St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-09-27
U. S. RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION
ASKS COOPERATION
BY SHIPPERS.

Walker D. Hines, Director General
Of Railroads, authorizes the follow
ing statement, asking the further CO.
operation of shippers and receivers
OF freight in promoting freight car
efficiency:
During the war, no one was more
: patriotirally helpful than the Ameri-
, can shipper. With zeal and ettici-
ency he did his part in the common
cause.
, THE Railroad Admin ration had
excellent opportunity to observe this
attitude during the war and has ap-
preciated heartily tbs subsequent
} continued cooperation Of the great
majority of the shippers.
"The time has now come for re-
newed efforts by both the Railroad
Administration and the shippers and
receivers of freight SO that the ma
tons transportation service may be
, rendered with the greatest satisfac-
, ton possible under the circum-
Stances.
AN unusually heavy grain and
coal movement, deferred repair and
the construction of public highways
in all sections Of the country and the
concentrated requirements of sud-
denly reviving business, combined
with the usual transportation re-
quirements at this time of the year,
threaten serious lack of Transport
tation facilities unless all parties in
tereste Incorporate in securing the
greatest possible utility from the ex-
listing limited transportation facili-
ties.
In this connection attention Is in
vited 10 the following extract from
recent public statement of the
President:
1--WE have now got to do nothing
less than bring our Industries and
our labor of every kind back to a
normal basis after the greatest up
heavel known to history, aud the
winter just ahead of US may bring
suffering infinitely greater than the
war brought upon us if we blunder
or fail in the process. An admir-
able spirit of self-sacrifice, of patri-
otto devotion and of community ac-
ton guided and inspired by US while
the fighting was on. We shall need
all these now, and need them in a
heightened degree, if we are to &C
complisl the first tasks Of peace
THE Railroad Administration will
do it's full part. The Car Service
Section in Washington and the vari-
Gus regional organizations are striv-
ing earnestly to secure a fair and just
distribution of the existing equip
ment as well as to meet the require
ments CT individual shippers. OF
the 100, 600 new freight cars which
the Railroad Administration ordered
constructed, SO, 400 had been COM
pleted on September 13, and are now
in service, and this number is being
increased at the rate of over 900
each working day. Instructions have
: been issued to all Regional Directors
to bend every effort to speed up road
and yard movements, to secure
heavier loading of equipment, to es-
tablish and maintain complete and
accurate yard checks, to reduce the
!, number of bad order cars, to make
prompt delivery to connections, to
effect early deliveries at freight
houses and team tracks, to reduce
the number of freight cars used in
the transportation Of company ma
terial II dto expedite the movement
of grain cars in terminals, The
hours of labor OF cars hops en-
ployees have bee eased and
every effort is being 4n2de, both in
railroad shops al n the shops of
~ h., r1Y
is being let out, to reduce the num-
Der of bad order cars.
II earnestly urge all slippers and
receivers of freight to redoub.e their
efforts to promote freight car eff
fciency.
Shippers of freight can assist:
: /. BY loading all cars to full
: visible or carrying capacity.
2. BY prompt loading and release
to the carrier.
3. By ordering cars only when
actually required.
4. By eliminating the use of rail-
way equipment in trap or transfer
service when tonnage can be handled
by motor truck or wagon.
5. By reducing the diversion and
= reconsignment of cars to a minimum.
Receivers of freight can assist:
= l. BY prompt unloading of cars
. and notice thereof to the carrier.
, 2. By ordering goods in guam
titles representing the full safe carry
ing capacity of cars and disregarding
7 trade units units.
? 3. BY ordering from the nearest
available source.
4. BY pooling orders so as to Sc
cure full car load.
"A resumption Of intensive load
ing will not merely reduce the num-
r Der Of cars under load but will alos
q relieve congested terminals where it
is a question Of track room rather
than Of equipment
with a strong concerted effort
y on the part of the Railroad Admins
q tration and the shippers and receiv-
n ers of freight, it is hoped that dur
= ing the period of abnormally heavy
= traffic with which we are now con-
a fronted the nations transportation
v needs may be mea with reasonable
+ satisfaction to all parties.
q Il earnestly ask the continued
O and even more effective cooperation
of all shippers and receivers of
- | freight"