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In the earlier days of electric lighting, when prices ranged all the way from 70c. to $1.00 per arc lamp per night, and the incandescent lamp had but just started, central stations, which under ordinarily good management should have returned very large profits, were run in a most lavish manner as to expense, and too often, on the contrary, proved rank failures. This, too, with machinery which has no very decided improvement to-day, and almost no change in the lamps used.
The central station business was so new that very few well-established business men could be persuaded to take hold of its management, and it gradually fell into the hands of younger, untried men, who too often were more prone to experiment with the business than to spend the necessary time in organizing it thoroughly on an economical basis. Again, the majority of those so placed had not the previous business experience to understand fully the necessity of systematic organization and strict discipline.
In the matter of labor, the various departments had not been gauged so as to determine what was a fair day's work and what would be the proper number of employees.
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In the earlier days of electric lighting, when prices ranged all the way from 70c. to $1.00 per arc lamp per night, and the incandescent lamp had but just started, central stations, which under ordinarily good management should have returned very large profits, were run in a most lavish manner as to expense, and too often, on the contrary, proved rank failures. This, too, with machinery which has no very decided improvement to-day, and almost no change in the lamps used.
The central station business was so new that very few well-established business men could be persuaded to take hold of its management, and it gradually fell into the hands of younger, untried men, who too often were more prone to experiment with the business than to spend the necessary time in organizing it thoroughly on an economical basis. Again, the majority of those so placed had not the previous business experience to understand fully the necessity of systematic organization and strict discipline.
In the matter of labor, the various departments had not been gauged so as to determine what was a fair day's work and what would be the proper number of employees.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- Publication date2020
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- ISBN 13 9781332051762
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- Number of pages70
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