. Electric railway journal . rough and continuous combing ashe describes, if applied on many of our Eastern sys-tems, would unquestionably effect a reduction in over-head breakdown. It might not prevent a reduction inforces, particularly in the older, large cities, where thenarrow and crooked streets prevent quick work withthe wagons and compel a larger number of emergencycrews than are necessary when the tower or repairwagon can really hustle. Advantage of this conditionis sometimes taken by making the emergency crew reallya wrecking crew to administer mechanical first aid towhatever goes wro
. Electric railway journal . rough and continuous combing ashe describes, if applied on many of our Eastern sys-tems, would unquestionably effect a reduction in over-head breakdown. It might not prevent a reduction inforces, particularly in the older, large cities, where thenarrow and crooked streets prevent quick work withthe wagons and compel a larger number of emergencycrews than are necessary when the tower or repairwagon can really hustle. Advantage of this conditionis sometimes taken by making the emergency crew reallya wrecking crew to administer mechanical first aid towhatever goes wrong, the regular repair gangs follow-ing up if the trouble is too extensive for the emergencymen to finish it themselves. Watching the Repair Gangin Action Watching a crew at work is about the best way totest the efficiency of its organization. Idle men, how-ever, do not necessarily prove that a gang is too poor arrangement of the men, of course, will over-load some, while the others have little to do, a condition C 3. Watching a repair gang at work is the best wayto test the efficiency of an organization.—Harte showing that the foreman is not onto the job as a this is due to actual incompetency, the resultof an endeavor of the foreman to do everything him-self, or due to the use of a gang so small that he isobliged to work as one of the men, can be readily deter-mined by watching the work for a time if a few ques-tions do not bring out the facts. It is true economy to have each gang so large and sowell balanced that the foreman can give most of hisattention to its work as a unit. If he is a good bosshe will save his wages many times in the team work hecan get. Further, by watching from the side lines, ifhe is at all ingenious, he can probably work out bettermethods or show why changes are inadvisable. Beforeany radical readjustments are made it is essential togood results that all the circumstances be fact that once or twice a gang has bee
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