The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-03-30
TOPEkANS were THERE
Many Local Santa Fe Officials at
Damage Meeting.

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway company's semi-annual loss
and damage meeting at San Diego last
week was an event OF Importance. ac-
cordinr to the California newspapers
which printed the proceedings In de-
tail.
The Sun. which handles everything
i'm a light vein, gave Patrick Waisn'
Of Topeka, general baggage agent. TINS
paragraph: 'Mr. Walsh has held hts Job
with the Santa Fee IS years. When ne
started to work, that kind OF agents
were known as baggage smashers. AS q
result of efficiency methods. Mr.. Walsh
explains, trunks, grips. suitcases and
such things now are deposited on the
platform in perfectly ladylike manner.
and not thrown beyond the right OF
way, as the funny papers lead US to
believe was done in days Of ole"
The Los Angeles Times printed a
Kansas wheat report, showing that the
prospects for big crop In the Sum
hower state this year are excellent. the
story developed in a discussion OF grain
shipments at the loss and damage meet
ing AS thousands of carloads of farm
products go from Kansas, Oklahoma
and the Arkansas valley Of Colorado
to California markets, A. M. Rein
hardt, Of Los Angeles, assistant gen.
eral freight agent Of the Santa Fe. ask
ed for information about prospects, and
it was given by General Supt. r.
J. Parker. OF Topeka, Assistant General
Freight Agent ]. C. Burnett OF Topeka.
General Superintendent Edward Ray
mond of Newton, and other officials
from the territory named.
There were more than 100 Santa Fe
officials at the loss and damage meeting,
every division OF the system being rep
resented. Forty-nine subjects were
considered. Plans were devised to fur
Their reduce the loss and damage item.
among them, the following:
Urge closer cooperation Of railway
companies and steamship lines.
Urge closer cooperation between
shipper and carrier.
Give expert advice to shippers re-
garding methods Of packing, loading,
slowing, bracing and unloading freight
when requested to do so.
Bring to the attention OF shippers
organizations matters Of general inter-
est regarding freight handling.
Specialize the difficulties attending
each commodity, to the end that causes
contributing to depreciation In value
during transit may be found and dealt
with in a practical manner.
Rigid inspection Of freight at ter
minals and transfer points.
Handle cars more carefully in yards
and ON the line.
The following statement also was
0oOPSC&As II 10 SIdIlAyluS u tAC Santa
Ee management that the company's
customers generally are in sympathy
with these efforts, and a large majority
of them have expressed themselves as
pleased with the information which is
constantly reaching them, believing
that the campaign is in the interest of
all concerned-producer, shipper, car
rier, receiver and consumer"
Six Topeka officials were on the pro-
gram-R. ]. Parker, general superin-
tendent; j. c.. Burnett, assistant gen.
eral freight agent; H. C. Pribble,
freight claim auditor; T. 8. Stevens,
signal engineer; ]. H. McGoff. mechan-
ical superintendent. and Charles N.
Swanson, superintendent of car shops.
j. D. NJ. Hamilton, claims attorney,
was not on the regular program, but
as he was in San Diego, he accepted an
invitation to address the meeting about
the work of the safety depart
ment. He said that in the two years in
which the safety campaign had been in
progress, the number of personal in
juries had been reduced 20 per cent,
while the number of fatal accidents to
employees had decreased 30 per cent.
Other TOpekans at the meeting were
p. Walsh, general baggage agent; J. r.
FARRELL, publicity agent; George Soren-
son. local agent: w. ]. Muenich, chief
Of the loss and damage bureau: w. D.
Osborne. travelling car inspector, and
r. j. Greene, secretary to the general
superintendent. Messrs Hamilton and
FARRELL returned home today. The 9TH
era will return in tho woek