The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-31
RULES OF BUSINESS HOUSES.
Peculiar Requirements of Great EN-
pIOyers.

plOyers.
From Tit Bits.
The rules of great business houses
they are not always down in black
and white they are none the less bind
ing. At one of the oldest and best
known of London banks, whose offices
are in the Strand, and which employs
staff of 1875 clerks, there Is a regu-
lation to the effect that all the en-
ployes must be clean shaven. So far
as our contributor knows this rule has
never been put in writing, but no clerk
in the bank in question would even
dream of growing either mustache or
beard.
Those who know the city well are
aware that any other costume but the
regulation frockcoat and silk hat is
absolutely forbidden in more than one
| house, and the writer knows of one at
least where even a white or fancy
waistcoat would incur immediate CEN
sure and possible dismissal.
Cne rich, but old fashioned, banking
establishment will not permit a mar
ried man to enter its service, nor even
allow any of it's clerks to enter the
bonds of matrimony. The prohibition
| is said to date from the time of the
| grand uncle of the present head part
me-. The old gentleman was a con-
| f1rmGd womanhater the result of IN
unhappy love affair in his youth, and
he net only refused to employ married
men, but even, so far as possible, 10
see {. woman. The regulation is stu
| adhered to, and private detective is
said t. be employed to make certain
thar IF the DlnWod ha
secretly broken the rule.
Another firm, a large accountancy
business, has a stringent law that no
man employed shall bet or gamble.
Playing nap for halfpenny points
would be sufficient to insure the dis
missal of any employe if he were
caught. This firm, too, is known to
make constant secret inquiries to ia
sure that their rule does not become a
dead letter
A curious contrast to the head of the
firm just mentioned is the owner of
some large smelling works in South
Wales. When new hand applies
there for work the very first question
is, Can you play football?" If he an
swers Yes" he Is at once taken on.
But woe betide him If his perform
ances at his trial on the following
Saturday afternoon be not up to the
the HldIk. ne gets MS week 3 money
and goes. The owner of the works is
a keen footballer and takes the great
est pride in the team which is picked
from among his men. He backs them
against other teams all round the
country, and II they win never fails
to recompense them in very substan-
tial manner.
A well-known United States rail-
way company has recently laid down
a regulation that no engine driver is
in weight. The company has recent
ly brought into use a new type of en-
CINE with n smaller cab than usual.
They consider that very stout men
would be cramped for room and be
unable to move as rapidly as they
should in case of need.
One of the largest retail shops in the
world is Marshall Field & Company's
esta blishment in Chicago. They en-
ploy 5000 people. and their turnover
is 9200, 900 a week. One of their most
stringent rules is we'll worthy of imi-
tation in shops all the world over 1t
is that no employee shall tell anything
except the exact truth about the goods
he or she sells. So particular are
they in this respect that there is a
standing offer of reward for any clerk
who finds the slightest misstatement
in one of their advertisements or in the
written description of any goods.
There is regulation in one of the
greatest OF British chocolate manufac-
turing firms where $500 people, mostly
women, are employed. All the women
have to dress in white Perfect clean
lines is in this way easily enforced