Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-04

Chicago, May 3.-The Michigan Cen tIal railroad company filed a bill in the United States circuit court yester- day seeking an injunction restrain ing all the ticket brokers in Chicago from dealing in non-transferable con transferable contract form tickets.
 The defendants named in the bill are:
 George Bay, Jr.. 145 Clark street.
 Harry l.. Ringer, 151 Clark street.
 John G. Finney. 161 Clark street.
 Reward Goodman, 176 and 192 Clark street.
 J. H. Frank. 1855 Clark street.
 A l. Frank. I09 Clark street.
 Ben Block 1S7 Clark street
 Wasserman & Co. 191 Clark street.
 Albert J. Geis, 203 Clark street.
 Emil J. Paider. 1S6 Clark street.
 Peter Koul, 1SS Clark street.
 Sol Livingston, 190 Clark street.
 Edward List, 191 Clark street.
 c. F. Stout. 226 Clark street.
 William Blaze. 26S Clark street
 Swartz & Braveman, 269 Clark street
 David Reed and Harry Houston, 271 Clark street.
 J. Reeder. 446 Dearborn street.
 c. c. McClain. 414 Dearborn street.
 D. J. Jacobs, 437 Dearborn street.
 Thomas O'Neil, 1s7 Canal street. - Leonard. 10 Park row.
 The Michigan Central declares the defendants make their living by deal ing in excursion and special form transportation. It is set forth that q American Ticket Association, Ameri- can Travellers Association. National Ticket Brokers Association and Guar antee Ticket Brokers Association, all Of which act together and guarantee tickets sold by all members.
 The bill then describes how the brokers, after purchasing special tick cts or the unused portions of them, fraudulently represent to the public that the tickets are good in anyone's hanos, and thereby induce others than the original purchasers to sign the tickets. The exposition at St Louis is mentioned and the bill ex- presses the desire of the railroads to contribute to its success. In order to do so the railroads have granted re- duced rates and have issued for use during the exposition a special form of ticket, which is good for the origi- nal purchaser only. It is declared in the bill that a large portion of the traffic to and from Chicago will be through Chicago.
 The interest felt by the business ele- ment of the city in the matter is thus set forth:
 The business men of Chicago are desirous and exceedingly anxious that passengers travelling over your orators lines enroute to the fair at St. Louis shall stop over for several days in the city of Chicago, and that said reduced round-trip tickets shall be so issued as to confer the right to stop over in Chicago for at least ten days without any additional charge being made. Your orator is exceedingly anxious to concur in the request and wishes of said business men of the city of Chi cago, and that the granting of said right to stopover would be an addi- tional inducement to many persons to go to the fair and would largely in- crease the number of persons who would travel over your orators road and would therefore greatly increase your orators revenue. That in com pliance with said request your orator purposes to issue such stopovers pro- vided it can be protected from the losses which would ensue to your orator by the fraudulent and illegal use of said round-trip tickets by persons ether than the original purchasers thereof
 It is pointed out that even if stop overs should not be granted in Chi cago it would be possible for the holders of worlds fair tickets to dispose of them between the arrival of eastern trains and the departure of trains for Sti Louis. The court is told that it would be impossible to secure identification Of all passengers taking the trains here for St. Louis.
 The only practicable way to secure protection is therefore said to be by means of an injunction restraining the purchase and sale of such tickets by the brokers.
 The court is asked in the end to grant permanent injunction, but in the meantime to issue a temporary re- straining order which shall remain in force during the litigation.