. Railway master mechanic . It has occurred to me that a joint in-spection for the entire city could be organized, similai* tothe 01 ganization of the switching department at the stockyards. I do not claim that such a scheme would be perfect,but think it feasible; and if it were adopted neededchanges could be made as ciix-umstances would seem to re-quire. To start with, there should be a superintendent of Chi-cago inspection intrusted with the general conduct of allbusiness of joint inspection, and who would report to anexecutive committee -which should be apjwinted by theheads of the departme
. Railway master mechanic . It has occurred to me that a joint in-spection for the entire city could be organized, similai* tothe 01 ganization of the switching department at the stockyards. I do not claim that such a scheme would be perfect,but think it feasible; and if it were adopted neededchanges could be made as ciix-umstances would seem to re-quire. To start with, there should be a superintendent of Chi-cago inspection intrusted with the general conduct of allbusiness of joint inspection, and who would report to anexecutive committee -which should be apjwinted by theheads of the departments interested. He would providefor the employing and removal of employes, approve allbills and vouchers for payments, and appoint his severaljoint inspectors who would be located in the freight yardsof the different railroads. These inspectors would haveauthority to issue M. C. B. cards, authorizing repaire to bemade and charged to the roads delivering the cars in bad One of the objections which would be brought up against. the joint inspectore T would have pro rated, based on thenumber of inspectors required by each road, and chargedto the different companies in the joint scr\ice. The office of the superintendent should be located ascentrally as possible, and have telephonic communicationwith the different roads : and in this way all the linescould be connected by having an exchange in the supeiin-tendents office. All cases of dispute between inspectors should be broughtto the superintendent, and, if necessary, appeal could bemade to the executive committee. I have simply given an outline of the scheme which I amsatisfied is a feasible one and could be adopted with advan-tage. I have not attempted to go into the details, as I be-lieve the success of this or any other scheme would de-pend altogether on the ability of thesuperintendent to workout the details. The situation is really no more complicated than theswitching arrangement at the Union Stock Yards. Al-though a great ma
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