Railway, read an interesting paper at Tuesday evening's meet rg of the Engineering Society of China, his subject being Railway Maintenance," with special reference to the system in force on the Shanghai Nanking Railway.
He first described the staff organization covering every detail in the control and maintenance of the Tine, and gave particulars of an interesting method, introduced Ly Mr. A. C. Clear, to overcome the difficulty of obtaining accurate reports on permanent way work in consequence of gangers and coolies being deficient in knowledge either of their own or the English language. A "picture" language has been adopted. Instead of words, pictures of the tools used, and other symbols, are drawn on the report sheet to represent work done, and with a knowledge of these symbole, and of the numerals from 1 to 10 the workmen are able to send in full and reliable reports of the work. Pictorial representations are also used in giving special instructions to gangers, as for ample, the method of protecting coolies engaged round a trolley on the open line, the picture showing a gang at work and signalman ready up and down the line with detonators and red flag to warn approaching trains,
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