The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-08
|,mII DISCUSS UNIFORMITY.
.orR MEN MEET NEXT
WEEK IN WASHINGTON.

called by the Secretary of
,.,erican Association of Gem
passenger and Ticket Agents.
emily in Ticket Contract
Desired-It Is Thought This
e TN. VIII Eject H-Savannah
Fl ,,.er officials Will Attend.
scol,ing Eli VIII Probably
no discussed.
4 ,snscaal meeting of the American Asso-
If General Passenger and Ticket
will he held Feb, IA, at Washing
rho call for the meeting, issued by the
'0". to-,. General Passenger Agent Smith
| S|,5e Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
n.,roaa. has just been received by the sa-
MI members of the association. 1t is
'''.,..7 tl-at all of them will attend.
,-,a meeting was called by the secretary
.,s solicitation of a number of the i'm
ut lines of the North and East. 1t is
5ssfrad TO have report submitted from
..o standing committees on uniformity IN
rsa If paper for tickets and in con-
..,o+e The general passenger and ticket
s.a,+s desire to see this important matter
enorv settled, and it is hoped that the
o,r,ira meeting will serve to do so.
Uniformity in the use of paper for tick
e.s the tickets themselves and the form
of contracts has been question before
the minds Of the general passenger agents
for many years. II now seems nearer ac-
,ornIishment than it has ever been be-
fare At the last annual meeting of the
aesociation held some time ago at st. Louis
II was practically agreed to adopt GER
tain form Of ticket, but the standing COM
mittees of the several sections of the coun-
trv we're given additional time to render
their reports upon the question of uni
foruity in the matter of contract forms.
The standing committee of the Southeast
eln territory consists of General Passen-
ger Agent j. c. Halle of The Central of
Georgia and General Passenger Agent H
N. Emerson of the Atlantic Coast Line
and General Passenger Agent w. l.. Dam
by of the Nashville, Chattanooga and ST.
Louis These gentlemen will probably all
be at the meeting.
The majority of the general passenger
and ticket agents are in favor of uniform
ity all around, and the Washington meet
ing may declare for it. The claim is made
that such uniformity would minimize the
chances of manipulated tickets escaping
the observation of those through whose
hands they would pass. AS 1t is, the many
different forms render it almost imnossi-
bic for one to become so thoroughly IA
miliar with them all as to readily detect
evidences of the use of acids or other ma
nipulations. Uniformity of the tickets
would render the clerks through whose
hands tickets pass as familiar with all as
they now are with the forms employed up
on their own roads. Clerical work would
be simplified by the adoption of the uni
formity.
1t is thought a matter of vast interest
to the passenger departments of the lines
ell over the country will be discussed.
This is the proposed ant-scalping bill,
now pending in Congress. This will prob
aoly be an absorbing topic of conversa-
uon with the passenger officials. 1t is
Akely that they will consider the best
pan Tor them to pursue in order to Sc
cure the passage of the bill. The interest
OF them all is enlisted, and something will
uouotless be done that will carry weight
with it when presented to those in whose
nahus the late of the bill will rest.
Mr.. William Bliss, president of the Bos-
ton and Albany Railroad, was in Savan-
nan yesterday, accompanied by members
OF MS family The party is travelling in
me private car of the president. and is en-
route TO Florida. The car was brought
IN sunday night over the Plant System
from Charleston. The members of the
party decided that they would like to see
savannah, and accordingly the car was
neld over here until the afternoon, when
:, was taken on down to florida by the
Plant System.
Mr' John NJ. Egan, vice president, and
Mr.. f. II. Hinton, traffic manager, of the
central Railroad, have returned from q
business trip to Atlanta.
Mr. j. j. Farnsworth, Eastern passen-
ger agent, with headquarters at New
YORK, for the Plant System, returned
Nortn yesterday after a visit of a counle
OF days to Savannah.
Inc general passenger agents of the
savannah lines have been notified by
commissioner Richardson, of the South
eastern Passenger Association that a
neeung OF the conference committee will
W ne'd FEB 2 in Florida. The place OF
iueetAig has not yet been determined
Spor out II will be at Palm Beach, Jack
sonFille or st. Augustine. The probabili-
YES are said 20 be in favor of the last
nauled being the place selected for the
edtheFlng Of the general passenger agents.
WI James Maloy, connected with the
NdshViile, Chattanooga and ST. Louis rail
ia UIu' Is IN the city, a guest of the Pu-