. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . h the last(lays report of the Heceivinp; A;eut. TheDaily Received Reports rendered by theReceiving Agents carry forward the totalsfrom the previous dates, the last daterc^jM-esenting the agents debit for themonth. On larger stations this tabula-tion is done in periods of ten days, toexpedite the work at the close of themonth. The totals of all local waybillsand^totals of all foreign w^aybills are thusascertained. The combined totals show road order—according to nurnlxis cuton cards in Mloute 1^ield. As the Road numbers for the variousforeign lines do n
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . h the last(lays report of the Heceivinp; A;eut. TheDaily Received Reports rendered by theReceiving Agents carry forward the totalsfrom the previous dates, the last daterc^jM-esenting the agents debit for themonth. On larger stations this tabula-tion is done in periods of ten days, toexpedite the work at the close of themonth. The totals of all local waybillsand^totals of all foreign w^aybills are thusascertained. The combined totals show road order—according to nurnlxis cuton cards in Mloute 1^ield. As the Road numbers for the variousforeign lines do not exceed three hgures,it is only necessary to run these cardsthrough the sorters three times, aridwhvn removed, they are in mnnericalorder. In the operation performed by thesorting machines, the cards are placed inthe macliine from the top and by re-ceived stations, and the machine beingelectrically operated, the cards pass indi-vidually through shdes in the top of themachine into the proper pockets shownin the center of 1 the station debit for the month of Mer-chandise Received Trafhc. After the foreign cards are run throughthe tabulator and a foreign total estab-lished, the cards are run through thesorting machine (see Figure 9), to sort in This work performed by this machinein sorting the cards is nothing short ofmarvelous, it^ capacity being 240 cardsj>er minute. Separate totals are obtained for eachforeign road to each receiving station. 16 HE BALTLAIORP: and OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE This must agree with previous total ob-tained in tabulating when cards for allroads were run through the tabulatorindiscriminately, before being placed inroad order. The totals are then ab-stracted on Memorandum Card (104-G, serted, which enables the operators tobring all the cards of the same stationaudit numbers together. After this procedure, local cards areagain run through the tabulating mach-ine, in order to determine totals between
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