The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-19

| needed. A marble-man seemed the
most available for that branch of the
| art, but in order to be sure of good
| fit he was obliged to come and meas
ure the missing piece, or, rather, the
| spot from which the missing piece had
| been removed. Then we got man to
| carry the stove from the barn to the
| chamber This could not be done by
| a mechanic of any sort, because me-
chanic must stick to his own trade,
and wouldn't thing of engaging in
transportation, even by wheelbarow.
Then we sent to a dealer in stoves and
furnaces for a stove man to come in
and set it up, OF course hole must
be made in the chimney for the pipe
but nobody could tell where to cut the
hole until the stove was in its right
place. So after the stove man had
marked the spot for the hole he went
home, and the mason came to dig the
hole in the chimney. He found there
was some woodwork to be cut open
first. So we sent for the carpenter to
cut the hole through the woodwork, in
order to make room for the mason to
cut the hole in the brick work for the
stove man to put the pipe into, Then
man came back and set up the stove,
and when that was done he also went
home to stay. After that the mason
came back and filed in around the hole
In the chimney, so that the smoke
would not come out around the pipe.
Then the lather came to repair the
lathing that had been torn Off by the
carpenter, and the plasterer came and
put on the fret coat Of mortar, and
the painter came and painted the
wooden blocks under the stove legs,
and the man came from the carpet
store to relay the carpet that had
been taken up, to make room for the
link under the stove, and the paper
hanger hung paper on the plastering
that was on the lath that covered the
gap that the carpenter cut to make
room for the hole in the chimney that
took in the stove pipe that carried the
smoke from the soapstone stove that
was set up by the stove man and
mended by the machinist and the mar
bic worker.
Now hold up your finger and count
them off. First there was the laborer
who moved the stove from the barn;
then there was the marble man who
furnished the soapstone, and the ma
chinist who made the bolt, and the
stove man and the brick mason and
the carpenter and the lather and the
plasterer and the painter and the pa
per-hanger and the carpeter- stretcher
IL of them, one for each finger and
one to carry; if there had been more
fingers there would have been more.
All the men came by the street cars.
some of them twice, so there was an
average of Is cents apiece for car
fares, making $165 for travelling ex-
penses. Q The the proprietors Of the diff
ferent establishments from which the
men had been sent to do the work, told
their bookkeepers to make out eleven
DIS, each bill for portion of a days
work, which portion included the time
lost from some other job, the time
spent in going back and forth on the
cars, the time waiting for the right
car and the time necessary for stop
ping to get drink of water. These
eleven bills We're sent by mail-two
cents each-and I responded with elev-
en- checks-four cents each two for
revenue and two for postage-the
bank teller was called on to cash the
checks promptly, lest my bank ac-