The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1904-08-18
LOW RATE TICKtIS CLOSELY
OBSERVED.
Railway OmcIais Making Every
Effort 60 stop scaIplng OF
Nontrnnsferable Trans
portation 90 StIsOuis,

Passenger officials are making ev.
cry effort TO prevent the non.trnns.
iersble railroad tickets TO the Fair
being used 10y any other than the
original purchaser.
Legislation, both Federal, state
and city, has been invoked, aud the
courts have, without an exception.
held that the sale of a non.transfera-
BILE ticket such as is used for excur-
sion traffic to the Fair Is illegal and
the purchaser is In many instances
liable for forgery, inasmuch as these
tickets have to be slgnedin the name
OF the original purchaser.
With the law behind them, the
steady fight which the passenger
men are making against the ticket
brokers, It is believed Is bearing
fruit.
At the same time, an enormous
number of cheap tickets are sold to
persons either passing through st.
Louis DIT returning from the Fair.
In many Instances the conductor
does not discover the fraud until the
purchaser Of the ticket Is far out ON
the line from st. Louis, and the pas.
senger Is unable TO pay his fare.
In this instance 70 Is the duty Of
the conductor To put the purchaser
of the train.
As n result the passenger ofices
are flooded with complaints made
by persons who have suffered this
treatment and who have made their
way back to st. Louis and are un-
able to get home.
The only recourse for them is TO
prove which was the broker from
whom they bought the scalped tick
ct and demand the return OF their
money. In this ease they get their
money back, but generally the as.
sistanee OF the police Is required.
In an affair OF this kind the rail.
road renders all possible assistance.
but In many Instances women, not
informed of the law providing that
brokers shall givea receipt, purchase
scalped and changed tickets, and,
unable TO pay their fare, have been
put OF the train, suffering many
hhrdships thereby.
In order 60 prevent instances OF
this sort many OF the St. Louis lines
Eaye arranged for "A system of ticket
disposition before the person can get
on the train at Onion station.
In this way the fraudulent ticket
r. often noted aud the person saved
the discomfort Of being put OF the
train when 81. Louis Is far behind.
Many Incidents wherein not only
men but w0men and Children nrp
put OF trains because their tickets
are not valid have come up since the
opening OF the Fair, all OF such Incl.
dents being presented 10 the notice
OF the Chief Of Police and Mayor.
On the desk 81 almost every pas
official in st. Louis can L.
found large punches OF tickets which
been manipulated by brokers.
In many instances not only has
the date OF these tickets been chang
but the original destination
erased and another substituted. In
which way "a ticket costing origi.
nally 81 or 81 may be- good for a
passage costing $50 or $40.
At the three validating Offices rs
tablished by the railroads many
tickets which have been manipulate
I'd have been detected. and the pur.
saved not only the discomfort
aud humiliation Of being put on the
train, but directed as TO the best
means by which lac can recover his
money .-St. Louis Republic.