St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-31
FOR TEN CENTS.
Cheapest Ride on Record Between
St. Paul and Chicago.

Cheapest Ride on Record Between
St. Paul and Chicago.
A railroad manager in these later
days has of necessity got to be an ex-
ceedingly wideawake individual. This
is true in any department of the bust
ness. but it may be strongly empha-
sized when the passenger department
is reached. In the freight department
the officers must watch for all kinds of
schemes and plans by which rates may
be reduced. There are rebates to
those shippers who have a good
''pulP' on the road or some
of its officers. There are also companies
favored with special rates in which
managers and stockholders of the rail-
wav own stock. The officers of one line
ought to know what their rivals are do
ing, and, indeed, they must find out.
though to do this requires an amount of
work and expense and worry that seems
almost greater than the benefit derived
from it.
The general passenger agent of a
great railway line and his assistants
must be even more alert than the freight
managers: for they have to deal with
the sharpest and keenest rOgues in the
country, Men want TO travel, and
travel they Will. To do this they
must have tickets over the rail
roads. and, of course, they want
to get them as cheaply as possible. Elk
cnrsiOn rates and ticket scalperS are
two elements of combination that has
made the lot of the general passenger
agent almost unbearable. But these
are not the only troubles he must over
come AS long as the ticket scalper Is
honest and buys tickets only from those
who come into possession OF them hon.
estly, no complaint can be made. Rail
road tickets are transferable, regardless
of what may be printed upon their face
TO the contrary. and as long as the
scalper is straight all is well-not ex
actly well, but not so bad as when he
becomes a fence and receives and dis
poses of stolen property, or worse yet,
becomes the ally of forgers. OF
course. this business is not
done by reputable brokers, but there
are all kinds of men in the ticket brok
erage business as, indeed, there are in
every other walk of life.
About the neatest job in the way of
forging, or rather manufacturing rail-
road tickets has just come to light, the
Kansas City road being the sufferer,
and the celebrated especial limited
tickets" the means uSeu 10 kueITauu Ine
road. 1t happened Immediately after
the trial of President John NJ. Egan
and Passenger Agent G. II. Holdridge,
in the United States district court, on
the charge of violating Nfhe inter-
state commerce act by the sale of
5000 of these tickets to c. II.
Petsch. In its write-up of the trial
of these gentlemen, the Northwestern
Railroader printed very excellent and
exact fac smile of the especial limited
ticket.n Some enterprising scalper Sc
cured copies of that issue of the Rail-
roader and clipped out the fac smile
tickets, and. after FASTING them on a
lady's visiting card, took a rubber
stamp and made a blue mark on the
back. They were then used in several
cases by travellers going to Chicago.
This was discovered at the office of the
Kansas City, and the following notice
was issued:
JuIy II. 1S9l-To Conductors: Our atten-
tion has lust been called to a fac-simile of
form g. g.. special limited ticket No. 421. is
sne of this company, reading minneapolis
or 81. Paul to Chicago. which has been
printed in the July 10 edition Of the North