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Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-26
wha. Is eoi,a On Tonight.

Moving Pictures at the Bijou and Scenic Temple.
 Windham Eucampment. Nc. 10, I. o. O. F.
 wilimantic Commandery, No. 25s. U. o. G. c.
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CANVAS TRUNKS

This Trunk is heavily bound and braced. and is a very attractive Trunk for travelling and made for hard serv- fee, straps all around, 12-inch hinges, tumbler Jock. two center bands. full covered trays, sizes S2. S4 and 8S, ss.25.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-26
Restricted Sales.

Department stores would have fared hard in the seventeenth century unless their proprietors could have induced parliament to grant more privileges than were allowed to other shopkeep- CTS. The articles that a grocer might sell were definitely prescribed. They were ''raysons, entrants, sugar, spice, sope, candles, molasses, gunpowder, shot, match, tar, pitch, rosin, tobacco, cotton yarn, starch, bluing. prunes, figs, lInseed oil, lead, olives, Spanish white alabaster, rum. almonds, birthstone, lampblack and candle rushes."
 Fairfield.-Sheriff Elwood and I. N. Book started for Baltimore Sunday night to be present at the national democratic convention.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-26
Goinn to New Brunswick.

Principal Egbert A. Case of the Windham high school and Mrs. Case leave today Wednesday, for New Brunswick. to spend the summer va cation at the old Case homestead a few miles from St. Johns.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-26
STEAMER TRUNKS

Three-pIy veneer box, slatess vuI- canized fibre covered, thoroughly riv- eted, best grade of lock and trimming, size 54, price S1S.50.
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Ef'S Best
 To Have

ready to use at first sign of trouble the best corrective for any disorder of the organs of digestion. The earlier you seek relief the easier it will be to get it-and the more certain it will be that the trouble will not lead to something worse. It is universally admitted that
Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-26
STRAP CANVAS TRUNKS

Made with fibre binding, capital trimming. Excelsior lock. well braced wItn knee and heavy bumpers on bot tom and corners, size 84, price $7.25.
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C. N. WILLIAMS,

 Tel s7o. 21s Main Street.
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It is reported that the work ef fill ing ia tie Lyman viaduet and the RaPPele bridge eR the main line of the New Yerk. New Haven & Hartford railroad, will begin at once, Two steam shovels will be used in gravel pits on E. W. Bills farm, about 3 1-2 miles frem the village, Fhe tracks te the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19

oh higher or to attain their ambi- ton before they are matured. or before they are fitted for responsibility. lot of them think they know more than they really do know, and they do not discover this fact until they are put to the test. Even then they are more inclined to blame others for their shortcomings or incompetency than themselves. They put smartness above common sense They arc more inclined to be quick than to be accurate
 The majority of employers. when they S;e searching for assistants to put in po- sitions of responsibility. do not look for
 smart men so much as they look for sound men. Employers study their men and weigh their qualifications far more than the employees ever realize. Oppor- tunity comes sometimes when least eX- pected. It came to Fleury in that way. | He had been with the Lawyers Title company four years and half and had climbed from ss a week to fair salary. | These four and a half years had broad- ened his experience and widened his circle | of acquaintanceship to an extent that | made him particularly valuable as solic- | itor.
 | But his employers apparently saw more l in him than the average solicitor One day they astonished him with an offer of
 the managership of the Brooklyn depart
 ment. Brooklyn is d big field It is al most as big as Philadelphia. For man of 26 to be put in control of so large a branch was rather unusual. An acuve, bright, hustling man was needed there.
 The company had not been making the progress in that territory to which 1t was entitled by reason of its prestige. its cap
 ital and it's connections. Business was
 rather dull, but there were signs of a re- yival of activity. Some persons might say 1t was merely great stroke of luck | for Fleury to get the appointment just at 1 that time Maybe it was.
 Luck is only another term for oppor- tunity. It generally comes to those who
 are most deserving it. At any rate the transfer to Brooklyn came to Fleury at
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will run up to SEQ, ,000o00 before we get through. Moreover. we have agreed to pay Panama s250,0OO a year, beginning with nine years after the treaty by which we took the canal. Eight years have al- ready gone. and a year from now we will be spending that quarter of a million, which will be a fixed charge upon the treasury for all time to come. Two hun dred and fifty thousand dollars is the an- nual interest on more than S6.000000, and so we must capitalize that $6,0o0000 and add it to the cost of the canal. And so you have the s25,0oO0Oo without going far ther making as l have said, a total of s40o, ,0O0, coo
 Now let us see where the money has gone. We shall first take it in the rough We spent 50,000,0O0 at the start to get control of the canal property. The French company received $400O0,000 for It's rights and the work 1t had done and Pan- anna got S10,0O0OO0 for the canal zone and other rights. Then we began to clean mp the canal, to organize the work and to dig. We spent less than S1 100000 in 1904, the year we bought the canal. We paid out about $5,0O0,0OO in 1905, Sl1,000,00O in 19O6 $21, ,000, GOO in 1907 and from then on have steadily increased, until we are now spending millions month. By June 30 next we shall have used up the total ap- propriation so far made by Congress, and they IOW equal lilt NdSl Suiil Ol 9EJofJVp- SIP. .76. At the beginning of this year we had already expended more than $200,o0O- GOO and the remaining $33, 0O0,000 is the cost of the current six months.
 Uncle Same Moneys Worth
 Is the job a cheap one and is Uncle Sam receiving the worth of his money2
 The job is not cheap, and nevertheless Uncle Sam Is getting the worth of his money. He is getting more than any other great company or government has had for similar work. Let me give some comparative figures. When the French started this canal in 1879 it was planned to build it at sea level and at a cost of $240.- 0OO,000. The first company continued it's work for 10 years, after which time it be- came bankrupt. Tn that time it spent s200 900 900 and exeavated about $66, coo yards of earth and rock, so that the av- craze cost of digging was about S4 a yard.
 Uncle Sam, with all his preliminaries in the way of sanitation and getting ready for work has been on the job less than eight years and at the end of last Feb
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cost. It Is the same with the dredges and with every bit of the machinery, even to tho oil used in greasng the same.
 The cost of excavation per cubic yard Is figured out to the hundredths of cent, and the variations from month to month are estimated. This is per cubi eyard oi aIe estimated. This is per cubic yard of getting out of the men and machines.
 Take, for instance, the Gatun locks. l am looking at the records of last year. During the months of July and August and September the average cost per cubic yard of work there was little over $2.96 in September 1t was about 8, in August almost S6 and in July only a little over &.
 Tls was made up of items like the fol- lowing: Cost of drilling 30 cents, blasting g. cents, loading by power cents, by hand IT cents, track transportation g cents, trecks 1 cent, division expenSe B cents and so on. making up the total that I have given. would say, however, that l have only quoted the round numbers, and that ee ch of these calculations is carried out to the hundredths of a cent.
 Where Sixteen Cents Goes
 When you divide a cent into 100 parts and make your calculations on job of s405 GOO, GOO you are getting things down to a pretty fine point But this is done as to everything In each cubic yard on the Atlantic where the dredging costs 1f cents, they know to this fraction of cent just what the cost of the use of the pipe lines Is. They know the repairs of the dredges, the cost of the tugs the cost of the barges, the rock breakers, of the biz boats and the little boats, and of every thing that can possibly enter into that work.
 On that division thefe are IA different items which form a part of the unit cost of getting one cubic yard of earth out oi the sea and landing it and the total cost Is only a little over 15 cents. In addi- ton to this is the administration and gen. etal expenses account, which is a little more than a cent and which must be added.
 In getting out stone from the quarries, the stripping, drilling, blasting, loading, transportation, tracks, power and main torrance of equipment are taken into ac- count, and in the concrete comes the sand stone, cement, the mixing and other things Similar work is going on In diff ferent places all over the canal zone, and If one part of the work goes much ahead
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Tuary he had taken out over 1600O0,o00 cubic yards of earth and rock. He has been able to use a little less than %, ,0O0, ,0OO yards Of the French digging and has now total excavation all told of little more than 2oOoo0,O00 cubic yards with some thing like 20,0O0,000 yet to dig.
 The French cost as I have shown, was s4 a yard. Uncle Sam's cost was at one time s1 a yard, but it has been steadily cut until, on the Culebra division, where 1t Is almost solid rock and the expense Is the greatest the total average per cubic yard is less than 54 cents, while the dredging cost at the Atlantic end Of the canal is less than 9 cents. Does it not seem as though Uncle Sam is getting the worth of his money2
 The Suez canal cost, all told, about S10O,- o00,0O0 to build, and the original excava- tion was s0,000,000 cubic yards. The cost was about S1.25 per yard, or just twice what we are paying now for taking the rock out here at Culebra. This Is so not withstanding suez was ditch through a desert without hill or hollow, where the sand could be shoveled out on the banks and where thousands of fellahs were fur nished by the khedive to do the work at practically nothing a day.
 The Chicago drainage canal cost a little over S35. GOO, coo, and it's excavation amount ed to over 42,O00,0O0 cubic yards, of which,
  At that rate the digging there cost an av- craze of 80 cents per cubic yard, or 20 cents more than that we are now paying at Panama.
 Watching the Corners
 It is only by watching the corners that Uncle Sam has been able to cut down the cost of the work to these very low fig ures. You must remember that he pays the best wages on earth. and that he houses his men free of charge. Neverthe- less the cost is about as low as it could be on any great work of this kind almost anywhere in the world. The reduction Is made by stopping every leak and by using every available bit of material. The French houses were repaired and used. Two million dollars worth of the French machinery was modernized and put to work, and every bit of French scrap not in use was sold for what 1t would bring. The French buildings altogether saved us $2,O0O000, and every old French shack that has been torn down has found a place in other buildings.
 Indeed, I have never seen so much
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clerks generally are of minor importance. Whether they remain clerks or climb to higher estate depends entirely upon themselves. Fleury filled in policies, went through the regular daily routine and attracted little notice. He was bright, alert, willing and ambitious. But there was others just as bright, just as alert. just as ambitious, work ing all around him.
 He did not like clerical work; few persons do. But he stuck to it. He is a great believer in stick-to-it-iveness. It was hard grubbing on S week. He had to count his dimes and his pennies When he got raise to $l1 week, and was promoted to application clerk, hc was quite proud-but he was not satis- fled In the course of time he got some other minor promotions lie became an
 ndexer at sl5 a week. and then gen eral clerk in the law department at s16. He was making headway. He liked the title insurance business. even if clerical work was not to his taste. and he wanted to understand it in all its phases. He had the buoyancy and confidence that is characteristic of the young Irish. But with his buoyancy and with his confi- dence he had the saving grace of pa tience. He thought he was fitted for bet ter work than he was doing, but he realized that the clerical grind was neces- sary to fit him for other and larger things when opportunity knocked at his door. He was going through the mill-- the mill of experience.
 There is a story that Is told of him at this time to the effect that he wanted more money and applied for a raise commensurate with what he considered his work was worth. The story goes that his employers refused to raise his pay on the ground that he was receiving all that a clerk in his position was en- titled to. Fleury says that this story is rot correct, but there is no doubt that he was getting tired of working as a mere clerk He wanted more money, but more than the money he wanted field more suited to his ability. He believed
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his forte was in getting in touch with people. He felt he had the quality that goes to make salesman. He was earnest, clean-cut, a good, forceful talker and impressive The ideal clerk is silent and unobtrusiye machine-like in regularity.
 Tleury knew himself, or thought he did He had been a clerk long enough to know every routine of his business. He wanted a broader field. He got it in due season. From his general clerk ship he was transferred to the city de- partment and was then turned loose as solictor-a business getter
 There is just as sharp rivalry between the title insurance companies as there is betvee the department stores the ma chinery houses, the wholesale grocers, the shoe manufacturers. the railroads, the makers of clothing or the life n- surance companies. A solicitor is the salesman. Upon him, to a fair degree. depends the amount of business the com pany gets from the builders, the specu- lators, the investors, the multitudes who .dea. in real estate in one form or an other
 Hustling for business suited Fleury admirably He had youth, vigor and am bition It was a glorious thing to get away from the dreary monotony of desk work and mix with men. A man In the estate field has to have his wits about him. He has to know values and he has to know men. There is joy in achieve ment. a delight in success. Fleury got his full share of business and more. He got so much that he began to attract rotice. The more business he got, the IT ore he wanted to get. He was gloriously healthy and his habits were good. He dio not drink and he never has drunk.
 He finds work stimulating enough in it. self.
 The trouble with most employees in
 American business concerns is that they think they are not appreciated for what they are worth. A goodly number of them are bright and clever, but they are rest less and diseontented. They want to
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imbued with fair share of his ardor. He was success.
 There are pitfalls on the road of prog ress that men have to be wary of. One little incident may serve to illustrate this point.
 When Fleury was getting S4500 year business man who had been much im- pressed by his ability made a proposition to him that was enough to dazzle the young man. It was to take charge of a business that might net him s20,oo0 year. Fleury has fair share of the impulsive- ness of his race. Twenty thousand year is a great amount for man under 30 to receive--but he refused it. The man who made the offer couldn't understand why it had been refused and asked for the req son Fleury explained that he loved the work he was engaged in; that the other business did not attract him, and that he didn't believeiany man could give the best that was in him to any service in which his heart was not enlisted. He said he would rather get s4500 a year and have delight in his work than get s20,oo0 a year and not feel the satisfaction congenial employment brings.
 There is wisdom sometimes in. what looks like sentiment. Fleury was wise in refusing that business offer that might have brought S20,0 GOO year to him. Some thing that suited him better came later on More than a year ago some capital ists were looking around for man of energy and experience to direct the affairs Of the United States Title Guaranty com pany. They picked Fleury. He became president in March. 1911. In 13 years he had climbed from the s week policy writer in the Lawyers Title Insurance and Trust company to the presidency or one of Its competitors. He is only S5 to- day. The company of which he is the head has five branch establishments in New York city and two outside the city. Fleury is just as much of hustler today as he was when he went out soliciting business for the Lawyers Title company.
 He hires only men who are looking off
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opportunities. He says the young marl who thinks more of the opportunity thai a position offers than of g or s5 a weell raise in salary is the man who is going i'd climb. He says there Is no branch o1 work that does not offer opportunity. Hd had to engage an elevator runner thd other day. Among the applicants ond young man hesitated to inquire if there was any opportunity for advancement in
 this job. F'leury hired him. That was trl sort of man he wanted. He says the
 great trouble with the majority of clerks is that they are too prone to find fault with present conditions and that they do not take advantage of their opportuni- ties. They should learn something-par- ticularly learn something more about their business. In broadening themselves they broaden their usefulness. This learn something theory applies to every one
 from the office boy to the boss.
 The employe who is not studying the work of those ahead of him, instead of those behind him, is not the one to pro- gress, and neither is the boss who is not studying the field ahead of him, instead of the field behind him.
 Some persons may think that business is dull, dreary grind This man of 8, president of a big corporation. doesn't find it so. Success, even if it has come to him so early in life, has not taken the edge off his ambition. He delights in his work. He is man of push, force, abounding energy. He tries to get men around him who feel as he does about their labor. He does not measure his day by eight hours. He is not a slave to his duties by any means. but sometimes when there is a rush he is at his desk until 10 o'clock at night He was there until that hour four days last week, but it was nd hardship. His task was sweeter with the joy of achievement The man who works with pleasure works we'll The man who does not Is likely to work i'll.
 Copyright, 1912 by Richard Spillane.)
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Copyright, 1912. by Frank c. Carpenter.)
 Culebra, Canal Zone. Panama

Copyright, 1912. by Frank c. Carpenter)
 Culebra, Canal Zone. Panama. ToUR hundred million dollarsl
 That is what the Panama canal 4 will have cost when completed. You need not question the figures. They are dead right and l will give you the items later on.
 But stop first and think what slOo. 0Oo means. Suppose you had to earn it and your wages were S2 a day. How long would it tale2 It would take 200,00OOO0 days, or more than 600,o00 years. The hfs- tory of man goes back only 5000 years, and you would have had to work 100 times tho life of this world as far as history is concerned to have done the job.
 Four hundred million dollarsi Suppose # were all in silver coins, such as are now paid to the men who are doing the digging What a pile and what a weight One thousand such dollars equal b5 pounds, and the whole sum would weigh in round numbers 9, 600, 900 pounds, or ll,OOO tons. At a ton to the wagon it would be enough to load a train of two-horse teams, making a single file over 60 miles of roadway and the noses of each team might rest on the tailboard of the wagon in front of it.
 Indeed it is a goodly sum! Where has it gone And is Uncle Sam getting the 
 the matters I have been looking into this week. l have gone over the canal work and hunted for leaks and have also made notes of some places where Uncle Sam is using the principle of scientific manage ment and modern economy. I had a look at the books in the administration build ing here at Cuebra and with the clerks have gone over the ledgers to learn how Uncle Sam counts the cost and to show you what has already been spent and what we must spend in the future. Our Four Hundred Million Dollar
 Ditch
 But first let me satisfy you as to the total. President Taft and Colonel Goethals have estimated the cost of the canal at SS75. .O00e0O. In one way they are right, but there are other items which will amount to at least $25, 900 more. These are the extra charges entailed by the an- nual sum we pay Panama and the fortih- cations. The first estimate of the cost of the latter was $19,0 600, and Congress has now cut it down to $12.000,00O. We have already spent more than $3.OOO,0Oo. and we
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most propitious time. He had not been in the office long before the Rapid Transit Commission came out with it's offiical designation of the new subway plans for the entire city. Three or four great lines were outlined for Brooklyn. There was plan for the Fourth avenue subway, another for one out on the Eastern Park way. and others for other sections of Brooklyn This gave great spurt to real estate dealings. Thousands of men eager to take advantage of the chance to get hold of land in the neighborhpod of the | proposed routes, bought lots singly or in bis blocks. For more than year Brook iyn had the liveliest real estate market the borough ever had known.
 In the real estate field, as in the stock market. men try to discount the future. IL is harvest for the tale companies when the real estate market is lively. That year or 1905 was fine one for the Brook | lyn department of the Lawyers Title ! company. Fleury got fair share of the | credit for the tremendous increase in the
 gross and net earnings. The success he | made as branch manager was so pro-
 nounced that two years after he was sent | to Brooklyn he was made one of the gen
 eral officers of the company. The young
 irisman who had started on & q week was getting to be known as one of the
 coming men in the real estate field.
 The germ of opportunity is sometimes
 planted in the dreary grind of clerical du-
 ties- Few clerks appreciate this fact.
 Fleury knew what was needed of a good
 clerk. He got some excellent ones in his
 Brooklyn office. He got good work out of them. He knew their end of the game just
 as well as they did. He built up a fine
 organization. He knew how to sell and he
 Knew the sort of men he should pick as
 solicitors He was not so much of boss | that ne would not go out and hustle for business himself He was eager to make the best possible showing for his emplov-
 CTS and was willing to work as long or as many hours as there was work to do. Ills
 spirit was contagious. Ills men became