniture world.
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Free.
With every Credit Sale on which a $12 PAYMENT IS
MADE, one of.' these BEAUTIFUL EBONY CLOCKS.
Half-Hour Strike, Cathedral Gong, run Eight Days and Perfect
Timekeepers.
SHAKING IN PROFITS.
The Results of an Experiment by a
Great Boston Book Hou3e.
SALARIES RAISED SIX PER CENT.
What the Employes Say About It and the
Prospects Next Tear.
THE CASH OF A LOSING BUSINESS
rwarrrsv ran th prmTca.1
For many yearj I hare been thinking
over the profit-sharing principle with a
view of trying It practically in the publish
ing house of Ginn & Co. Last year we in
formed our help that we would share with
them to. a certain extent the profits for the
coming year, and at the close of the year
we divided with them a sum that raised
their salaries something over 6 per cent
We have received In return for this divi
sion the most cordial recognition from our
people, as will be seen from letters sub
mitted below, samples ot the many that
come to us, and the acsurance on their part
that the firm will loss nothing by its action.
The basis on which we made the division
was wholly In favor of the clerks. They
were to share in the profits but not in the
losses of the business. Any schema that
Edirtn Ginn.
does; not Include both to some extent, It
seems to me, has not a safe foundation. "We
are trying to work out some scheme that
shall include a slight risk in the loss as well
as a sharing of the profits, giving even a
larger chance of advantage than our present
scheme, something like the following:
A Scheme for Profit and loss.
To limit the loss or gain of the clerks to
6 or 10 per cent of their present salaries, or
to place them all on the basis of partners,
allowing the total amount of their salaries
as the amount of money they contribute to
the business, and taking their full share of
the profits, in accordance with the same, on
this basis. As an illustration, suppose that
the expense of the business, including the
manufacture of the goods, amounted to a
half-million dollars, and the salaries of the
help amounted to $60,000, the help would
receive one-eleventh of all the profits, as
they contribute one-eleventh of the capital.
I feel more strongly, I think, than Mr.
FarwelL that in acme adjustment of the
profit sharing with all classes of laborers
will be found the solution of the much
vexed qnestion between labor and capital.
MADE
that has ever taken place in the
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CUT FOR
$28 $28
$30
$35
Free.
Now capital hires its labor as cheaply as iS
can, and labor on its side contributes only.
as much as it can afford to for the amount'
received. The great majority of laborers i
are dependent upon their daily earnings fori
the necessities of life and therefore cannot'
remain Idle, but must accept such wages as
they can obtain. Cspftal has a decided ad-j
vantage in this respect In other respeeti'
it suffers great disadrantages.for the laborer'
that feels that he is contributing more than1
he Is paid for is not a profitable workman.-
Capital cannot afford to have this antagon
ism with its labor.
Proflt-Sharlnj as a Stimulus.
The only way out of it will be some ad
jnstment whereby a portion of the risk in
the profit and loss of the business will de
pend upon the laborer, which will act as a
stimulus for him to put in his best work
every hour. One of the most competent
and honest men we ever had in our employ
once told me that since he had commenced!
business for himself he made longer hours
and worked harder than he used to onj
salary; "and yet," said he, "if yon had
even hinted that it was possible forme to,
do more conscientious work than when I
was with you on salary I should have felt
Insulted."
"I thank yon most sincerely for this sub-'
stantial check which I have just received,"
writes another employe, "and wish to as-'
sure you that your generosity In thus shar
ing with us the profits of the business is
deeply appreciated. Ton surely have the
right to feel that you can count upon our
earnest, loyal devotion to the interest of
Ginn & Co., and to expect that the results
of the coming year will be even more satis
factory than those of the year jnst closed.
I hope to contribute my share toward this
success."
A Success Both TVays.
Here Is another: "I have received my
share ot the profits and wish to thank you
for your generous gift Aside from all per
sonal interest, I believe the experiment has
been undoubtedly productive of great
good, making as It does each employe feel
that he or she has a direct personal inter
est in the welfare and success of Ginn &
Co."
"I am In receipt of your letter of the
17th inst with enclosed check. It came in
the nature of a surprise," writes a third,
"for though I looked for something I was
not prepared for so generous a gift Please
accept my most sincere thanks."
"You ask for an expression of opinion ta
to the continuance of the plan for another
year. Undoubtedly the thought that the
success of the company means the success of
the employes acts as an incentive. Identity
of interests cannot tail to bind every mem-(
ber of the force to yon. It did not need the
extra amount received to-day to make ma
loyal to Ginn & Co. and command my best
ability, but I do feel now like redoubling
my efforts to advance their interests."
I should be glad to contribute more to
the solution of this problem, bnt my ex-,
periment is yet too recent to give me any
degree of certainty as to the right basis o
profit-sharing. Perhaps I ought to say, in
justice to the situation, that this last year
the success oi our business perhaps was not
so much influenced by the profit-sharing as
by the conditions of the book trade. There
has been a consolidation of nearly all the
large publishing houses in the United
States which has given us probably a
larger share of patronage than would other
wise have come to us. JEdwiX Gear.
Boston, September 2i
Watches, jewelry, fine diamonds, emer
aids, rubies,sappblres, turquoise, opals, eta.
in all the latest combinations. We set all
our own goods and save youjobbers' profits.
Call and examine the stock and prices at 1I
G. Cohen's, S3 fifth avenue.
SOLOMON & BUBEN'S
Bulletin of Bargains In Horse Goods.
An all-wool street blanket, 99a. x
A good heavy stable blanket, 93c -,
Extra heavy large size team blanket, $1 T3v
Piner quality, hlsh standard, S3 to $3 23. l
Genuine Baker blanket, six pounds, $3 73
eight pounds, H 73.
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$75 Parlor- Suits,
Each suit worth from $10 to
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