Show I Of Business and Business Men Meni The liThe Insolence of Office Off ice New York Commercial If Mi Shakespeare could have had the pleasure of rIding on the New York subway and been greeted at every station with the Ironical Step lively please it if lie he could only have been met by the average young office boy boy whose impudent stare suggests that i you are Intruding Into his private do multI if he could have been ushered Into the presence of the third assistant in the next effice and from there ther turned over to the blunt and un se second ond and first assistants when Mr Shakespeare I say did at last reach the sanctuary of the a aver ver age busIness manager having run the gantlet of attendants and assistants the wise old poet would have opened up with some Borne stronger language than those words the insolence of office a writer In thu Business World Of course the average office assist ant does not mean to be discourteous but it does seem to be very hard for tor him to be genial His boss the head of the firm Is a human ot of few words The as copies his managers bluntness and forgets that he has not the brains or tact or occasion to sup port the attitude It becomes tesy in the ass assistant is whereas it is a just form of command In the chief The insolence of office And nd the degree of Insolence seems to vary in adverse ratio to the heIght of the tion In not a few tew offices every stran strange ge who enters is an opportunity for tor the assistant to liberate his import importance importance ance especially it if ti n manager is out Sometimes this attitude is not expressed In actions but discourtesy It should be remembered Is simply a lack of negative quality And when the right atmosphere is wanting in an office the stranger is the first to be Impressed with that fact Kindness should first be a pleasure and next a business rule Commerce often waits walts on courtesy Results Are What Is Wanted The business business world Is looking for formen formen men who can achieve results All AIl oth others ers are hurriedly pushed a aside ide The keen competitIon among employers for men Is sho shown l by the fre frequent qt quent nt changes that are always being made in respOnsible posItions No does a man make a satisfactory r record cord than rival rhal employers begin bid ding for his services The market value of such men has risen with the and and there are now several men mn in the United States who are re per year scores who are arc receiving and better and hundreds who are earning or more while an host are earning over J 1 H Hap in Harpers To those who have not made a study of thIs question the great demand for men and the thoroughness of the search that is constantly being made for them are surprising For the theP P past St eighteen months a Chicago con concern concern cern cern has been trying to the rIght man for a position that will pay from to a year It is a corn com common cornmon mon expression among large employ employers ers I would rather pay than 1000 to a man and they mean it They want men who can handle men men who can discover and stop bus busi business busness ness leaks men who can abolish un unnecessary unnecessary necessary moves fi find d short cuts con consolidate plants make a market where nc ne exIsted before overcome compe can make their years work yield tenfold on the yearly early bal balance balance ance sheet The manager ot of a large New York department house stated recently We Weare Weare are looking for five executive men to we are willing to pay from to a year These positions are fined filled at present he added but they are not fined filled satisfactorily and we are anxious to find better men Afraid of Work Cleveland eVidently has a kind of boy that courts the strenuous Ute life if the following by uW W R H R It in the Plain Dealer signifies Did you ad advertise for a boy Yes Have you answered the advertise advertisement advertisement ment I have haYe But to know first what you moan mean by saying you want a boy who aint afraid of work Its ts plain enough it Maybe It Itis itis is but I should think rather have havea a boy that was a little bit afraid of work Just afraid of it to catch hold of it and with it and down it and jump on it and get the best of it and show it that It wont get et a chance to Drove too much for him the of a a boy I should o 0 the kind that afraid of work Why I I knew a boy once who the least mite afraid of it and hed rub up against It and walk right Into the cage where they kept it and let it eat at off of his hand and at the same time never meddle with it enough to soil soU his hl finger tips enough young fellow the job is yours A Womans Successful Life Work Not alone what one woman did but what many other women can d do even evenin evenin in railroad life was illustrated in the career of the late Miss Rebecca Brack Bracken en of Niles She served the Mich Michigan igan Central for years in the capacity of a faithful telegraph opera operator operator tor and train dispatcher and was be belIeved believed to be the only woman in the thA country who held the latter position Dusing ing her long servIce she was never reprimanded Her life Ufe was a noble ex cx example ample of where theres a a will theres theresa a way and others may emulate it possibly with equal profit Just a few weekS week before her death this month a number of conductors and officials of the railroad named caned called on her dur during during ing her illness and evidenced their ps es esteem teem and appreciation of her personal worth in the presentation of a diamond ring and a railroad regIster contain containing containing ing their autographs It was on that occasion that the story of Miss Brack Brackens Brackens ens career was told by herself herselt as fol follows follows lows UIt It was during the war that I started to learn telegraphy I think it must have hare been In 1863 I 1 was a young girl girland girland and a young girl friend came to our house to get me to accompany her to the depot A soldier tr train fn was going through NiI Niles s that day and the girl with me had a soldIer friend upon that train whom rhe he wished to see before he went to the front Wre We were waiting at the depot in a ajam ajam jam of People and Mrs L Abrams the of the operator asked us to take seats in the telegraph office It was wag the days of paper are all souni operators now Well Mrs rs Abrams was helpIng her husband and as I saw her sending a message my thoughts of the soldier boys fled fied and I was entranced with what Mrs rs Abrams was doing It If she can do that I can I said o 0 myself A few days later having gaIned the conse consent t of my m parents I asked Mrs Abrams to have her husband take me in inas inas as a student He wrote to the superintendent superintendent of telegraph at Kalamazoo for tor his and I was soon working I was as with the w wOrk rk and stuck to It Miss Bracken did not always work at Niles During 1864 she Worked extra but time with the Michigan Central Is not counted b her until the sprIng of 1863 1855 when she was given her first reg regular regular ular of being the first opera operator operator tor In the then newly established tele grap office upon the Michigan Central at She worked days there for six months ana was then to Niles nights She worked nights for two years ears and thereafter was f operator with two and three op operators operators under her For many years year she was the main support of her family and was knO known l far and wide ide as tire the railroad mens angel MIss Bracken knew more about time timecards timecards cards and how traIns ought to move in relation to one another in passIng Niles than any other employs or official on the road said a conductor who took orders from her for years You see at Niles Is the junction of the main line and th aIr line dIvisions the west division and the South Bend divi divisions divisions Like a guardian angle this woman was always watching us and the smooth way she passed out a tip or suggestion left no chance for resent resentment resentment ment but fostered a deep feeling of friendliness Sh She say like some domineerIng operators Cant you see No 17 Is late but quietly she would come to the window and say No 17 will arrive so and so soHer soHer Her vigilance saved many a poor cuss his hie job Niles is a pretty difficult place to get out ot of with a freight train sometimes and when Miss Bracken saw sawa a way to hep belp us us out of town she did it But let me tell you where this little woman was a host After Atter a hard run from Jackson to Niles perhaps having been bucking snowdrifts all night a conductor will often be pretty ugly along with his weariness It If he has some message to send the chi chieZ f dis dispatcher dispatcher or division ion superintendent it Is ape to be and couched in language harsh enough sometimes to cost the man his job for insubordination tion What would Miss Bracken do but tone it down cut out the ing as we say in railroading it if it con contained tamed nothing of much importance Most operators If they tried that mIght sometimes sidetrack an Import Important ant message but not so with her herMany herMany Many of us would not be working for forthe the Michigan Central today but for I the saving grace of that little woman who is now dead She was always larger than her Job and had she been beena a man would have been superintendent of the railroad b ore retiring Value of a Good Digestion Wen Well as between brains and stomach stomach ach Ive often seen the time when the stomach was the more valuable asset said an old traveling man jocosely Then he went Tent on to relate that there were many occasIons when the clinch clinchIng ing of a good order depended on his ability to put away a bIg dinner which in reality he would have been glad to miss but he was plaYing the host to a prospective customer and your true host never neer falls by the wayside In the language of the gourmand he is the Uthe thelast last man under the table The drummer was illustrating a feature of successful that always has a effect In business on occasions and among a certain class of people However if he be had not had bad the brains he would never have reached the point of taking the customer to dine and too much stress need not be laid on the whimsical cal assertion he makes regarding his success The eating and drinking are but casual Incidents of the of the commercial wayfarer and he trust too much to theIr effIcacy in getting the business A little however it will wUI be admitted by the old oldest est eat man in business is a good thing for the modification of austerity as well as for the digestion and the good mixer else being equal has hasa a little the advantage of his confreres on the road InUre Inthe end it is the goods that tell the story of a permanent trade |