Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-23
THE Pennsylvania Railroad is han


ton Of the system by the government
conducted a campaign of education
among the travelling public designed t.
lessen the. damage to baggage In transit
by inducing it's patrons to exercise
greater care in packing their baggage In
stronger and more durable trunks and
handbags. The use of smaller trunks
was made obligatory.
Oddly enough. while the size of the
trunks has decreased the greater mum
Der of them are now Of lighter con
struction and more susceptible to injury.
This Is due TO post conditions.
higher prices for these requisites and
flimsicr construction.
Notwithstanding, the experience OF
the baggage department. as gauged by
complaints and claims, Is that the per-
centage Of damage is much less than
that of previous years.
MIR. McPHAIL has a record of forty
A'A years service with the company.
He is thoroughly familiar with the de-
tail and history Of the department un-
der his charge.
The improved condition in baggage
handling. he says, is due to the esprit
de corps of the employees. Many Of the
experienced men who entered the service
have returned to their old positions, re-
placing those temporarily employed
who were more or less unfamiliar with
the work.
Much of the delay. confusion. and loss
is unwittingly caused by tho public it.
self. Travellers. many Of them. leave
the shipment of their baggage to the
last possible moment. Then they hurry
to the station short time before the.
departure of their train, rush their
trunks into the receiving room and OK
pect them to reach their destination at
the same time as themselves.
When 1t Is considered that this bag.
gage must be routed. checked, certif.
Gates signed, very often insurance writ
ten upon it. and then truckcd dis.
tance OF nearly quarter Of mile be.
tore 1t reaches the baggage car the
character of the task imposed upon the
baggage handlers can be appreciated.
Under the circumstances man or
woman carrying apparel for some So
cial function, disappointed at its non.
arrival on the instant, heaps anathcmas
on the railroad for it, presumably bad
service when the primal cause was with
the traveller himself.
Mr.. McPhail advances two sugxes-
tions which should be noted by every
person undertaking a journey.
Get your baggage to the station in
ample time, and then be certain to in.
sure it against loss.
A vast amount of discomfort to the
individual would bc avoided by the OBJ
servance of these very simple but i'm
portant precautions.
IXIELL-MANAGED railroads today
w are guided by two great princi-
ples-safety first and efficiency. They
ire really interlocking in their practical
Efficiency is the keynote of corporate
One of the great merchandising con :
'erns. which spends more than 81 .060.-
400 yearly on its catalogues and price
lists. is constantly on the lookout to
improve its service system by the prac-
.ical application Of this word efficiency.
1t is said that on an average every
rider. and they amount to millions
is filled and on its way to
he shipping department inside of eight
minutes from the time the letter is re-
'eived. sliced open by machinery and
uttered on the books.
Its office boys and messengers are
quipped with rubber tired roller skates.
The concern discovered that it could
hus save three quarters of the time
mployed by boy in walking from one
apartment to another.
A great automobile establishment is
redited with turning out a complete
Machine ready for the road at the rate
( one per minute.
Labor saving devices are being intro
uced in every mercantile and industrial
worthy of the name In the
Ountry today.
THIS includes devices and schemes
= for protection against loss by fraud
r carelessness. Nowhere is this be-
oming more general than in banking
and as result the oppor-
lnities Of the crook and swindler arc
eing proportionatcly circumscribed.
The odd feature Is that for the most
art, these devices and precautions ara
I the simplest character, the wonder
eing that they had not been thought OF
ears before.
Many banking and trust companies
re guarding against dishonest Gus
omers who initiate the writing Of the
eceiving teller and enter n record Of de
osit in their pass books that was never
lade. The simple expedient of having
he teller write his initials after each
eposit thus constitutes a case of forg-
ry.
TT Is a matter of frequent comment
that the filing OF physicians pre-
criptions Is the smallest part of the
BUSINESS OF modern drug store. They
re, in reality, department stores In
which stationery, tobacco and cigars.
oda water. toilet articles, curios, glass
nd chinawarc, pictures, cngravings and
ther articles are offered for sale.
But there Is nothing new under the
IN, even in the drug business.
] have been permitted TO peruse
olumn and a quarter advertisement of
)r. 7. W. Dyott in a Philadelphia
ewspapCr of 1918. His drug store
IaS then loCatedsat the northeast corner
I Second and Race streets. -.
Among other things he advertised was
general assortment of fresh drugs
nd approved chemicals, glass. furni-
urc. vials, paints, window glass. dye
tufts and articles of every description.
II LIBERAL terms for cash or at the usual
redit. -
He published a list of seventy four
iedicincs essences, oils and propric-
iry articles of which less than dozen
re known today.
"Why," said the
How: Clever chauffeur, lis Gov
OF Him! /ernor Cox like an
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