The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-23
WESTERN ROADS ISSUE A ssy3IACK-
LIST" WITH A THOUSAND
NAMES Or MORE.
EDITORS ARE IN DISGRACE.
MINISTER'S AND POLITICIANS LIKE
WISE BEING SHOWN IN A
BAD LIGHT.
soo's RATE ON BREADsTuFFs
of Railroad Affairs in This
Section.

One of the most interesting contribu-
tons to the literature of the day is the
Blacklist" Of the Western railroads,
(which is a thirty-page pamphlet, but
officially it is not called by that name.
Confidential Memorandum" is the
name which it bears, and between it's
covers are secrets about the way poll
ticians, editors, advertising agents and
other people abuse the confidence of the
railroad companies that would create
q good-sfzed- scandal were the names
made public.
The revised edition of the BLACK
list has just made its appearance, and
bears on its cover, printed in big black
type, the information that it is ''for
the exclusive use Of those persons to
whom it is sent" 1t is a publication
jealousy guarded by the railroad COM
panies, kept under cover, and some
general passenger agents think so much
of it that it reposes most of the time
In a safe guarded with time lock
The pamphlet just out contains list
of over 1000 persons who, after they
had successfully worked the roads for
free transportation, have hied them
selves to a scalper and enriched their
S own pockets, as well as the brokers',
afterward being found out
A majority of them got there for
selling editorial mileage. An Indiana
editor was star performer, and he
was blacklisted because he publishes
scandalous articles against roads that
refused him transportation"
'Willfully allowing his half-rate per-
Z NIT to be used by another" is the rea-
son why priest hafling from Webster
City, To-, is now presumably paying full
fare when he travels. Another is listed
because he rode on another's pass"
Opposite the names of a long list of
country editors is found the remark
that they refused to return transport
tation after the paper suspended"
A prominent man in Chicago is played
up in good shape because he borrowed
state pass and rode on same. A
st. Louis clergyman is accused of US
ing clergy permits for procuring half
rates, which he afterward sold to scalp
ers.
Bogus clergmen are plenty in the list,
their trick being to obtain clerical half
rate permits and dispose of them to
ScalperS
A prominent feature Of the blacklist
is that it includes the name of every
ticket broker doing a Scalper business
in Chicago, fact they may not relish
The pamphlet which contains all this
Information is divided into two parts,
the individual List and the News
paper List" and the latter list contains
the names of some 800 newspapers
about the country which make a prac-
tice of hawking transportation
given them in payment for advertising
Twenty-siX papers in Chicago are on
the blacklist, all of them, however,
with one exception, being weekly or
monthly papers or magazines with no
standing.
There is list of RESERVATIONS" elev-
en- newspapers and eleven individuals
being published as having their names
dropped from. the list. The president
of female university in Alabama,
however, who sold editorial mileage,
isn't among those restored to good
standing.
Hotel clerks by the score are down
on the list, mostly for Scalping passes.
A large number of railway officials,
clerks and employees, are blacklisted,
all for disposing of passes to brokers.
Below are given some of the reasons
for blacklisting persons whom the rail-
road companies. either by employing
spoilers, interviewing with scalpers, or
lifting transportation on trains. find