. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . 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 fo
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . 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. FIGURE Figure 1), and summaries prepared onspecial blanks for balancing Memorandum Cards (104-G) aresubsequently turned over to the Inter-line Department with all the foreign per-forated cards for check against the Inter-line Abstracts compiled b}^ the Elliott-Fisher operators. The local cards for each receivingStation are then run through the ^sort-ers (see Figure 9), and as the higheststation audit number does not exceedfour figures, the cards are run throughthe machine only four times. After thisoperation, the cards are in exact stationorder, on forwarded basis, numericallyarranged. The perforated cards for eachforwarded station are then separated byuse of a long needle, assembling the vol-ume of tabulating cards bearing thesame forwarded audit number. Needlesare run through the perforations in thecards until they meet resistance, and arethen withdrawn and an index card in- each forwarded station and each re-ceiving station. These totals are in-serted on Memorandum Car
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