Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21

shopmen by doing their work properly and thus avoid
ing breakdowns on the road;
Warehousemen by loading freight to avoid DAMAGE
All employees in that will occur to them in
the intelligent performance of their respective duties
How has it worked out in practical operations Re-
Gently the supply department of the Pennsylvania
cut down its acquisitions ten per cent.
DERHAPS cooperative economy is the best way of des
gnating this method of railway management
Without cooperation among the men it would not
work. To nickel or a dime day for the COM
pany, each must be shown that he IS capitalized
along with the rest of the railroad property for
tain sum, and he is any he must earn interest
that capitalization
A big railroad manager of Eastern road took the
into his confidence by addressing them this way
by personal interviews and speech when he could, and
by letters and circulars when the former imprac
tcable:
"How much are you capitalized at? Do you know?
If not stop minute figure it out. If you're getting
salary of fifteen hundred dollars, your capital value is
thirty thousand dollars and you got to five per
cent. that drop to lower capitalization. If
you're earning only eight hundred dollars year, is
because you have failed to five per cent any
greater amount There is way of getting out
of the lower wage class Raise your capitalization
How? Show that you re earning than five per
cent. your present rated capitalization. Hereafter
capitalization.
A concrete illustrations: station agent at salary
of sixty dollars month had record of wasting the
company's money through carelessness of bad
luck Freight consigned to or shipped from his point
had way of meeting accidents that caused lot of
damage suits. The cautioned warned, and
finally peremptorily fired
Another took his position with warning that he
would meet similar fate if he did look after the
company's interests with greater He made two
years clean record, and his capitalization up to
sixteen thousand dollars; another year it advanced
eighteen thousand dollars the result of his earning
capacity. Then letter couched in these words
We pay than 5000 at x. The business
there will not warrant it But consider you worth
than 5000 year. and you hereby transferred to
w, with salary OF 81 200.
The station agent who mishandles broom and wears
it beating the dog using for baseball bat is the
who roughly handles the freight and express
packages and lays the foundation for endless damage
suits He also leaves the station with the drafts all
turned the stove 50 that it consumes twenty per
cent. coal than actually needed and if by chance
there wind blowing through the it is his lamp
chimneys that always cracked by it or blown off
A \ employee cost railroad more than his wages
amount to through failure to observe the rules of
economy A fireman, for instance will pile the coal
high his tender that many big humps will be iolted
off the engine rounds sharp jumps across
switches. 1t doesn't take many big humps of coal to
make a hundred pounds, and every hundred pounds
equals in the hauling of of freight twenty
miles.
An engineer can economic on oil in way that will