, 1876-11-20

Are Made, and 1Iuw Necessary They Are.
CAamIerf JoaTna!
II Ia now some forty years since railway tick
cts we're printed and issued. The originator Of
the itlca was man who WIS employed ut q wny-
side station in the ncfuhborhood Of Carlisle, md
those he then used we're about the same s1zc rs
the tietscts now uecd. Hut his arrangement
fur printing then, were Of the most primitive
description. III fact few type fastened tn
gcthuf in case ubnut tho sfze of natl-brs1sh
formed his sole apparatus. The name Of tile
station tu which the passenger was Eaing was
en the g. shs ae OF w,
work nuw-say at Ctuphan junction, or at the
Underground Stations. hut this system. prinll-
tive - It vas Frey and iouFised @ nd neeams
until at lust lts Inventor found that It would be
desirable to devote himself entirely to the de-
yelop,nent of the new industry.
From that day to this the printing Of railway
tickets Inns remained III the ha,sds Of the same
family, who l'arc pursued 1t with IN amount of
perseverance, and ingenuity perfectly marvellous.
Tic railways uf nearly the whole world aru sup
There may be sces! in course nf 'lanutaetarc
t!ckcta for English railways, Swedish, South
| American, Egyptinn, tSc. We saw there on ORC
occasion Cairo ttckets-.a special class-for 'fil-
cInss specially printed for snuth American
line, for s'sluvcs without shoes and Btoclinge.h
The first great improvement mndo In the
tickets was IN numbering them: This was IN
cn0r1nuus strl(le tn advance Df the old Tickets
Every railwny passenger has noticed that earh
ticket ts numbered, and many people Imagine
that tint number IL printed BY tho little press
IN front cf tfe ticket clerk when he tlF!sts tle
! ticket IN before It Is issued. But tic duty of
that press ia IN reality 10 print the date-the
numbering being done before the ticket arrived
at the station. ...
| st,fr f1HrnTR thHse
bers. For example, tnkc the ease Of booking
clerk at Reading. lie has before him box
With large number Of pIEconhotca, each hold
Mthc M pircon.lio1e for Salisbury: Before he begins
Ills days work, hc knows that tho first ticket
frnnl headlng to Salisbury will bc, say. 5,tta3.
When the dny's work Is over he finds the last
ticket is, say, 5o5e, He '!as. therefore, issued
thirty ticlscts Of tlis particular cluss to sal!s
bury, md Is responsible for thirty fares. lie
has return to ill up each day Of the numbers
OH the tickets Issued, and, by seeing that the
Inst number on each day ond the ilsst 81, the
next a,c consecutive, tho officials at 'leadquar-
ters arc able to have complete check upon the
statto,I clerks, and to preserve an almost In
variable accuraey iiI their accounts: -.
Let lls sec how tlliA tfcket.pnnttnR Is done.
First Of MI, hero are toxts filled With colored
pieces OF c,.rdb,arl, which will soon be printed
and ,nnlc into ttckets: an order has come from
,1e "y1y yao fer 80 Z. HsRy thsR
tic last ticket In stock, and the aycrage con-
sumption, which enables the printer to know
little steam wrought machine for printing rail-:
way ttckets Is All exceedingly Ingenious Eiete ot
n,ecnanisrn. Imag!no table about twice the
size II page Of this 1IaFazine, with long thin
iallilig hcnw 1t at the front. The table contalna
the prluttng.rol'crs and type case; the boxes
{tllc Interior horizontal section al which IL tho
Size Of tickct) arc for holding tickets.
to ~
cardboard. Ono at time, tho lowest card Is
terkcd by n spring under the printing 1ua-
clnery, and fals iuto tho lower boz; and, iu
less than quarter OF second, 1t Is printed and
numbered and safely sturrl In the uthcr box.
All that the n,an has 10 do Is to keep tho upper
box filled with car.ls, remove the lower lox
when filled, SUPPLY fresh empty boxes, plaeo the
printed ttekets In % %rSwss nd sec TINT IL the ink
Including the printing, the linking of the type,
and the moving mud storing of the tickets. Tue
numbering Is done BY means ot inHr wheels,
With their centres III horizontal lne,-lhus
numerals oil their edge, which imprint them
Eclycs M the tickets. The wheels which bcai
thu 1in,nesal III tl,c untts place moves 80 that
} fresh typo IL ready for each successive ticket
that fn the tenB pilce, at one-tenth that rate
} aud 40 OH.
Tho next step, OF counting tho tickets, IS I
i curous onc. Though the greatest care Is takcr
to tnsuro accuracy, mistakes Will occur in print
nE tho numbers On thu tickets. Sometimes
number Ia omitted; sometimes two tickets sr,
urIntgsl with the sa,nG number. To pr0yih.
against such casualties. the tickets, when print
ID, nru counted: AMI, u It Is Impossible for hu
man eyes, and memory, untl Judgment to be- IN
fallthlt, they arc counted l,y machinery. Thi
, machinery nsnin consists Of a table, with tWt
boxes as before. This time the table fs stmpl'
table with a hole In It large enough, tn ALLOW
the number Of ticket to he scen through. A
tho side of the table lsa cyllnlcr wheel siHl!!a
3 to that above described. Thu number o'
\ tho rylnler Ia adjustcu to he the sam
as tlmt printed on the first ticket to b.
counted. The tickets arc lit consecutive order
! Al the boy t,lrna Il handle, they nre tcrkct
from the upper box to the lower, showing tt,cl
!, numbers under tho whole. The cyllnder whcc
= | rcyolyes ut the SAINT rate, mud therefore t.,
+ number On eacl tckrt nNl TINT I'LL tho whce
j. uurtlt tn agree. II they do not agree, thcu /
. Ia ,tdcut That number has 1ten omitted, q
t perhaps duplicated. Thu dodcient ticket bein
= supplied. Of the surplus one removed, the tick
: ITS arc then pressed together by marlltncry
T. tr.l packed, mid then sent to thc!F destinations
Such Is one of the interesting industries Of nll
time, an industry inycnte1, developed, aud stt
In the hands VI one fAlnlly, yet sprena IN iss Ii
tcrests nycr tho wlinlc world. Aud It Is Ct
y, rIu,s tn know TINT In tl,c lung, l0w building, I
;, aubusbau street In a provincial tuwn, tho ttcl
cts fur tho whole world, exccpt North Amerlcs
aFU mntlc.
a Fatal Love.
:. Ata late meeting of tho board OF Health {
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