The Elbert County tribune., 1906-04-19
SEEN AT THE DEPOT GATES
There Are Frequent Blockades When
Women Hunt for Their
Tickets.

e ]. Sanford, president OF the Union
Depot company, is in mood to supply a
stocking room for women travellers. He
has nearly reached this conclusion be-
| cause of many rather embarrassing in
cidents which have occurred in the pas
sageways leading to exit gates, reports
the Kansas City Star. For, as he says,
..women don't have many pockets, and
they hide their tickets and money in SO
many places about their clothing. When
they 90 after their yaluables, 1t takes
time TO reach them. Gatemen don't
have to tell them to hurry. because 1t is
usually the hurry that delays them"
A few days ago, young woman
walked to the gate operated by Curtis
Reaves, expecting to take Santa Fe
limited train for New Mexico. The
gateman politely asked to see her ticket.
why, do you have to see it?' she
asked.
Yes, madam" Reaves replied.
There are two Santa Fe trains out
there. and | want to see how your ticket
is routed"
The young woman blushed. She car
ried several bundles in her arms, and
she looked at them, looked at the gate
man. and looked appealingly to woman
near.
Come, hurry Reaves insisted.
There are others behind you waiting 10
get out"
BY this time the young woman's face
and neck had taken on carmine hue.
She clung to her bundles. A crowd had
collected behind her and persons were
becoming impatient. Slowly the young
woman laid her bundles down. beside her
and reached for her ticket and took it
from her stocking.
Not long ago John Wallenstrom. train
crier, while doing extra duty at gate,
was confronted by young woman go
ing to Chicago. Wallenstrom asked for
her ticket, and she made face" at him.
She insisted that she be allowed on the
platforms without first showing her
transportation.
Sorry, madam he said, but orders
are to make everyone show a ticket
You'll have to either get yours or go
back in the waiting room"
The young woman saw he was in
earnest.
"All right" she replied.
She laid her grip beside her, took hold
of the bottom of her skirts and went
after the ticket. In dainty little pocket
attached to a garter she had 1t. And
she was so nervous she couldn't open the
clasp on the purse She became excited.
''I'm getting nervous" she said
~.
her ticket. She was angry and said
things" about the depot and about the
gateman.
"They carry their tickets, sometimes"
Wallenstrom said, "in places where they
have great difficulty in getting them.
One woman came to a gate and whensshe
learned she had to show her ticket, she
began digging in her hustle. She worked
and worked, but no ticket. Finally, she
became frightened. believing she had
lost it. l didn't know what would hap
pen, SO to avoid further embarrassment
sent her to Mrs. Shull, the matron.
They found it just where she had
fastened it-in her hustle.
There is hardly a day passes that
women do not come to the gates with
their tickets concealed in their stock
ings. Some of them think we mistreat
them when we ask that the tickets be
shown"
Many Of these cases have been re-
ported to Mr.. Sanford. Gatemen have
suggested that stocking room be pro-
vided at would help the women" Mr..
Sanford said