To. (OVER) for. Storage for. Transfer for Adv. ebg Ibe. Excess Weight Liability for baggage limited to $100.00, Baggage pot called for and remaining on hand more than twenty-four hours, is subject to a charge for storage of 25 cents for the first day thereafter or fraction, and 10 cents for each succeeding day. Maximum charge for one month $1,00 When baggage arrives between the hours of 12 Noon Saturday and 12 Noon Sunday, it will be held without charge until 12 Noon Monday. This rule will also apply to legal holidays. Agents are required to attach stamps to the face of the tag check representing any amount paid for storage. General Baggage Agent. Ibs. Excess Weight TO AGENTS Agents will be held strictly accountable for the proper filling up of these earls, so that they will be fully understood by all concerned. The route and destination on each coupon must exactly correspond with the route and destination of the passage ticket on which the baggage is checked. In cases where passenger is ahead of baggage, Agents will detach one of the Tag Checks and use a CO. D. check instead, enclosing the duplicate C. O. D. check to the Agent, at destination, in envelope Form 146 (with advice sheet Form 15) attaching eame to the Strap Check of baggage. Carefully note in the spaces provided on the Tag and Duplicate Checks the kind and number of the check held by the passenger. In case the C. O. D. duplicate is given to the passenger no notation in this space is necessary; simply draw a line through it. bined receipt and baggage check, which keeps the required tally upon the Forwarding Agent because the passengers must preserve the duplicate and present it to the agent at destination in order to obtain possession of their baggage. The local excess (Form 6) and foreign excess (Form 7) baggage checks differ in the same way that local and interline baggage checks differ. They are used in checking bicycles, bab, cabs, dogs, peddlers' packs, other special articles, and all baggage exceeding the maximum free weight. The excess baggage rates are made by the General Baggage Agent; and tariffs, signed by him and the General Form Q-3 Requisition for Baggage Cheeks and Cards must be made on this Form before the supply on hand is exhausted. Requests must not be made by Telegraph, except when absolutely unavoidable. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company Reading GENERAL BAGGAGE AGENT, Dear Sir: Reading Terminal, Philadelphia. Station 19 The following named Baggage Checks and Cards are required at this Station. Passenger Agent and Passenger Traffic Manager, are filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission. The rates are a certain proportion, at present generally 163 per cent of the passenger fare per hundred pounds. Agents are pro vided with tables showing computed excess baggage rates and with instructions what to do in exceptional cases. On some railways prepaid permits or prepaid excess baggage certificates are sold, which entitle the passenger to free checking on the number of pounds indicated. This enables the traveling man to pay all excess at one time. A drummer going from Denver to Portland, and stopping at various cities en route, purchases a permit to Portland, and, instead of paying excess baggage each time, presents the permit for the agent's signature. At the stopping point nearest to Portland, it is retained by the agent and sent to the General Baggage Agent. Some companies, likewise, sell excess coupon books containing scrip. Each coupon represents five cents, and the scrip book is sold at less than face value. C. O. D. checks (Forms 8 and 9) are used in case the passenger for some valid reason wishes to pay excess baggage, storage, transfer, or some other charge at destination instead of paying at the starting point. The original check is forwarded to the agent at destination, and indicates the amounts to be collected, number of passengers, date of issue, and number of baggage checks. A duplicate is given to the passenger and a strap check is attached to the baggage. Wherever possible, however, excess charges are collected at the point of shipment. All baggage checks are sent upon requisition (Form 10), with invoice, to the Station Baggage Agent in the same way that tickets are invoiced to the ticket agent, so that each check must be accounted for by the agent who signed the invoice. In case the passenger loses his duplicate, he must apply for baggage on an application blank (Form 11), to identify it in a manner satisfactory to the agent, pay a fixed sum, usually twenty-five or fifty cents, to cover the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE & WASHINGTON RAILROAD COMPANY NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY WEST JERSEY & SEASHORE RAILROAD COMPANY APPLICATION FOR BAGGAGE OR PARCEL FOR WHICH DUPLICATE CHECKS HAVE BEEN LOST OR MISLAID Checked {From or to. Description of article (with marks, if any). Date. THIS FORM MUST BE FILLED OUT BEFORE BAGGAGE OR PARCEL IS SHOWN TO CLAIMANT FORM 11. |