. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . of 750. Whenthe drafts arefinally comple-ted, they aresent to the pay-master, who dis-tributes themin the mannerwith which youare all quitefamiliar. Youwill recall thatthere is seldoma variation of aday in paydayand then onlywhen a Sundayor holiday in-tervenes. You mightthink that, hav-ing audited therolls and prepar-ed, the drafts,the auditor hadcompleted hisjob. But suchis not the case,for,, when thedrafts comeback to ourtreasury from the banks which everjwhere have cashedthem, the auditor must verify the valueof each lot and on these verifications t
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . of 750. Whenthe drafts arefinally comple-ted, they aresent to the pay-master, who dis-tributes themin the mannerwith which youare all quitefamiliar. Youwill recall thatthere is seldoma variation of aday in paydayand then onlywhen a Sundayor holiday in-tervenes. You mightthink that, hav-ing audited therolls and prepar-ed, the drafts,the auditor hadcompleted hisjob. But suchis not the case,for,, when thedrafts comeback to ourtreasury from the banks which everjwhere have cashedthem, the auditor must verify the valueof each lot and on these verifications thetreasurer settles with the banks. Thenthe auditor checks the cancelled paydraftagainst the original payroll to see that theamount of the draft has not been tamperedwith and to furnish data for balancingour pa\Toll disbursements. And then wefile the drafts away and hope that wemay not have to disturb their repose untilthey are carted away to the maceratingmachine. Another feature of our work whichdoesnt attract a great deal of attention. ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN CAL^, but is very exacting is the preparation ofbills against other railroads for car repairwork performed for them and the checkingand vouchering of their bills for similarwork performed for us. This is what isknown in railroad parlance as M. C. The interchange of trafficbrings to our lines thousands of foreigncars and it is inevitable that some of these mustbreak down forone cause oranother whilein our posses-sion. We makethe necessaryrepairs to thisbroken equip-ment and if thefault is with theowner we areempowered tobill him for thecost. TheMas-terCarBuildersAssociation haselaborated acode of rulesunder whichthese bills areprepared andthis code isvery intricateindeed. An im-proper inter-pretation ofsome of therules would re-sult in seriousloss to the Com-pany and to avoid this we have thebills checked by men whose long years ofexperience with the rules make them ex-perts at the game. These men not onlycheck ou
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