. Electric railway journal . ce involves very careful checking to verify de-liveries and to protect shortages and overs. TheEgry system provides the necessary safeguards. Theterm foreign lines applies where agents are locatedto receive and deliver the freight. Records are preserved in the billing office for threeyears, and are then transferred to a less accessible pointwhere they are stored for five years more. The delivery records are kept in pasteboard boxes,and the car tallies, way bills and all other records ex-cept correspondence are filed in binders. In filing thetallies and other record
. Electric railway journal . ce involves very careful checking to verify de-liveries and to protect shortages and overs. TheEgry system provides the necessary safeguards. Theterm foreign lines applies where agents are locatedto receive and deliver the freight. Records are preserved in the billing office for threeyears, and are then transferred to a less accessible pointwhere they are stored for five years more. The delivery records are kept in pasteboard boxes,and the car tallies, way bills and all other records ex-cept correspondence are filed in binders. In filing thetallies and other records a binding machine made bythe McBee Binder Company, Athens, Ohio, is permits the sheet to be bound permanently andinexpensively by a clerk entirely unfamiliar with book-binding. The appearance of the bound records is veryneat and they are readily accessible, as is seen in thephotograph of the billing office. A fair average months business in the billing depart-ment on incoming freight runs about 14,000 pieces. The. FREIGHT AGENTSecond Floor MOTORMEN & rl//J% CONDUCTORS ^^^ ■ ■ — Basement Plan FLOOR AND BASEMENT PLANS, EDDY STREETFREIGHT HOUSE Egry billing on the local lines averages about 13,000way bills per month. Twenty-four thousand pieces ofmanifest billing is an average months work. The billing office works in two shifts of nine hourseach. The shifts are so arranged that one clerk reportsat 2 and works until The night clerk reportsat and is relieved by an early shift at The office is open day and night except Sundaysthe year round, as is the freight house also. Freight Department is Enthusiastic OverIts Business A. E. Paddock, general freight agent the RhodeIsland Company, is a firm believer in the future of thefreight business for electric railways. He has hadorepared the accompanying chart of data summarizingthe growth of this department. He finds that the supe-rior quality of service furnished by the electric lines isg
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