The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-08
RAILROAD WORLD.

| The Railway Journal in it's current is- l sue has the following to say regarding
 the use of fading inks by the ticket scalp | CTS:
 "The following statement is made by the Executive Board of the Railway | Ticket Protective Bureau relative to tick ct manipulations by scalpers: From investigations made by this bu-
 rean, it has developed that one of the most fruitful sources of revenue to ticket brokers interested in the manipulation of railway tickets comes from their ability to increase the value of tickets by chang Ing signatures, destinations, dates limits. etc Specially prepared inks in fountain |, pens are placed in the hands of brokers agents including bona fide travellers who purchase tickets in railway ticket offices under the direction of brokers to use in signing tickets. These fountain pens are kept In stock by brokers and contain vola- tile inks which evaporate and disappear from the surface of tickets When it is desired to scalp ticket. the broker furn- ishes the passenger with a fountain pen with which to sign his name to contract ticket at the time the ticket is bought. The passenger Is specially instructed to use this fountain pen, and not, under any circumstances. use the ordinary pen and ink usually provided at the ticket counters. Almost by the time the first point upon which the ticket is to be scalp ed is reached. the original signature has evaporated. making erasures by chemicals or knife easily possible. The second sig i, T. q. scalpng point by the new purchaser in his own name, with the same kind of ink. This plan Is followed out at the different points at which ticket Is scalped, until 1t is entirely used up. This makes it diff cult, if not impossible for conductors, agents and others to locate transferred tickets through the best available means, that of the signatures of the original pur- chasers."
 New Orleans railway ticket agents have in several instances. received instructions to positively cut out fountain pens In securing the signatures of ticket purchas- CTS.
 The Pennsylvania railroad has just announced that 1t has ordered locomo-
 
 England for exhibition purposes at the St. Louis worlds fair next year. and may include engines from Japan and It. ally in the exhibit. The Pennsylvania is making the exhibit to show the supe- riority of It's locomotives over the for eign work and incidentally to pick up any of the good points that they possess After the fair the engines will be put in- to service on the different divisions of the road under charge of experts, to de- termine their relative capacity with the standard locomotive of the road. Each engine will go to a division in turn and will be tested and then sent to some oth- CT point. Records of each machine will be kept and thus the company will know exactly in what the foreign er- zines excel the American ones or on what point they fail
 The St. Louis Globe Democrat says:
 Complete returns of passenger earn lngs on all the roads for August show that all previous records were broken The roads on the whole earned consid- erably more than in any other August in their history. Previous to this the western roads pointed to the worlds far year in Chicago as the largest in their history, and the Buffalo roads to the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo Both years, however, are considerably exceeded by the present one. though there has not been an extraordinary event to call out the people. The record has been made on ordinary, everyday business, and is considered all the more noteworthy on that account.
 In the six months ended June 30 the gross earnings of the railroads of this country increased more than $90,000, GOO and the net nearly $2O.OOO,OOO. making the period the most prosperous in the history of American railroads.