Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — System In Business. [ARTICLE]

System In Business.

A good many business men have two, three or more different offices. In each of these is transacted some particular department of business. Thus if a man is engaged in real estate transactions and also in insurance, he may so divide his time as to spend a portion in one office where only real estate is looked after, and at another specified hour he may be found in his insurance office. Col. Dan Lamont, ex-Presideht Cleveland’s former private secretary, has three offices, and while in the city can he found at certain hours of the day at his office up town as President of the Broadway Bailroad and down town as something else. There are well-known lawyers also who have two offices and handle a wholly different class of business at each. Interested in big corporations, a live business man often necessarily has office hours at the corporation offices of the respective concern. This not only enables him to discharge his mind of all other business while attending to one, but it enables those who have business with him t-o transact it without interfering with those who are bent on something else.

The mental strain thus put upon an active business man soon sends him to some more permanent resting place, so that it is doubtful if anything is gained by doubling up in this way. The matter is interesting, however, as (illustrating the peculiar qualities of brain power and training