PACKING AND SHIPPING 329 
were obtained it would mean that in future 
all goods bearing your particular shipping 
mark would be forever doomed to trouble. 
I am always forced to laugh when I think of 
the experience of a traveller for a well-known 
baking company in the United States who was 
making his initial trip to South America. 
The port at which he landed was, as it gen 
erally is, the scene of a yellow fever epidemic. 
Fearful of contracting this disease he decided 
to take the first train for the capital, located in 
the mountains and as a rule free from the 
scourge which infests the port. Inasmuch as 
the train left early, he deposited his twelve 
sample cases at the custom house with the keys 
and the request that after they had been in 
spected one of the men whom he had tipped 
should send them by the evening train to his 
hotel. After waiting for three days without 
receiving the trunks, during which time he fre 
quently sent telephonic messages to the cus 
toms authorities and telegraphed and wrote 
the United States consul on the subject, he de 
cided to go in person, despite his fear of con