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agreed to furnish labor for repairing and installing equipment, and for
maintaining it on this basis. In four days I had contracts from seven concerns,
totaling $104 a month. I did the work myself and it kept me going seventeen
hours a day for almost a month. Those motors certainly were in bad
condition! After that, it was easier and since there were now only a few days’
work to be done each month, I called on a number of other firms, and signed
up five contracts totaling $120. Again I found that the equipment had been
sadly neglected for a good many months, and that I had to work my head off.
I was now assured of an income of $224 a month for a year. However, as I
still had some idle time on my hands, I sallied forth for another batch of
customers.

“At the end of four months, I had signed up twenty-one companies on
contracts totaling $885 a month. This was too much work for me to do alone,
so I hired two good electricians, paid them the full union wage, supervised
their work, and got more contracts. Profits quickly mounted. In less than a
year, my contracts were paying me a profit of $490 a month, and I was
paying full regular union wages to five good men.”

Chapin offers a service much needed in every manufacturing community.
Men trained and skilled as mechanics might do well to follow his example
and offer a similar service to small manufacturers at a regular, reasonable,
monthly fee.

They certainly will be welcomed by the smaller manufacturer who is at
present worried about costs, and who may be permitting machinery to operate
without the necessary repairs.

AFlower-a-DayService

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URNEY CHRYSLER , an alert young New York advertising woman, had a
suspicion that florists could get more business if they went after it, instead of
waiting for it to come to them. So she rented a loft in an old building and sent
out announcements advertising her flower-a-day or bouquet-a-week