The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-01

TO East Liberty. Lost on the roau.
No. If our employees attend to their
instructions it can not be lost, only
through shipwreck, and then, if in
sured, we make good the loss.
Il entered the service of this COM
pany over thirty years ago, when stage
coaches we're in common use and fire.
quently robbed. / had bag of gold
dust to take from a northern town into
Elmira, md put the dust into bottle
and placed it in nv outside coat pocket
in plain sight / filled the bag with
iron filings at the mill, and my friend
and myself laughed at an imaginary
robber finding bag full of iron filings.
We were not on the road an hour
when three men rode up from behind
and cleaned us out, particularly taking
my bottle and overlooking the bag.
The company made good the lost gold
dust, and never tried since to fool a
robber. l think my quondam friend
helped to work the game.
1--WE carry millions of money for the
Government, and have never lost 4
penny, except in case of wreck ana
fire, and then it was known what
money was burned, and it was easily
replaced. The other day we took eight
million dollars from Washington in
one lot and transported it to San
Francisco. Cal, and of course had no
more trouble than if it was one thousand
dollars.
1--WE operate some thirty-eight thou
sand miles of road in this country and
Canada. and ten times that amount
throughout the world, and the percent
age of the loss on goods in transit, or
total loss, has been for many years al
most nothing. There are fully fifteen
thousand men in our employ, includ-
ing all, from platform men to superin-
tendent, and we have the StricteSt kind
of civil service rules, every man being
promoted in the order of his seniority
| without regard to influence, and OBJ
! tanning promotion in no other way.
This is one reason why the express SER
vice is so efficient. for no man can
enter it on any other mans recon-
mendation and overstep another who
| has already served and is capacitated.
| We run ten thousand horses and eight
| thousand wagons of all STYLES and make
a speciality of raising horses particu-
| larlv fitted for our service. There is
| probably no private corporation in ex-
istence in which the detail is SO thor
| oughly arranged as ours and in which
a loss or delay can be so readily traced.
A feature in our history which proves
this is the total freedom from en-
bezzlement and defalcation among our
employees, which is accounted for by
the simple fact that they can not go
far without detection, and all trusted
employees are under an approved bond,
which is always responsible.
AT any one moment of the day or
night our company has millions of dol
lars worth of merchandise and val
uables in transit, and each morning.
with the regularity of clOckwork, we
are assured of safe. delivery and the
ceasing of responsibility by the COM
psny."
The great utility of express service
was shown while the reporter was in
the Office by young man entering,
rolling an immense bicycle before him.
which was booked, and taken to the
same train that carried him into the
country, and delivered at his hotel in
good order, for a price that seemed
ridiculous when compared with the
service rendered.
1--WE carry cats, dogs, mules, and
frequently valuable racing stock. We
have taken lunatics and convicts and
any number of babies; in fact, our
messengers are broken i'm on a milk
bottle, and can dance baby just like
real woman. Singular as it may
seem, we carry whole cities, too. hav-
ing sent three train loads of ready
made houses to point in Texas, and
followed them with the worldly goods
of those who were to occupy them
when built. The only time ever knew
the compsny's men to be knocked out
was when some fellow shipped Me-
phitis Americana on one of our cars
in New Hampshire. This animal had
been caught and chloroformed, and as
the train ratified on il came TO, and
shortly after the car was vacated and
all hands found lying on the roof gasp
ing for air. The station people were
about to attack us for having brought
sickness among them, and we had a
great time before we could make them
understand the case. The car and con-
tents were side-tracked and burned,
and we never knew who served us the
trick. "-PfttSburgh Dispatch.
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edward Bell, OF Merentn, DeIa-