The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-29
FORD'S RAILROAD CHANGES FROM
AL0SING TO WINNING VENTURE

are three and siX-tenths cents, the
same rs the other railways.
Ford bought the d., I. & l. to get
quicker and better service in the
shipment of Ford Motor Company
! products buy he has made his rail
way d common carrier. not a plant
facility He is asking for freight
from everyway, and yet more freight,
/ from any and every source, and get
ting it. too.
Each car is traced and no faVorit-
/ ism shown Ford freight.
/ Rates are 20 per cent lower than
other lines and. although the d., Il.
Il !. runs north and south, it gets
a carload Of freight from Detroit to
the eastern scaboard in four days, by
connecting with the eastbound trunk
lines AT small functions instead of
mcdndering to the big terminals
Other routes consume six. eight. or
more. generally ten DAYS. fer such a
'cunsignlns mt, due to congestion in the
switching terminals en- route.
Ford eliminates this by avoiding
sUch terminals and switching At
smaller towns. His road crosses all
the trunk lines that run east and
west and he makes saving on each
car CT from twelve to twenty-fOHr
hours every dav.
New industries are springing mp all
along his line The office files are
iilling with enquiries from proiec' Ors
Of brickyards, stove factories. found
RIGS, warehouses. elevators, growers
associations, OF! stations and retail
coal yards. particularly coal yards,
for Irontcn. the southern terminal is
right in The Virginia soft coal region
aud , Per cent saving on The haul is
considerable
M wonder now industries are in
':Cr"2t:d. II firm had 100000
freight expenditures Il saving of $40
GOO a ye@r would be good business.
81 wish there were Il thousand
Iienry Fords! Trainmen get twice
rs much on his railway as on any
other road. said a Michigan Central
conductor.
'F'Crd paws his conductors 1915 a
month ter iWcnty-siX eight hour days.
That's 20S hours. They're given time
land z half for overtime. like the rest
Of us. but when the 20S hours ara
completed that finishes IA man. worl;
for the month. A friend Of mine CON
ductor IN local freight on Ford'S
road. pu! in his full time last month
and had ten days at home.
think of it! Three hundred and
aeventy-five dollars for the mon: h
and ten days at home with his wife
md kiddies-ten days to fix up things
about the house and do as he liked.
Ftsst-I, I.
men $235 fer POS hours Brakemen
on this line get $40 Il day. That
would be $123.20 for POS hours.
WHY. even Fords section men
have Sc for an eight-hour day
is no wonder Ford's men got at
things with zip. Gee. you ought to
see them switching. It's joy the
way they keep things moving
A fellow feels like working when
he's sure of real let up once a week
Out of the 1900 employees of the
d. T. and /. only IL have to work on
Sunday. That's the best of the whole
thing. There's no Sunday work on
/ the whole line!"
! Despite this swollen payroll the re-
JUNCTION in the cost Of operation is
II per cent under that of last year
/ In less than a year s time little
/ single track steam railway that did
nor amount 20 anything except as Il
debt contractor, has been modernized
ard made into first-class money
earning railroad. Common-sense ad-
ministration and sincere effort to
/ let the public share in Il good service
at Il fair price worked the transfer
nation.