Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
FEMALE pEAp-BEATS.
A Station Agent Says That Women r,
Lea To EAnfa

Lies to Save Five Cents.
A respectable man stopped the way in
front of the ticket Office at an uptown
elevated railroad station the other day
and asked some question of the ticket
seller. The latter shook his head de-
cidedly. The man seemed to protest,
and said something like:
but you know me?"
The agent shook his head again, and
the man repeated:
You must know me. 1 go through
here every day"
The ticket agent showed up the little
glass window in front of him and said,
with cruel distinctness:
mo, don't know you from side Of
sole leather, and l won't give you a
ticket"
The man seemed embarrassed, but he
got out of the way and let others that
were waiting have chance at the win
dow. When the rush was over the agent
began to growl:
/ That's the second one to-day; let q
4 woman have one last night and she
hain't shown up yet; darned if give
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/ for that one"
"Do you ever trust for tickets?"
'Oh, sometimes get caught at it" he
exclaimed, impatiently. Cant help it
you know; they grab the ticket, may
he, before l know they are going to hang
me up or they tell such a pitiful tale
about being caught with no money in
/ their pocket that have to do it. Ever
get the money from 'em? Well, once in
awhile; not often, though; they all say
they'll pay next day, but they very often
don't. Phi bet I've got as much as five
dollars comm to me that way now from
people at the different stations along the
road where I've worked. Sometimes get
square by accident. When l was at the
next station down the road there was a
woman came once or twice and claimed
she hadn't the change. let her have
the ticket and of course that was the
last | heard of her. One day, after
was sent to this station, she came along
and gave me quarter to pay for her
ticket. l knew her as soon as
saw her, and l only gave her ten
cents change. She looked at it
kind of queer and said: is that right?
YES, madam, it is, says l, and then she
recognized me and kind o flushed up
and said: Oh yes, remember; l owed
you for some tickets Well, the next
day she came again. and she gave me
her old story about not having the
change, but would give it to me sure il
the morning. | said no and stuck to It,
and she went away disappointed like.
She came back in minute or two and
handed in dime, with remark some
thing about having borrowed it of a
man; but my wife, who was in the
waiting-room, had seen her through a
window, and she had only gone around
the corner out Of sight and taken the
dime from her pocket-book.
You see. they think they're beating
the road, and feel smart about 1t. They
don't know enough to realize that the
only ones that suffer is US ticket sellers.
We have to account for all our tickets,
and if we let any of 'em go without the
pay the loss is ours. There ought to be
a law against such women. We have to
give tickets once in awhile to people
that honestly have been caught without
money for their fare, and that's all we
ought to be expected to do, without let
ting us lose lot more for women that
are great deal better able to pay fare
than we are. IN. Y. Sun.