The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-08-20
Charlotte Chronicle.

| through transportation.
Charlotte Chronicle
The public has been very patient in
giving to the railroads of the South
fair trial of their plan for requiring
mileage to be exchanged for tickets
at the ticket office After fair and
reasonable trial, it transpires that
the public is being put to trouble al
together incommensurate with any
visible advantage to the railroad or
to anybody else. There has been
some vague explanation that this ex-
! change for mileage helped i'm some
way to keep the company's earnings
from getting away from them. If it
accomplished this, the public cannot
see how it does. The mass of the
people would be in sympathy with
| any movement to prevent leakage of
the company's funds. But the pub
lie should not be required to pay Il
price in time and annoyance far in
excess of what the railroad can save
by the process.
Coming from New York Southwark,
baggage cannot be checked Oh South
ern mileage. Coming on those trains
which reach Southern points after
bedtime it is necessary for the pas
senger, who has paid sleeping car
accommodations, to sit up in order to
| get mileage exchanged for ticket
further South. 1t is also necessary
to re-check all baggage at junction
points, like Washington. This prac-
tically does away with the American
system OF through transportation,
for both passenger and baggage. 1t
is a very serious backward step and
there are many situations i'm which
the passenger would prefer to pay
the regular fare and not use a mile
age book at all, although he has one
in his pocket. rather than suffer the
annOyances, inconveniences, and lia-
bility to loss because of the necessity
OF handling the tickets and money in
; II crushing crowd, for the exchange
ticket offices are always rushed. To
the ordinary every day man who has
to work for his living and make it
by his own Judgment, the troubles
imposed upon the public by this
mileage exchange business is one of
those peculiarly irrational things
that railroad men at times do.
1t is well known that the railroad
men have their own troubles and it
is important that the public shall
Judge fairly upon matters that give
trouble to the railroad people. But
1t Is equally important that the rail
road people have reasonable consid-
Grafton for the public and that it
shall not inject into it's management
regulations which give Inconvenience.
annoyance and trouble, and conduce
to discomfort rather than to com
fort. II the railroads are an essential
element in American commerce. the
travelling public il also essential.
When we consider the extent of com
mercial travel that is done to make
business for the roads, the manage
ment OF the roads should see to it
that every comfort possible is put
within the reach of the travelling pub
lie. The system OF exchanging mile
age for tickets ought to be abolished.
There Is plenty OF time to handle
mileage on the train and practically
no time at all to handle it under the
present method at the ticket offices
IL there is any protection to the
road in the system, the protection
ought to be gained by some other
method than by breaking up through,
travel, through baggage checking,
and requiring the passengers to suf.
Ter inconvenience at a junction point
like Washington far greater than at
u terminal. The commercial ira veler
the contracting engineer. the buyer
and all that travelling which goes to
make up the business that the road
does, most generally has barely time
tocatch IL train. 1t would be an i'm
mense saving if these could have a
ticket like the Pennsylvania. where
there were no conditions whatever
required, SO that they could get their
baggage checked and get Oh H. train
without hinderiny .lrlay which l.
now Incurred at the ticket offices
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