The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-05-09
PROMINENT MEN
NOT INVOLVED
Only One Citizen Named by Ag-
ent as Ticket ScaIper.
Railroad Wants City to Pass AntI.scaIp.
ing Ordinance. Homeseekers
Rates from Colorado. VIII
Do More Advertising.

i DO More Advertising.
II The proper way, and the met
| bod employed in Houston, Sar
| Antonio and other large cities O
| Texas, to do away with ticket
tscalping,' said General Manager
/ Jeff n. Miller of the St. Louis
Brownsville and Mexico road, yes
terday afternoon, is for the city
to pass an ordinance against it.
Ticket scalping is a sore spot with
the railroads. and they should be
protected against it."
| Mr.. Miller, with Traffic Mana
ger Vim. Doherty, Auditor J. 1.
Church, of the company, returned
to the city yesterday afternoon at
$50 o'clock, on the special train
carrying the private cars St Elmo
and Paisano, after trip up the
line as far as Sam Fordyce.
Upon their arrival, Secretary
Charles M. Barnes of the Lower
Rio Grande Valley Commercial
club and a HERALD representative
called upon them. Mr.. Barnes
asked Mr.. Doherty to give him the
names of the leading citizens re-
ferred to in the latter received by
him from Mr.. Doherty, in regard
to ticket scalping in this city.
Now what will you do if I
give you the names?" asked Mr..
Doherty.
The citizens of Brownsville will
endeavor to create such a senti
ment against the business as to
cause it to be discontinued" re-
piled Mr.. Barnes. AS far as I
know, there is no one here who
makes business of selling the re-
turn coupons of tickets, exceptper-
haps the homeseekers themselves. .
Mr. Porter, the station agent
here, said Mr. Doherty, gave me
the name of one resident of Browns
vile, who tried TO sell the return
coupon of ticket to woman,
who asked Mr.. Porter if she could
travel on such a ticket. l perfer
not to give you the name of this
man, however, as / do not wish to
do him any injury. What you
ought to do is to have an ordinance
passed against the practice. /"
Mr.. Miller emphasized the same
opinion.
Mr.. Doherty said further that if
Brownsville should suffer any i'll
results from ticket scalping, the
city itself would be to blame. He
also spoke of disseminating the
present rule of permitting travellers
to validate tickets at the Browns
vile station the preceding even
ing. This he asserted, would pro-
badly have a deterrent effect, as
the scalpers would have less op-
portunity to do business.
Mr.. Doherty added that, unless
the citizens of Brownsville do some
thing to stop the practice, connect
ing railroads which are issuing
homeseekers' rates would refuse to
continue that privilege.
NEW HoMESEEKERs EXCURSIONS.
Mr.. Doherty stated that he had
just succeeded in persuading the
Colorado Southern railroad to run
regular homeseskers' excursions
direct from Colorado points to
Brownsville and the Brownsville
country.
These excursions, he said,
are for the benefit of the Browns
vile country. Purchasers of these
tickets will be compelled to come
to this place to validate their tic
kets. These are the very people
that your country wished to get
into touch with. In Colorado for
mers are familiar with irrigation,
and to sell them land that requires
irrigation is much easier than it is
to sell to an Illinois or an Ohio
man, who has s,ways depended
upon the ra.nrsll.
But" he added. we cannot
expect this o. the other roads to
continue these low rates, if ticket
scalping continues here
Both Mr.. Miller and Mr.. Do
herty, at the conclusion of the
again emphasized the
of having an ordinance
passed in Brownsville prohibiting
ticket scalping.
Mr.. Doherty also said that he is
erdeavoring to induce the com
pany to appropriate $4,000 more
for advertising this country, and (
added that he would see that every ,
part of the line is equally and i'm
partially exploited.
The railroad officials went to
Point Isabel last night in special