. Electric railway journal . VAr IS IT THAT * MAN WILL — ANO RAISE CAIN IN A STREET PUT UP WITH ANY KINO OF DISCOMFORT CAR IF ALL THE 5EAJS HAPPEN IN A TITNEY TO BE OCCUPIED f THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT OF PARALLEL CONDITIONS INJITNEY AND STREET CAR ACCOMMODATIONS tracted by such an illustration, for it agrees with hisknowledge of the facts and it appeals to his sense ofhumor. It may set him to thinking about some unfaircriticism that he has made about the street car service. Name Cards in Frame to IdentifyTrainmen The illustration below shows a name card holderrecently installed on the cars of
. Electric railway journal . VAr IS IT THAT * MAN WILL — ANO RAISE CAIN IN A STREET PUT UP WITH ANY KINO OF DISCOMFORT CAR IF ALL THE 5EAJS HAPPEN IN A TITNEY TO BE OCCUPIED f THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT OF PARALLEL CONDITIONS INJITNEY AND STREET CAR ACCOMMODATIONS tracted by such an illustration, for it agrees with hisknowledge of the facts and it appeals to his sense ofhumor. It may set him to thinking about some unfaircriticism that he has made about the street car service. Name Cards in Frame to IdentifyTrainmen The illustration below shows a name card holderrecently installed on the cars of the Seattle & RainierValley Railway, operating between Seattle and Renton,Wash. The names of the trainmen are printed onheavy card slips which are placed in the frame as it-. FRAME MOUNTED NEAR CAR ROOF CONTAINS NAMES OFTRAINMEN IN CHARGE shown. None of the trainmen is known by number,as no numbers appear on their uniforms or caps. Thesingle word motorman or conductor is worn on thefront of the cap. The public is, therefore, required to deal with themen as individuals rather than as units of a machine,and this reacts favorably both ways, as the men feelmore individual responsibility and the public feels thatthe one individual with whom all dealings are made isa real human being and not an automaton. It is hopedthat this practice will tend to promote more favorablerelations between the company and the traveling public. 64 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [VOL. 50, No. 2 EQUIPMENT andMAINTENANCE HAVE YOU A GOOD WAYOF DOING A JOB? —Pass It A long Read in This Issue: How James Scott Has Eliminated the Need ofScrewdrivers and Wrenches in Overhead Maintenance Work Overhead Kinks from Cleveland James Scott, Superintendent of Overhead ClevelandRailway, Has Devised Numer
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