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Show TH 3 PRINCIPLE O MANAGEMEN SCIENTIFI Although the reader may be convinced that there is a certai science back of the handling of pig-iron, still it is more than likel that he is still skeptical as to the existence of a science for doing othe Omne of the important objects of this paper i kinds of laboring to convince its readers that every single act-of every workman ca With the hope of fully convincing th be reduced to a science reader of this fact, therefore, the writer proposes to give severa other simple illustrations from among the thousands which are a hand For example, the average man would question whether there i much of any science in the work of shoveling Yet there is bu little doubt, if any intelligent reader of this paper were deliberatel to set out to find what may be called the foundation of the scienc of shoveling, that with perhaps 15 to 20 hours of thought and analysi he would be almost sure to have arrived at the essence of this science On the other hand, so completely are the rule-of-thumb ideas stil dominant that the writer has never met a single shovel contracto to whom it had ever even occurred that there was such a thing a the science of shoveling This science is so elementary as to be almos self-evident For a first-class shoveler there is a given shovel load at which h Will What is this shovel load will do his biggest day's work first-class man do more work per day with a shovel load of 5 pounds 10 pounds, 15 pounds, 20, 25, 30, or 40 pounds Now this is question which can be answered only through carefully made experiments By first selecting two or three first-class shovelers, an paying them extra wages for doing trustworthy work, and the gradually varying the shovel load and having all the condition accompanying the work carefully observed for several weeks by me who were used to experimenting, it was found that a first-clas man would do his biggest day's work with a shovel load of abou 2 pounds For instance that this ma woul shove a large tonnage per day with a 21-pound load than with a 24-pound loa or than with an 18-pound load on his shovel. It is, of course, evident that no shoveler can always take a load of exactly 21 pound on his shovel, but nevertheless, although his load may vary 3 o 4 pounds one way or the other, either below or above the 21 pounds he will do his bigges about 21 pounds day's work whe his averag for the da i The writer does not wish it to be understood that this is the whol of the art or science of shoveling There are many other element which together go to make up this science But he wishes to indicat |