Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-08


 W. Geary, Comfort s. Farren alternates, T E. Twitchell John Murphy, Patrick O'Far rell ; treasurer of relief fund, F T. DeBussey. On next Wednesday evening the Post will be inspected and large attendance is desired Personal. Mir. Edwin Merwin, of St. John street. died yesterday afternoon from the effects of shock received Tuesday last. He was we'll known and respected citizen. Robert Gates, of Derby, one of the Mal1ey jurors, was not expected to live through the l day yesterday owing to paralysis
 Mrs. Alquist, of Step2sy, finally died from the effect of the difficult operation performed upon her. Rev. T. D. Butler, of Alleghany City, Pa, has accepted call from Danbury's Disciples church
 Miss Fannie Howe, the we'll known vocal ist, who has been suffering for some weeks from 8 sprained ankle, has now so far recov- cred as to be enabled to resume her music teaching.
 Charles H. Hall, of Sandy Hook, has been appointed deputy sheriff
 Rev. J. B. Jennings has resigned his posi- tion as assistant rector of St. PauTs parish Norwalk, and will probably accept call to the Church of the Epiphany in Washing ton, D. c.
 Recently, while Mir. John Brown, of Wes- ton, was helping to kill hogs, one of the ami mals bit him on the knee, making an ugly wound.
 Mrs. Ernestine Pickhardt Las large cigar factory at North Greenwich. Recently one l of her employees was married and his fellow 1 workmen celebrated the event. One of them was found dead in the road next morning, and coroner's jury rendered verdict of death from an overdose of whiskey and ex- posture. His name was Ehles. Philip Waldron, of Bethlehem, bought l car load of burnt grain and fed his horse 1 freely from it. As result he has nothing but the hide to winter.
 1 The Litchfield Congregational church has engaged Rev. Charles Symington for six months from the first of January. Jeremiah Bushnell, of Salisbury, has raised 1o5 bushels of wheat equal to the very best raised in Minnesota, from four acres, 800 bushels of corn from seven acres, GOO bushels of cats, and 200 bushels of buckwheat. P. T. Barnum has purchased the Philo F. ! Barnum place on Main street, Bridgeport and there is talk of building new opera house on the site.
 Hon. James Burnett, of Scotland, prom inent citizen, died Monday aged 70. He was postmaster for twenty-five years, and served as member of both branches of the State Legislature
 Postmaster General Howe, third Assistant 1 Postmaster General Hagen and Colonel Park CT are inspecting the envelope agency at 1 Hartford.
 1 Henry D. Fowler, of Branford, is sinking with paralysis. He is aa esteemed citizen of the town.
 l Robert Gates, of Birm ingham, father of Selectman Gates of that place, is critically 1 ill.,
 ] Miss Louise Matby, daughter of George E. Maltby, of New York, was married to Dr. G. F. Smith, of Hartford. Tuesday after noon, by Rev. Burdett Hart, at the residence of the grandfather of the bride, Lucius Malt by, at S4 East Grand steert. The ceremony was private.
 Edwin Merwin, of St. John street, had shock of paralysis Tuesday night, and is re- ported seriously i'll. He is about sixty years old.
 The Elevated Railroad Ticket-Boxes. l [From the New York Times.l Man may be excused for losing his porta- ble property under some circumstances, but there would seem to be ssvery slittle defense for him who throws away effects which he is
 desirous of keeping. Yet one need not watch the ticket boxes of the elevated railroad sta tions very long without being convinced that
 the human animal is extremely subject to this
 form of idiocy, and visit to the ticket-agent l of the elevated roads shows that the articles other than tickets deposited in the boxes are enough to make a small museum. One gate man said that ladies very frequently throw their purses into the box by mistake. Lifting the handle of the box drops the tickets into 1 the canceling machine and consequently, to
 let the purse through would be to ruin it.
 Information of the catastrophe is, therefore,
 telegraphed at once to the general manager s
 office, and carpenter is sent up to rescue
 the article by unscrewing the glass top from
 the box. In commission hours, when crowd
 is constantly rushing by the boxes on to the
 platform, is the time when most of the mis-
 takes are made, for confusion of ideas is
 not unnatural when passenger is in hurry
 and so used to travelling on the elevated roads
 that he deposits his ticket mechanically.
 There are thrown into the boxes combs,
 knives, button-hooks, other railroad tickets,
 tootbpicks, sleevebuttons, watchkeys,
 matches latch keys tracts. pamphlets and
 even lighted cigars. If person accidentally
 throws the right change into a box in place 1 of his ticket he is usually allowed to keep
 the ticket and go on his way. More mistakes l were made at the boxes before May 1SS .
 when the change in the system of depositing l was inaugurated. The passenger formerly 1 deposited his ticket when he got off the train.
 As general thing he had carried it in his pock- , ct, and in searching hurriedly for it as he got off the train was very apt to draw out any thing of similar kind and deposit it in place
 of the ticket. Under the present system the
 distance from the ticket sellers desk to the box is so short that the passenger carries the , ticket in his hand to the place where he de- 7 posits it, and can only make mistake when his wits are wool-gathering and he has anoth. CT article in hand. The ticket boxes at the principal stations arc emptied every day, and at the smaller stations once in every two days They can hold 900 tickets each When the gateman lifts the handle of the box and
 Jets the tickets fall out of sight they are re
 ceived between two sets of iron teeth and cancelled before falling to the bottom of the box. The collector who takes up the can , celed tickets is not allowed to handle them , but empties the box into sack. Each box , l is thus kept separate, and any articles whicf ! are found among the tickets held to be returned to their owners when the sacks are |, emptied at the office of the general ticket
 agent.
 The tickets are printed at the establish
 ment of the American Bank Note company
 and are received by the general ticket agent 7 of the elevated railroads in packages of 800 which are separately designated for each sta l tion. For instance, if passenger will look at the ticket he buys at the ''up'' station al Park place.in the day time, he will find print : ed across one end the letters ''2. P. P. l., 3 which cipher signifies, Sixth avenue, Park 1 place, up track, day time" The first figure 8 represents the number of the road counting t from the West Side, and numbering the Nintt : avenue read 1, Sixth avenue 2, Third ave : nue 3, and Second avenue f. Next comes
 the number name of the street, and after s ward figure, which in the case in point = means that the ticket sold at the 'sup'
 station by the man on day duty, the odd
 numbers meaning "up track" and the fig : ures 1 and ? standing for day and and for l night ticket bought at the same sta
 tion at night would be marked ''2, F. F. B. The accounts of the day and night forces On the 5 elevated roads are kept separate from one another. and each is treated distinctiveIy and , by itself. The ticket-sellers at the different