The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-13
Santa Fe Officials to Shut Down
on Passes.
The Regular Yearly Announce
ment is o. L.
WAR ON THE ANIMALS.
Country Editors VIII Mostly
Travel on Coupon Books.
Road Wants to Limit the News
paper Tourists.

The Santa Fe road will draw the
lines tighter on the free pass bust
ness after January 1, 1902.
This is the announcement which is
made by the officials of the road. Some
Some, who believe in keeping up ap
pearances. maintain that actual re-
strictions will be enforced with the
beginning of the new year.
General Manager H. u. Nudge when
asked today concerning the plans for
the pass business during the coming
year. said:
There will be no changes in the pres
ent forms of tickets. Some restrictions
not now in force will be ordered for the
giving of free passes. 1 do not yet
know what the new regulations will be
as 1 have not received them from Chi
cago- 1 do not know what class of free
transportation will be restricted Roads
usually try to reduce the pass distribu-
ton somewhat every year."
The passenger department of the road
will have some surprises in store for the
country editors in various towns. In
stead of re-issuing annual passes TO
editors, the policy of the road is to
issue the trip pass book, which were
introduced 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 or short, just SO
it is within the jurisdiction of one con-
ductOr. When new conductor takes
the train he tears off another coupon.
The road issues these books to editors
required. Some towns are so situa-
ted 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
can make long jumps under one con-
ductor. The passenger department is
sues these coupon pass books in ex-
change for advertising, and the country
editors who are liberal in their adver-
Using are able to get practically all
the pass books they need.
The annual pass is considered too
valuable a possession to hand out to all
the editors of little four-page weeklies,
published in towns of a few hundred
population. 1t gives the editor an un-
limited amount of transportation for
which the road believes it receives in
adequate returns. 1t is for this reason
that annual passes for country editors
are going out of fashion with the Santa
F'e passenger department
The Santa Fe has another reason for
substituting coupon books for ANIMALS.
One of the officials of the passenger
department said, in speaking of the sit
uation:
"One trouble with annual passes is
that if they are lost or stolen, the one
into whose possession they come can
cause the road a great loss of money.
OF course the pass is bulletined, but as
a conductor has hundreds of bulletined
passes it is not very often that he de-
tects anything wrong. We know in the
case of the coupon books that there is q
definite limit to the amount which the
road can be defrauded in this manner.
1t is a better thing for newspaper men,
and a better thing for the road, to have
the coupon substituted for annuals.''