. Why freight is lost or damaged . show shipping marks on thearticle itself. When they areused they should be madepreferably of linen or strongmanilla paper, with a rein-forced eyehole, and attached to the article by a wire string, or sewed to it,or securely tacked—one tack in each corner and the fifth in the middle,using broad-head tacks to prevent tearing. Linen tags should always beuied on shipments of iron articles, especially small pipe and castings, whichare too small to be marked with marking brush or stencil. I have seenshipments of iron bars one inch in diameter plainly stencilled. Nu
. Why freight is lost or damaged . show shipping marks on thearticle itself. When they areused they should be madepreferably of linen or strongmanilla paper, with a rein-forced eyehole, and attached to the article by a wire string, or sewed to it,or securely tacked—one tack in each corner and the fifth in the middle,using broad-head tacks to prevent tearing. Linen tags should always beuied on shipments of iron articles, especially small pipe and castings, whichare too small to be marked with marking brush or stencil. I have seenshipments of iron bars one inch in diameter plainly stencilled. Number six represents a bale of hay which is evidently traveling on itsshape, as there are no shipping marks attached to it in any manner. Now, there are various kinds and qualities of hay. The average shipperships any kind or quality as a bale of hay, and it is so written on theway-bill. When a local freight train rolls up to a station and has been losingtime, as is its usual habit, the conductor, hurriedly glancing over the way-. Number Five 8 Why Freight is Lost or Damaged bills, sees there is a bale to be unloaded for John Smith. The car door isopened and the conductor sees three bales, and as all bales look alike tohim he unloads the handiest one and away he goes. A little further downthe road he unloads a second bale for Bill Jones, and before reaching theend of the run he unloads the last for Tom Johnson. Now, in this special episodeJohn Smith ordered a bale of num-ber one timothy, and when he re-ceived a bale of number two, hewas mad clear through, thoughtthe shipper was trying to cheathim, and so wrote him. Bill Joneshad ordered a bale of number twotimothy and got the bale of cloverthat Tom Johnson ordered, andwhen Tom got the bale of timothythat John Smith ordered both werehotter than hornets and took toletter writing ; and before the affairwas over everybody, including theclaim agent, had hay fever—allarising from the lack of properlymarked bales. Some shippers of
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