. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . uthim driving rivets and a rivet driver heis today. You picked another from thewharf and put him running a forgingmachine and a machine forger he is to-day. What will the bolt cutter do whenthere are no bolts to cut? These leaveyou and go elsewhere, hiring out asmachinists. The Santa Fe Railway said to the general foremen and foremen: Weknow you havent the time to pay muchattention to these boys; you look out forthe output of the shop and your otherduties, and we will put a man therewhose sol
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . uthim driving rivets and a rivet driver heis today. You picked another from thewharf and put him running a forgingmachine and a machine forger he is to-day. What will the bolt cutter do whenthere are no bolts to cut? These leaveyou and go elsewhere, hiring out asmachinists. The Santa Fe Railway said to the general foremen and foremen: Weknow you havent the time to pay muchattention to these boys; you look out forthe output of the shop and your otherduties, and we will put a man therewhose sole duties will be to look out forthe apprentices, responsible to you for theboys progress and work. He will movethem from machine to machine, from jobto job, showing them step by step, andthen we will have a schoolroom, the boywill be taught by another instructor suchsubjects as he needs in his trade, receiv-ing the mental training alohg with thepractical. With the present system wehave found the boy with the assistance ofhis shop instructor becomes productiveat once. No time is lost in experiment-. FRANK W. THOMAS. ing, and finding his place, or getting overhis stage fright. He is made productiveat once. In the absence of a regular manon any machine, our foreman simplysays to the shop instructor, Put one ofyour boys on that machine while JoeSmith is off. He does it, and stays withhim enough to insure a reasonable daysoutput. The success we have attainedwith our apprentices has been due to thefull, ample shop instruction. We appointthe best men we have and enough of themto insure the boys complete believe with Mr. Basford, that the pres-ent shops need more instructors andfewer inspectors. We have an assistantvice-president on our road, one who wasreared on the road, who is now in hisforties, and every day of his life since hewas fifteen, has been spent in her his apprenticeship he was gangforeman before he was out of his teens, and was promoted thro
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