. Electric railway journal . gents office and underhis direction. The system of accounting is built around the use ofunit system single waybills, made in five copies at onewriting on a billing machine, distributed as follows:Copy No. 1 is used for making forwarded reports, andis sent to the auditor; copy No. 2 is the freight receiptand accompanies the goods; copy No. 3 is the freightbill for collection; copy No. 4 is the waybill and is for-warded to the reporting station under cover, fromwhich the received report is made, and copy No. 5 isthe forwarding office copy, filed in numerical
. Electric railway journal . gents office and underhis direction. The system of accounting is built around the use ofunit system single waybills, made in five copies at onewriting on a billing machine, distributed as follows:Copy No. 1 is used for making forwarded reports, andis sent to the auditor; copy No. 2 is the freight receiptand accompanies the goods; copy No. 3 is the freightbill for collection; copy No. 4 is the waybill and is for-warded to the reporting station under cover, fromwhich the received report is made, and copy No. 5 isthe forwarding office copy, filed in numerical reports are forwarded to the auditor and a balanceis made monthly. Reports for the whole line are made only at desig-nated stations, which are the larger points, seven innumber. The waybill shows the point on which a ship-ment is to be billed for reporting, also the point ofactual destination, the latter point being the destinationof the goods to which the rate is shown. The billing point is determined through the use of. First Floor Plan Second Floor Plan BUILDING UP A FREIGHT BUSINESS—PLANS OF HEAD HOUSE OF FREIGHT TERMINAL IN PORTLAND, ME., C C. P & L. CO. March 11, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 489 the next reporting station beyond the actual destina-tion of goods. The practice does away with the delayand errors experienced in securing reports from agents,who in smaller towns cannot devote all of their time tothe freight business, having other work to do. It alsopermits the company to maintain agencies at a smallexpense, which could not be done if numerous reportswere required from the man in charge of the station. New Facilities for Handling Freight As the business has developed the need for stations,sidings and cars became pressing and, as the childseemed worthy of its keep, the company dealt gener-ously with the freight department. The car equipmentand other facilities have been greatly increased, in-cluding the building of new freight houses in Lewiston,Augusta,
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