The Washington herald., 1909-03-28
FOUR HOURS OF SLEEP
New FORKS Comptroller Who Has Thrved on 1t for Years
Says More Is Waste of Time and Money.

few minutes az each Neither Is he q
stranger in the aH-night restaurants in
Upper Broadway. lie Is known n taem
al. Just as be IS known in all the thea
ters and clubs
Getting around as be does is partly
business with him. although he declares
that he enjoys every minute OF his tine.
More than that. Il agrees with him.
Never since he became a fuIl-fedged
business man has he made a practice OF
sleeping SIX. seven. or eight hours. as the
average man does And he never gets
Up with headache OF with a tired feel
ing.
II is time wasted 70 sleep eight Or nine
hours said he 70 a New York Herald re-
porter. Figure IL out. Say a man sleeps
four hours q night instead OF eight. He
saves i.46o hours 81 a year. or I72 working
days. OF eight hours each. which is tne
time usually given 20 business. Now. see
what that means. Say a mans earning ca
pacity Is SO day. He is throwing away
slrs11 year, assuming. OF course, that the
tlfne saved y devoted 20 earning money
In ten years. figuring his earning ca
pacity az SO day. he would have made
Sls,ly0 Say he can earn S25 dav. which
IS modest enough IN ten years he would
have thrown away $3.50 worth OF time.
Now. say he is worth 500 q day, which
thousands OF men are. He loses SIS. .003
That's worth thinking over a bit
md no trouble in getting along With
Beg pardon. Mr. Metz. a delegation of
Bronx taxpayers 10 see YOU"
The compuoIler's secretary had inter
rupted. Five minutes later the busy Off
cial returned 20 the interviewer. He had
listened 10 his visitors for a minute or 50.
Ihen he checked them He had grasped
what they had in mind long before they
mad got a good start with their explana-
ton Then he gave his answer 10 them in
JlIy, slapped each one on the back. ac-
companied IL with an invitation 10 come
again. and sent them on their way smil-
ing He does in ten minutes what many
business men win spend hours over He
gallops through long reports and com
plicated. technical documents. compre-
hendlng them fully. and goes along. never
turning the pages back 20 re-read them
He viii take a group OF visitors for two
or three minutes. turn 20 another and dis
cuss an entirely different topic. and mean
while put his Signature 70 papers brought
IN BY his chief clerk and answer hurried
questions put 10 him BY his secretaries
He IS indeed a I've wire He talks Ike
a streak Of lightning and thinks taste
than he can talk When he dictates his
stenograDhers are put 70 their wits end
&C keep up with him
And he does il all on three and four
hours sleep.
Never Feels Tired Out.
Don't you ever feel tired out?' was
asked OF him
Never II sleep ny allotted tine
feel hne and 1T II oversleep 7 don't
feel 81 good form I usually sleep three
or four hours. and more often three than
four That IS enough for any man, in m
estimation. II he takes good care of him
self. doesn't eat too much. drink too
much. or IN other ways abuse himself
What's your advise 10 people who wish
70 live as you DO and keep their health
Don't wOrry, don't leI others wOrry
you. and don't take yourself 100 id
seriously. You know the trouble WIKI
the great majority OF people is that they
think they are carrying the responsible
ties OF the world upon their shoulder.
Always remember that yOu-I mean any
one-is just one OF a billion Things
would and VIII 90 OF without you and yoa
won't be missed So don't try 20 figure
out that you are essential 10 the worlds
along as they viii. always. OF course. do
ing your best at whatever you under
take With this mental attitude gray
hairs won't come early and lines Won
streak the face
Mr. Metz gives never less than eight o.
nine hours q day 10 the CITY. and he
works hard every minute. he wastes III
tie time eating and he spends practically
no time reading HIS secretaries keep
him informed as 70 what appears IN the
newspapers Besides being al the head OF
the biggest finance department in Amer
lea. he IS at the head also Of a big busi-
ness concern which has branches in many
cities and does a business Of millions
every year He started IN as an ofHce
boy. and Is now the head OF the concern.
As such he has an income several times
as large as his salary OF Sl5.s00 as comp
troller. In fact. be Is a man OF vast
wealth. all Of which he made himself.
He could retire II he wished. bur he be-
neves q nan Of forty-two should stick
70 his task