The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-02
RAILROAD TIME
New Haven Has Introduced New System In Interest of
 Greater Safety.
tlPress Bureau New Haven Road,

(Press Bureau New Haven Road) Tn no other business in the world probably does the element of time ltplay a more prominent part than in the operation of the railroad. The quently, the labor of hundreds of em- ployees of the railroad must be reg ulated by the clock. As a safety fac tor in railroad operation a system that
 will insure reliable time for the rail- lroad worker is, therefore, of the greatest Importance Every railroad mans timepiece is, in reality. a saf- ety appliance and as such must be kept in perfect order, not alone in the interest of the employee but fer the safety of all who. travel on the railroad.
 The importance of the railroad clock and the railroad mans watch has lately been emphasized on the New Haven road by the installation of a new system of time inspection
 for all it's lines. this being one of sev- era1 moves in it's Safety First pro-
 gram. Under the new system not only must all clocks and watches in use be up to a certain standard, but they must also be regularly inspected l twice 9. month by expert watch mak- CTS appointed for the purpose.
 The introduction of this new time inspection service has involved the or ganization of special department un- der the direction of Webb c. Ball, General Time Inspector for the Com- pany. Working under him at differ ent division points are. watch inspec- tors, to whom all. watches must be
 turned in for inspection twice a month and who in turn issue certifi-
 cates showing that the watches in use are up to the required standards. The new time system affects every in, trains, such as trainmasters, train dispatchers, signalmen, stationmas- ters, yardmasters, road and yard con ductors, trainmen, flagmen, engine
 men, track supervisors, Iiremen, dis
 trict bridge and building foremen, signal supervisors and others.
 As in the case of many other inn portant railroads in this country, one of the requirements of this new ser vice is that the railroad employee shall possess a watch of a standard sufficient to insure it's reliability, H watch whose variation shall not ex- ceed thirty second a week. As watches are made,ltnis means that such a watch must be at least IT jew el1ed, now recognized by the leading railroads as the standard for railroad l work. Naturally those whose watches
 are of a lower grade than this must, under the new order, secure new l watches, two months having been al- lowed for this.
 There are in all seventy-nine watch
 movements approved by the Company l in it's recent order as conforming to
 the prescribed standard, the cheapest
 selling at $22.5O. An employee, how
 ever, is not called upon to make this
 outlay all at once, for, like other rail-
 roads, the New Haven has made ar rangements with the local jewellers
 who have been appointed watch in l spectors, by which watches can be paid for in five monthly instaiments. I the pawn ent to be deducted from the payroll in weekly instalments.
 1 New watches must possess certain features regarded today as necessary to fit a watch for railroad work. For example, the railroad watch must be 1 lever set, must have Arabic dial and must wind at the figure twelve, the I idea. in all these requirements being simp pHc1ty and hence safety
 There are many other features