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'Five Million Dollars"
(Continued from Page 4) thought a few minutes and said : "The building should be 70 feet long, 30 feet wide and 15 feet high." He was able to prove that his dimensions were better than the dimensions as outlined. Specifications were immediately drawn up, figures obtained over the 'phone and the contract for the entire building was signed within two hours' time. The remarkable thing about this contract was that it provided that this new building should be erected complete in five days' time and provided for a penalty in case this time limit was not lived up to.
"Thank and say that I have opened a school to teach the art of hustling."
The building was completed in four days.
Five gangs of men with acetylene torches have been busy for some time cutting up the iron-work so that it can be removed.
Many of the new fire-proof sashes and windows have already been installed. New elevators have been ordered and will be installed within a week.
The Answers Which Mr. Edison Made to Some of the Telegrams He Received the Day After the Fire
"Thank and say I am so full of cayenne pepper everybody sneezes when they come near me."
"Thank and say I will be back in the game in thirty days. Arc, search and incandescent booming all night and so many men you would think it was the German Army in Louvain."
(The above quotation refers to the very large number of men working in the ruins at night, by electric lights.)
"Thanks. It's a bad one, but just watch how quickly I can start it again."
"... It's like the old days to have something real to buck up against."
The Night Shift Getting Some Coffee
Ever since the fire there has been about 2,000 men working night and day clearing away wreckage and doing reconstruction work.
The Trade Letter Sent Out by Thomas
A. Edison, Inc., to All Cylinder
and Combination Jobbers
You will be glad to learn that the recent fire was not nearly so bad as first supposed.
Owing to the concrete construction of the buildings that contained the machinery and tools, our manufacturing equipment suffered surprisingly little damage. The power plant was untouched by the fire and we have plenty of heat and power.
An enormous force of men has been at work night and day since the fire, and the machinery and tools are being transferred to various other buildings and shops. Already three manufacturing departments are running on regular schedule. We have made contracts with a number of outside machine shop's and we shall be turning out both Cylinder and Disc Phonographs again in quantities in a very short time. On the