Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-03-08
THE VALUE OF TIME.
In Some Cases 1t Can Hardly BE Esti-
mated In Money.

SOAAAO
mated In Money.
In these days Of high-pressure bust
ness methods the element of time is an
exceedingly important consideration.
Tho events Of commercial and social
llto crowd upon each other SO rapidly
that the average man of affairs is COM
PEELED to practice severe economy in
the disposal of the hours and minutes.
1t 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
PEELED to parcel out every working
moment with almost miserly exactness.
Tho value of time to them can scarcely
be estimated in money. Not that such
men deny themselves q 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 aimless lounger who
haunts the pathways of commerce and
steals more valuable time than procras-
tination ever did. All sorts of expo
dicnts are resorted to in the effort to
avoid the depredations of this nuisance.
Tic enters your Office and engages you
in conversation about every thing in
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 a robber,
who is filching part of your life and
pilfering the golden moments as they
pass. In all probability you suddenly
round up tho conversation with a 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 en-
ployed the III PRODUCTION of all time
saving appliances is absolutely essen
tial. 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 rea-
son nearly al extensive mill operators
enforce some system Of keeping the
timo of the employees. Ono thousand
men five minutes late each morning for
week would bo tho equivalent of fifty
men idle for ten hours; and supposing
they are paid at the rate of $3.50 per
day, there would be loss of $125 A
Massachusetts mill owner who EMPLOYS
several thousand people recently calcu-
lated that it cost him about an hundred
dollars whenever q brass band passed
his works. While tho picce-pricc plan
which is in forco in nearly all shoe
factories tends to prevent loss from
lack of punctuality, it can not entirely
do so because during the absence OF tho
wori-pcople q valuable power plant
and thousands Of dollars worth of ma
chinery are lying idle.
1t Is exceedingly important in all
branches OF Industry, and indeed in all
the pursuits and relations of life, that
tho value Of timo should be properly cs-
timatcd, so that people may not only
use their own to good advantage but res
oiutely refrain from wasting tho time of
others.-ShoC and Leather Review.