Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-10-01
THE NEW TICKET
Facts Concerning Form of Trans.
portation the Rock Island
Objects to.
CONVENIENCE FOR TRAVELLING MEN
Number of Those Who Have Been
Getting Rebate Will be
Reduced.

Passenger officials of most of the
western railroads have reached an
agreement to commence Nov. / the
use of interchangeable mileage tick
cts, good on trains, in place of the
present credentiaI system. The chair
man of the Western Passenger associ-
alton has been notified to prepare 10
handle the new ticket in the mileage
bureauX of the association Nov. l, al
s to have printed and distributed the
rules and regulations to ticket agents
and purchasers Of the new ticket. 1t
will be good on the following:
Chicago & Northwestern, Chicago.
St. Paul, Minneapolis q Omaha, Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy, Chicago &
Alton, Chicago Great Western, Wis
consin Central, Illinois Central, Great
Northern, Northern Pacific. flinneapo-
lis &; St. Louis, Iowa Central, Quincy,
Omaha & Kansas City.
Expect Others to Follow.
The roads which have agreed to use
the new tickets are confident that
others will do so later. The principal
roads which have not voted the
change from the present system are
| the Rock Island, Santa Fee and Gould
| lines. Under the rules of the mileage
bureau of the Western Passenger az
sociation any road may use either
form of mileage ticket but not both.
| The new ticket will cover , 900 miles
and will be sold for 500. If the origi-
nal purchaser uses it exclusively he
will be paid a rebate of $3.50, there
by reducing the cost of his transpor-
tation to practically , cents a mile.
Train conductors will honor the
ticket regardless of whether or not
it is presented by the original purchas-
er, the mileage bureau being relied
upon to discover if more than one
person has Travelled on it. One of the
principal reasons for the adoption OF
a ticket for which 500 must be paid
in advance is to prevent the so-called
local use of it, In other words the
who now travel for > cents q mile
pay cents.
Has Been Easy to Get Certificate.
Under the credential system, which
has been in use for several years, 10y
paying 81 anybody can secure a Ger
tificate which entities him to a re
bate making his transportation cost
him , cents mile, provided he trav
els 1000 miles in year. For each
trip he paid the fun rate, saving a re
ceipt given by the ticket agent, and on
these receipts the rebate was paid
through the Western Passenger as
sociation. 1t is said much complaint
has been made by commercial travel
ers, that they lost time by having II
purchase tickets and get receipts,
without which they could not checl
baggage. \ large petition for tick
ct which would be honored by con
ductors of trains without question
was presented by firms employing
commercial travellers.
Another Raise Asked.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen, acting for employees of most
of the western lines, is preparing to
make united demand for raise il
wages to correspond to that which
was recently given the conductors
and trainmen. They will ask from II
to 20 per cent advance over what they
are getting now. The executive com
mittee of the firemen is in session il
Chicago now preparing line of cam
PaigA.