BAGGAGEMASTER, in the United States the official re sponsible for the transportation of passenger baggage and mail on railways, steamship lines and other systems of public convey ance. In England the army officer in charge of brigade or divisional baggage in the field is called the baggagemaster. This position in the United States calls for a common school educa tion, a physical examination that includes hearing, eyesight and colour discrimination and general experience within the transport ing system. At one of the New York city terminals the baggage master controls the handling of 3} million pieces of baggage annually and 2,000 tons of mail daily. He supervises the work of the parcel rooms and the movement of the daily newspapers— in all involving a force of 500 people. The keeping of records represents one of the most important phases of the work of the baggagemaster. On file in his office on various types of cards and sheets are recorded the name of the express company or hotel from which the baggage is received, the name and address of sender, the check number, weight, size, day and hour of ar rival, description of the type and condition of casing, destina tion and general remarks. A declaration of value, required by law, is also kept on file. For further protective purposes, in cases where delivery is made from a taxicab the number of the cab is noted; if a transfer company not well known to the agent acts as intermediary the driver's licence is recorded. The amount of personal baggage handled by railroads has been reduced to a marked extent because of the tendency of the travelling public to carry less and less personal baggage ; the decrease in the amount of display goods carried by commercial travellers and trend of urban holiday-makers to establish permanent summer homes rather than carry back and forth with them large numbers of trunks containing household furnishings. According to the census of 1920 there were approximately 8,904 baggagemasters and baggagemen per million population in the United States.