. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . paywill mean a million added somewhereelse. One Congressional committee hasalready submitted a report favoring moreliberal compensation, and Congress shouldeither accept its finding or be in a po-sition to prove its falsity. But more important than all other con-siderations is the question of ethics. TheGovernment has the power to compel therailroads to carry the mails at a loss, pos-sibly, but its power should not be so mis-used. A government that demands frank Mail Pay the w
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . paywill mean a million added somewhereelse. One Congressional committee hasalready submitted a report favoring moreliberal compensation, and Congress shouldeither accept its finding or be in a po-sition to prove its falsity. But more important than all other con-siderations is the question of ethics. TheGovernment has the power to compel therailroads to carry the mails at a loss, pos-sibly, but its power should not be so mis-used. A government that demands frank Mail Pay the war over the proper pay for arailroad handling a pound of mail, therailroads claim that the Government isnot paying them sufficiently for carryingthe mails, and the Government is just asloud in its denials and counter assertionsthat the railroads are overpaid. Incident-ally, no railway mail pay legislation wasenacted at the last session of Congress asa result, and now both sides are pre-paring for a display at the Decembersession of Congress. Chairman Moon ofthe Congressional committee seems to be. FRONT VIEW WOODS HYDRAULICSHEAR. and honest dealing between the businessmen of the nation should take every op-portunity to set an example. Coming in on Broadway Limited of the Penn-sylvania, between New York and Chicago,900 miles in 20 hours, was on time for92 per cent, of its trips during the firstsix months of this year and was twominutes late on only 15 of a total of 181days. Eastbound, it was on time for 163days, and on time or not more than fiveminutes late for more than 90 per cent,of its trips. In June it was on time everydav. 316 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. September, 1915. Electrical Department Electrostatic Potential and Synchronism Indicators Electrostatic vacuum glowers arc nowbeing used to indicate the presence of po-tential on high voltage a-c. circuits, andto determine when such circuits are insynchronism and may be thrown together. For indicating pote
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