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work andjconversations with employes. Such an investigation reveals the possibilities of the present industrial system, and emphasizes the fact that with employes and employers them- selves'lies the responsibility for many of the existing evils.

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The company represents an investment of about $1,500,000, and employs about 1,700 men and women; 1,100 of the men and 300 of the women being employed in the factory, perform-

oo,ooo mechanical processes each day. The plant occupies

about eight and one-half acres of ground, the buildings having about five acres of floor space. The company believes that attractive surroundings conduce to good work, so much attention is paid to the construction of the factory, the lighting and heating facilities, and the adornment of the ground. The grounds are commodious; that they are tastefully laid out is guaranteed by the fact that the landscape gardening was done by Mr. Frederick Olmstead, of Boston. The walls, both interior

and exterior, are tinted colonial yellow, as being least hurtful to