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the calendar, and he is saved just so much writing. In effect he 

 writes no more on each card than he would for each job, if all 

 the entries were made on one " Time Card," as is now done at 

 Frunkford Arsenal. 



We thus have all the operations of each member of each 

 department for the same day narrated in the truest and fullest 

 possible manner ; it now remains to show how this information is 

 utilized. 



The cards go to the Cost Clerk and are shuffled, first, by names 

 of workman ; second, by shop-order numbers under each name. 

 The time is then entered in the time book, Chapter XV, opposite 

 to the shop-orders on which the man has been employed. This is 

 to enable each workman's wages to be charged to the proper 

 appropriation. In private shops all that would be necessary would 

 be to put down his total time or wages for the day on form A, 

 page 60. The cards corresponding to each order number are 

 then placed in a pigeon hole bearing the number of the order on 

 a detachable adhesive ticket (target paster). Those denoting 

 absence are sorted by rates of wages and placed in a separate 

 pigeon hole. 



Each pigeon hole shows at a glance what labor has been done 

 on the job it represents, when, and by whom. Every empty 

 pigeon hole testifies to a job so far untouched, and so on. 



When the order ticket comes back " completed," the cards 

 corresponding to it are taken out, the summation of rates rapidly 

 made, Chapter XV, the paster torn off, and the pigeon hole made 

 ready for another number. The cards may then be filed away by 

 order numbers, or may be shuffled according to C., O., N., 

 Chapter XV, and combined with others bearing the same symbols 

 under other order numbers; so that at the end of the year, or 

 earlier, a definite idea may be readily had of the cost of performing 

 each operation on every one of the staple products of the shop. 



General Remarks. 



What has been said is predicated on the supposition that the 

 employees are all able to write. Where this does not hold good, 

 it will be necessary for the illiterate to find some one to make 



