The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-05-08

ing streetcar transfers Our electric
road is about one mile and a half
long, running from the two passenger
depots to the state capitol building.
The state of North Dakota owns and
controls same, and they do not issue
tickets or transfers at present. The
first two years that the road was in
operation the state issued tickets, but
they discontinued using same and
charged a money fare. From the time
that l received your first letter | have
been looking out to see If / could get
you some of these tickets and I think L
am on the right track Of all that are
in existence. If you will write to me
in about week I will try and get them
and send them to you. The reason
1 am taking so much interest in getting
you these tickets is that I was in your
city in 1898 on my way to the Phil
ippine islands as a member of the
North Dakota volunteers" and l can
never forget the kind treatment that
the citizens of your beautiful city ex-
tended to us. Respectfully yours,
D. M. SLATTERY. superintendent.
\ don't always wait to write to the
cities. but get anybody | know to
bring transfers to me from any place
they happen to be. My brother used
to be in the navy and he got me quite
a number from the different foreign
ports at which he stopped. Still on
the whole / have gotten most of them
by my own letters to managers.
Up to the present 1 have transfers
from all the countries of Europe, even
little countries like Servia and Greece,
from Africa, India, China, Japan, Aus
tralia, New Zealand, Peru, Canada, Ha-
waiian and Philippine islands, Cuba,
South America and from every state
in the union except two, Nevada and
Delaware.
Perhaps you think all transfers, any
way those in the United States. look
alike, but they're not. Some of the
eastern cities have very thin, very long
ones that must be awfully hard to
handle, especially If they crowd their
cars the way we do ours. The Boston
transfers are about nine inches long.
I'd hate to have to clip lot of them
in a hurry if / were the conductor
In China they use little stiff pieces of
cardboard and in Greece they have
big ones almost as big as our ferry
commutes. They have some little bits
of ones in Greece, too, not more than
1h inches long by Y of an inch wide.
so perhaps the big ones are kind of
commute more than a real transfer.
In lots OF countries they have diff
ferent classes of passengers-first, sec
ond and third; the transfers are often
different colors and always show the
class at the top. The most curious
transfer of all / think is one of the
German ones. 1t is square and has
printing on both sides. The names OF
the streets are printed in each corner
and the rules of the company in the
middle.
l suppose transfers are like any
thing else when you begin to collect
them, you can't help getting interested
in them. Many people think they are
funny things to save, but / don't. I'D
company in the whole world and hope
to do so in time. It's fun to get an
swers from little out of the way cities
in Europe and South America. | didn't
have any idea of learning geography
when i started. but I've learned a lot
without trying to.
1t was my fathers idea TO get a
cabinet to keep my collection in. 1t
was hard keeping them i'm order with
out a special place. You see besides
the transfers / get l have TO keep on
hard a supply OF our own to trade with.
Counting these and my collection I
have now about S00650. The cabinet is
7 feet high by 8 wide and has 525
pigeonholes. Some day l hope TO ex-
hibit IL publicly