The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-11-15
sAurrINo OowN ON pAssss.
Santa Re Preparing For Annual
Squeeze on Privileges.

The Santa Fe road will I'd aw the
lines tighter" on the free pass busi-
nets after January L. 1902.
This Is the announcement which IS
made by the officials of the road.
Some OF them smile when they talk
Of IT, Some. who believ Elm 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 will be no change in the
present forms of tickets. Some re-
strictiona not now in force will be
ordered for the giving Of free passes.
do not yet know what the new regu-
latioas will be as have not received
them from Chicago / do not know
what class Of free transportation will
be restricted. Roads usually try to
reduce the pass distribution aoma
what every year"
The passenger department Of the
road viii have some surprises in store
for the country editors in various
towns Instead Of re-issuing annual
pas1ea TO editors the policy Of the
road is 60 issue the trip pass book,
which were int oduced last year and
used quite extensively
The road finds that it can keep
track of the amount Of travelling an
editor does by means Of the trip pass
book These pass books contain so
coupons. and each coupon is good for
one trip. The trip may be long OF
short, just so It is within the jurisdic
ton of one conductor. When new
conductor takes the train he tears off
another coupon. The road issues
these books to editors as required.
Some towns are so situated that an
editor has to use six or eight coupons
20 go any distance in the state, and
these editors are able to get more
conupon books than editors who are
on The main line of the road. and can
make long jumps under one conduc-
tor. The passenger department Is
sues these coupon pass books in ex-
change for advertising, and the coun
try editors who are liberalin their ad-
vertising are able to get practically
all the pass books thes need
The annual pass is considered too
valuable possession to hand out to
all the editors of little four.pase
wesklies. published in towns of few
hundred population. 1t gives the cdr
tor an unlimited amount Of transpor-
tation for which the road believes 1t
receives inadequate returns. 1t is for
this reason that annual passes for
country editors are going out of fash
ION with the Santa Fs passenger de-
partment.
The Santa Fe has another reason
for substituting coupon books for an
nuals one of the officials of the
passenger department said, in speak
ing the situation:
"OIe trouble with annual passes Is
that If they ara lost o. ctolen, the one
into whose possession they come can
cause the road great loss of money
or course the pass is bulletined' but
as conductor has hundreds OF buile-
tined paszes. it is not very often that
he detects anything wrong. We know
in the case of the coupon books that
there Is a definite limi. to the amount
which the road can be defrauded In
this manner. 1t is a better thing for
newspaper men. ani a better thing
for the road, TO have the coupon sub
stituted for annuals."