Sold only by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Director, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.. JULIUS KLEIN. Director, Bureau of Standards___. Commissioner of Fisheries__- Commissioner of Lighthouses__ GEORGE K. BURGESS. HENRY O'MALLEY. GEORGE R. PUTNAM. Director, Coast and Geodetic Survey-. Supervising Inspector General, Steamboat Inspection Service_ Commissioner of Patents---- Director, Bureau of Mines___ E. LESTER JONES. DAVID B. CARSON. GEORGE ÜHLER. THOMAS E. ROBERTSON SCOTT TURNER. II Part I.-PROGRESS IN ELIMINATION OF WASTE Elimination of waste in railway transportation----. Elimination of waste through enlarged electrification___ Statistics as a force in the elimination of waste-- Elimination of waste in processes-- Elimination of waste in the construction industries.... Reduction in seasonal character of the industry_-_ Establishing standards of grades and quality in the lumber industry_ Tests of building materials‒‒‒‒‒ Simplification of dimensions____. Municipal building and plumbing codes and zoning ordinances_. Development of construction statistics_- Eliminating waste by simplified practice---. Specifications and business documentation___ Elimination of waste in distribution___. District and cooperative offices. Foreign service division... Cooperation with other departments... Standardization work.. Recommendations..... BUREAU OF STANDARDS... General activities. National Screw Thread Commission.. Federal Specifications Board.......... National Directory of Commodity Spe fications. Treatise on specifications... Household specifications..... COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY Hydrographic and topographic surveys.... Atlantic and Gulf coasts.. Pacific coast.. Alaska... Outlying possessions... Work in progress at the end of the fiscal year.... Importance of instrument work. Geodetic work accomplished.. Temple Act surveys.... Reduction of field records. Magnetic and seismological work. Magnetic survey of Alaska. Seismology. Tide and current observations. The Delaware Bay current and tidal sur- vey... Current survey, southeastern Alaska.... Investigation of Gulf stream.. Cooperation with other agencies in tide and current work... Division of accounts... Charts and publications.. Legislation needed.. Additional vessels.. Sanitation of buildings.. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. Navigation laws.. Load line......... Reorganization of maritime bureaus and activities.... Radio service.... Enforcement of navigation laws. Shipping commissioners.... Preventing overcrowding of passenger vessels. Passenger act of 1882. Navigation receipts.. Navigation appropriations.. Publications............. STEAMBOAT INSPECTION SERVICE... Inclining tests.. Legislation.. Reclassification.. Personnel. Statistics.. PATENT OFFICE.. Recommendations... INTER AMERICAN HIGH COMMISSION.. |