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June, 1910 work is to be repaired, etc.; a specimen repair job order is shown in Fig. 8 It is obvious that considerable benefit ac- crues from having the estimate made by one other than the man who does the work. The money spent for this esti- mator is very well invested. Charging Time. In Fig. rack, holding a JOB O94 no._V6. 5, above the instruction card will be seen a pair of hooks each or service, number of time, OBJECT _ pars _M1lty 2 (F160. | CHECK No. (o 230 NAME BAN coed Sse HOURS a OTA Be eens APPROVED BY:- (ENTER BUT ONE JOB ORDER ON EACH CARD) Fig. 9--Time CaArp. cards, a specimen of which is shown in Fig. 9. The blank cards are right above the instruction card; the workman can- not make a mistake in charging his time. These cards, collected during the last hour of the day, must be certified as to correctness by the foreman, and sent to the accounting office, where the charges are located to the job orders, for record. Future Development. Many superintendents and managers hold that orgatiization and systems like this are too complex, too much involved with paper work; but most of us are Swinging into line. The present results of this systematization are gratifying, and the future is one of great promise. Development for the immediate future must lie in the line of faster and more efficient work obtained by better plan- ning, better co-ordination, and closer Supervision; and later by the adoption of a premium, or task and bonus, sys- tem of wage payment. Time studies of the building operations are now being TAE MARINE REVIEW made, and building job orders are di- vided into their basic operations for the better isolation and analysis of the costs, with this end in view. There will come also the same method of pay- 245 ment for repair work; the problem is more difficult than in the case of build- ing jobs, but its solution only depends on the accummulation and application of propér data. Honor to Admiral Melville aS the recent meeting of the Amer- ican Society of Mechanical En- gineers at Atlantic City, N. J., June 1, 2 and 3, honorary membership in the so- ciety was conferred on Rear-Admiral Geo. W. Melville, U.S. Navy, retired. Although the society has a very large membership, the honorary members have been few in number and the rules of the society provide that the ballot must be a unani- mous expression of the entire member-_ ship. President Westinghouse said: 'This is an occasion of very, very great pleasure to me, to be president of this society at this time, and to have the opportunity of presenting to Admiral Melville a certificate of honorary membership in the American Society of Mechanical En- gineers. a great many years, and I know no man more worthy of the honor to be con- ferred tonight than he is. We welcome him into the society as an honorary member with a very great deal of pleas- ure." (Applause. ) Admiral Melville: "Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, it pleases me to say how appreciative I am of the honor con- ferred on me this evening. I am an old hand at this sort of thing, having been in active life for fifty years, having had all the honors my government could give me, and I have been knighted in - foreign lands, yet I assure you there is no honor that has come to me so much appreciated as the present one, because it is of my own kind, my own people, my fellow men who are bestowing it on me. We are the working men of the world, who make the wheels go round, build the ships and build the railroads, and I am_prouder of this honor than any other honor that has ever been con- ferred upon me." Sir William White's Remarks. Sir William White, for many years constructor-in-chief of the British navy, who was present as a guest, was invited by President Westinghouse to express himself as an old acquaintance of Ad- iral Melville, and said: "It is a great pleasure to me to be here tonight and share with you.the honor and pleasure of welcoming Admiral Melville as an honorary member of this society. The admiral has spent many long years of I have known the admiral for hard work in the service of his country. Well, what that means. there are others of us who know It does not mean fortune, it does not mean fame, and I suppose those who have served their country must be content to feel that they have done their duty, and after all that is the noblest thing of all, but when from those competent to judge, as this society is competent to judge, there comes an unsought acknowledg- ment of merit and of arduous service, such as the admiral has so properly and fittingly received tonight, then I can un- ° derstand his feelings. I can understand that he was utterly overcome by the emotion of his heart, when he said that such an honor as has come to him .to- night is that which he Bee in the very highest rank. "There is an old anne that was uttered by some high authority, that a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and it is perfectly true, very often, that a better apprecia- tion of what a man is worth is made by those who are further off from.him than by those amongst whom he lives. It is what artists call perspective. We grow accustomed to the good qualities of those with whom we are constantly in contact, and lose the sense of how great or worthy a man may be, because we are always meeting him and expect- ing him to do things that are great and noble and good. We do not take ac- count of the fact that they are being done, until something happens to bring it to our notice in a startling fashion, and not infrequently it is only when there comes the loss of what we have taken for granted and looked for every day and every moment of a man's life, the loss that comes with his death, that the people wake up to the fact that they have been living in the presence of a man altogether exceptional and out of the common rank and file. Never Flinched From Duty. "Now, it is not for me, in some sense a stranger, and yet in another not a stranger here, to attempt to praise the character and work of Admiral Mel- ville, but this I do know, that all his life long he has never flinched from duty, and that all the time he has been