Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-31
SCENES ABOUT A TICKET OFFICE.
How II Comes That Ne Ticket seiieF
Can Inherit, Etc.


Can Inherit, Etc.
Yesterday afternoon while wandering
.bout the city looking for something 70 oe,
yeIop, REGisTKR scout (patentedl dropped
in al the ticket Office in the b. o. passen,,
naT depot. The hour Of descent happened
e he inst as the Hemp6eld and western
tr.;ns we're about to leave, and consequent
IL onite a number of people were hustling
:bGnt the room and lowering around the
ticket window, which was not yet opened:
HERE'S picnic" remarked the ucket
AGENT, surveying the multitude from an
eve hole in his oetagon. Up went the
window. ,, c,or.n wac
the frst request from a gigantic coal dig
CO.. Who filled up the window and darken-
cd The interior with his huge face and beard,
a. they were thrust into the small aPer-
nEifteen cents" sententiously murmur-
Cd the I, a.. as he toyed with the paste
kin git round trip
Don't sell any
How much time l got"
.yTwenty minutes. There's the clock.
nuysr's yer money. Oh. yes; which side
10 tbs train on? Have Lime to get another
DIM ~ asked the underground operator,
as he left for the drink.
The next person after ticket was wo-
MON sbahbiIy dressed. and very visible
marks of snuff between her ears and cor
ners of the mouth. .,,o,
How much is a ticket to GAINESVILLE"
she asked, while she nervously fingered
three quarter dollars
"A dollar and ten cents
How much to the station beyond?
"One twenty-five to Spencers:
"AIl right, said the woman, giving place
N man from Washington county with
two half grown boys.
HH0w much is a ticket to West AleIan-
der for me and these other two little SHAY
ers?" looking away down at the future agri'
cultuIalists.
How old are they
We'll, if they are l2, full fare"
well, they are just Il.
HALF fare"
The granger paid the money. asked ahalf
dozen questions about where the train was,
etc. and dropped out to let IN man VINO
waited 10 60 TO Kansas.
First class is 81; second class, s2o50."
"Give me first class. Coed day"
That's the first man OF the kind who
has been here to-day, sighed the urbaue
I. a.
Just then two Jews came up.
II want a ticket to West Virginia" was
the satisfactory but somewhat vague re-
quest.
go?"
II yust come here und don't know. l
want Elm ticket for tollar.
Tell me where you want to go and I'll
sell il 70 you"
well, i want TO go to Vest Virginia for
tollar," said the Jew. in helpless man
ner.
well, can sell you ticket out the
Hempfeld for dollar, or to Cameron for
eighty-five cents"
"Eighty.five will do purity goot," said
Moses as he handed over and left.
During the next fifteen minutes there
were eighty-nine inquiries about distances
TO or from certain places, not one OF the
inQuirers purchasing anything.
Next a very deaf woman came in and
wanted ticket to a little town near Bel
laire, and it took Just eight minutes by the
clock to dispose OF her.
An Irishman required five minutes to get
a second.class ticket to Chicago He tried
in a dozen different ways to get lower rates
than the lowest He threatened to walk, TO
take boat to Cincinnati and the cars from
there to go over the "Pewiky" or the {,
F., and ended in producing the change
from a dilapidated ban d ana kerchief, and
with malediction on the head Of the t. ..
left.
This is comparatively respectable" said
the Colonel, as the crowd dwinded down.
II am annoyed to death by questions that
mean nothing. There is clock by which
all trains leave, and under 1t and rigght,
here by this window are the advertised
times of departures of all trains, but have
seen old men take ont their spectacles, put
them on, deliberately read each one of the
schedules over carefully and then turn
around and ask me when the tram left and
if the clock was right. They try TO beat
you down on the price of tickets. Try to
pass almost grown up young men and
women over the road either for nothing or
at half fare. could give you column,
hmt Nnm seq how il is YnnrSelEN