Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-16
ERCHANTS OF NEARBY
tYIYES ENTERTAINED
ATBIG BUSINESS SHOW
....,.;no Business Men Find
Much of Value to Office Eff
ficiency in Extensive
Exhibits
vtEw "HUMAN" MACHINES


.,,s and business men from near
h,,I. are the guests of the First An
" ySttodeIphia Business and Efficiency
~ ,odav al the 1st Regiment Armory,
npN ond Callowhlll streets The show
INV 4, NJ omen until Saturday at 10 O'Clock
ss.rsands of persons, who have been
- In a continuous stream before the
~ booths, have expressed interest
~ drodecilion. which the Burroughs
m.siac Machine Company, OF Detroit,
tnons exbibition Attracted by the
fH'e .ythot is n duodecillion?" they have
Nv and gazed when the operator
.erp WV, ,bem a meek looking black machine.
- looks like an adding machine, and
..riains that II will count to a duodecil-
~ they become interested and ask what
~, ia Some have asked IL II Is pre-
.,,.,oric animal The operator explain
~ auodecillion is simply machine
.k,eh will count to 40 places the highest
lsown figure
IN giving an example of how great a
t..ssclIlion is the Burroughs people eX-
nam that II man had an income OF
n An 0OO n second. or $4,000. 100000 an
~ and II he received that amount day
IA night It would take 352,33l,022, 2,041,-
~ 7si. .s33, ,333, ,333 years for him to ac-
,amulate a duodecillion of dollars.
rhe Burroughs people are also showing
r,achine which counts. keeps track of
"a makes a record of the ar1bunt in
- nav envelope on the outside of the
tavtlope.
Many visitors are especially interested
N SEEING the first adding machine and the
frst calculating machine ever invented
mich are being shown at the booth Of the
Monroe Calculating Machine Factory.
Ihese machines were shown for the first
,me in Philadelphia at the Centennial
Exposition, back in 1876 Some of the
dlder residents of this city remember see
Inr them there. The gold medal awarded
IN. s Baldwin for the first adding and
mbtracting machine is also shown in the
tooth.
PAY ENVELOPE DOCTORS.
Business men, to whose employees pay
fay often means so much extra work,
,re making special trips to the Inter-
national Money Machine booth to see the
htest Invention in that line. This ma
chine does not make money as it's name
nirht imply 1t is, according to the OPP
tfstors in the booth, the only machine
which combines nine full figures and
rhedules the exact number of coins
needed and then fills the pay envelopes
Win the correct coins, and at the same
tine keeps track OF the money needed
fm the entire payroll. This machine
has never been shown in any city before
Some Of the large Philadelphia concerns
are using them now and report they can
All 40 pay envelopes in one minute with
lhe exact amount, and keep track of the
money at the same time. This machine
4 made In Terre Haute, Ind.
The Dalton Adding Machine Company
1f Cincinnati Is exhibiting n machine
which the operators declare Is the fastest
multiplying and listing machine on the
market 1t Is operated by ten keys. and
The operator uses the dch system. The
demonstrators dwell In talking of the
Dalton, on its simplicity, speed. versa
ullty, durability and touch operation,
isatures which they declare make it worth
tnyestlgation.
machine which adds subtracts, multi
plies and divides Is attracting much at
tention In the booth of the Ensign Elec-
trical Calculating Machine Company, of
Boston. The men who tell of the wonders
q the machine say that the work Of the
Ensign Is 30 per cent, machine and 10
er cent. operator, and that the success
o. the machine Is based on the simplicity
WIN which 1t handles the most difficult
nialrs Of big business house.
Perhaps the most startling revelation
% the business man who visits the Bust
ness and Efficiency Show at the Armory,
however. is the fact that the Library
bureau can produce his correspondence |
Nilh that firm for the year 1915 in a mo-
ment. This Library Bureau concern is !
making feature of its steel filing cabi-
net equipment; its l.. B. automatic cor
ssspondence index, and its card index, |
which is both hand and mechanically op- |
rated
IN the huge street.filing cabinets are
kept letters for 1915 from all business
aouses In the country Men from various |
,oncerns have stepped into the Library |
Dweau booth during the exhibit. thinking |
eateh'' the operator in the claim that |
spnespondence with his firm can be To- |
11sd IN so seconds. True TO the Library |
nlleau's assertions, the letters ara
asoesnt forth and the operators assert |
sas, s--s the men change from skeptics TO
'Oosters for the bureau.
rerhaps no one thing has attracted
Ioie attention than the Kalamazoo bull |
sog In the Kalamazoo Loose Leaf Binder
sslpsny booth. The dog is shown sus-
s.aled 10 loose leaf binder book by his |
'tA sINae weight. II emphasizes the fact
s'AS ailhough the books are called loose
~ the leaves cannot be removed until
~ patent locks are unlocked. In this
n ~m ls also shown the gold medal won
= me Kalamazoo Loose Leaf Binder
s.anpAny at the Panama Pacific EXPOSE
w AZ San Francisco The loose leaf
ss..e' ss.sIs' known as Style C, are being ex-
- s-sa tor hundreds of interested busi-
men by the sales agent, Burton d.
...ilihsi who has recently opened a
~ potaneh In this territory 10 Introduce
i. ~ ~ Sn.Alamazoo loose leaf binder 10 Phila-