The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-02-27
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The Somerset Fair and its new 'send Off by
ga Friend who, it is very evident don't know
what he is driving at and who, We are glad to
learn, publishes his ''send off, without any thing
from the Board, and without knowledge Of their
intentions. We don't know who Friend" is,
and it makes no difference to to the pub
lie who he is, long his officious statements,
inuendoes, and suggestions of ''intelligent Tor
dorsed by the Directors. What folly TO suggest
the signing of tickets by both President and Sec.
His plan would require from 1000 to 5000 tickets
for use at the Fair and he would impose the
senseless task of having the same signed by the
two officers. And he knows little OF the rush at
the ticket Office during the Fair or he would not
seek to impose upon the Secretary the equally
senseless task of punching tickets-a punched
ticket bears on its face the customary mark OF
use-and would ruin the ticket for further sale
or use-a perfect ticket taken up by the receiver
at the gate can be taken from him by the Sec
rotary and resold; and 500 tickets would be a
sufficient number to run admissions during the
whole term of the Fair. Signed tickets might do
for school exhibitions, one-horse circus perform
ances, petty concerts, and the like, but will not
do quite as well when thousands of admissions
have to be made by tickets. Did "Friend" ever
see or hear of Railroad tickets being signed
by the President and Secretary of the Company
and issued by the Board OF Directors TO a Gener-
al Ticket Agent? No, and he never will. That
business is entrusted properly to the agent
They know that men in public business hare TO
be trusted. Ii they doubt the honesty of an
agent, they Oust him and secure above sus-
picion. 1t seems to us the nature OF that busi-
ness is little more analogous to the ticket busi
siness of Fair than the "invoicing of a stock
of dry goods TO keep clerks honest. AT the
last fair the Directors very wisely abolished the
system and sale of family tickets, substituting
therefor the sale of five tickets for dollar-sngle
tickets 25 cents each-at the office there is not
time to ask if the purchaser of five tickets has
family, in fact it is nobody's business. The rule
of the Board gives any person the right to buy
five tickets for one dollar. And we know Of
one gentleman who was sharp enough to take
advantage of this fact and purchased tickets
selling them out singly-realizing about twenty
dollars. Could the Secretary prevent this? No;
and in the pressure of business in the Office this
selling of tickets outside was a relief. These
tickets five for one dollar were of course taken
up at the gate. Could they be distinguished or
separated from those sold for 25 cents eaeh?-
Not muchly. And under ''Friend's intelligent
regulations" he would have been accountable
for them all, at single ticket rates-in this case
he would have been dishonesty made to pay
for the twenty dollars honestly made by the
gentleman's shrewdness-as we said in for
mer communication the Secretary and he alone
should get the tickets printed and manage their
sale. 1t is his business alone much as the
same kind of business belongs TO and is entrus-
ted solely to- "a Railroad General ticket Agent.
We hope the Directory will take ga Friends
advice whenever thre is anything Intelligent
in it and when not treat it according to its
merits. STocKHoLDER.