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Excerpt from Twenty-Fourth Report of the Association of American Railway Accounting Officers: Cincinnati, O., Meeting, April 28 to 30, 1909 There is also more or less danger in an Accounting Officer, who is confident that he has. Developed first class methods for arriving at the results which he desires to obtain, getting into the rut - se to speak - and failing to comprehend that while he may be standing still the pro cession is marching on. Notwithstanding the great ad vances that have already been made in railway account ing there is still a vast field of knowledge beyond which has not yet been fully explored. If we have receptive minds and are willing to admit that the other fellow may be handling certain lines of his work better and at the same time-cheaper than we are, then we shall continue to improve our methods and from time to time adopt new forms for stating our accounts as the necessities may re quire. May we all be faithful to the interests that have been entrusted to us and never forget to speak of our road and our officials as the best in the country. Such an attitude will soon get to be a habit of our lives and we all know that habits once formed are not easily broken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.