. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . AN AUTUMN SONNET By LOUIS M. GRICE Summer lies dead; the year is growing old;Sumptuous yet sad-eyed Autumn weaves her gownOf crimson, yellow, orange and russet-brown,As leaves, deciduous, bestrew the wold;And, lo! beyond the gleam of red and gold,The face of Winter, neath an icy crown,Threatening, sternly sets in frigid frown,Lined with dull desolation, grim and cold! Recurrent death! thy shadow is oercast;Escape we cannot; tis our mortal doom:Yet, through the shrilling of the biting blastThat strikes with death the last belated bloom,I hear a spring s


. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . AN AUTUMN SONNET By LOUIS M. GRICE Summer lies dead; the year is growing old;Sumptuous yet sad-eyed Autumn weaves her gownOf crimson, yellow, orange and russet-brown,As leaves, deciduous, bestrew the wold;And, lo! beyond the gleam of red and gold,The face of Winter, neath an icy crown,Threatening, sternly sets in frigid frown,Lined with dull desolation, grim and cold! Recurrent death! thy shadow is oercast;Escape we cannot; tis our mortal doom:Yet, through the shrilling of the biting blastThat strikes with death the last belated bloom,I hear a spring song echoing from the past,And Hope with splendor spears the gatheringgloom!. Daily System of Freight Accounting With Use of Labor-Saving Devices By J. P. OMalley Auditor Merchandise Receipts il T will, undoubtedly, be of greatinterest, especially to freightagents and cashiers on our Sys-tem, to know how the numerousreports they furnish the auditor arehandled and revenue accounted for. The age of progress in which we areliving, has suggested to the executivesof all railroads the necessity for more up-to-date methods of railroad a consequence, many railroads haveadopted the Daily System of Account-ing, with the use of electrical mechanicaldevices, to expedite the handling of theirnumerous accounts and simplify theduties of freight agents. On July 1, 1911, this Company, to-gether with several others, adopted asystem of accounting, whereby the rev-enue accrual could be accounted for on adaily basis. Previous to July 1, 1911, a monthlysystem of accounts prevailed, whichproved inadequate to meet the require-ments of railroad executives. With the daily


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