. The Street railway journal . RECEIVING AND DELIVERING ROOM delivery an itemized entry is made in a triplicating book,whose pages are numbered consecutively. The original iskept by the storekeeper and the two duplicates are sentwith the goods to the department ordering the is signed and returned, making a receipt for the safearrival of the material, and the other is retained by the re-cipient. Most of the deliveries are made by trolley freight. STOREROOM FOR HEAVY MATERIAL car, and the motorman is required to sign for all packagesreceived. The accounting part proper—that is, the
. The Street railway journal . RECEIVING AND DELIVERING ROOM delivery an itemized entry is made in a triplicating book,whose pages are numbered consecutively. The original iskept by the storekeeper and the two duplicates are sentwith the goods to the department ordering the is signed and returned, making a receipt for the safearrival of the material, and the other is retained by the re-cipient. Most of the deliveries are made by trolley freight. STOREROOM FOR HEAVY MATERIAL car, and the motorman is required to sign for all packagesreceived. The accounting part proper—that is, the portion of thework that is purely clerical—is much simplified by thesepreliminary checks and cross-checks. The copying book-wherein are registered the original requisitions in numer-ical order, is, of course, in a way the foundation of the sys-tem. The plan of using different colored pencils for dif-ferent classes of entries has been adopted in this connec-tion, so that but two or three remarks written across thepage of the requisition book tell the whole history of theorder. Thus, when a bill has been sent out to the depart-ment ordering the goods, the amount and date are writtenon the requisition copy in red; and, later, when certified by 44 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. i. the division superintendent or head of department, theamount and date are written in blue immediately below thered memorandum. The amount is repeated, as quite fre-
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