i 4 8 PROPOSED SYSTEM. 



Taking next a more complicated case, where there are several 

 foremen united under a master workman, who, in turn, is under 

 the orders of the Officer in Charge of the shops (Executive 

 Officer), the following would be the course: 



Following the principle of making clerks do clerks' work, as 

 many copies of the order as may be required, not less than three, 

 are made in the office and are sent with the book, as before, to 

 the Officer in Charge. He signs the book and sends the tickets to 

 the Master Workman, who punches one ticket and returns it, 

 keeping the others, which he distributes to the foremen whose 

 departments are to work on the job. The Master Workman takes 

 their receipt by their punch marks on his own ticket, which, like 

 the Officer in Charge, he places in the rack corresponding to the 

 department in which the work is to begin, and so on. 



The foremen, as well as himself, may issue subsidiary white 

 tickets, giving in detail orders for such components of the work 

 as are necessary. 



The job being completed, each one passes his ticket to the one 

 from whom he received it, so that finally the office is informed 

 of its completion and the order is crossed off the book. 



Remarks. 



Thus it will be seen that there is but one book involved in the 

 whole process ; and that this book, serving both for original entry 

 and for final record, is practically always at the office, where it is 

 most required. The subsidiary operations, being within a sub- 

 ordinate jurisdiction, are carried on by order tickets based on the 

 authority of the original entry, either directly or by derivation 

 from it. 



The tendency is always to give orders which are explicit, be- 

 cause in writing; and proper, because based upon authority. 

 They are given in the loose memorandum form, which is the most 

 natural and convenient ; and they have besides the conspicuous 

 advantages of portability and distribution combined with the 

 possibility of formal delivery and receipt, thus giving them a 

 force which no stray slip of paper, unsupported by the order 

 book, could have. 



