Proceedings of the Stated Meeting held Wednesday, October 18, 1911

✍ Scribed by R.B. Owens

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1911
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 45 KB
• Volume: 172
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(11)90224-5

✦ Synopsis

Additions to membership since last report, IO. The amendment to the By-laws relating to the election of the Board of Trustees, presented at the September meeting, was unanimously adopted.

Following the meeting of the Institute for the transaction of this business, a joint meeting was held with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Mr. Walton Clark, President of the Institute, and Mr. T. C. McBride, Chairman of the Philadelphia Section, jointly presiding, at which an important paper on " The Practical Application of Scientific Management to Railway Operation" was read by Mr. Wilson E. Symons, of Chicago. Mr. Symons dealt exhaustively with the subject of railway economics and the practical application of scientific methods to railway work, especially in the repair and motive power departments of railroads.

An interesting discussion followed the reading of the paper, in which the following gentlemen took part: Messrs.