The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-20
The TICKET
ASSOCIATION.
The Passenger Agents Hold
Meeting on Excursion
Steamer.
AGAINST SUNDAY EXCURSIONS
Governor Montague, General Lee
and Mr.. Hardwickc Make
Addresses.
AGAINST SUNDAY EXCURSIONS
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NEWPORT NEWS. VA. Oct. 19.-The
second days business session Of the
forty-niflth annual convention OF the
American Association OF General Passen.
ger and Ticket Agents was held on board
tho N. Y, P. and n. steamer Pennsyl-
vania, while the visiting railroad men
were enjoying a ride through Hampton
Roads. The vessel passsd tho Newport
News shipyard, allowing the railroad men
TO get a. view OF the mammoth plant and
It's activities; then to Norfolk passing
the Portsmouth navy yard and landing
on tho Norfolk side Of the harbor There
cars OF the Chesapeake Transit Company
were boarded and Cape Henry and vir-
ginia Beach were visited, an oyster roast
being one item Of entertainment at the
FORMER resort. The pilgrims returned
to the Chamberlln Hotel in time for din
ner. as
The banquet this evening was one OF
the most brilliant In the history OF the!
Chamberlin Hotel. In the brilliantly de-
corated ballroom covers were laid for
over four hundred guests The guest Of
honor was Hon. Paul Morton. Secretary
/! of the Navy, who Is an honorary men,
Der OF the Association.
& GOVERNOR SPEAKS. sl
The first speech OF the evening was by
Governor A. J. Montague who with we'll
chosen phrases. welcomed to- the hospi-
table soil OF the Old Dominion. the visit
Ing railway men.
General Fitzhugh Lee, president OF the
jamestown Exposition Company, in behalf.
OF that enterprise, presented to the pres-
dent of the associa ton a gavel made from
one Of the trees OF jamestown Island. @
The annual Grafton was made by Mr..
Samuel H. Hardwick. passenger traffic
manager OF the Southern Railway.
Mr.. Hard wick began his address with
rapidly to consider the history of the
passenger business. He said that the
English railway companies first publish
Sed the name of one man as their MANAGE
sment, his title being generally that OF
manager. The custom was followed by.
the American railways for ten years,
except that our Arrangements generally
included two ,men. the president and the
superintendent had charge OF traffic. as
well as passenger operations, and all an.
nouncements to the public were made
over his name: Almost Immediately"
continued Mr.. Hardwick. ct was recog-
n'zed that the passenger traffic required
specification and the superintendent first
began to employ solicitors for passenger
& traffic, giving them the title ct passenger,
agents. AS the volume of traffic in
creased. and the number Of these agents
increased accordingly a general passenger
agent was placed over them. Prior to
this the position OF general ticket agent
was created by the necessity Of having
some one to look a fter the ticketing
arrangements in the super:ntendent's Of
flee. on some roads the title of general
passenger agent and general ticket agent
became Joint and this joint title is still
continued by some.'
In this connection he said that the first
meeting Of the present organization was
under the title OF General Ticket
Agents, the meeting beng held in Pitts
burg, In 1856. Mr.. Hardwick then paid a
fine tribute to the passenger agent, who
was known as the Tack Hammer Artist
and went UP and down the earth adver-
Using the advantages Of his road and
soliciting passengers.
A COMPARISONS.
Comparing the passenger traffic and
the freight traffic, he said that the re-
port OF the Interstate Commerce Com
mission Of July 6, 1904. showed that the
revenue earned from passengers, mail.
express and other resources accredited
to passenger revenue, amounted to SILL