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Show mTitol employees WILL GOi SKATES Innovation to Be Had in Interest In-terest of Speed and Other Efficiencies. Roller skates are to be provided for the Janitors and messengers at the new state capitol. The innovation will be In the Interest of efficiency and not to provide the employees em-ployees with a new Indoor" sport. The great distances In the statehouse suggested suggest-ed the plan and yesterdav .members of tiie capitol commission made an Inspection Inspec-tion of the corridors and the working of the building stall to determine Its feasibility. feasi-bility. They decided that the Immense distances dis-tances in the corridors cause a considerable consider-able waste of time and hamper the work and that the purchase of a few pairs of roller skates will obviate the necessity of enlarging the force. With the rollers, tne capitol workers can cover the ground more speedily and accomplish more work. The Idea of using roller skates Is borrowed bor-rowed lrom the Western Union Telegraph Tele-graph company. In all its large offices th is company equips the young men who collect and transfer message with skates. Jhey glide quickly and noiselessly about, doing their tasks with much less exertion,' exer-tion,' tedium and more di.soatch than when they run or walked. Other companies com-panies have adopted the plan. The model roller skates used for this work make no rattle or din whatsoever when used. The wearers slide along as quietly as a de luxe electric runabout. Soft rubber composition rollers and perfected per-fected ball-bearings contribute to tills noiselessness. Some of the janitors and messengers view the roller skates with misgivings, but others acclaim them joyously. "When we get the skates." said one. "a fellow won't have to walk three-quarters of a mile to get a monkey-wrench." Purchase of some skates will -be authorized au-thorized by the commission at its next meeting. |