The times., 1898-02-13

A special meeting Of the American
Association Of General Passenger and
Ticket Agents will be held in the Ar
lington Hotel, in this city, tomorrow
evening. The meeting was called by
Mr.. w. A. Turk. of the Southern Rail
way. who is the president of the asso-
citation, for the purpose of furthering
anti-ticket scalping legislation.
In addition to this, the use of safety
paper for tickets and inter-line ticket
contracts will be considered. The asso-
citation usually meets once a year, gen.
orally in October but it was deemed
necessary that special meeting should
be held because of the fact that Con-
eress is now considering a bill which,
should il become a law, win prohibit the
sale of railroad or steamboat tickets
except by persons authorized to sell
them by the company which issues
them. Mr.. Turk, when seen yesterday,
had this to say:
THE bills relative to ticket scalpers
were reported favorabiy in both houses,
but the understanding is that they Will
not be called up for two or more weeks.
In spite of the favorable report, how
ever. il has come to our ears that
few members have said that our asso-
citation. in which the bill was framed
originally did not represent the entire
railroad element of the country; that
it was, in fact, composed Of only few
of the general passenger agents i'll
America. No sooner was this made
known to our members than more than
thirty of them asked me to call a meet
ing TO be held in this city on February
IA.
Instead of representing only few
railroads. our association has for men,
bers all Of the general ticket and pas
senger agents of the important railroad
and coast steamship companies in this
country. Canada and Mexico.
One of our objects in calling the
meeting was TO arrange for the print
ing of railroad tickets upon standard
paper; paper which wifi render impos-
sible any altering. effacing or forging.
The inter-line contract. too, VIII proba-
bly, be agreed upon. The contract, or,
in other words. the conditions printed
on the ticket. will then read the same
on all roads"
The officers of the American Associa-
ton of General Passenger and Ticket
Agents are w A Turk, president:
Charles S Fea, of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, vice president: A ]. Smith,
of the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern, secretary; John Sebastian, Charles
S. Lee, George De Haven, d. c. Ed
wards. c. p. Atmore, A. c. Kendall and
George i. Nicholson, members of the
executive committee.
One hundred and thirty five rlemb bers
of the association are expected to be
present at the meeting tomorrow night
representing as many railroad and
steamboat lines. Among others there
are expected: John Sebastian. of the
Rock Island; A. ]. Smith, of the L. s.
and NJ. S: 7. w. TeasdaIe, of the Chi
cago, St. Paul, Minnesota and Omaha;
J. r. Wood. Of the pennsylvania sys-
TEN; II. c. Townsend, of the Missouri
Pacific; ]. G. Schriever, of the South
ern Pacific; w. r. Rabcock, of the New
York and New England James Barker.
of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas; II.
P. Baldwin, Central Railroad of New
Jersey; c. F. Daily. Lake Erie and
Western; George H. Daniels, of the
New York Central: W. z. Davis. of the
Grand Trunk; Charles s. Fea, of the
n. p; A. H. Hanson, Illinois Central;
George H. Heafford. c. NJ and St P:
w. F. HOW'LL. d. L. and w; s. K
Hooper Denver and Rio Grande:
Charles s. Lee, Lehigh Valley; f. ].
Reed. of the Monon; o. w. Ruggles. of
the Michigan Central; F. L. Whitney.
Great Northern; c. L. Stone, of the c.
and +. /.
On Tuesday the New England Pas
senger Association and the Southeast
ern Passenger Association will meet
at the Arlington for the purpose of
transacting routine business. Most of
The railroad men expect to remain in
The city several days.