. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . DeCamp, and the counterscoop shovel which he invented. Sincethat time Mr. DeCamp has had tests madeof fuel that could be saved by the manhandling scoop, knowing exactly how muchcoal he was using. The accompanying photograph is ofFireman C. E. Greathouse (holding theshovel) and Engineer Mcluler, who havebeen using this counter scoop. On thefirst day used it registered 688 scoops ofcoal on a round trip of 135 miles; the secondday 593 and the third day 387. Forty-sixstops were made by their train on eachround trip. Another photograph is of James E. Hale,p
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . DeCamp, and the counterscoop shovel which he invented. Sincethat time Mr. DeCamp has had tests madeof fuel that could be saved by the manhandling scoop, knowing exactly how muchcoal he was using. The accompanying photograph is ofFireman C. E. Greathouse (holding theshovel) and Engineer Mcluler, who havebeen using this counter scoop. On thefirst day used it registered 688 scoops ofcoal on a round trip of 135 miles; the secondday 593 and the third day 387. Forty-sixstops were made by their train on eachround trip. Another photograph is of James E. Hale,pumper, Riverside Pumping Station, Chilli-cothe, who used the scoop on a ten daystrial, starting with 166 scoops of coal ineight hours, reducing this until 158 scoo])sof coal were used. 180,000 gallons of waterwere pumped each eight hours. He madea saving averaging about one bushel of coala day, and saved himself considerable labor. Mr. DeCamp is endeavoring to make sixmore of these counter scoops, and expectsto give them further OmO DIVISION EMPLOYES TEST BILL CAMPS SHOVELLeft: C. E. Greathouse, Foreman (with shovel) and Engineer Mcluler. Right: PumperJames E. Hale, Riverside Pumping Station Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, April, 1924 Savings Effected by New Method ofGetting Materials at Newark Shops By B. A. Oatman, Magazine Correspondent FOR many years it has been the practiceat Newark, Ohio, to secure materialrequired in the shops by sending anyman, who did not seem to be occupied, tothe Store Room. Last December, however,a new plan was worked out whereby sav-ings, conser^atively estimated at $3,500per annum, have been made.
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