The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-06-20
Leaving American Building
for Quarters in New
FireprOOf Structure
NO INTERRUPTION
IN ROUTINE WORK
Offices Of Holstein- Friesian Register Co.
and Purebred Live Stock Sales Co.
to Remain in American Building =
Facts About the Associations s Work.

to Remain in American Building
Facts About the Association s Work.
The offices of the secretary of the
Hostein Friesian Association of Amer
lea. which have been located in the
American building ever since its compile
tion in 1907, are being removed to the
new fireproof building at the corner of
South Main and Canal streets, erected
by the Peter keeler Construction Com
pany Of Albany, :. s. This building
was designed by 4. L. Brockway, one
OF the directors of the association and
the chairman of its finance committee.
| The idea OF a new building originated i'll
The need Of more ROOM owing 10 the con
tinual increase in business and the even
greater need Of treproof building in
which to preserve the almost invaluable
Irecords.
In order to retain the Holstein associa-
tion's national headquarters in Brattle
boro \. b. Clapp came to the front and
offered to furnish the needed building ar
ranged to suit the demands OF the vari
Gus lines of work to be performed in it.
His offer was accepted and the building
| leased by the association for a term of
| ten years.
The office employs about 100 clerks,
divided among its numerous depart
ments. a large proportion OF them are
engaged in checking up the thousands of
Applications received each week and get
ting out the certificates of registry and
transfer \ smaller force is required to
open and acknowledge the mail, figure
fees and index the items. Still another
force is required for the accounting de
.partment. Letters which require special
attention are distributed to the CORE
spondence clerks, to each of which GER
tain lines are assigned. These clerks
dictate the replies to a force of stenog
lraphers, whose time is chiefly devoted to
this line Of work.
Still another set Of clerks has charge
OF the membership work Of the associa-
tion and another prepares copy and reads
proof Of the herd books gotten out each
year. These herd books contain the
breeding of all animals placed on record
during the time covered by the volume
issued. together with indexes giving the
name and number OF each animal and the
name and address of each breeder and
owner. Another feature of the work is
that done by the literary bureau. which
is the publicity department OF the or
lganization. This consists of the publica
tion and distribution of thousands OF
leaflets and pamphlets each year and of
the advertising conducted through the
large number of mediums employed
throughout the country. Yet another far
reaching feature Of the work is the dis
tribution Of special prizes at fairs held
all over the country, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific and from the Great Lakes
to the Gulf. While this work is in
charge of 4 special committee, the de
tails are cared for by the secretary =
office
The task of moving was so system
atized and has been so conducted as to
cause practically no interruption in the
work of the office. This is the more re-
markable as it involved the removal OF
over 30 typewriters, 100 desks and even
more chairs, about 600 vertical filing cor
respondence cases. hundreds of feet of
shelving with thousands of filing boxes
over one million record cards in one file
alone, besides numerous smaller ones
, over eleven thousand herd books and sew
2 er0l tons of literature.