The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-20
CentralVermOnt AdOptsNew
Rules as to Checking
Baggage
TICKET AGENT TO
TEAR OUT MILEAGE
viii Issue Ticket in Exchange TO Be
Examined by Baggage Master-Road
to Make Sure that Passengers Go on
Train Instead Of by Automobile

10 MAKE sure that Passengers Go on
Train Instead Of by Automobile
Travelling on the Central Vermont
railroad by mileage with baggage TO
be checked viii be quite ceremonious
proceeding on and after February /.
rhe necessary proceeding viii be ike
this:
Instead of going to the baggage mas
ter at the station, dodge him and 60
to the ticket agent. Exhibit TO hum
your mileage, inform him of your in
tended destination or the junction
point where you will leave the Central
Vermont.
The ticket agent will remove from
your mileage book the requisite mileage
exactly as if he were a regular con-
ductor and you were then on the
train In lieu of the coupons he will
issue you a ticket a very special
brand of ticket. On this ticket viii
/ be written in ink the name of the sta
1 tion or junction point to which the
Central Vermont will have charge of
YOU and your baggage and he viii
write on the ticket, also in ink, the
number on the cover of your mileage
book and will return both to YOU.
! There is no charge for this exchange.
Your next move is TO the baggage
master. lou will exhibit to him both
the ticket and mileage book. He viii
compare the number the ticket agent
has written on the ticket with the num-
ber printed on the cover of your mile
age book If they correspond he will
check your baggage. The new rules
do not say what will happen if the
agent should have made a mistake III
copying the numbers. Everyone is en-
titled TO one guess.
I Once on the train-if it has not
left in the meantime-the conductor IN
the course of time will encounter you.
Once more you will exhibit the mileage
book and the ticket. The conductor
will compare carefully the number
written on the ticket with that print
, ed on the cover of the mileage. This
being satisfactory he will keep the
ticket and return the mileage book
cover with what is left of its con
tents, or if there are no contents he
will keep the mileage cover with the
ticket.
The reason for all this is known
positively to only a few of the higher
! road officials, but it is limited that the
automobilists are the cause of it all
Some say that automobiles, while
enjoying themselves riding about the
country, have managed to have their
: baggage carried by the railroads free
; of charge by the simple expedient Of
! having in their possession a small re-
: mainder of a mileage.
! 1t is said that they have walked up
! to the baggage master, shown him a
mileage book, requested checks for a
trunk Just as though they intended 70
patronize the road themselves and pay
: real money to do So Also ii is ru-
mored that the baggage masters have
. been a little lax in inspecting the
= mileage strength of mileage books and
have consistently failed TO comply
with the regulations requiring that
the mileage coupons to the limit OF
the proposed journey for the baggage
[ be punched with ''BC' punch. The
e net result has been that the railroads
It have carried an enormous amount OF
, heavy baggage free of charge and the
{. Central Vermont does not propose to
e continue to do so. The Rutland road
5 put a similar rule into effect last fall
d and it has been satisfactory TO the
n road.
IF To those who travel light with nc
4 baggage TO cheek the use of mileage
,e on the Central Vermont road viii bc
"a after the time-honored custom OF al
- lowing the conductor to remove tbs
coupons without bothering the tieket
( agent. who, under the new baggage
n checking arrangement, usurps agalns-
: his will some of the duties of the bag
gagemaster and some of those of til,
! conductor.