St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-25
WOMEN MUST PAY FARE
Because She Cannot Keep
Secret as Well as Her Brother.

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Secret as Well as Her Brother.
Chicago Tribune.
1.-The objections to giving pass to
a woman are not because she is a wom-
an" said railroad official yesterday,
''but because of the way the woman
acts when she travels on a pass. To
illustrate, a woman generally tells every.
body where she is going. what rOud she
will travel OH, and never fails to i'm
press upon the minds of her less fOrtu-
nate sisters the fact that she has pass.
When she gets OH the car she manages
to let everybody within whiStling dis
lance know that she has pass through
her husband, big brother, sweetheart,
or some railroad friend and consequent
" does not pay fare. This breeds envy,
hatred and malice and gets the railroad
in trouble. There are several thousand
people in this country who are not on
railroad pay rolls, but who render us
services now and then for which if
money was offered as compensation they
would consider that they had been
grossly insulted. We are always glad
to pass such people. As rule these
people know enough to keep their
passes to themselves. You cannot make
the great American public understand
why it is that if one man gets pass
anybody cannot have one. The knowl-
edge that one man on a train is travel
ing as the guest of the company
ger on that train disconnected.
The paying passenger does not
stop to think that the holder of a pass
for trip worth $50 may have rendered
the company a service which could not
have been bought for many times that
amount. There is a railroad running
into Chicago which once received early
information regarding certain sand
bag which an Inscriptions council was
working. The timely warning enabled
the company to avoid being worked for
at least S150,0G0 by a clique of real
estate men and aldermen. The rail-
road received the information out of
friendship to one of the principal Off
GERS. A delicate hint that a bill for
services would be audited was indig-
nantly repealed as an insult. A few
weeks later an annual was sent to the
friend who gave the information ami he
accepted the courtesy. That annual
will be renewed every year, til inter-
state commerce law Notwithstanding,
while the present magement of the road
is on deck. There is not one pass
in 1000 which does not repre-
other reporter doing an assignment in
our yards at station several miles
from Chicago saved a fast passenger
train from going through an open
switch into ditch. He refused to ac-
cept a check which was offered him
and the least we can do is to give him a
pass when he asks for it, and, by the
way, this young man has never asked
for pass for himself and only applies to
us in cases where it is a genuine char
ity to the beneficiary. Railroads can
not afford TO create i'll feeling, conse-
quently the people who cannot afford TO
use passes without airing their influ-
ence for the benefit of lie SIS fortunate
acquaintances do not ride free if we
know it. It's easier to get pass for
man with Pullman tickets thrown in,
from Chicago to New York on the
Pennsylvania Unite d. than it is to get
pass for a woman for 100 mile trip,
simply because a woman will talk
about it,"