if there was any orror on tlio part of -j^e master mechanic it 

 could "be chocr.ecL up by "^ 1O "brain master, V7]io was also an 

 assistant superintendent with coordinate authority with tho 

 train master. 



Ho'./ever, the system has not "be on a success although 

 it a fundamental ideas ere correct; "but it has not "boon a 

 success "because there was left out of accoxi t the element 

 of tradition. Before we spolre of the traiii master, the chief 

 dispatcher, the engineer, etc. hut tho minute a man's iden- 

 tification as train master was lost, tho mon said ?t ~7e do not 

 "mow to whom we are report ing; wo do not Imou exactly where 

 tho limits of his author it y are" and the public generally 

 did not li?ie it. The3?- li^.od to lmo T . r about the train master, 

 the masb or mechanic; tli03r lilred to Imov; a"bout tho chiof dis- 

 patcher, and they did not want to ring up just an assistant 

 superintend uit . Trat seemed too indefinite and so objections 

 arose. 



Suppose 2^ou put a master mechanic in to do a train 

 master's worl:. It ?/as absurd because he would not be fa- 

 miliar \;ith it, but certainly an intelligent train master 

 ought -oo Irnov; enough to liee; trad: of the wor.r, but it fell 

 because of the fact that not sufficient recognition had been 

 given to tho traditional nanes v/Iiich had come down to us after 

 a good many years. 



How, there is going on a revision of the system 



which embraces -rracticaJl^ all of the ^lans TThicli Bfe-jor Hyne 



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