The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-28
RAILROAD NEWS.
New Addition to Bonus System
on Santa Fe.
Employees VIII Be Paid Extra
Time for Punctuality.
!. OFFICE WORK.
New Bonus Will Solve Hardness
Problem in Offices.
other Items of General Interest
in Railroad Circles.

In addition to its famous bonus sys-
tenn for the extra payment of en-
ployes for efficiency in their work the
Santa Fe is preparing for the extern
sion of the system a new time bonus
schedule. This bonus will give to the
employees so much time for punctual-
fly instead Of money for work-the
result of the old system.
To keep tab on the employees as they
report for duty morning and noon, to
start work of all kinds right on the
minute, to encourage punctuality
among the men and to grant as re-
amount of vacation time in payment
is the proposed annex to the money
bonus system now in use on the Santa
Fe
This new feature of the bonus work
came to the local headquarters-and
general headquarterS-of the bonus
work on the Santa Fe through the sug-
gestion or rather the example of R.
Emerson, assistant to general manager
of the Lehigh Valley railroad.
The Lehigh railroad does not allow
the bonus work on their system Mr.
Emerson is the real father of the
bonus work in this country and in or
der to establish some sort of a bonus
feature in his office on the Lehigh he
established a time system-a bonus
that would give a man time for time
spent and still would not mean a
matter of dollars and cents to the rail-
road company
Earned Vacations.
Under the new system proposed for
the Santa Fe it is possible for q man
to earn a miniature vacation every
month by being punctual in reporting
for duty and in taking up his work
at the Office in the morning and moons
as soon as the scheduled time IS made
out
For instance. if an employe comes
on duty on time-not a minute behind
for week he is granted at the end
of the week a right to two or three
hours of leisure. In other words. his
time at the end of the week is cut
of and he is free However. if he
wishes to remain out the full time it
is considered over time and ali to his
favor
If a man wishes to stay in the of
fee Saturday afternoons in case the
rest of the force are released. he is to
keep time of all work and time spent,
and when the bonus time is figured
out all of this time will be granted
him as vacation. The whole idea is to
reward the employees for their diligent
and faithful work-by giving them
time instead Of money.
Good for Office Forces.
1t is thought by the officials that
this new system of bonus will be the
only solution of the great problem of
granting bonus to the office forces over
the system. To make it worth while
for man to report for duty on time
every day and to get busy with his
work as soon as the whistle blows"
is one of the big questions of the head
of every clerical office on the Santa
Fe as well as any railroad today. To
create a bonus that will reward
man for his work will solve the prob
lem. il is thought.
Not only would a clerk receive a
bonus time for reporting for work on
time every day. but when he came late
his time would be deducted. In this
way a man would not be spasmodic in
his reports, but would be regular day
after day-the penalty would guaran-
tee this
The bonus system on the Santa Fe
is now in the shops. some of the me-
chanical departments, with the mas