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...Shortages continued. He found that the clerks counted at night what cash they had left in the till during the day, and then punched the register to accord. Another time he found his cash was regularly $2 short of the amount the punched holes indicated. A $2 a night watchman, who had been discharged, had continued secretly at his conscientious watch and extracted the $2 nightly as his proper wage. Shortly thereafter Mr. Patterson got control of a small register manufactory in Dayton, initiated intelligent salesmanship into U. S. business created many scientific management practices. He could brook no inter...
...beamed hall, once Mr. Vanderbilt's dining-room; but most of the payees preferred to spend their time walking through the five floors of echoing empty rooms, coveting the crystal drops on the great girandoles, or peering at Mrs. Vanderbilt's carved marble bathtub. James Ward, ancient watchman of the premises, pointed out that once it cost more than a dollar to buy one's way into the Vanderbilt dining-room. The proceeds went to charity...
...veteran pilot, he was seldom late. An hour passed and the officials became a little anxious for the schedule of the mail. Clouds were lowering. Periodically there was rain. The telephone rang in a little hut at the emergency landing field at Hartleton, a few miles away. The watchman answered. "Has Ames landed there?" "No, he passed over about...
...which they have now slept for half a century. The dust of years lies thick upon the carved rafters. Since the closing of the hall, perhaps bats already flit about in the colored gloom that sifts through the stained glass windows at midday. Through the deep silence a solitary watchman sees the spider drop from the lofty roof and weave an endless web from darkness into darkness. Memory fills the hall in brooding melancholy, and protests against almost every possible new occupant of her sanctuary...
During all the years since the building was constructed, only one man has been locked in when the doors were closed in the evening. Last year a graduate student went to sleep while reading back among the stacks, and did not wake until the night watchman came along on his rounds and aroused him. The watchman used his key to open the door and let the sleeper out. Since the stacks are patrolled all through the night there is only a very slight chance of any one's remaining in the building long after the doors have been closed...