The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-05-19
SEEN AT THE DEPOT GATES
There Are Frequent Blockades When
Women Hunt for Their
Tickets.

L. J. Sanford, president of the Union
Depot company, is in Il mood To supplya
stocking room for ONE travellers. lie
has nearly reached this conclusion be-
caGse OF many rather embarrassing III
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, ana
they hide their tickets and money in 50
many places about their clothing. When
they go after their valuables, it takes
time to reach them. Gatemen don
have to tell them to hurry, because ii 10
usually the hurry that delays them
a few days ago, a young woman
walked to the gate operated by Curtis
Reaves. expecting 20 take Il 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, AMI
she looked at them, looked at the gate
man, and looked appealingly to Il woman
near.
Come, hurry" Reaves insisted.
There are others behind you waiting TO
get out"
Nv thiG tinnn tho wanna Nnn11n'G face
and neck had taken on Il carmine hue.
She chung 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
,rier, Will" doing extra duty at Il gate,
was confronted by a young woman 60
ing TO Chicago. Wallenstrom asked for
her ticket, and she made a 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 IA 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 a dainty little pocket
attached to Il garter she had it. And
she was so nervous she couldn't open the
clasp on the purse. She became excited.
I'm getting nervous" she said.
But she got the purse open and showed
her ticket. She was angry and said
things" about the depot and about the
gateman.
They carry their tickets, sometimes -
W~allenstrom said, lin places where they
have great difficulty in getting them.
One woman came to a gate and when she
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 II. | 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 tin her hustle.
There is hardly Il day passes that
women do not come to the gates with
their tickets concealed in their stock
lngs. 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 IA stocking room be pro-
vided. ut would help the women" Mr..
Sanford said.