This state of affairs became intolerable to us.

We finally decided to dispense with the rule-of-thumb-and-intuition manager, and to place a young man in charge of the furnace.

We had a young shipping clerk, Henry M.Curry, who had distinguished himself, and it was resolved to make him manager.
Mr.Phipps had the Lucy Furnace under his special charge.

His daily visits to it saved us from failure there.

Not that the furnace was not doing as well as other furnaces in the West as to money-making, but being so much larger than other furnaces its variations entailed much more serious results.