The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

ing them to San Francisco dropped
their work on the borders of Maine. in
the swampS of Louisiana, in Brooklyn
and New York, in Boston and Sioux
City, in Montreal, Canada, in Seattle,
Wash, and in dozens. of other States.
If summoned to a speed work job they
jumped freights to make railroad con-
nections. Though they leave these diff
ferent contracts by the hundreds, their
places will be Immediately filled and
the work go on without a halt. This
is made possible by the system. I'm
trained foremen fill in the vacancies
and in their turn become skilled and
trained in the system.
The same thing applies even to the
young women stenographers who have
been schooled in the system, and who
will come thousands of miles to San
Francisco, ready to take their places in
the splendidly trained office force and
become duplicate parts of the machine
in which many residents of this city
will be employed and trained.
The fact that a force OF this kind
will be drawn to San Francisco does
not mean that no local labor will be
employed. With many million dollars
worth of contracts it will be necessary
to levy small army from the local
members of the building crafts. Merely
the machine is furnished, and the fuel
Iiluol DC pEONlQcu u Keep 1t SOlnR as
well as turning new duplicate parts to
be used in perfecting other machines.
Gradually these other machines can be
made from the different parts avail
able on the various jobs that get under
way in this city.
There is not a moments delay in
getting an undertaking contracted for
going. The first man to arrive, whether
or not he is the superintendent as
rie ,al 10 fOf1
on by the firm. If he has been sent
down from Seattle or Montreal and his
boss is coming from Louisanan he
takes charge until the superintendent
or the man Immediately over him ar
rives. In this way much can be accom-
plished while the superintendent as
signed to the job is whizzing over the
gets here his engine will be oiled and
fired
The first man TO arrive Immediately
gets in touch with the home Office. The
home office will have set many wheels
in motion beforehand. Supplies will
have been rushed TO the contract point
The construction department makes out
a list of the materials and plant needed
and ships them by the carload It will
be by the trainload in the case of San
Francisco. The purchasing department.
which maintains a list of prices of deal
efS InFOuSIlOuJ the country, orders ma
terials to be sent from the nearest
point. thus economizing time and trans
portation charges. Labor for the same
purposes of economy. is partially en-
gagged locally and partly from what is
known as the white list of former
employees.
In this white list" is kept a record
of the names and addresses of all the
men who have worked well under the
system, and they are given the prefer
ence. Brick walls can be erected at
the rate of a story a day by this or
ganiZation. Patent adjustable scaffolds
on which the bricklayers work are
lacked up to keep pace with the prog
ress of their labors. thereby obviatinz e
the usual delay in bending or lifting or
climbing from one platform to another.
Narrow gauge roads run alon z
structures for the purpose of trans
ferring supplies quickly. When the