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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 23, 1902)
Modern Railroad Methods of Handling Baggage S ..j -.Mm 4 H , i - ; i 4 ' it ' "4 a mil i in - ..H - m Si - Pi o Si 1 la, rUTTINO LABELS ON 0UTG0INO LUGGAGE Photo by Staff Artist. CHECKING UP INCOMINO LUGGAGE Photo Artist by Staff INSPECTING CHECKS BEFORE LOADING ON Photo by Staff Artist. TRAIN B AGQAGE must be trucked and not aua pan,, t0 necessity, partly to an Intent lhe.e trains. wUhout mistake and without of the time when everybody did anything portant aUtions, where the substitutions .. V. I- """J.. " ,u? oiance oi progress in an delay, baa had a considerable rolce In the has disappeared. are made. truck a pad must be used Ten years ago. you would have gone a long way to And such a rule In a baggage room of a railroad sta tion, but this legend In bold type now stares out from beneath the glass of a big departments. reduction of the time schedules. At a result baggage Is now handled but The benefit Is obvious. The brass checks Contribute to Service Generally. ' twice at the station. The expressman brings carried merely the name of the railroad But the betterment of the baggage service 8,,tem tb der ol tk Dm'' it to the doorway and dumpa It on the floor. and the check number. There was nothing has been more strikingly shown in the de- Tne attainment of rapidity in handling It la weighed, checked and hoisted on a to show source, and the destination was talis of the work than in its delicacies In luggage has resulted purely from the es- irucn 10 go oui wueu ma uuia wuuic. lagged on me irunK. ih buib bijio i ai.ii. a - i i .. a ii , ....... It la tronaf arrari in ha train. Ann all t h III V, 1, . a waA - all nurnnaci 1rtral frr b'ack frame at the truckmen emDloved at "very important phase or It, speed, cer- " """" -j.ieui. i you - ' ' " Union MtoninO Tbm ?rtMM llnt'' capacity, the advance has been mar- enter any baggage rooms In Omaha today .y-tem means a saving of time. All lucom- elgn transfer, exchange, excess and all. It ? lot m. tha appears' on the lice of U velcus. It is seldom now that the acbeduled ou will see on on. side of the room a row tag stuff Is pla.nl, dated at once, to f.clll- a trunk went wrong it was difficult to 1.. Th Cd" dLluated 1 a huge stuffed of a train 1. not sufficient for " iei truck-, opposite these a line of tate probable .torage calculations. cat. It for there was no way to tell It. floormat which the truckmen call a tho tran.mli.slon of all luggage to and from baggage stacks. At Union station there U The aecond great feature of the Improve- course except by breaking it open and I . . . .. ...nl. ...... nil. mnnrt r. . Ik. la 1m hA ..rnl. ajtilfh hniFirilfra Ana nmAtlm.ia (hat B.l tint aim, AM Til I "feather bed" It is verv Ions- and very nor " oaggage lost any more, even "- "" - "" " ' -""" wld. and la '.tuffed aolidlv with hair and temporarily, save cn rare occasions, when "ven which run in there. The trucks con- enjoys, both as regard, identity and treat- A complete record of the property and a MM-ed with threa thlcknes.es of Uia heav- 11 "y traced and found; neither are tain th. luggage that 1. outward bound, ment. At Union atatlon there ha. not been subdivision of the different styles of bag- lest canvas ducklna : known to man the capacious modern baggage room quar- That which Is brought In la put in lta a piece of baggage lost since the place waa gage Is the secret of the new scheme and " ters ever so overtaxed that the forces era- proper pile. At the Burlington station built. Ten year, ago plecea of luggage were its success. There are seven different kinds On these downy couches are received the ploye(1 are 4wampt1 uai unaDie t0 j0 tn there la but one road to handle, but the constantly going wrong, and much of the of checks for use in different circumstances, diver, trunk, and trap, of the preeent-day . ,g work , baggage for different train. 1. carefully time they were never found at all. There 1. the local check, which 1. attached traveler wno.e possessions cnance tnrougo ... .h . . . m. scgrtrated. At Webater Street atatlon three .... to a trunk that is to travel merely be- the wonderful stride, made in modern train road, enter and depart and their respective tween points on one railroad. This bears service. Ball-bearing coaches, drawn by baggage U separately handled. This immunity from loss results from the the name of starting point, name or desti- 100-ton engines over eighty-pound steel rails Then, every man in the room now has adoption of a new system of checking which nation, date and name of railway. The laid in curveless, gradeles. lines, are not hi. spec Med duties. There are truckmen, h been gradually Introduced for aome two owner of the baggage get. an exact dupli- the only factor, that have been ln.tru- checkmen. mailmen and baggagemen, all so years past on western railroads. The old cate of the piece which goes on his trunk, maniai in hpin.in. rkk... .iivin ik. iiiiiiiniii.il aHnva Via viaora nf thai nfflciai brass checks are being abolished as rapidly Then comes the sDeclal check, nrovldlna they are worn out in an incredibly abort d of Franctac0i The DromDt ma. caps. Each knows his work and does it. possible for paper ones. This is being for transmission over two or more different space of time. One descending hill from npuatlcn cf th9 baggage that accomoanle. All the confusion and excitement and tangle done through the medium of the more lni- systems. This bears In addition to the ln- Omaha. There la absolutely no deviation from the rule. Indeed, the sound of trunk falling upon the floor 1. aa good a. the gong that sounds the discharge of the man handling It. As a result of this strict ntss the pad. are used ao assiduously that the iron-bound corner of monster sample case is often sufficient to split the cover of the catch-bed, and then it 1. but short lived. But the use of pada U not the only Im provement which modernity hue brought to the method, of handling . baggage. Tno clau.e which provide, that baggage ahali be trucked, not rolled, is a big feature. The difference In the wear and tear on a trunk when it 1 ilg-tagged bumpety-bump thirty or forty yard, over wood and atone and when it la hauled the same dlatancc on wheeled truck can be readily under.tood. Doctor Damuiced Trwake. Then there 1. another rulo exhibiting fur ther the large-heartedness of the later bag gage arrangements. Thk provides that "baggage in bad order ahould be repaired promptly and held for that purpose when necessary. If tor outgoing trains." What a boon the observance of tills regulation may become can be beat rl'.iv.d by those who have In the yeara gone by had their bag gage carted to the house strewing the con tents abroad from many gaping wounds, and held together but precariously by a reps temporarily knotted about It. Thle vast Increase in the care devoted to the handling cf baggnge is probably th. most Inteistitlng feature to most people of the great strides which have been mada during the last decade or so In this Import ant feature of the railroad business. As a matter of fact. In no other department, trackage, equipment, running aervlce or personal attention aboard, has there bees a more 'marked improvement than in the transportation of luggage. This ha. been .... 7" . . y 1 r tv 'ill 1 - ' ' 1 - - " - a 1 1 - aaaaaaaaa. r COUNTER IN BAGGAGE ROOM WHERE TRAVELERS GET CHECKS Ph oto by Staff Artl.t. formation on the local check the names of all station, where transfers are made and the names of the railroads over which the luggage Is to pass. The local excess and foreign excess checks correspond to these first two, but they carry the additional Information of how much ex cess was paid and what la the name of tht owner. Besides these there are local and foreign C. O. D. checks and an exchange check. Duhc to Avoid Da make Salts. The marked gentleness with which bag gage is now handled 1. not due entirely to the philanthropy of the railroads. They are In a measure compelled to "handle with care." Numerou. damage suits re sulting successfully for the plaintiffs have brought them to It. Formerly people ex pected to have their property amashed and battered and did not resent it. But aome one more Indignant than the rest Instituted court proceedings on day to re cover the value of a valuable trunk load, and he recovered. That started the whirl wind, and now a truckman cannot break open trunka and be a truckman long. Of course some luggage is on the verge of col lapse when It Is shipped, and allowance is made for this, and the condition of the - piece la carefully noted aa a safeguard. To the capacity for handling baggage' there is now practically no limit. Per fect system makes possible the direction of extensive forces of employes at this work, and the baggage room, of modern depot, have extensive emergency room sufficient for almost any cniBh. At the time of the (Continued on Seventh Page.) J, t 4 . . - t LOADINQ LUGGAGE ON THE TRAIN Photo by SUIT ArtlaL ,..,-. a, ,,..,.. i mm. .,,, , nil ;. rrz- : ft. 'ill 'i - ....... : i V ' r aft'"'-.- ' TRUCK ON IT8 WAT TO THB TRAIN Photo by Staff Artlat.