The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-02-26
NEW PASS SYSTEM,
Railroad Companies Protect Themselye
r ..% from nDOsitiOn.

Railroad Companies Protect Themselves
from Imposition.
People who have been wont to travel
on newspaper tickets or advertising mile
age will travel on their own this year, or
else pay out 3 cents mile. The rule was
laid down late last year, with number of
emphatic and adequate reasons why, &C,
eo,npanying: and with the new year it
began to be enforced rigidly, and there
began. also at that time, series of en-
tertaining Incidents to take place at the
Wisconsin street. ticket offices, which edify
only those i'll charge there. and are
known only to them and the irate and
questioning other party concerned, who is
usually not concerned to his editication.
agreeable" said 4. p. Chapman of the
st Paul office. although the prevailing
impression is that it was arranged so to
| make holders of transportation all the
trouble possible. 1t was, of course, mere
~ protection to the company, and it is
protection. too. in large measure to those
travelling with passes.
The North Western, st. Paul and Wis
conSln Central roads advertise all over
the United States in almost every publca-
ton OF standing, and us result. all
these publications. of standing find them
selves entitled to transportation. This is
IN accordance with the contracts, and the
roads issue large numbers of orders on
demand of these publications. 1t happens,
however, that in the far East and the far
West and such remote corners of the
world as the roads do not reach. there ex-
lst jurisdictions OF standing just the same,
and from the managerial desks of such
Journals come order for passes in what
ever degree the terms of the contract
names. These have been issued cheer
fully by the roads up to this year. presum-
ably to homeSick members of the staff
who would call the road into acquisition
ON their return journeys. but many times
i'll reality, and of course coming in al
most every case to the notice of the COM
pan'cS, the transportation so secured
would be taken by the attaches of the
publication.. AMI commercially juggled
With to the extent of being sold out
right to scalpers.
SO it is thar every Traveller with claims
to ride free. through newspaper connec
ton, finds himself armed with a docu,
n,cnt ordering his ticket and with this
must present himself in person at the
ticket office to have Il detailed account OF
MS personal appearance punched on the
pass. The classitca tons are those long
employed Oh the mileage books: male, fe,
male, height. color of hair and approx
nation to the story of the scales. There
ought to be no objection to this. one
would think, the trouble Of personal pres
entation being little compared with thu
convenience. but this is not so and all
comes from absence Of paraphrase in the
descriptive terms to be punched. For in
stance as to a e. all the world is divided
into three classes-yOung, 1niddle-aged
and elderly. All the world masculine,
that is. for on the other side there exists
no such word as elderly, so there is nc
trouble there for the man with the punch
The difficulty all lies with the other two,
for while there is without doubt such
legalized classification as middle-aged, no
body comes under the head.
"a woman anywhere under 60 is
young. said ii clerk in one of the offices
already, and the plan has only been in
operation few weeks. 1t is we'll to
learn these little things in advance and
omit complications. When we have
punched up pen picture of a motherly-
first adjective. l can only tell you that
all that stand between us and tip is the
color of our skin. Oh, well. yes" he
added tolerantly, maybe did cxagserate
a little there: Of course that was only fol
the first day or two: afterward we left
of rar'ng and now aged and decrepit'
And the requirement is really IL mild
onn compared with some Buffalo and
Pittsburg necesSites for there the iudg
ment Of assisting clerks has no weight
and the only. talisman recognized is a
photography done by an artist in good
standing, the requirements ought to read.
and duly agreed to by the officiating clerk
as being Il fac-simile. The time may
come, if there is trouble this way, wher
the photograph plan will be adopted on
all the roads, but at present the descrip-
ton expetlient seems to be fortunate
one, and one so far MISUNDERSTANDING
Wisconsin