Show FOK ONLY nosy the cincinnati and covington Corl neton candidate their income cincinnati 0 oct 4 A few weeks ago the cincinnati and covington street railway company reduced tho the faro fare from 10 to 7 cents and travel was greatly increased but bui strangely enough the revenue was largely decreased the company pan employed detective EA E A miller cleveland of cleveland to die discover cover the cause if possible 1 e stiller miller came b here e r 0 an and d began running a car cari he was affable and soon had a staunch friend in every conductor on the road one night about a week ago when lie he had made his last trip a conductor said to ilia him n are y you u short tonight yes said miller the conductor then handed h miller a lot of punched tickets he took them to his bis room ind and made a careful exa examination mirka tio of them if he found that one of them theart had been scorched he inquired at headquarters what was done with punched tickets after they were returned by the conductors and was informed that they were placed in a sack and burned in the power house furnace he watched th the e operation from a place of secrecy and the leak was discovered A clerk threw a large sack full oi of punched tickets brithe on the edge of the fire and left the room the fireman hastily took u up a r rake ake and with it drew the bag ofa of tickets t stamping out the fire these tickets were sold to conductors for fors 2 the company then tried tried several plans to catch the conductors who used them and at last successful in catching six of them and estimate that the amount of money stolen will range any where from axi to and say the stealing has been going on for five years one conductor on a salary of 12 a week has been carrying twenty five shares in a building association the scheme was a new one and hard to detect |