. American engineer and railroad journal . fig. FIG. 1. IMPORTANCE of KNOWING THE Cost of WOBK.—One of thetroubles in railroad shops, as compared with commercial in-stil utions, is that the question of cost is largely lost sight are done in the shop because it is necessary to getthem out immediately, without any delay, and almost regard-less of expense. Very recently this matter was brought verystrongly and clearly to my attention. A certain number ofthings had been made in a large shop, and after they hadbeen made I went to the man who, of all others in the shop,ought to have kn
. American engineer and railroad journal . fig. FIG. 1. IMPORTANCE of KNOWING THE Cost of WOBK.—One of thetroubles in railroad shops, as compared with commercial in-stil utions, is that the question of cost is largely lost sight are done in the shop because it is necessary to getthem out immediately, without any delay, and almost regard-less of expense. Very recently this matter was brought verystrongly and clearly to my attention. A certain number ofthings had been made in a large shop, and after they hadbeen made I went to the man who, of all others in the shop,ought to have known exactly how much they had cost. Hetook the paper covering these objects, looked them over care-fully, and gave rae an estimate of what these particular arti-cles had cost in that particular shop. I took down the fig-ures he gave me, and afterwards went over to the store-keeper and got the actual list and actual statement of thematerials. His total was $1,430, and the real total was$5,841. Now. here was a man of good judgment and greatskill a
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