. Electric railway journal . Department for Curtains and Hand Straps, Brooklyn Rapid Transit System carded material to the main shops, where two men dis-tribute it into piles of renewable, doubtful and scrapmaterial. In addition, before final disposition is Wood Mill, Portland Shops the general foreman examines the doubtful collectionhimself. The parts are then sent to the shop for renewaland upon repair are turned into the stores of the carmaintenance department. There they are subject to car stations, and their operations are checked monthlyto make adjustments for lost articles, etc.
. Electric railway journal . Department for Curtains and Hand Straps, Brooklyn Rapid Transit System carded material to the main shops, where two men dis-tribute it into piles of renewable, doubtful and scrapmaterial. In addition, before final disposition is Wood Mill, Portland Shops the general foreman examines the doubtful collectionhimself. The parts are then sent to the shop for renewaland upon repair are turned into the stores of the carmaintenance department. There they are subject to car stations, and their operations are checked monthlyto make adjustments for lost articles, etc. Sub-stock-rooms are also installed at the main shops under care ofthe respective sub-foremen. About 90 per cent of thematerial used by the men is brought to them by MAINTENANCE Very few objections are heard nowadays against themaintenance of car equipment on a mileage basis. Thecompanies which still stick to definite time intervals fordoing this work do not generally deny the superiority ofthe former, but they appear to be afraid of the cost ofrecord keeping. It has been abundantly shown, how-ever, that except on the smallest railways the wage of amileage clerk is a negligible amount compared with theadvantages of a more exact knowledge of wha
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