Identifier: baltimoreohioemp04balt (find matches)
Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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a claim. Its a good thing to brace that box of plate glass up endwise,as it may get nasty cracks in it if lies flat and has a lot of stufifjounced down on it. And the freight that is loaded so that ithas to be often re-handled gets its knocks every time. A leaky roof on your own home wouldnt be good for yourfurniture and it isnt a good thing to have a leaky roof on the carthat hauls the other mans furniture. Cement gets as hard-hearted as a stone when it gets wet, and bags of flour dont like to sit down on overlooked nails in the carfloor. Every time a sack of fiour lands on an upstanding, obstreperous nail it cries just like a claim.Now Ive got the safety valve shut again. And as sure as my name is Mr. Way-Bill I believe that I needntsay again that one way to help cut out claims is to load freight properly. Better lose a moment and save a claim. Claim prevention is the acid test of efficiency. Loss and Damage claims stand for lost revenue. Where do you stand ? —//. Irviiuj Mart in
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E s i WILLIAM E. ZIMMERMAN ^ „ „ , » ^ IT 1 William E. Zimmerman Representative Employe, Connellsville Division WILLIAM E. ZIMMERMAN, engineer on the S. & C. Branch of f I the Connellsville Division, is one of the representative employes of i j the division. He was born in Pittsburgh, August 7, 1862, and j 1 on August 9, 1878, entered the service of the Baltimore and Ohio as hostler at f j McKeesport. He was soon promoted to fireman and in the fall of 1883 t I was made an engineer. f I - The officials of the Connellsville Division said they had a hard time in choosing an employe of the rank and file to represent so many other good men. But no one was considered more worthy of this honor than Mr. Zimmerman and he was finally prevailed upon to write the few following paragraphs about himself and the railroad: T expect to stay with the Baltimore and Ohio until my race is run.Its a long time since I began railroading, too, and there have been tremen-dous improvements in line, equ

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