The St. Johns herald., 1890-06-19
HE VALUE OF TIME.
In son,e Cases I. Can Hardly Be Esti-
 mated in Money.

Elated in Money.
 Tn these days of high-pressure busi- ness methods the element of time is an exceedingly important consideration. The events of commercial and social life crowd upon each other so rapidly that the average man of affairs is com pelled to practice severe economy in tho disposal of the hours and minutes. It is astonishing how much work can be accomplished in few moments when the mind has been disciplined to act promptly and the business in hand is thor oughly systematized. The telegraph, telephone and stenographer are simply an extra expense to the person who can not utilize them to conserve his time. The managers of great enterprises and the controllers of large investments are usually much sought after in the social and political world. They are com pelled to parcel out every working moment with almost nllserlY exactness. The value Of time to them can scarcely be estimated in money. Not that such men Seny thsnsclyes a sensible amount of rest and recreation. They know these are essential.
 Perhaps the worst evil the preoccu- pied business man has to contend against is the idle and almless lOunger who haunts the pathways of commerce and steals more valuable time than procras- tination ever did All sorts of expe- dients are resorted to in the effort to avoid the depredations of this nuisance. He enters your office and engages you in conversation about every thing in general and nothing in particular, while the precious minutes go gliding by. You feel kindly enough toward all man. kind, but the iron enters your soul as you realize that the man is robber, who is filching 8 part of your life and pilferipg the golden moments as they pass. In all pfoba ability you suddenly round up the conversation with piece of biting sarcasm that rids you of the tor mentor, but makes of him an enemy for life.
 In large industrial establishments where great number of men are em- ployed the in troduction of all time saving appliances is absolutely essen- tial. A very little waste of time per capita, when multiplied by the total number of employees, amounts to enough, in many cases, to absorb the entire profits of close business. For this req son nearly all extensive mill operators enforce some system of keeping the time of the employees. One thousand men five minutes late each morning for week would be the equivalents of fifty men idle for ten hours; and supposinC they are paid at the rate Of S}50 per day, thero would be loss of S125. 4 Massachusetts mill owner who employs several thousand people recently calcu- lated that it cost him about an hundred dollars whenever brass band passed his works. While the pieCe-priCa plan which is in force in nearly all shoe factories tends to prevent loss from lack of punctuality, it can not entirely do so because during the absence of the work-people valuable power plant and thousands of dollars worth of ma chinery arc lying idle.
 It is exceedingly important in all branches of industry, and indeed in all the pursuits and relations of life, that the valuo of time should be properly es- timated, so that people may not only use their own to good advantage butres- olutely refrain from wasting the time of others.-Shoe and Leather Review.