The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-12-12
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Samuel said ne, Il have received
an oner to put an iron vault with
double doors into the Merchants
Bank inner door to be triple
: pIated with the middle plate of cast
steel, Here isa minute draft of what
they want. SO faras form and size are
concerned You may take this, and
go up and look at the place where the
Vaultis tobe placed; and then you can
let me know e you feel competent to
DO
The youth thanked his employer,
and. then with strangely futtering
heart lie took tie plan and withdrew.
He looked It over and then went up
TO thebanksswhere he received all tie
fnformation he desired; and that
evening he informed Mr.. Merrill that
he could do it
Very veil returned the master.
md now you shah have my PROPOSE
ton. am to receive twelve hundred
dollars the safety vault About
three hundred of that must go for tie
locks and some for other matters be-
side stock Twill give you two hun
dred and twenty dollars to make it.
and You may take such help as you
need paying them the same as
paying them. For instance: If
you use Jones, I shall deduct two dol
lars Tor every day you use him-and
for smith should deduct only a dol
lar on understand But you viii
noshing of this to the hands Let
them work as they have
some further conversation was held
Ga the subject and then Samuel was
read for his job On the following
morning he went at It He kept Smith
work with him nearly all The time,
a, d most of the time he had Others to
help him He made all his own plans
and irangEts and every bit OF the,
headwork and in every case the work
10 hair The door was
splendid specimen of workmanship
IN fact, both of them We're. The outer
door. wfliehwas OF polished iron, was
made with stiles. rails and panels, and
when was done not a seam or mark
couid detected where the joints
were. nor could the heads of the bolts
BE seen was placed in the count
ng room on exhibition while the rest
Of vault was under way.
length the vault was complete
and the vault set up Samuel super
Intended the masons while they set it
not until it was ready to put the
papersfnto did he give up the keys
he sat down with Mr.. Merrill after the
the work was done. and reciloned up
the result of his job. He nad work
ed On the vault forty-seyen days He
had had Smith to help him forty-two
days. at one dollar per day: Gurney.
twenty days, at one dollar and twenty
I've cents per day Then there were
i've dollars to pay for trucking. This
added up amounted TO, lightweight
dollars, leaving balance in his favor
of one hundred and thirty-two dollars.
Wei, Samuel. you've made a pref
u good speculation, . said Mr.. Merrill.
after this result had been arrived at.
..:And-a-how much am to re-
ceiveer asked the youth tremulously.
WHY, here It is. In black and white.
Isofered you two hundred and twenty
dollars 10 do the job. and you've done
You've made hundred and thirty
two dollars-about two dollars and
fYe-sfxths per day. But you are not
the only one who has done this Jones
has had several jobs of the kind and
Quincy has had three. The idea Is
simply here; IN mechanics, as in the
more intellectual profession. the labor
of a capable mind is worth more than
the mere labor of physical organs,
for one mind may find work for hun
,dred hands. while without that mind
they would be idle. Now perhaps you
do not estimate your own abilities
high enough. There are ten men in
my employ who have had all the ad-
vantages that you have had, but some
how they never had faculty of
learning anything but the mere me-
chanicaI part. There are men here
who have been IN my shop fourteen
years, and have been faithful and IN
dustrious. and yet they could not have
made that vault door. With some one
else TO draw the plans. and give them
the dimensions OF each particular part
they could have performed the mere
work. SO You see that in this job you
have only received a fair pay for your
services. for you have done the work