Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-02

money it brought, and the roads it wa.
over, we refer to what we call form
VI route book. Each form represents
route. For instance. form 112' we
WIN say is New York to Stamford via
Ine Union q Delaware. The auditor
discovers the form and the rates.
by mutual agreement when tickets
were sold over two or more roads, at
Whatever rate, the roads all share the
rate pro rata per mile. Our auditor
then takes ticket No. IS, form 112, and
credits the Union q Delaware with its
pro rata of the through fare from New
norK to Stamford. The auditor of the
Union IL Delaware takes its coupon, and
Dy reference to its form book traces
the ticket to its original source and
charges our road accordingly At the
emu OF each month settlements between
the roads are made, and the difference
In favor of the one or the other is made
good IN money. All ticket agents are
required to send in an account of every
tlcket that has been in their possession
during the month previous, and by a
glance at our books we know the exact
location of every ticket that has been
issued. You may have noticed in
tlcket-frames in the agents offices
coupon tickets that have been hanging
there for so long that they have become
dusty and faded. Yet those tickets are
never more than a month old, and al
though they might hang in that frame
one hundred years they would never be
lost sight of. The system. as explained
In the Illustration, is the same no mat
ter how many roads the ticket may call
for passage over. Each roads auditor,
when it receives is coupon from its
conductor, or other ticket collector, sees
upon the face of the ticket by which
road 1t was issued, refers to the route,
determines its pro rata, and charges the
road by which it was originally issued
for its share. The stub the station agent
keeps is his record of sale. by which he
can check off charges made against him
by. the auditors
"Then you have tickets printed fol
every town in the country, do you?"
asked the reporter.
"Well, we have scarcely been organ.
lied long enough for that, but will have
them very shortly. An Old-established
railroad like the Pennsylvania has had
printed many thousands of forms OF
tickets, perhaps five, or six, or seven
thousand different forms, Or even more
Railroads that may form only part OF
the most circuitous route from point to
point in the country make fuss if they
arc not included in some of the forms,
and so tickets have to be printed for
them. There have been very many i'm
provements in the construction of rail.
road tickets in late years. Before they
were made there had to be five forms OF
tickets to each point, at least to each OF
the principal points, first, second and
third class, limited ard unlimited tick
cts. For instance: A connecting road
might have taken stations. Ii might
require coupons over those other roads
to reach that road and then coupons fol-
each station along it. That would re.
quire sixty forms of tickets for that one
road by each route to it. Now the tick.
cts are printed with spaces to be punched
out designating class and whether linn.
tied or unlimited. All the stations Oh
the road are printed on the one coupon
and the name of the station intended to
be reached is also punched out. IN
Y. Morning Journal.