. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . .\. IIuriM \N 42 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE compared with that of other operatorsthroughout the country, and we havenever been able to learn of an operatorholding such a record for accuracy. The principal causes of error in thiswork are illegible figures on waybills,and the use of rubber stamps over moneycolumns. If agents and yard clerks wouldplace all rubber stamps on the blank spots on the waybills, instead of over themoney columns, it would greatly facilitatethe work of the key-punchers. Thereproduction of one of the waybills willillu
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . .\. IIuriM \N 42 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE compared with that of other operatorsthroughout the country, and we havenever been able to learn of an operatorholding such a record for accuracy. The principal causes of error in thiswork are illegible figures on waybills,and the use of rubber stamps over moneycolumns. If agents and yard clerks wouldplace all rubber stamps on the blank spots on the waybills, instead of over themoney columns, it would greatly facilitatethe work of the key-punchers. Thereproduction of one of the waybills willillustrate this point. A full description of the work of thedaily system Of accounting by use ofHollerith machines was published inthe October, 1914, Bawling a Man Out ^|1 marked a■ -- recently,curred NEVER bawl a man out, re-mechanical engineerAn incident that oc-some years ago, while Iwas in charge of the erection of a powerplant in the Panama Canal Zone, curedme of that habit. The work had been going slowly, theweather was terribly hot and I had justa little touch of fever. But at last wehad things in pretty good shape and wereinstalling the machinery. One afternoon the work train drewup at our siding with two immense flywheel castings on one of the flat had been brought from the Statesby ship and across the Isthmus byrail. The power house was about a quarterof a mile from the track—pretty nearlystraight up the side of a bit of material and machinery weused had to be hauled up either by mulesor by men. The first thing was to get the cast-ings safely off the flat car To take charge of this difficult job I selected oneof the gang foremen, a man of broad ex-perience and having the reputation ofbeing car
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