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Show CUTIS THE COST OE EG1G BUSINESS This Is the Principal Project on Which Experts Are Now Working. Modern eitit ienv experts are busv these uavs dc isin soir.e new wav of euttinrr the cost.-- of doing business, of inakinu every minute eonnt not onlv so profits may be maintained, but better service rendered to the public. 1 One of the latest stunts in the coal business is the wheel-in or etowing crew. ,7ust when the householder begins be-gins to get worried over the big pile of coal dumped in the street from a big (i. M. ('. truck this crew appears on the scene fullv equipped. Thev travel in a light delivery car, which' carries lour to six men and wheelbarrows, shovels, planks, etc. In a jiffy the equipment is on the ground. The men place planks on the lawns, so that the sod will not be cut, anil the work of making the big coal pile vanish is on, under the direction of the foreman, who knows just how to go about this kind of work. Some of the men load and others wheel the barrows, so there is a continuous contin-uous procession. At last every bit of the precious coal has been thrown into the bin. The men load their wheelbarrows and planks and shovels onto the delivery ear and are off to some other point.' That the work of a wheel-in crew may be carried on with the utmost efficiency ef-ficiency it is necessary that the coal firm lay out a definite route of delivery deliv-ery each day. Also it is advisable that the crew keep in touch with tho main office from time to time by telephone. tele-phone. The big G. M. C. then starts out dumping coal here and there. The truck doesn't wait for the crew to appear, ap-pear, but goes on its way after each load is dumped. With the old way. a truck or horse outfit, after unloading, waited in front of the house until all the coal bad been wheeled in. Now neither the trucks nor the wheel-in men waste a minute and the consumer gets every last pound of coal, as the wheel-in men use a broom on the , pavement. |