The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-20
RoNcLAD TICKETS TROUBLESOME.
Travellers Have TO Put I'D With Many
Annoyances because of Them.

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Many visitors 10 the exposition are max
ing complaints about the Inconvenience
they are put TO by the railroads on ac-
count Of the reduced fares they have
granted.
The railroads have adopted iron-clad
rules in order 10 protect themselves from
the scalpers. and in protecting them
selves they necessarily make many in
nocent people suffer. The majority Of peo-
pie who go to Atlanta are strangers, and
they have trouble in having their tickets
validated at the Markham house. where
they are required TO sign them before the
tickets are good for the return passage
The railroads claim that in order 10 pro-
tect themselves they must require party
who purchases q ticket to return on it.
or it is void and they can collect the fare
from the person using It. There are 9TH
ers who claim that the railroads, when
they sell a ticket, sell on frst-class round
trip, and in spite of the contract which
appears upon il they are bound 70 &c
cept il for transportation from the pas
senger rendering il. SO fixed is this idea
that several lawyers in Atlanta and Ma
con are collecting all the cases they can
get where the parties presenting tickets
are required 10 pay rare, ana IN some IN
stances TO get OF the train on when they
are travelling. with the idea of collecting
the money and damages included from the
railroads after the exposition IS over.
It is currently reported that halI a dozen
or more lawyers have been retained for
this class of cases, and that they Will
give the railroads some trouble when suits
are brought Tor cases IN Whlcn holdets
OF tickets have been badly treated.
it is stated that the Central railroad
collects from parties supposed TO hold
scalUers' tickets over 500 per day. These
are the parties whom the conductor sus-
poets of having bought scalpers tickets.
and whom he requires 10 pay their rare
or get OFF the train. In many instances
the conductor has no means OF telling
whether the right party Is presenting a
ticket or not, and yet II ne suspects
the party must get off. OF course the
majority of people would rather pay the
fare required than be subjected 10 the
inconvenience Of getting on the train at
on the train, night before last, from
Atlanta a gentleman, well known in Sa-
Vannah, was awakened by the conductor
and told that he would have 10 satisfy
him that the was travelling on the right
ticket. The porer OF the sleeping car
IN which the gentleman had berth had
already told the conductor that the party
referred TO had gone up with him the
night before. The conductor decided to
wake him up anyhow which he did; and
asked a number of questions, which, to
the passenger, seemed out of place and
useless, Notwithstanding he was entitled
to the presumption under any circum-
stances that he was travelling on the
proper ticket until the conductor could
show that was not the case.
The courts have decided several cases
Of this kind in favor of the plaintiffs,
where people were put off trains without
the conductors first showing their right
TO do So
The trouble Is not with any one road
but complaints are made OF all the roads
centering in Atlanta A former Savannah
man has a suit for $1,000 against the
Southern Railway for refusing to accept
an unValidated ticket and putting the
passenger of the train,