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Show I " POST-OFFICE CLERICS I ' USE ROLLER SKATES Clerks in the Chicago post . offices and some of the carriers have been equipped with roller ',& skates in the .belief that the in- novation will result in greater speed in the transaction of routine rou-tine business and the elimina- , : ' r ., tion of considerable effort in ..:& ' walking. An article in a recent On . issue of Popular Mechanics jj Magazine told pf the use of roller $2$ L skates by stockroom emloyees j-'tj in a large factory, and this sug- jrfa gested their use in the postal 4jl seryice. Thp post office check !H5 foon is m e basement and has $H a. clear Ptretch of concrete floor "13.'. space 800 ft. long.. Here the $'' Clothing, ' uniforms, hats and $4m ' ' shoes of 1,400 clerks are hung, Iffil and the running back and forth fWR amounts to several miles every Ym .... day, , Several pairs of roller 1JM ''."" skates were bought and given to $m . the employees in the check m room. It was soon found that JB they did their work with less ifrlBJ effort and In one-third of the Mm time it had taken them to run fl .. back and 'forth. The roller 9 skates proved so great an aid on im the inside that the postmaster 9 decided to experiment further. mm and several of the special' par- Icp cel-poat carriers were also X equipped with skates. mwfmw - - |