. American engineer and railroad journal . rovement ofthe service of this company in this respect is a matter to which Iam giving a great deal of personal consideration. There are neces-sarily many cases of improper treatment of passengers and ship-pers that can never come to our attention, unless they are madethe subject of complaint. I appreciate the fact that people areoften deterred from making complaint by the fear that it mightresult in the discharge of the offending employee, but dischargein such a case would only be resorted to after all other methodshad failed.—IF. W. Finley. Individu
. American engineer and railroad journal . rovement ofthe service of this company in this respect is a matter to which Iam giving a great deal of personal consideration. There are neces-sarily many cases of improper treatment of passengers and ship-pers that can never come to our attention, unless they are madethe subject of complaint. I appreciate the fact that people areoften deterred from making complaint by the fear that it mightresult in the discharge of the offending employee, but dischargein such a case would only be resorted to after all other methodshad failed.—IF. W. Finley. Individual Drinking Cups.—The D., L. & W. Railroad hasinstalled in the cars on some of its best passenger trains, an ap-paratus for delivering individual paper drinking cups to the pas-sengers. The arrangement is such that each cup used must beeither destroyed or carried away and each passenger takes afresh cup which has been manufactured and put in the machinewithout being touched by the hands. 300 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD MULTIPLE SPINDLE AUTOMATIC SCREW MACHINE. The standardization of parts and the concentration of manu-facture on railroads has made possible the introduction of highlyspecialized labor-saving machinery in railroad shops. The auto-matic screw machine will turn out a much greater amount ofwork than the hand screw machine; it occupies about the samefloor space and requires only H to 1/6 the attention, one manbeing able to operate several of these machines. The automaticmachine is not so complicated as might be expected and evena multiple spindle machine of this type can be attended to bypractically the same class of labor as used on a hand screw ma-chine. The saving in the labor cost, great as it is for the auto-matic over the hand machine, is still greater with the machine, since all the operations on a piece are per-formed at the same time. The application of the individual motor drive to these ma-chines has also done much to increa
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