Letter to Frances Mitchell enclosing letter from Charles W. Shartle

              over in his office in the presence of Colby, and explained to me how I must be loyal to him and to assist him in every way I could.

Of course, it was all straightened out to his satisfaction, but I do not remember that I quite recovered from the loss of that dollar, and I do not remember that I was very much in sympathy with his system when there were thousands of dollars at stake.

Another instance comes to my mind today, and that was shortly after we started at Midvale, I was given a casting to lay out for drilling, and I made a mistake in laying it out, which I believe was partly due to an imperfect drawing, and I did not know Mr. Taylor very well at that time, and while the casting did not amount to much more than fifteen or twenty dollars, I thought that I had made a terrible mistake, and that it would reflect upon me, and I believed that I would be discharged, and I did not want to leave that way, so I thought the best thing to do was quit, and if I remember correctly I gathered my tools together and had my overalls rolled up and ready to walk out before I told Mr. Taylor what had happened, and I think he gave me a talk which lasted about one hour, and my recollection of that conversation was, that a man who never made a mistake never did anything, and that he felt sure that by making this mistake, I, as well as the company would be benefitted, and that he would expect me to put forth better efforts, not only to be accurate, but to do extra work to make up for this mistake, and with that understanding no fine would be attached, or no one would know of this mistake except he and I.