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departments making the trip, and that you call the members together and have them select, by vote, the day on which they will make the trip, and also designate the entertainments they wish to attend while in the city. This trip to Cincinnati will be on the company's time. It was offered by the com- pany to the departments obtaining the highest rating on the monitor boards during 1896, and we trust that those who have won it will find their visit both pleasant and profitable.

Fie. 8. BATHROOM FOR YOUNG WOMEN

Scientific organization still further benefits the workman. It begins with employment itself. There is not the haphazard method usually found, when each morning a crowd of men col- lect around the door, some perhaps to be chosen at random, t he- remainder receiving no consideration at all. This is not only unjust to the men, but also detrimental to the enterprise, for it is only by chance that the best men are taken. Here a record is kept of each applicant. These cards are classified by occupa- tion. When a vacancy occurs it is filled if possible by promo- tion; then from among those who have previously worked for the company and have made good record; lastly, choice is made from among the applications on file. The selection is made- 1>\ a committee guided !>v the intOrniat ion ^i\cn on the card records. The applications now on file number more than four thousand, with a daily addition averaging about seventy. When an employe is <lis, h.ir^-<l .r lea\ ord is kept, showing the

time .uxl cause, an.l giving a statement from the foreman of his