Show PROBLEM OF STREETCAR MEN Wondering How They Will Spend the Money Coming io Them as the Result of the Cent Increase of Pay E Tho employees of the Salt Lake City Street Railway company arc wondering what they will do with all their money now that their pay ling been increased 1 cent an hour To be sure this does not look to be vcry much of an In uiease but by applying mathematics the vast amount of the money added to the pay of each employee can be aeon One cent an hour is onesixtieth of a cent a minute and onethlrtyslxhuu JVodth of a cent per second Every time the clock ticks each employee has thy lastnamed amount added lo his wealth Supposing each employee to work twelve hours a day which Is a low average for the employees of the company he gels 12 cents additional every day IIP works This amounts to 53CO a month and 1320 a year so that in only 100 years the company gives to each of Its inolorimMi and conductors con-ductors a fortune of 13U Besides hIs former pay each cm ployeo has the price ql n letter postage stamp only Iwo hours after he goes lo work Five hours after going to work he can drop off and buy a bootleg of beer without feeling any strlngcncs in the money market When lie quits work If lu his omitted the beer ho will have the price of u cheese sandwich sand-wich and the stamp At tin end of the week he can take his wife and one of the children to see the play from the lop balcony and have almost two carfares car-fares Jell At the end of the mouth If he has been saving his extra pay he can get a 3 pair of shoes and six pairs of fastblack hosiery At the end of the vear If he has ben economical he can lake a trip to OgdiMi and stay two weeks One hundred years after the new nilu went Into play he providing ho has been duly prudent carj buy a threeroom brick cottage not too far out and have eight or len dollars left to purchase furniture Tho men appreciate all this and are almost delirious with Joy Tho only trouble seems lo be that I the new rule doesnt apply to Ihoso who have not been in the employ of the company at least twelve months It Is said the plan Is to lire nil the men one at a time reengaging1 them Immediately The force will thus shortly consist of new men exclusively After a man has been working eleven months and tvemm lynine days he will be fired again and again reemployed This II Is thought w ill result in a saving In two directions direc-tions It will save the company a trifle and will save the men the trouble of hunting IICA Jobs as oacn employee will have a new job at least once a year Tin thing In expected to work beautifully 1 |