Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-06-25
LOSSES OF FREIGHT.
CLAIMS THAT ARE MADE AGAINST
A RAILROAD COMPANY.


ANY trouble in identifying applicants a
proper owners Of the baggage claimeiN
"Not particularly. Our most frequent
trouble is the adjustment Of false claims
We can tell by n persons manner whether
the claim is "a just one or not Take the pro
fessional swiudlcr, for instance. Besides hav.
ing brusgue manner, his claim is made in
an indefinite way as 10 number Of check
style Of package and the contents thereof
The true claimIGt-tao person who has really
los. something respectful and anxious
bearing lie invariably gives an accurate
/ description Of the lost parcel, and is very
slow with threats of suit tO recover dam
ages"
/ "l suppose That overshoos and umbrellas
/ are the articles most frequently left in carsf'
"No more frequent than small parcels Of
clothing, sbawls and small valises, but. as |
cay, these ar, always quickly claimed 1t is
wliH fraudulent claims for lost baggage that
we have the most experience
FRAUDULENT CLAIMS.
"Whnt are the fraudulent methods"
"Most numerous, and some Of them, most
ridiculous. Now here's an old claim which,
while not fraudulent, is worthless and most
bun headed. Several weeks since a barrel Of
whisky anda case Of canned goods were ship
pcl 20 grocer in the interior OF the state.
About the time OF the shipment the grocer
died. Immediately, his entire stock was taken
by a wholesale grocer who had Chattel
mortgage thereon and so without leaving a
family or any property, he was buried. There
was uo estate and accordingly no executor.
Meanwhile the goods shipped over our road
lay In the freight house, there being no one
% deliver them to / notified tho shipper of
the situation and ho replies 10y saying that
olr company must keep the goods and that
hu viii hold MS responsible therefor
81 had a travelling man try to get GSj out
Of MS for damage done 30 a pair of very raro
aud fine window curtains. Damage done, as
ue claimed, by snow melting through his
sample case, which had been curoossiy
dumped I'm a snow bank by one of our bag
gugcmen and so staining the curtains
Had the sample case been so dumpedN
Possibly Az least we didn't dis ute tnut
feature OF the claim. All we asked was chat
be present receipt from his employees
showing that ho had paid them, as Au
claimed, the So for damage done, and which
he had 90 mako good 20 his firm lie failed TO
produce the receipt, and so, of his own vol.
tion, the case was dropped.
Another case came from man who pat
In "A claim for So for now castings and fIr....t
thereon, and S25O for labor in putting .ra
into a stove shipped over our road and broken
while In transit | investigated the case uud
found that u leg had hoen broken out of t.,
stove and that the man had, instond OF g,.
ting new castings, paid village backsu.,
tlaJ Tor rNyuug the old lex back g.. i-|
place Nu now casting had been buurt..
freight had been paid, and the entire Cos.
him had hcvu less than S3, Yet Lo cl
500 from us
1--WE had another case where one of u,
agents delivered some freight with an e.
peuse bin calling for eleven cu.ts of Euu.
but ton casts showed up, and the parllt,
whom the goods wore delivered, vhl.t o.,
s,amgl surprised at tho deficiency, at u..
vNI lumyi chat tho missing case co.... q,
'uuul.s, % silk drys5 Nui moro books r
was thcIr worry indefinite inventory, ami tE
stuck tu 10 quite firmly Investigation SHOW.
that but tom casos had been ship,ed, that %.
agent had ruaGa a mistake on his WAY '.l|
and so on the expense hll and hallly tr.tl
tuy people az last confessed that tnyy ha.lJ
lost $50 much Cs tia spoon OK tLyr Lyus,- |
hold guols salppyA'
SOLD AT AUCTION.
"Whpt becomes OF lost freight n,vcg /
"Wo s,ll 10 ut auction. Il seldom has any |
value yAevg, 60 tho rag and junk dealers OF !
course We s,,l packages according 20 the way I
in which they aro llilol We cannot toll as .
to thyir value Ouco in whilo "a purchaser .
sets nicely t-kvn iu. p'culIyct at one OF /
oar S,'ys we got Sli t,y a large crate bluyd /
'crgy.yey' A we'll known physical was tho /
purchaser aul when the crato was opened 10 /