Letter to Kempton Taylor

              the Navy Yards. It has been known for some years to many engineers and managers that enormous reductions can be made in costs by scientific management. This is true of civil industrial plants, and the savings which can be effected in Navy Yards are even greater, for the standards of efficiency in these are much lower than in similar civil industrial plants.

6. The attention of the whole country has recently been called to this important subject by the hearings in the rate cases before the Interstate Commerce Commission. In these hearings Mr. Fred W. Taylor, of Philadelphia, has been given the credit for the development of scientific management. Engineers who know of Mr. Taylor's work have long given him credit for his great achievements, but it is only in the last few weeks that the country at large has known of his work.

7. The Navy is now offered the benefit of this great man's services. Mr. Taylor offers to teach me the principles of scientific management and to give me practical experience in this work, at no cost to the government.

Mr. Taylor knows that I have interested myself in this work and that for the past five or six years I have studied the principles of management; he believes that I can succeed in this work. Mr. Taylor's offer is best