. Railway mechanical engineer . Good Lord! what you fellows doingthese davs? Running the store department on scrap! Say,I got a limited pay roll on labor and I aint got no time towaste hunting scrap. •Entered in the Railway Mechanical Enoineer prize story contest. The general storekeeper laughed easily. Dont get excited, Mr. Gibbons, he remarked. Wehave got our limits to work inside, ourselves. The propor-tion must be maintained, you know. Proportion! What proportion? growled the shop fore-man. The proportion between material and labor in railroad-ing, smoothly responded the general storekeepe
. Railway mechanical engineer . Good Lord! what you fellows doingthese davs? Running the store department on scrap! Say,I got a limited pay roll on labor and I aint got no time towaste hunting scrap. •Entered in the Railway Mechanical Enoineer prize story contest. The general storekeeper laughed easily. Dont get excited, Mr. Gibbons, he remarked. Wehave got our limits to work inside, ourselves. The propor-tion must be maintained, you know. Proportion! What proportion? growled the shop fore-man. The proportion between material and labor in railroad-ing, smoothly responded the general storekeeper as he re-lit his half consumed cigar and regarded Bill, the foreman,complacently. You see its just like this, he continued, noting Gibbonsblank look. Material should run about 40 per cent andlabor 60 per cent on your cost of back shop repairs. At thepresent time we are maintaining our figures, but the mechan-ical department has gone way beyond theirs. From tliis itis evident that the store department is more efficient than. Were All Out of D. S. 5 Springs for Engine 397. }our department, and that is why I suggested that you lookthe scrap pile over for waste of material. The local storekeeper expected one of Bills daily brainstorms over shortage of material but none was silence Gibbons rubbed his chin and stared reflectivelyat the visitor. Those the customary figures? he finally questioned. They certainly are, responded Case. Any complaintagainst them? he added. Dont know, remarked the shop boss thoughtfully. Ido know one thing, however, and thats this: The store de-partment always makes a hit when it cuts down material no 103 104 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 94, No. 2 difference how it affects the mechanical department, whichcant squeal because it has always been considered the non-revenue end of the pike. My boss is trying to save moneyby getting more material and your boss, the purchasingagent, is cutting requisitions. If it comes to a show downthe stor
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