| Show ANNUAL PASSES I I Will Be Scarcer TJmii Ever This Year The prospects are that a great many people who have heretofore enjoyed the privilege of free transportation over I the railroads of the country will be disappointed when the time for distribution distri-bution of annual passes arrives The general managers of a large number of roads are adopting what is known as the Midgley pass agreement This agreement cuts off everything but railroad rail-road men even excluding fast freight line men without an order from the general manager of the road over which the transportation is desired It also cuts off tank line men Armour car men and all that class not directly connected with the general railroad service For years efforts have been made to cut down or at least limit the free transportation business but the trouble trou-ble has always been to get the different differ-ent roads to act in harmony in the matter The Midgley agreement is a sort of ironclad however and promises prom-ises to bring about the desired result re-sult for by it the roads bind themselves them-selves not to furnish transportation even to the general officers of a road that refuses to sign the agreement It is estimated that the free pass lists now being made out by the roads doing business here are at least 50 per cent smaller than they ordinarily have been It is evident from this that there will be a liberal dispensation of inverted benedictions when the other 50 per cent who have heretofore been numbered among the favored hosts find that they have been left out in the cold How will this affect the members of the legislature and other public officials of-ficials of eminence in power But the ghost had taken flight and no sound was beard in response save the echo eminence and powerSt Paul Pioneer Press |
