. Electric railway journal . ondi-tions along the line, whereas the traffic regulators areusually assigned to fixed posts. Inspectors, traffic regu-lators, and car crews are provided with pegs to permitcommunication with headquarters through the telephoneboxes located on feeder pillars every * mile. In addition to the operating staff, eight traffic in-spectors are employed by the traffic development de-partment to check car loading, irregularity of service,etc. To facilitate the work of these men, a cross-hatchedreport form of the style shown is used. The checkerdoes not have to make more than


. Electric railway journal . ondi-tions along the line, whereas the traffic regulators areusually assigned to fixed posts. Inspectors, traffic regu-lators, and car crews are provided with pegs to permitcommunication with headquarters through the telephoneboxes located on feeder pillars every * mile. In addition to the operating staff, eight traffic in-spectors are employed by the traffic development de-partment to check car loading, irregularity of service,etc. To facilitate the work of these men, a cross-hatchedreport form of the style shown is used. The checkerdoes not have to make more than a dot to indicate thenumber of passengers on each car passing a given pointwithin sixty minutes. From these dots it is a simplematter to prepare the traffic curve. In a preceding paragraph were presented the wageand war-bonus scales of L. C. C. platform employees. L. TRAMSService No. I? Taken M Kl/rvninatm ■ Date ^ w ^0 , M W| libkUklthklal li l7HUICl:,nlAlQl lll7IilAl^lt,niRI<il lll7l5l41Blt!7i8l9l 1112 3 45 60 M. GRAPH FROM D. C. C. TRAFFIC INSPECTORS REPORTON CAR LOADING St?) tV -O fiO /7,U /^/i7> / Vi-Kfifi, 04. $T 377 2^ ^f Eeg. No. J- >■ i i-3 II 10 tJi) Lis Hi Id IL lOt-l II ini --Hi LI ^3 -113 1 >L G 11 6 » I id- iAL ipJZ iij>:ulyau r it AM, 6 HI .4 ids *i7 fit, Boute BY ORDER. TIME-POINT CARD USED ON L. C. C. CAR (The dividing: line marlis the end of the period during whicliworkmens fare may be accepted.) The actual working time and average spreadover ofmotormen and conductors on motor cars are as follows: Average Spreadover Average Actual Worlc(Hours and Minutes) (Hours and Minutes) Weekdays 11:51 Saturdays 11:23 Sundays 7:43 Average per day for one week 11:23 (For conductors of trailers only) Weekdays 13:6 Saturdays 9:36 Average per day for one week 12:31 6:387:27 8:19 6:47 From the foregoing it will be seen that the fifty-four-hour week was the basis, but in practice the number ofhours worked was actually less. Unde


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