The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-19

So with no Table Of Minimum ppyes..
nt Efficiency 20 guide her and with ns{<
hnt the fear Of the head iunitor befors
ewes Mrs. Oieson. scrub lady. rearraucs<
sacred wooden paddles of the Automatic
efai Manager as best pleased the wicked T
gods OF CHARGE and Despite. Then shs
up the whole apparatus on its nail arpins<
wall Presently the scrubbinr OF the
and the other work WAS completed. tho
ianitor locked again the door of the rco-
the Automatic General Manager, and INA
peace Of the Sabbath evening broode5
the great plant Of the Barker Wagon v1
On the Monday morning following
President Brooks came out to the ia
nerVed up to the point Of desperation :"
81 II get through with it as quickly
can. he said 10 himself '' won 4 IA
TO do anything else ANYHOW until IL is o.
mind
With fear in his heart he unlock a
room Of the Automatic General Manaver
SieRped in, He glanced up al the board
there before his own name rs vice pred
stood one Of the fatal rcd paddles.
So that Was why President Barker had
10 the West Indies after declaring thnl
personally would not have issued soma ol
orders of the Automatic General Mau>
He, Brooks. was TO lose his position ehf
haps Barker thought that after SEEING
notice of his own dismissal ne wond
carry out the rest Of the orders Huh, 1
show the cowardlv president that he sa1
that sort Of man. He looked the board
more carefully and took = certain a
pleasure in observing that half the mosI
pertsnt men in the business had the
bright paddles after their names
Barker must be crazy. He must ne n
10 ruin the business. Very well IL N
business
Carefully Brooks copied of all the d
Of the Automatic General Manager az
Gated by the fatal paddles Then he
upstairs and savagelv dictated notes din
ing from the service Of the company'
treasurer. a man Of ten wears service:
secretary, who had worked his way upI
Office bov. and the general snperinfen|
who had invented most Of the devicH
which the success Of the business was b
With equal gTimuess hc sent orders tf
pavmaster TO raise the salaries of ha
dozen incompetcuts before whose names,
the UnwItting assistance of Mrs. Oleson
Automatic General Manager had p
bright vcllow paddles.
Within an hour chaos reigned aup
throughout tho plant Of the Barker W
company The treasurer. the sccrcfary
the rest demanded saNapcly the cause Of
unexpected dismissal
"Ordcrs Of the old man $ damned inf
machine, answered Brooks. 81 m ,
YOU.
Ten minutes before noon Vice Pre-
Brooks keeled over sideways from bis
and fell TO the floor He was taken bc1
an ambulance and the doctor said he
brain fever.
Meanwhile kilograms TO President 81
in New York were burning up the wiret
manager Of the New York Office lumped
a cab and drove like mad to the dock
steamship line on which Barker had emf
passage In tho wisdom of proyldencc
sailing of that Monday morning boaf
been DELAYED pending the arrival OF i
late freight
The hreathIess manager found Prcs
Barker leaning idlv against the rail OF
steamer and handed him message.
rrowned. took the yellow envelope, and
il open.
Barker: Brooks seized with brain
Rest of us fired Have turned business
10 the Office bov'
IT was signed by the secretary. the
urcr and the general superintendent.
President Rarkcr caught a fast trai1.
10 the factory. One Of his hrst pieU
after hearing how tho ground lay, was
teryiew the Automatic General Mauager'
an AK.
This is the story Of how he wou--th
much against his will-thc historic niek'
Of cold system