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Show FILLING OUT ANNUAL PASSES NOW EASIER Salt Lake Railroad Clerk Perfects Do-rice Do-rice Which Expedites Work; Patent Has Been Applied For. A device to facilitate the work of issuing annual passes has leeu perfected by E. L. Smith, chief clerk in the gen-oral gen-oral manager's of rice of the Oregon! Short Line. The device consists ol a heavy paper frame, in which the blank pass is n.ved. tor typing or tilling in the name of the beneficiary and all other data required by the railroad companv. Beneath the frame, with blank spaces provided in which to put information lor the private record of the office, are two file-cards. When the blank pass is tilled out the file cards, which are num-bered num-bered the same as the blank pass, are tilled out simultaneously for the office record. In this manner" all the work is done by the typist at one time. Tho device is known as the Flsmith annua pass holder and writing frame, and a patent has been applied for. It is being used for the first time by the Oregon Short Line in getting out the 1916 annual passes. Kach vear the short Line issues approximately 7000 annual passes to employees and the representatives of other "lines. Under the old method one man could fill out about 400 blank passes dailv. Another man would make about 200 "file records dailv of the passes issued. With the device perfected by Mr. Smith it is possible for one man to fill out between 400 and 500 passes and all records in one day, thns increasing the efficiency of the office force more than 110 per cent, as far as the issuing of annual passes is concerned. |