Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-02-10
Of 1855 tests in passenger and freight
service, he said, disclosed the follow

Of 1856 tests in passenger and freight |
service, he said, disclosed the follow
ing:
Average total time fireman was on
duty, hours, Al minutes; average
time supplying coal to fire-box, hour,
AZ minutes; average time engaged in
manual labor, 2 hours, AZ minutes;
average time performing no physical
labor, 6 hours, 5 minutes; average
tons of coal per trip, 8.67, and average
pounds Of coal per hours of total time
on duty, 1875.
The witness in answer to Chair
man Pritchard estimated that fire.
man was welding the shovel under
ordinary circumstances once in ten
minutes. F. A. Burgess, a brother
hood arbitrator, asked Mr.. Tollerton
If he would be willing to make that
basis effective on the Rock Island
road. The witness hesitated and
hedged a little by saying it might
be once in eight minutes. Mr.. Burgess
kept after him and Mr.. Tollerton fl
nally admitted that firemen probably
do more work than he had shown.
Grand Chief Stone informed the
board that virtually no authorities, liv-
ing or deal, agreed with Mr.. Tollerton
and read statements from such rail-
road experts as B. A. Worthington,
Grant Hall and w. c. Nixon, all of
whom took the view that weight-on-
driving wheels is the proper basis for
estimating an engineman's compensa-
ton, a theory which Mr.. Tollerton
had vigorously opposed.
| Mr.. Carter used baseball to illus
trate one of his points when he asked
Witness Tollerton if he ever had been
a baseball fan to which Mr.. Tollerton
replied in the negative, remarking
that all the spare time he had he de-
voted to golf.
"You don't know, then, how long
star pitcher is engaged in handling
the ball and pitching it, do you?"
mo, l couldn't say. would judge
it would depend a good deal on his
speed and curves" retorted Tollerton.
Mr.. Carter emphasized the point
that a pitcher may work easily and
find much time to rest during the
game and still be extremely success
full and receive a very large salary.
The intimation was that by the same
token fireman could be expert with
with a scoop shovel and could keep
the furnace cracking and still have
some time to rest.
Mr.. Carter confronted the Rock Is
land witness with declaration made
by T. Rumley, recently vice-president
of the R. I. road, upon the increased
work Of firemen because Of the in
stallation of brick arches and super
heaters on the latest type engines.
Mr.. Tollerton claimed that the stok-
ers' labors were lightened by these
inventions and when Pres. Carter
faced him with contrary statement
from a hitherto higher official of his
Town company, the witness momentar-
lily was at loss for an answer. How
ever, he said that Mr.. Rumley was no
longer vice-president of the Rock Is
land and was not connected with the
railroad when he made the statment.
Mr.. Carter, using Mr.. Tollerton' S
own exhibits also computed that a
fireman shovels in one case 172
pounds of coal minute and then
rests five minutes; on saturated en-
CINE a fireman was shown to have
shovelled 1873 pounds in a minute
and then to have rested four min
utes and on a superheated locomotive
another fireman was disclosed to have
fed 205 pounds of coal a minute into
the furnace and then to have been at
his ease little over five minutes.
President Carter maintained that Mr..
Tollerton was undone by his own cal
culations.
; Another interesting feature of the
week was the discovery by Grand
Chief Warren S. Stone of the engi-
neers' brotherhood Of an overcharge
of $40,000,000 in one of the financial
exhibits of the companies offered by
Witness Keefe. This $40,0O0,000, it
seems, constituted an expenditure for
extensions and improvements on the
Puget Sound division of the Milwau-
kee lines, prior to it's purchase by the
parent company, which already had
been made a charge on the Puget
Sound companys books. According
O Mr.. Stone, the item was duplicated
in the Milwaukee roads estimates
and thus somthing Of $40,000,0 900 more
than should be shown was included
in the total. Mr.. Keefe could not ex-
plain this.
There also was a disclosure regard
ing the practices Of various Western
roads of frequently paying dividends
out of surplus instead Of from income
Grand Chief Stone quoted figures
showing total dividends out of in
come, for the year ended June go,
1914, of $146, 155, FOG. The Chief En-
gineer added that the Illinois Central