The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-24
WHAT WE NEED.
And Something that w acoife'
and the Travelling Public
Will Demand.

After hearing a great deal of grumbllng
and having been frequently importuned
by citizens and the travelling public, we
feel that we take no undue liberty when
we suggest TO the different railway cor
porations which have lines passing
into and through Waco that they
make at least one change. 1t
has been the custom all over
Texas that when person desires to take
passage on train for any place that
they go down TO the depot" (who that
travels much does not abhor the name?)
and purchase ticket before starting.
In all states but Texas, and especially at
points where three or four roads are in
operation, the ticket-offices are separate
and independent from the other depart
meuts and always located somewhere IN
the BUSINESS part of the city, where
persons can go during the day and
purchase their tickets. This IS con-
venience which should be afforded in
Waco at the earliest possible moment.
The old style of forcing people to crowd
| up in a promiscuous mass before q
| ticket window just a few minutes before
| the train starts and strain and clamor
| for ticket is too antediluvian for these
! DAYS of progress. Who but the pick
| pocket and professional thief endorses
| such way of doing business? Take for
| instance the Waco ticket office, one of
the cleanest, neatest and best conducted
in the state, and one in which extreme
courtesy and desire to accommodate
has always been observed, and we ask If
it is not an inconvenient place. Has
vour wife, sister, mother or friend ever
left on train that you did not 90 over
with them, purchase their tickets and
see them on the train Have you not
several times got to the train lust as If
was moving out and you had to get
aboard without ticket Have YOU not
when travelling around the state met
ladies who were alone and had them ask
you, Please, sir, will you step to the
window and buy my ticket ?" All who
travel are supposed to look
out for themselves and those
who can stand around depot platform, |
or ticket Office, eXpectorate tobacco Juice, |
tell hard Jokes and stare at ladies and |
never suffer, may like the present |
system of selling tickets at depots. bat
the majority of people prefer to buy
them elsewhere. 1t is asking too much !
OF lady, or even gentleman with his
family or lady friend, to make them sit
in filthy waiting room and wait for the
tardy ticket agent, to come and
open the window, and then when the
tram is within few minutes of
leaving have to scramble |
to get up to the window. BY all means
We suggest to the different corporations
now running into Waco, if you cannot
have union ticket Office then get offices
up town somewhere so that if a person |
wishes to purchase ticket for trip the |
next day they can do so without the ne
cessity of all the Inconvenience that at |
tend getting one at the depot at train
time. Here, as in all other cities, the
ticket office should be under the leading |
hotel or III some conveniently located |
building where people can purchase at |
their leisure and avoid the rush. 1t is
time to quit talking about and making
pretenslons to modern conveniences' in |
travel and offer some of them. The |
change we have mentioned is one that |
the travelling public will demand in
Waco.