Railway and Locomotive Engineering . in decid-ing the controversy between the organ-ized employes in train service who areseeking an advance in wages through themovement for an 8-hour basic day, withtime and half-time for ovenime. The defect, Mr. Willard said, of thepresent system are becoming better under-stood. Xo one would contend or e.\pectthat 48 different regulating bodies, withinterests sometimes at variance, could sat-isfactorily and eflSciently supervise andregulate the same subject at the same detail than of principle. I think a care-ful survey of the matter will develop thatwe have
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . in decid-ing the controversy between the organ-ized employes in train service who areseeking an advance in wages through themovement for an 8-hour basic day, withtime and half-time for ovenime. The defect, Mr. Willard said, of thepresent system are becoming better under-stood. Xo one would contend or e.\pectthat 48 different regulating bodies, withinterests sometimes at variance, could sat-isfactorily and eflSciently supervise andregulate the same subject at the same detail than of principle. I think a care-ful survey of the matter will develop thatwe have already gone a long way towardFederal regulation of railroads — muchfurther, in fact, than is generally supposed,without being fully aware of the change,and it now requires little more than thatthe actual status should be fixed by Con-gress. Certainly the men who operate thetrains and engines should be a selectedclass, and tliey should be well paid andgiven good and suitable working condi-tions, and if the carriers arc not already. GOFF ELECTRO-PNEUMATIC BRAKE AND SIGNAL SYSTEM. to comment on the merits of this brakesystem or on any other until such timeas it has told its own story in actual serv-ice under modern operating conditions,but the brake system will be set up andbe in operation at the Master MechanicsConvention at Atlantic City this year, andpractical demonstrations of the operationof the brake may be witnessed at anytime at 523 Haddon avenue, Camden, N. brake was invented by Mr. FrankGoflt, a locomotive engineer on the Penn-sylvania Railroad. President Willard of the Baltimore &Ohio on the Railroad Question. Mr. Daniel Willard, president of theBaltimore & Ohio Railroad System, in anaddress delivered last month to the mem-bers and guests of the American News-paper Publishers Association on certainnational phases of the railroad question,advocated that railway control be central-ized in the Federal Government ratherthan the present dual system vested inthe Inte
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