The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-07
PENNY SCRIP IS UNIT OF MILEAGE New Form of Railroad
 Mileage Adopted MUST BE EXCHANGED Each Coupon Now Will Be Good for One Cent in Fare, Rather Than One Mile in
 Transportation

J. K. Richardson, secretary Of the Southeastern Passenger association, has issued an interchangeable penny scrip tariff book to be effective January ', 1912, by which it is provided that the cent will be the unit of railroad mileage rather than the mile.
 Each book, according to the official announcement of the association, will contain 25O0 coupons of the face value of one cent, which may be used by the origial purchaser and no other, as medi- ums for the purchase of one way trans portation under the rules and reguia- tions set forth by the carriers. IIacn book will be sold for $20, and they will contain the same identification method and will be essentially contract as the mileage books now in use by the various railroads Of the Southeastern association. The scrip coupons will not be accepted in payment for second-class fares, or ex- cursion fares, party fares, colonist or settlers fares, but only as first class tickets
 It is announced that the scrip coupons will not in themselves be honored for passage on any train. They must be exchanged at all agencies for tickets, as Is not the mode of exchange between ordinary mileage books. At non-agencies or at stations where the agency is not kept open for the sale of tickets at train times, the scrip will be taken by the conductor or ticket collector as cash fares or in such a manner as will not bc fo the scrip mileage basis.
 The exchange tickets will be honored for checking baggage and for passage only where the original scrip book and exchange ticket are presented together and not otherwise
 Reduce Fares
 Locally the railroad officials under stood, In some cases, that the new method of transportation will serve to reduce the fares now paid with mileage coupons.
 It has not been definitely announced by the participating carriers to the scip book plan whether the sale of $20 and $25 mileage will be withdrawn or not. It Is deemed at this time cheaper to buy the scrip book at the s2O rate rather than the other form of mileage. It may be held, however, that passengers will prefer the other form of transportation on account of the wider territory in which the present proposition is accep- table,
 The territory for the scip book is con- fined to stations south of the Ohio and Potomac and east of the Mississippi rivers. Other restrictions are also placed on the scrip books.
 Every railroad in the association, of which there are at this time 42, are parties to the penny scrip tariff. They will be issued for one way first class transpor- tation on the following railroads, nine of them operating into Birmingham: The Alabama Great Southern Alabama and Vicksburg, Apalachicola Northern, Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic At antic Coast Line, Atlanta and West Point, Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad, Carolina, Clinchfeld and Ohio Central of Georgia railroad, Charleston and Western Carolina. Chesapeake and Ohio, Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific, Georgia railroad, Georgia and Florida, Georgia, Florida anS Alabama, Georgia Southern and Florida, Gulf and Ship Island, Illinois Central Louisiana Railway and Navigation company, Lou isville and Nashville railroad, Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis, Macon, Dublin and Savannah Macon and Birmingham, Mississippi Central, Mobile and Ohio, Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, New Orleans and Northeastern, North ern Alabama, Richmond, Fredricksburg and Potomac. Frisco Lines, Seaboard Air Line, Southern railway, Southern rail- way in Mississippi, Tennessee Central. Western Railway of Alabama, Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad, Virginia rail- way, Washington Southern, Western and Atlantic, Winston-Salem Southbound and the Wrightsvile and Tennille railroads