. Electric railway journal . ploy a clerk especially forthis purpose. In the general repair shop, however, it isnecessary to employ an extra clerk to operate the job cardsystem and clock. All his time is not required for this par-ticular work, and he is kept busy with other duties, suchas writing storeroom requisitions and doing light officework. At the close of each days work the calculagraph cards forjobs completed and under way are turned over to the gen-eral timekeeper, who takes off the labor distribution. Em-ployees continue to ring in and out on a time clock, andthese cards furnish a ch
. Electric railway journal . ploy a clerk especially forthis purpose. In the general repair shop, however, it isnecessary to employ an extra clerk to operate the job cardsystem and clock. All his time is not required for this par-ticular work, and he is kept busy with other duties, suchas writing storeroom requisitions and doing light officework. At the close of each days work the calculagraph cards forjobs completed and under way are turned over to the gen-eral timekeeper, who takes off the labor distribution. Em-ployees continue to ring in and out on a time clock, andthese cards furnish a check on the total time recordedagainst any workman on the calculagraph cards. All cardsin this new system of recording time distribution are filledin by the two storekeepers and one clerk. Each of theseoperators is furnished with a complete list of current ordernumbers so that he may know to what each job is charge-able. The workman simply reports the completion or com-mencement of the different jobs to the operator, giving a. View of Calcuagraph and Cabinet brief description of the work done, and with the aid of thelist of order numbers the proper one is written on the calculagraph cards have not displaced the shop orderblanks but form an accurate record of time chargeableagainst each order. Essentially, the calculagraph is a clock with three time-recording elements in the form of dies which revolve withthe hands of the clock. The dial which prints the time ofthe day remains fixed, and the hand revolves. The othertwo dials, one for recording elapsed time in hours and theother in tenths of hours, revolve continuously. The markerof each elapsed-time dial is secured rotatively to its re-spective dial but has a vertical printing movement indepen-dent of it. In beginning a calculagraph record, a card isplaced face down at the right end of the slot provided forthis purpose beside the clock face. The right lever ispushed away from the operator and this movement printsthe ti
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