2012, ISBN: 9781130639155

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE BAGGAGE OF PASSENGERS-METHODS OF HANDLING SAME. [note-This chapter formed the subject of a paper by the author of this book, rend before the World's Hallway Commerce Congress at Chicago, June 9, 1893. The questions relating to baggage, express and mail traffic are treated of Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE BAGGAGE OF PASSENGERS-METHODS OF HANDLING SAME. [note-This chapter formed the subject of a paper by the author of this book, rend before the World's Hallway Commerce Congress at Chicago, June 9, 1893. The questions relating to baggage, express and mail traffic are treated of in the books devoted to those particular subjects. However, as this chapter was written apart and treats of the matter more particularly from the standpoint of passengers, it linds an appropriate place here.] The baggage traffic of railways is an important adjunct to their business. It has not, however, appealed so strongly to carriers as other classes of traffic, because not directly a revenue producing agent. This latter circumstance does not arise from any lack of inherent value of the service performed, but from the fact that the traffic is accessory merely. The rate charged for the passage ticket of the traveler covers, incidentally, his luggage, so that the latter does not seem to produce any revenue at all. It is thus lost sight of in the returns and forgotten. The enormous importance of the baggage traffic to travelers, however, has compelled railroads to adopt comprehensive and far-reaching methods for handling it. It is not a matter in which they may consult their own convenience, nor have they sought chapter{Section 4to do so. Their methods generally are in harmony with the extent and profitableness of the passenger business, of which it is a part. Travelers may reasonably expectcarriers to adopt a system of handling baggage which will subject their patrons to the minimum expense and trouble. This involves among other things the attainment of the following ends: First-That passengers shall be inconvenienced or delayed as little as possible in receiving, Books, History~~General, Science-of-Railways~~Marshall-Monroe-Kirkman, 999999999, The Science of Railways, Marshall Monroe Kirkman, 1130639150, General Books LLC, 3/28/2012 12:00:00 AM, , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781130639155

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHA… More...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE BAGGAGE OF PASSENGERS-METHODS OF HANDLING SAME. [note-This chapter formed the subject of a paper by the author of this book, rend before the World's Hallway Commerce Congress at Chicago, June 9, 1893. The questions relating to baggage, express and mail traffic are treated of in the books devoted to those particular subjects. However, as this chapter was written apart and treats of the matter more particularly from the standpoint of passengers, it linds an appropriate place here.] The baggage traffic of railways is an important adjunct to their business. It has not, however, appealed so strongly to carriers as other classes of traffic, because not directly a revenue producing agent. This latter circumstance does not arise from any lack of inherent value of the service performed, but from the fact that the traffic is accessory merely. The rate charged for the passage ticket of the traveler covers, incidentally, his luggage, so that the latter does not seem to produce any revenue at all. It is thus lost sight of in the returns and forgotten. The enormous importance of the baggage traffic to travelers, however, has compelled railroads to adopt comprehensive and far-reaching methods for handling it. It is not a matter in which they may consult their own convenience, nor have they sought chapter{Section 4to do so. Their methods generally are in harmony with the extent and profitableness of the passenger business, of which it is a part. Travelers may reasonably expectcarriers to adopt a system of handling baggage which will subject their patrons to the minimum expense and trouble. This involves among other things the attainment of the following ends: First-That passengers shall be inconvenienced or delayed as little as possible in receiving, Books History~~General Science-of-Railways~~Marshall-Monroe-Kirkman General Books LLC<