INDEX. A. Accounting, apprentice course in, 69, 80, 125. Administration, railroad, 11, 115-130; Tuck school of, Dartmouth, 123-130. Altoona (Pa.) High School, industrial course, 86; vocational training, 78. American Federation of Labor and industrial education, 135. Amos Tuck School of Administration, Dartmouth, 123-130. Appendix A, 138-152. Appendix B, 152-155. Appliances and supply department, programme of, 81. Applications for apprenticeships, 63. Apprentice system installed by New York Central, 38. Apprentices, accounting department, 69; brakeman and conductor courses, 68; instruction to, 61; instructions to officers over, 62; maintenance-of-way service, 65; master mechanic's office, 66; railway, in France, 153; signal engineer's office, 68; special, 56-73; station service, 64; store department, 69; supervision of, 141-151; time shortened by educator's methods, 20; train-master course, 70. Apprenticeship, 39-56; applications for, 63; Baltimore and Ohio special, 59; certificates of, recognition, 141-149; contract of employment at expiration of, 141-149; extension of principle, 136; form of certificate, 43; former significance of, 39; grades of, 141-151; locomotive course, 51-54; Metropolitan Street Railway (N. Y.), 71; New York Central System, 44-56; Pennsylvania Railroad plan of special, 58; plan of G. M. Basford, 44; plan of W. G. Berg, 57; regulations, 150; rules of railway mechanics' association, 41-43; significance of, at present time, 39; special, 56-73; statistics of railway, 138-149; table of statistics, 140-149; time or merit basis of, 141-149; years in the course, 141-149. Armour Institute, cultural studies, 107. Association of clerks organized, 32. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, apprenticeship rules, 150. Athearn, Mr. F. G., values importance of welfare work, 28. Auditing, instruction in, 125. B. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, special apprenticeship, 59. Banking, instruction in, 128. Barnard, Mr., apprenticeship school for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 21. Basford, G. M., apprenticeship plan of, 44. Berg, W. G., apprenticeship plan, 57; secondary vocational railroad schools, 79. Blacksmith shop course, apprenticeship rules for, 42. Boiler shop, apprenticeship rules for, 42. Boston and Maine Railroad, pension system of, 24. Bureau of Education (U. S.), questionnaire sent to railroads, 138. Bureau of information, Union Pacific Railroad, character of, 104. Business procedure, instruction in, 126. C. Canadian railroads first take up educational cooperation, 37. Car-building department, programme of, 82. Certificate of apprenticeship, form of, 43; recognition of, 141-149. Chicago and Alton Railway gives instruction in train rules, 30. Chicago and Northwestern Railway, system of apprenticeship, 139. Chicago roads lend cooperation at University of Chicago, 37. Circular, Union Pacific Railroad, 97, 99. Civil engineering, Cornell University, 113; course at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 109, 111. Clerks, association of, organized, 32. Clubs formed for railroad employees, 29. College graduates, and railroad service, 105–114; provision for, 134. Commerce, course of instruction, 127. Common-school education and railroad service, 133. Compensation, and efficiency, 17-25; not always based on fitness, 17. Conclusions, 136. Conductor, courses for apprentices, 68. Contract of employment at expiration of apprenticeship, 141-149. Cooperation, Pennsylvania Railroad and highschool at Altoona, Pa., 86; railroads with high schools, 78, 84, 88. Cooperative course, University of Cincinnati, 108. Cornell University, outline of courses, 113. Corporations, organization of, 127. Correspondence schools, courses for railroad service popular, 95; encouraged by railroads, 38, 89; method used by Union Pacific Railroad, 96; prepare for railroads, 88-104. Course of instruction, Altoona High School, Pa., 87; Cornell University, 113; Fitchburg school-shop, 85; for railroad service, 99, 106; Purdue University, 114; telegraphy, 76; Utica School of Railway Signaling, 90. Courses in engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 108. Efficiency, and compensation, 17-25; and prepara- Employees, clubs, object of, 28; prepared for higher service, 98; prospective, prepared for service, 98. Engineer, London, article from, 153. Engineering, railroad, 106, 115-130; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 108. European railroads, educational and welfare work, 152-155. Executive department, instruction for, 118. Expense of specialized railroad education, who should bear, 33–39. Experience, basis of recognition and privilege, 18; the best school, 134. Master mechanic's office, apprentices in, 66. Maxwell, Dr. William, idea of vocational work in schools, 35. Mechanical department, programme of, 82. Miles operated by each road, 140-149. N. New York Central Railway, apprenticeship of, 38, 44. New York Independent describes Boston and Main pension system, 24. 0. Operating and testing trains, synopsis of instruction in, 93-94. Operating department, instruction for, 81, 118. Operating officials, Union Pacific Railroad, proceedings of meeting, 99. Organization, corporate, 127; of railroads, and education, 11-14. P. Park, W. L., describes Union Pacific Railroad school, 96. Passenger service, instruction for, 121. Pennsylvania Railroad, cooperates with high school at Altoona, Pa., 86; installs machinery at Altoona high school, 38; special apprenticeship course, 57, 58. Pension system, improved method of Boston and Maine Railroad, 23. Preparation for railroad service, and efficiency, 9-17; by correspondence schools, 88-104. Programme, accounting and auditing department. 80; appliances and supply department, 81 bridges department, 83; car-building department, 82; construction department, 83; for special railroad trade school, 79; mechanical department, 82; motive-power department, 82; operating depart ment course, 81; roadway department, 83; signal department, 81; telegraphy course, 81; traffic department, 81; transportation course, 81. Promotion not based entirely on seniority of service, 21. Purdue University, cooperates with railroads, 38, courses of instruction, 114. Q. Qualifications for apprenticeship, educational, 14– 149. Questionnaire of Bureau of Education, 138. R. Railroad administration, schools of, 115–130. Railroad Age Gazette comments on railway oper ation, 27. Railroad careers, higher education for, 105. Railroad cooperation and educational experiments, 37. Railroad education, expense of, 33-39. Railroad engineering, Cornell University, 113: instruction in, 115–130. Railroad schools, vocational, 75. Railroad trade school, programme for, 79-83. Railway mechanics' association, rules of apprentice ship, 41-43. Reserve of ability, element of fitness, 22. Root, Oren, aims of Metropolitan Street Railway (N. Y.), 71. Rules for apprentices, 151, 152. Rules of apprenticeship, adopted by railway chanics' association, 41-43; New York Centra lines, 46. Russell, W. B., apprenticeship system considered 55. S. Salaries, relation to experience, 18. School, functions and methods, 73-75; railroad vocational, 75. Schools of instruction, 115. Seaboard Air Line Railway, apprenticeship rules, 152. Secondary vocational railroad schools, W. G. Berg on, 79. Seniority of service, not always basis of promotion, 21; relation to compensation, 18. Shopwork, instruction for, 120. Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering, 113. Signal department, programme of, 81; Utica Railway School, 90. Signal engineer's office, apprentice course, 68. Specialization of instruction for industries, how far to be carried, 35. Standards of efficiency, 131. Station service of railways, student course in, 64. Statistics of railway apprenticeship, 138-149. Stevens Institute cultural studies, 107. of Technology, vocational Store department, apprentice course, 69. Supervision of apprentices, 141-151. System of apprenticeship, New York Central, 44–56. T. Table, statistical, of railroad apprenticeship, 138-149. Technical instruction, and discipline, 29; and railroad service, 106, 115; apprentices in France, 153; graduates sought by railroads, 43; methods and suggestions, 31; vocational-cultural studies, 107. Telegraphy, Elmira School of, 76. Telegraphy department, course of, 81. Time basis of apprenticeship, 141-149. Trades, affected by division of labor, 23; subdivided minutely, 22. Traffic department, programme, 81; training for, 77. Train-master course for apprentices, 70. Train operation, instruction in, 94. Train rules, instruction in, 94; neglected, 30. Transportation, instruction in, 129; programme of, 81; school of, at McGill University, 117; Tuck School of Administration, 125. Tuck School of Administration, Dartmouth, 123-130. Tuttle, President, Boston and Maine Railroad, views of, 111. |