Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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e work of the division inspectors, rhese men are selected andtrained with the greatest possible care iii observe and report uponthe conduct of the men as u appears from inside the cars, in thesame manner that the street inspectors observe from without. Theonly material difference in the work of the two classes of inspectorsis thai uniformed inspectors, who wear a badge of authority, arcexpected In instruct as well as report, while the unnnifoi-med in-spectors ire expend to report only. The reports of these inol iii greatest possible value 10 the management and10 the men wdio perform their work well. The same system, so faras feasible, applies to the elevated division. These two sets of inspectors furnish much of the informationthat enables the superintendents to deal with every man in accord-ance with his individual requirements. It is impossible for a divi-sion superintendent to be so intimately acquainted with every manunder his authority as to know, as a matter of memory, the tcin-
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GENERAL VIEW IN TRAINING SCHOOL OF BOSTON ELEVATED KY. wrong and what would have been right, and later to make a full re-port of the occurrence to the division superintendent for his inforand guid ■or remains in any I for many days at a tune, frequent cha made to 1 compare ate the different n 1 tain in • habitually finds but one or two things in a day calling foron and thi ors find eight or ten things in the tame district, superintendent m inquire, and, at least, sug other men havi betti 1..I report upon .thing affecting tl but their great* I effort 1 exerted to due to negligent or improper conduct on the part of tl giving limn 10 have- the cat under : vol when ci 01 approaching vehicles • a clear -. - i.oth the numberand pr ttributable tormi n and greatly red pi 1 .inn in merit .md capability ol each, and for this rea on, among Others, a ledger account is kepi with every man thai makes thisinformation available whenever an employee is nuclei considerationfor discipline or rewar

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