Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-11-15
REGULAR ANNOUNCEMENT.
The Santa Fe officials to Shut Down
on Passes.


The Santa Fe road will draw the
lines tighter on the free pass bust.
ness after January /. 1902. says the
Topeka State Journal.
This III the announcement which Is
made by the officials OF the road.
Some Uf them smile when they talk
Of II. Some who believe In keeping
up appearances. maintain that actual
restrictions will be enforced with the
beginning of the new year.
General Manager II. U. Nudge.
when asked concerning the plans for
the pass business during the coming
year. said:
There viii be no changes In the
present forms Of tickets. Some re
st%rictlone not now in force will be
ordered for the giving Of free passes.
I do not yet know what the new regi.
lations will be. AS | have not received
them from Chicago. ! do not know
what class of free transportation will
bc restricted Roads usually try to
reduce the pass distribution some
what every year"
The passenger department of the
road will have some surprises in store
for the country editors In various
towns. Instead of reissuing annual
| passes to editors. the policy of the
road is to issue the trip pass books.
which wcre introduced last year and
used quite extensively.
The road finds that il can keep
track Of The amount of travelling an
editor does by means OF the trip pass
book. These pass books contain fifty
coupons. and each coupon Is good for
one TIP. The trip may be long or
short. just so IL Is within the jurisdic-
ton Of one conductor. When IA new
conductor lakes the train he tears on
another coupon. The road issues these
books to editors as required. Some
towns arc @ % situated that an editor
has to use six or eight coupons to
go any distance In the state. and
these editors are able to get more
coupon books than editors who are on
the main line of the road. and car
make long jumps under one conduc
tor. Tho passenger department issues
these coupon pass books In exchange
for advertising. and the country ed
itors who nre liberal in their adver'
Using are able to get practically all
the pass books they need.
The annual pass Is considered ttC
valuable n possession to hand out to
all the editors OF little four page week
lies, published in towns Of n few hun
drei population. II gives the editor
an unlimited amount OF transporta
tor, for which the road believes Il
receives inadequate returns. II Is fol
this reason that annual passes fol
country editors are going out of fash
ion with the Santa Fe passenger de
partment.
The Santa Fe has another reasor
for substituting coupon books for an
nuals. One of the officials OF the pas
5enger department said, In speakine
of the situation:
zone trouble with annual passes Il
that If they are lost or stolen, the
one into whose possession they come
can cause the road n great loss oI
money. OF course, the pass Is bnlle
tined. but. as a conductor has hun
dreds of tulletined passes, IL is moi
very often that he detects anythinl
wrong. We know in the case OF tn,
coupon books that there is a defnit,
limit To the amount which the rOaC
can be dcfrauded In this n |
Is a better thing for newspaper men
and a better thing for the road. I,
have the coupon substituted for an
nuals."