Quotations are approximate. All stocks $100 par value unless otherwise specified. *Cumulative. †Ex-Dividend. A. Listed on London Stock Exchange. B. Listed on Boston Stock Exchange. L. Listed on Louisville, Ky. Stock Exchange. N. Common shares have no par value. X. Ex-rights. #Paid during 1918. LIBRARY NOTES Missing: Three copies of Gebhart's Steam Power Plant Engineering. See if you can locate any of them. They are much needed by the library for general service. Office and Community Management A book by Professor Lee Galloway entitled "Office Management: Its Principles and Practice," published by the Ronald Press in 1918, is full of good suggestions. It covers organization, arrangement and operation, with special consideration of the employment of office workers, and the table of contents includes about 700 items under 42 department headings. Here are some of the headings and sub-headings: Use of Symbols to Designate Duties Analysis of Reasons for Absences from Department Noise, Dust, and Odors The Scope of Duplicating Devices The Speed and Accuracy of the Photostat Bookkeeping Machines Tabulating Machines Index File and Memorandum Tickler The Mail Clerk's Opportunities and Responsibilities Filing Standardization and Centralization Heat, Ventilation and Humidity Points to Consider in the Selection of Stenographers Disadvantages of Separate Stenographic Force for Each Department Keeping Track of Stock Simple Tests as to Education Dictophone Operator Training Poor Command of Language a Handicap Function of Speech in Business Form of Vacation Schedule With all these suggestions as to how to run the office, are we not minded that we need a book of suggestions as to how to run the community? Perhaps a book of this community advice will develop as the community center plan has been more and more tried out. The undertaking that is being started by librarians, of which Mr. C. F. D. Belden, head of the Boston Public Library, is committee chairman, may help much to stimulate community interest. The scheme is to have every library a "long distance" one, so that your public library should put you in the way of getting what you are after, even if the question cannot be answered by books. You may be deciding on weather strips for your house, for instance. The public library should tell you where to find the person who can give you impartial advice on weather strips, and so with stoves, automobiles, hotels, summer resorts, treatises on chemistry, etc. Questions of this kind you are continually asking of your friends and acquaintances, and business is built up on asking intelligent questions that one does not expect to find in books. Why not, then, systematize the people who know things and encourage each one to know more than he does on some subject concerning which he will be looked to as an authority? Such apportionment of specialties is likely to follow the announcement of this bold scheme which is now afoot. A great number of people get into the habit of insisting that their libraries shall tell them who's who in information, and they will likewise acquire the habit of insisting on having the best, whether in articles of commerce or in management of the community. LIBRARY OF STONE & WEBSTER 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 Recent Accessions (10) Civil Engineering Effect of time of mixing on the strength of concrete. D. A. Abrams. Water powers of Province of Quebec. A. Amos. Department of The new Manitoba District, Canada: its resources and development... Department of the Interior, Canada. 1918. 43p, 6x10, illus. *7240. C16.02 The relative corrosion of cast-iron, wrought-iron and steel pipe in Building operations in the larger cities in 1917. J. Middleton... (20) Electrical Engineering Wire system: discussion of electrical intelligence. Letter of T. N. Electrolysis and its mitigation... Technologic Paper No. 52, 2d Proceedings of second War Convention, National Electric Light Association: 41st convention... Atlantic City, N. J., June 13-14, 1918. 622p, 6x9, illus. *6921.1918 The decrease in ultra-violet and total radiation with usage of quartz mercury vapor lamps. W. W. Coblentz... Scientific Paper of Bureau of Standards, No. 330. Wash., 1918. 20p, 7x10. *6898.Sp330 Interim report on electric power supply in Great Britain: Reconstruction Committee; Coal Conservation Sub-Committee... London, 1918. 28p, 8x13. *7200.072 (30) Mechanical (40) Mining Industrial sites along the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Published by Industrial Department of Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Richmond, Va. nd. 128p, 7x10, illus., maps. *027.C4242 The Diesel engine: its fuels and its uses. H. Haas... U. S. Bureau of Mines. Bulletin 156. Petroleum Technology No. 44. Wash., 1918. 133p, 6x9, illus. *6876.B156 Toluol recovery. R. S. McBride and others. Technologic Paper No. 117. U. S. Bureau of Standards. Wash., 1918. 60p, 7x10. *6898. Tp117 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 888 Mineral industries of the United States. Power: its significance and needs. C. G. Gilbert and J. E. Pogue. Smithsonian Inst., Bull. 102, Part 5. Wash., 1918. 53p, 6x9, map. *6805. B102. Pt. 5 (50) Railways Railway track and track work. E. E. Russell Tratman. 3d ed., First annual report of War Board... American Electric Railway Historical sketch of government ownership of railroads in foreign (74) Financial Bank and trade acceptances. The National Shawmut Bank of Distribution of U. S. Treasury Certificates of Indebtedness: in Annual report of the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas... year ending Aug. 31, 1918. Austin, nd. 150p, 6x9. *5200.C739.1918 A creditor country. G. E. Roberts. [An address before The Investment Bankers' Association of America, Dec. 10, 1918.] New York, nd. 18p, 6x9. *025.R542 Highway cost keeping. J. J. Tobin and A. R. Losh... U. S. Depart- Price readjustment. B. M. Anderson, Jr. Dec., 1918. National The New York State Legislative Budget and Financial Measures (75) Annual Reports 79 Annual Report of Director of Bureau of Standards...for fiscal year ended June 30, 1918. Wash., 1918. 206p, 6x9. *6898.1918 Annual reports of the Secretary of Navy for fiscal years 1917 and 1918. U. S. Navy Department. Wash., 1917. 105p, 6x9.*6860. 1917, also *6860.1918 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 Annual report of Secretary of War, 1918. Wash., 1918. 141p, 6x9, *6830. 1918. Report of the Librarian of Congress and report of the Superinten- Fifth biennial report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the (77) Public Utilities Conditions which preclude efficiency and economy in governmental operation of public utilities. F. B. DeBerand. nd. 30p, 6x9. *039.D351 |