Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-06-18
FORGED STREET CAR PASSES.
THEY ARE CAUSING CONSIDERABLE
TROUBLE on Local LINES.
Were First discovered Last .Innunr,
>ktiifni Mnnipuintion.. hut Rnth-
er Poor siguntures-Ar-
rests Mny Follow.

new enterprise has been established in
Kansas city. II is the Imitation and for,
gery Of the Metropolitan Street Railway
company's quarterly passes. The business
has not been conducted on "A very exten-
sive pian but is sufficiently active to cause
tho company endless trouble and to give
extra work TO their own and the city de,
tectives. During the past few days six o,
these bogus passes have been reported by
conductors on the various lines operated
by the Metropolitan company. ana in one
instance a forged pass was taken up and
turned in at headquarters. This latter Is
now IN possession of Chief of Police Irwin
ana Is an excellent imitation of the Orici-
mai yellow quarterly pass now used by
those fortunate enough 10 possess them.
Ihe signature of General Superintendent
Q. +. Holmes Is Well executed, but other
wise the pass, at a casual glance such as
l. usually accorded them by conductors IL
70 all appearances as good as the real ar
tlcle Issued by the company.
As a result of this Illegal occupation on
the part of individuals as yet unknown,
az yellow. or quarterly passes, beginning
with No. lItG and over. will be collected
Immediately, 10 the end that the forged
ones may be taken out of circulation. This
may work temporary annoyance on those
who legitimately hold passes above the
number mentioned, but 1t is the company's
only recourse,
When seen by a reporter for the Journal
Ihst nlEht. MI Lathrop karnes. claim
agent of the road said.
our trouble with the passes began las,
january. shortly after Tho issue OF the
blue, or first quarterly passes. Of 1896. At
that time pass No 1t2 was reported to us
a. having been lost and We Immediately
Two or three weeks elapsed ana We heard
nothing from i02. This was rather peculiar
Tor tn" reason that the majority OF people
who find free transportation over our lines
do not lose any time in using It.
FINALLY two or three conductors renorted
mat NM ,w9 9 passes 6tarlnT the number 90,
Charles Mckinley, the other by an un-
known man. The latter was ordered col
brought IN, Upon close examination II was
discovered that the number '2' had been
removed from The card with an acid,
changing pass 1u2 into 10.
shortly after getting this matter
Strengthened out complaints were entered
by the conductors that In several Instances
parties bearing passes had refused TO show
them and when pressed had alighted from
the ear. The matter was Investigated hut
nothing came OF it until II Few days ago
when u conductor ON the Main street line
examined usp!clous-lookIng number and
This latter made a blum at being inignar,i
Mntil Seventeenth street was reached, at
was chased, but eluded capture.
This ticket Was turned over 10 Chief Ir-
win, and since , ihat il1 time quite number Of
passes and then hurriedly alighted from
the ear when a request was made for IA
close examination. So many of these free
quarterlics are issued by the company that
II Is almost impossible to keep track of
them. hut II u hoped that the forged tick
cts will be recovered and taken out OF
circulation by an order issued TO the con-
duCtors to-day, directing them TO collect
all passes bearing certain numbers"
Mr.. w. a. Satterlee, purchasing agent for
the Metropolitan lines, has personal charge
OF the issuing OF free transportation and
has collected considerable evidence in ref
erence to the forgeries in question. He
was not at home when called upon by u
journal reporter last night, but 1t is un-
derstood at the company's headquarters
that Mr.. Satterlee has "A valuable clue by
which he hopes TO discover and later con-
Wet the guilty person or persons.