The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-20
VACATIONISTS
 KEEP EXPRESS
 co. VERY BUSY
Indifference of Summer Travellers Causes Lug
 gage to Go Astray.
SHIPPERS FAIL TO
 REMOVE OLD TAGS
1,5OO Pieces of Baggage Sent Each Month to "No
 Mark" Bureaus.

With the vacation season at its height, local expressmen are hand ling more summer baggage than at
 any time in the history of the ex- press business. A statement to this effect was made last night by Agent Driver in charfge of the city office of the American Railway Express Company.
 The heavy movement of trunks, suitcases and other personal baggage
 from nearby resorts to the city is keeping the local expresmen on the alert in order that none of the ship
 ments may go astray. Last year at
 this time 1900 pieces of personal
 baggage had to be sent each month
 to the various "No Mark" bureaus
 of the express company throughout the country because the addresses of
 the owners were totally missing or inaccurate.
 Agent Driver recently called his
 men together to study the situation so that a clean record may be achiev-
 ed by the local forces this year.
 Most of the trouble has been traced to carelessness on the part of vaca-
 tionists in addressing their baggage,
 and because the rush of business makes it difficult for the expressman
 to closely scrutinize all of the trunks received.
 Most of the baggage, lost or de- l 1ayed, Agent Driver declared yester- | day, goes astray because of the ap- l parent indifference of summer traC- elers to this important detail of their arrangements. It is the experience of i the expressman that a trunk owner
 will entrust the handling of his bag gage to someone else al only real | ize its importance when the trunk | or suitcase goes astray. He requests l the cooperation of the public in | keeping their baggage from miscar- rying by giving greater attention to | the accurate and secure addressing | of their property.
 The most prolific cause fdelay, | according to Agent Driver is the
 practice of shippers of not removing
 all of the old labels and addresses
 from previous trips of their baggage.
 Frequently trunks are found in the ! express offices with two or more ad- i dresses, any one of which may lead
 the trunk astray, some vacationists,
 returning to large city, fail to give their local street addresses and the l city offices of the express company i find it impossible to locate the own CT.
 Agent Drives insists upon the use | of tag and a label on each piece | of baggage forwarded. The express regulations forbid the acceptance by ! the company of any trunk or other | baggage, addressed only with a tag. | The address should be clearly and ! correctly written and contain all of | the essential information, to accom- 1 plish its delivery No shipments are 1 accepted without a declaration of value and it is the interest of bag | gage shippers to make correct 1 statement on this item, as under the l law the carriers liability, unless ex-
 tra valuation is specified, is limited | to $50 for baggage weighing 1O0 pounds or under, of 50 cents a pound
 actual weight, if the trunk is over | the 190 pound minimum.
 As an additional precaution the ex- | press officials suggest that all baggage i shippers place an extra address l somewhere on the inside of their | trunks or suitcases so that in the case | of delay or miscarriage of the pieces,
 they can be opened and their owners identified as soon as possible and the
 baggage forwarded to them, without | further delay