0395 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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is cheap lead or good lead. The 2765 1/2 means 2765 1/2
gross. Further on down you find the different items that make
up that figure under the head of wrappers, leads, tips, etc.
The next figure is under rubber, 720 gross at 6 1/2 ₵. Those
figures come from the plugging department or he can get them
from the goods as they are delivered to the packing room, by
knowing the styles and numbers, you can tell whether it is a
tipped or untipped pencil. You get that from the shipping
room and the other from the metal room. He arrives at the
figures on the reports turned in. It requires a good deal of
calculation, mostly multiplying. The next figure is under
tips, 1374 gross at ten cents. He gets that from the packing
room. The ten cents means what the tips cost to produce.
That's a stipulated price. The next heading is lead, 747 gross
at 15 ₵ and 1955 gross at ten cents. He has to go through
these reports the same way except he doesn't have to work the
cost of that, it's taken care of in the account. He has to ar-
rive at the number of gross, because the cost is fixed. The next
item is supplies at 5 ₵ per gross, boxes 3771 at 2 ₵, assortment
boxes 279 at 10 ₵, wrappers 2535 at 1 ₵. He gets those reports
from the boxes of the pencils in the packing room. He gets
the reports as to the rubber and the labels from the packing
room. The cost per gross is fixed, but he has to figure out the
quantity. The next item is assortment boxes, wrappers, skeletons.
The next item, cartons. The next item is pay roll, Bell Street.
The next, slats from the slat mills. As the slats are delivered
from the slat mill, a report comes with it, and those reports
are taken at the end of the week and added up. There are
about five of those shipments during the week. He has to take
each shipment and add all that up at
the end of the week. The next item is "pencils packed", top of