1^ '^'^ %-^J^v% IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) ^^Jf 1.0 I.I bills ■ 50 ""'^ ill 1^ M 1.8 1.25 1.4 J4 -< ^ 6' — ^ % W4 O 7 x-w Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. I4S80 (716) 87i2-4503 ,\ ^q v ^9> V V ^ (/.I CIHM/iCMH Microfiche Series. CIHM/ICIVIH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions / Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques Technical and Bibliographic Notas/Notaa techniques et bibliographiques The Institute has attempted to obtain the best original copy available for filming. Features of this copy which may be bibliographically unique, which may alter any of the Images in the reproduction, or which may significantly change the usual method of filming, are checlced below. D Coloured covers/ Couverture de couieur □ Covers damaged/ Couverture endommagie r*n Covers restored and/or laminated/ Couverture restaur^ et/ou peiliculAe Cover title missing/ Le titre de couverture manque Coloured maps/ Cartes giographiques en couieur Coloured ink (i.e. other than blue or black)/ Encre de couieur (i.e. autre que bieua ou noire) Coloured plates and/or illustrations/ Planches et/ou illustrations en couieur Bound with other material/ ReliA avec d'autres documents D n Tight binding may cause shadows or distortion along interior margin/ La re liure serree peut causer de I'ombre ou de la distorsion l« long de la marge intirieura Blank leaves added during restoration may appear within the text. Whenever possible, these have been omitted from filming/ II se peut que certaines pages blanches ajouties lors d'une restauration apparaissent dans le texte. mais. lorsque cela itait possible, ces pages n'ont pas ^ti filmAes. L'Institut a microfilmd le meilleur exemplaire qu'il lui a ^ti possible de se procurer. Les details de cet exemplaire qui sont peut-itre uniques du point de vue bibliographique, qui peuvent modifier une image reproduite, ou qui peuvent exigar une modification dans la methods normale de filmage sont indiqu6s ci-dessous. T ti r***l Coloured pages/ Pages de couieur Pages damaged/ Pages endommagies Pages restored and/oi Pages restaur^es et/ou pelliculies Pages discoloured, stained or foxei Pages dAcolories, tachities ou piquies Pages detached/ Pages ditachies Showthrough/ Transparence Quality of prin Qualiti inAgale de {'impression Includes supplementary materia Ccmprend du materiel supplementaire Only edition available/ Seule Edition disponible I — I Pages damaged/ I I Pages restored and/or laminated/ r^l Pagss discoloured, stained or foxed/ I I Pages detached/ FT] Showthrough/ j I Quality of print varies/ I I Includes supplementary material/ r~n Only edition available/ T P o fi G b tl si o f] si o 11 si Tl w IVI di er b« ril re m □ Pages wholly or partially obscured by errata slips, tissues, etc., have been refilmed to ensure the best possible image/ Les pages totalement ou partiellement obscurcies par un feuillet d'errata. une pelure, etc., ont M filmdes d nouveau de fapon i obtenir la meilleure image possible. Q Additional comments:/ Commentaires suppldmentaires; [Printed ephemera] 1 sheet (verso blank) This item is filmed at the reduction ratio checked below/ Ce document est filmi au taux de reduction indiqui ci-dessous. 10X 14X 18X 22X 2ex 30X y mm^-WM 12X 16X 2QV 14 V 2SX 32X Th« copy filmed her* has b««n r«produc«d thanks to tha ganarosity of: D. B. Weldon Library University of Western Ontario (Regional History Room) Tha imagaa appaaring hara ara tha bast quality possibia considaring tha condition and lagibility of tha original copy and in Icaaping with tha filming contract spacificationa. Original copias in printad papar covars ara fitmad beginning with tha front covar and ending on tha last page with a printad or illustrated imprea- sion, or the bacic covar whan appropriate. All other originel copies ara filmed beginning on the first page with a printad or illuatratad Imprea- sion. and ending on tha last page with a printad or illustrated impreasion. Tha last recorded frame on each microfiche shall contain tha symboi --^(meening "COt^- TINUED"). or the symbol V (meening "END"), whichever applies. Maps, plates, charts, etc.. mey be filmed at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one expoaura are filmed beginning in the upper left hand comer, left to right and top to bottom. «s many frames as required. The following diagrama illustrate the method: L'exempiaire filmA fut reproduit grAce i la giniroaiti da: D. B. Weldon Library University of Western Ontario (Regional History Room) Lea images suivantas ont it* raprodiiites avec ie plus grand soin, compta tenu de la condition at da la natteti da l'exempiaire film*, at m conformiti avec lee conditiona du contrat da filmaga. Lea axemplairee origineux dont la couvarture an papier eat imprimie sont filmte en commenqant par la premier plat at an tarminant soit par la darniire page qui comporte une ampreinta d'Impraaaion ou d'llluatration, soit par la second plat, selon Ie eaa. Tous lee autras axampiairas origineux sont filmis 9n commandant par la pramiAre page qui comporte une amprainte d'impraeaion ou d'llluatration at an tarminant par la darnlAre page qui comporte une telle empreJnte. Un dee symbolas suivants apparaitra sur la damlAre imege de cheque microfiche, selon la caa: la symbols — »> signifie "A SUIVRE", Ie symbols V signifie "FIN". Lee cartes, pianchas. tableaux, etc., pauvent dtra fiimte i dee taux de rMuetion diffirants. Lorsque ie document est trop grand pour dtra reproduit en un saul clichi. il aat film* i partir da i'angia supiriaur gauche, de gauche h droite. et de haut un baa, •n prenant Ie nombra d'Imegea nicassaire. lias diagrammes suivants iliustrent la mithode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 Grand Trunk Railway System OFFICE OF GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT Montreal, April ist, 1898. CIRCULAR No. 23. To insure improved efficiency in train service and provide an additional safeguard against accident, affording greater security to life and property, this Company will inaugurate a system of watch inspection, EFFECTIVE MAY 1st, 1898, and employees designated below are required, on and after that date, to submit their watches for quarterly examination and for weekly comparison with standard time to the various Inspectors, who have been appointed for the purpose, and will be under the general supervision of Prof. C. H. McLeod, of McGill Univer- sity, Montreal, who has been appointed Superintendent of Time Service and Watch Inspection. All train and enginemen must submit their watches to Local Inspectors as required by this rule. The minimum standard of excellence adopted by this Company, for watches, is of a grade equal to what is known among American movements as seventeen (17) jewel, patent regulator, adjusted to temperature, the variations of which must not exceed 30 seconds per week. Eaeli eiiiployco (Insigrnated will apply Immediately, and every three months hereafter, to his superior olBcer for a blank certlflcate and order for examination, which he mnst take, together with his watch, to the Local Inspector, who will, 11 the watch Is satisfactory, sign the certificate and forward the same to the oftlcer under whom the person Is employed, free of charge to such employee. If the watch Is below the required standard it will be rejected, and the officer in charge promptly advised. Any watch so rtyected cannot be used In service, nor passed upon by another inspector except upon order <»f the Superintendent of Time Service. Employees, where no Inspector Is located, may send their watches, together with blank certificate, to the nearest Local Inspector. IN AOOITION TO THE QUARTERLY EXAMINATION, TRAINMEN AND EN- OINEMEX MUST SUBMIT THEIR WATCHES TO LOCAL INSPECTORS WEEKLY FOR COMPARISON WITH STANDARD TIME, as must also other employees who have the opportunity for doing so. that a record of the rating of their watches may be made. Employees in the train service who fail to submit their watches lor weekly comparison and quarterly inspection, in accordance with the terms of this circu- lar, will be considered as having violated the rules of the service, lor which satisfactory reason must be given. When watches need cleaning or repairing they may be left with the Inspector, if the owner so desires, or they may be taken to such watch maker as the owner may select ; but the watch carried in the meantime, and his own watch after the same has been repaired, must be submitted to the Company's Inspector for examination and approval before such watch can be carried in service. When watches are left with the Inspectors of the Company to be cleaned or repaired, a standard watch will be loaned to the employee until his own is returned. Employees who so desire can obtain standard watches, guaranteed to give the required performance, from the Inspectors on monthly payments, as may be agreed upon, not however, exceeding four in number, or $20.00, the amount of such monthly payments to be deducted from the pay-roll. The officers having direct charge of employees, who arc subject to the above provisions, will see that certificates of the quarterly examination of watches are filed with them for watches of employees under their charge, who are subject to the rules of watch inspection, and such officers in all departments will be held responsible for the collection and filing of watch certi- ficates. Trainmasters must require Conductors and Ikakcmen, and Master Mechanics must require Engineers to turn in, regul.irl)', certificates of weekly comparison of their watches, and will enter in records to be kept for the purpose, the dates, when such certificates are received. Employees whose watches do not conform to the required standard will be given until June 1st, 1898, to provide themselves with standard watches, as on and after that date all employees subject to the provisions of this circular must be provided with standard watches, and the quarterly certificates to that effect must be in the hands of the officers to whom they report. The hearty co-operation of employees in making the operation of the system successful is earnestly enjoined. The desired results can only be obtained by observing carefully the rules as to inspection and comparison, and refraining from any attempt to set or regulate their watches themselves. Approved, General Superintendent.