. Proceedings of the annual convention . ticket, showing both inbound and outbound records, is kept in thedrawer. At the end of the year the tickets are filed away, those of eachmonth in separate boxes, with each set of numerals together, so as to makea handy record should it be necessary in future to consult withthem. In view of the per diem system, which is something new in railwayservice, and as to which all of us are in a more or less groping state so faras its operation is concerned, a system devised by the Philadelphia & Read-ing Railway at Philadelphia may be described, and is believed
. Proceedings of the annual convention . ticket, showing both inbound and outbound records, is kept in thedrawer. At the end of the year the tickets are filed away, those of eachmonth in separate boxes, with each set of numerals together, so as to makea handy record should it be necessary in future to consult withthem. In view of the per diem system, which is something new in railwayservice, and as to which all of us are in a more or less groping state so faras its operation is concerned, a system devised by the Philadelphia & Read-ing Railway at Philadelphia may be described, and is believed to havesome merit. At a large terminal it is almost absolutely necessary, in orderto keep the matter in check, that a system be in force which will serve asan object lesson to the men. To accomplish this a ticket for every foreign car, as it arrives, is 23 354 PROCEEDINGS OF THE eo oeo CO 00 co CO 03CO X 10CO eo CO (MCO CO o CO 05r-l 00 i-H CO rH CO rH COrH rH o rH a 00 t> CO IQ Tt< CO CO 1-^ o rH CO eo ■* m CO c- 00 05 9§. FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 355 placed in a case made for the purpose and kept there until the car leavesthe yard, when the ticket is taken out and destroyed. The ticket need onlybe a small piece of blank cardboard, on which may be written the car num-ber, initial and date of arrival. This per diem case is divided into 310 pigeonholes, numbered fromleft to right from 1 to 31, indicating the days of the month. On the sidesof the case are the ten numerals. As soon as a foreign car arrives in theyard a blank ticket is filled out as above and placed in the case under thenumber indicating the date and on a line with the numeral which corre-sponds with the last figure in the car number, thus: Car L. V., 41947, ar-riving July 26, would be placed in column 26 on line No. 7. Very good results are possible from the use of this case. Withoutconsulting any books or records of any kind it is possible, by a glance atthe case, to tell just how long cars are being he
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