The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-16
BLOSSOMS AS A
STRIKE ANT|D0TE
Great Plant That Provides Flow
ers for Its 24OO
Employees.
1T TEACHES MEN TO
LOVE THE BEAUTIFUL
When They Do This, They Are
Content, and Labor Wars
Do Not Occur.

NJ C. Bennett Of the Detroit Stove
works Is a guest at the Knutsford. be-
ing here to transact extensive business
for the Northwestern market Having
been a visitor 20 Salt Lake In a busi-
ness capacity for the past twenty-three
years, he is qualified to speak on busl-
ness matters In general CONVERSE
ton he said;
II noticed In the morning dispatches
that the striking plumbers won their
fight in San Francisco for SO per day
OF eight hours Now, we never have
anything of that sort in our employ.
Some sixty-four years ago w. II, Tef1
began the business of stove-casting on
the same ground we now occupy. and,
like the Krupp Gun works In Ger
many the work has descended from
father to son, both the works and the
men who conduct them being un-
changed in location or kin.
Immense Establishment.
"Our plant now covers eighteen
acres of ground, and We constantly
force, every time the second hand OF
your watch passes the 80 mark, we
turn out a completed stove, In other
words, We complete cooking stove
every thirty seconds, for ten hours per
day for every working day in tho year
You can easily compute the number OF
stoves we turn out annually,
Antldote for Strikes.
Speaking OF trouble among work
ingmen, / feel we have the most
unique antidote for that In the world,
in the shape OF n huge greenhouse, tne
pet scheme OF Mrs e. s. Barbour, the
widow of the proprietor. and daugh-
ter Of the original founder, This good
woman is O. passionate lover OF mowers
and Is a good botauist. The green
house, under her care. has grown TO
be a feature of our great plant. L
have seen men who have been for
hours working IN heated places, weak
from perspiration and labor, go into
the greenhouse and sit and rest. look
ing at the thousand beautiful plants
and flowers there TO be seen. and go
back at the end OF the noon hour re-
freshed and stronger for the pleasure,
You cannot make any man believe
that employers who Will appeal to him
through the medium Of flowers could
or would treat him dishonesty. vi
course the good woman never thought
of this view of the case when she
began her great feature of green
house, but It has worked as charm
to weary men, and has been a power
fuls factor in keeping them sweet and
contented with their lots,
Original Cost OF Stove.
'How many of the public have
correct idea of the original cost OF a
cooking or heating stove. do you
think? Let me say that the first cost
of designing stove. and or making
patterns for II, runs up Into the thou-
sands OF dollars, and that the design
ing, pattern making, molding, finish
ing and assembling costs 90 per cent,
while the material used costs only
per cent OF the total cost Of produc-
ton at first hand. In other words,
labor costs 95 per cent and material
only per cent of first cost FROM
long experience we know 1t is wise 10
conserve the best interests Of 30 per
cent of our productive force, and so
we have lunches and other conve-
nIences for our 2400 people, and hnd
that on the lower level Of dollars and
cents It pays, while on the higher level
of the Golden Rule 1t makes for good
will and contentment. The silent but
powerful influence of one good Wo-
man, In the form Of flowers and pretty
growing things, does more To make
our employees cheerful and contented
than any other force l can think or.
Has Watched Salt Lake Grow.
1T have been in Salt Lake for this
market for twenty-six years, and have
seen the city grow from a village TO
its present size. and l am sure 1t ought
now TO have 100000 people. Your
new gas plant will open up for bust
ness In May, 1907. and will use 5000 OF
the Detroit Jewel gas stoves to begin
with, having booked that order since
I came.
THE rate bill is good thing, and
will put us all on the same level, with
n fair field and no favor. II we nave
a fair field, 1t will put US all where
our merit should place us We leave
our goods all over the world. and we
find that rates, when equal all around,
never work hardships to us. We have
shipped forty carloads of stoves per
year into the Salt Lake market, and
expect to enlarge tho shipment soon. y