The evening times., 1895-12-10
NEW NAVY YARD RULES
Changes in the Government Of
the Civilian Employees.
THE PR CTICES IN VOGUE
Two Objects To BE Attaincd-Onc Re-
ates to the PayRoils and he Other
to Cost of Work-Safeguards to he
Thrown 4 round ne eData-ReportO of
the Board at Work Oh the Matter.

Secretary Herbert has established some
hcw and important rules for the government
OF civilian employees of the navy yards.
He has approved th'. recommendations of
changes in the prevailing system made by
a board which has been in session since
last June, and which consisted "f Lieu
tenant Commander f. II. C. LeutZ, Lieu
tenant Commander Andrew Dunlap, Chief
Engineer j. II. Perry, Paynastcr A. X.
Michlcr, and Naval Constructor ID. W. Tay-
lor.
The board has gathered much Information
of the practices in vogue at the yard shops.
1t reported that the conduct al work and
the mastering of men were already Iu.rly
ugirorm- and in accordance with r,gula-
tions. The report on tie subject says:
1t is thought that an additional sim
pie safeguard siiouit be- provided for the
check-box records by requiring that the
check boards from which the checks are
taken he kept locked and opened by the
person in charge at the box fifteen min
utcs beforcthe hour or going to wors. TINS
VIII prevent the falsiiic;tIon of records by
cullusiun between va workmeD.'
No change is suggested III the meth"is
oi payment and the identification of men,
although some provision is recommended
Tor intermediate payments which are s,,IDe-
times necessary. The board fuunt Il great
diversity oi practice IN the forms or pay
rolls and the methods used in obt.tii,iIS
and recor,iing the cost of work and reports
in regard To the latter. The board sui,-
mitted uniform system "f forms. which
il considers more siinpi,. than th'se liz
current use and leading dncctly up Ia the
permanent records al cast Of work or the
monthly repurtSr.qured tuhe made
TWO OBJECTS TO BE ATTAINED.
In records concerning labor at navy
yards there are two principal objects Ia he
attained. First, sufficient info ornia'ion must
be obtained in detail and Recorded systenat-
icIIly to enable pay rolls Ia be prcpa red, and
second, detailed information must also he
recorded and handled Systematically to en-
able the cost of work to he permanently re-
corded III such forms as are found most con-
yenient. The board adds:
at does not follow thai the results above
should he obtained from the same original
data as regards labor, but ii is desirable
TO reduce the amount OF original data re-
corded as much as is consistent with safe
guarding the government and determining
the cost of work in proper detail II is Of
the utmost Importance that as many safe
guards as possible should be thrown around
the original data from which pay rolls are
finally determined, and also that each step
in the preparation OF pay rolls should have
some means by which ii may be checked, i'll
order that the accuracy of The fina! result
the pay roll-may be unqucstioncd."
In the system proposed by the board this
result is obtained. Substantially the present
system laid down in rpgua tions is used to
obtain the necessary Information for entries
into the office tine-book. The timc-book
itself is checked daily from another set of
entries used primarily for the cost account,
and check is obtlincd upon the pay rolls
lp a a
Thrscini- mont hi y y-rolis simply a copy
of certain columns IN the time book. thus re-
ducng the ,.icrica ilaior required to prepare
the pay rolls and enabling the office time
book otakcthc place ofany office copy of the
pay roll. A form of monthly report to he
made TO the bureau is Il simplifiCation of the
xisliBgmetho1andg gives esallncedednfOrma-
tion OF name, trade, class and pay of every
employe at no great cost of clerical work.
THE NEW COST ACCOUNT.
The new cost account, which is an i'm
portant feature of official records, is to be
founded on the fprcman's pocket time book,
which gives daily record of each job which
every man uG,.cr the forerna has worked
upon. In cases Of departments empIoy ying
large number OF men, the entries in the
forcmen's time books should he collected
into a character of work book by time
keepers. Where bat few men are en-
ploycl, the character of work book is un-
necessary. and the foremen's pocket time
books are 10 he used instead.
The first step from the forCniens time.
books or character OF worS- books depends
upon the class of work. In some cases the
work being done in a department is such
that IL is desirable to know the cost of each
class of labor for every job. This is particu-
larry the case where Il number of different
classes of labor are employed under one de |
parIment, and where the JOBS j rc OF !; diver
sificl nature, including new construction |
manufacture ana repair
On the other hand. in some cases IL is un- |
necessary to classify the labor in such de- |
tail. For instance, in he ordnance Geuart- !
ment at The Wasbingtonnavyy yard the work |
consists of manufacture alone. and by far !
the largest amount of labor is macbinists' !
La Dor, hence a record of the total cost of /
labor of each Job is thought surficien, in |
this department OF the Washington navy !
yard.
The board described in detail the means
by which il proposes to obtain the records
outlined as necessary. 1t provides in irs sys-
tenn n monthly routine report from each
yard for each bureau In Washington show
ing the objects upon which The monthly al
lotment of money was expended aud the
amount of expenditure upon each object.
Each bureau is toprcpare It's form for Ibis
report as II is not practicable to make one
form which will meet the needs of all bu-
teius- ,pccidi reports oI cost and new con-
struction. detailed cost of particular iabs,
etc. are not 10 be made unless called for.
The board provides for Il complete rtcord
OF the cost of material of each job by certain
stub acquisitions, which are returned TO |
the bead of department by the general store
keeper. BY grouping these all necessary in
formation as TO total cost of material for
monthly reports is readily obtained.
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Two More Bod los Discovered
Brewstcrs. n. Y, Dec. 1O.-At the Tiily
Foster mine Yesterday TWO more bodies
were recovered. making a total of twelve
SO far taken out. The bodies unearthcd to-