. Electric railway journal . receipt duplicates are sent to the auditing departmentand used as the basis of the weekly payroll. A weekly statementis made up by the armature department showing the numberof employees working in the shop, the total payrolls and thetotal wages paid for piece work. A monthly statement is alscmade up, which includes these data and, in addition, the gain tothe employees over the regular pay for the same number ofhours, the loss, if any, the gain to the company, the percentageof piece-work wages to the total payrolls, and the percentageof increase in wages of men on p
. Electric railway journal . receipt duplicates are sent to the auditing departmentand used as the basis of the weekly payroll. A weekly statementis made up by the armature department showing the numberof employees working in the shop, the total payrolls and thetotal wages paid for piece work. A monthly statement is alscmade up, which includes these data and, in addition, the gain tothe employees over the regular pay for the same number ofhours, the loss, if any, the gain to the company, the percentageof piece-work wages to the total payrolls, and the percentageof increase in wages of men on piece work over the day rate CARRIAGE FOR HANDLING CAR WHEELS The accompanying illustration shows a wheel carriage de-veloped in the shops of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit System forhandling wheels. It consists of a pair of spoked wheels and anaxle which carries a whiffletree. One hook is attached to theend of this shaft, and a second hook at another point, as shownin the illustration. The wheels to be transported are lifted up. Brooklyn Wheel Handling Carriage by chain slings which are passed through the hubs and over thehooks. By means of this counterweighting scheme two mencan move about a pair of wheels weighing as much as 875 Usually one man is at the front end of the shaft and theother at the rear. The company is planning to replace thismethod in its East New York shops by an electric telpher sys-tem, owing to the large number of wheels which are handledthere. However, a carriage of this kind commends itself forsmaller installations where it would not pay to put up automaticlabor-saving apparatus. 37* ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXVII. No. 9. RAIL CORRUGATIONS I BY K. SIEBER, ENGINEER, NURNBERG, GERMANY Assume a corrugated rail to be so firmly embedded that itwill practically not bend. A wheel moving very slowly wouldfollow the valleys and crests in the rail exactly and, at a pointlike position A in Fig. 1, would exert greater pressure thanin position B, where t
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