The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-10

June, and the reports current are to
the effect that the other 100 will be
relieved Of duty in short order.
tn" experiment with tie train au-
ditorS WAS made originally with the
intention OF giving the plan Il ,wO-ycar
try-Oout. il WAS stated. and The judg-
nlent OF those in authority as To its
success WAS to he framed O, he pro
cc"dS from passenger tr1l'ic. Should
these proceeds be- greater than in the
similar preceding period. making al
lOwance for the natural estimated in
crease OF business on the system. il
was understood that the scheme would
have been branded worth while.
The relief accorded the conductors
or railroad trains was g!,.n as II con
iid"ratlOn for the institution of the
new order Of things. but IL was not
argued as prime reason for the use
OF the ticket collectors. according TO
the report, and il is now understood
thai the Southern is planning to re-
turn TO tn" previous manner OF opera
ting the trains and collecting fares
with tn" conductors only on the Job.
IL has been stated that the new cx-
ccutivr of the road. President Fairfax
Harrison. made the statement that
in ten years he could finish the dou-
bic trucking of III" main line OF the
entire system with the appropriation
used for ticket collections. This ap-
preparation annually to the new de
partnent was $500 900 and in ten years
this would amount to $4,000. 900 plus
the increase by interest on its invest
mont otherwise. This sum would GER
tainy go far toward carrying out the
ambition which the president Is said
to have expressed
Relieved ticket takers. paid on less
than ten days ago and given trans
pOrtatiOn to their homes. are quoted
ns saying that their chief. Captain
Hunt Of Atlanta. assigned the slack
travelling Of the season as the reason
for their dismissal. AS far as is now
known none OF them was given any
hope of further employment. however,
and railroad men, not In position TO
know but close enough to shrewdly
guess. have surmiscd that the real
intention Is to relieve practically ali.
II not all. ticket takers and to dis
continue the doubling up system.
q
that more conductors would be given
employment. and possibly on several
OF the more crowded trains of the
main line. two men would run.
This would apply to the popular
trains. the sections OF No rs and
others. The crowding of these trains
are said to make the work OF ticket
collectors difficult for even young
men, and nearly all of the conduc-
tors are middle-aged men. who have
spent their youth I'm climbing from the
lowest ranks to the position OF more
responsibility.
Whether the system of employing
ticket collectors has made the treas
ury fuller than 1t would have other
wise been or not. II has been said that
MIR. Harrison's alleged promise of
doublc-tracking from the saving in
that department. has made a powcrful
appeal TO the company's stockholders.
On the either hand. to Judge from
several expressions which seem to
have been rpDreanntotiye NJ tho fao,;n1
of the general travelling public. the
change back to the conductors will he
welcomed. as It is said that the lat
tor show more courtesy and cOnsidera-
tion for the traveller as a rule than
does the collector proper.
LIP TO SENATOR SMITH