| Show PACIFIC WON OU BY SYSTEM 1 I serer fully appreciated the real value of the close attention to detail that railroad systems give until an experience peri ence in the claims department convinced me that nothing should be overlooked no matter how minute said a southern pacific company department hefta the other day A heavy claim for damages to dry goods wet by rain in transit came to me continued the 8 P roan it came too from a large wholesale house the usual routine vs followed and we traced the car that had contained the fo cabied damaged freight through a dozen states in fact the matter was resolved down to a question of weather the claimants declared flatly and positively that rain had done tho injury we prepared to combat the claim on ahe absolute proof that the car had pot rained on since it was loaded and left the east how do you imagine we bouli make such a showing first we followed by the records every days movement of that car we knew precisely at every hour where that car was en route then we referred to the very elaborate meteorological reports that every railroad carries and we demonstrated by chronological comparison that not a drop of rain bad fallen over the country during the of this car the claim was rejected by the department part ment and after we made our showing the merchants withdrew their demands longshoremen are on strike at honolulu because of the discharge cral members of the union japanese at 15 cents a day are being hired to take their places |
