Show 1 WANT TO RESTRICT RAILROAD PASSES Advisability of Making Travel Traveling Traveling Traveling ing Ticket Agents Pay Is Considered Annual posses passes over muss miles of rail railroad railroad railroad road for 1810 1910 and after may bo be denied to ticket agents The Question of with withholding withholding holding the 12 months frank from ticket sellers was considered at a meeting of an executive committee of ot western we passenger passenger passenger ger agents In Chicago and it was agreed that for the present the list should be cut to the bone and entirely abolished as soon as possible this being left to the of officers officers of the individual roads Since the abolition of ot commissions for forth th sale of ot railroad tickets to agents there have been many and varied efforts to cater to these men in various ways was Agents who sell coupon tickets control considerable of the railroad travel in the country and those in charge the big systems are continually soliciting their In Influence Influence influence fluence When cash was paid for the sale of tickets over foreign lines In the way of commissions the method of getting their travel by this route was comparatively comparatively comparatively easy but DUt since the material con consideration oIl on was abandoned the influence ence of agents has been sought BOught in other ways Trip passes over any line in the country may always be secured by ticket agents and for members of their families These men also are liberally favored by the Pull Pullman Pullman Pullman man company who give every concession possible General passenger agents of many of the railroads In their efforts to catch the ticket seller during the last one or two years have been sending anding these representatives representatives representatives annual passes for themselves and families To many of the influential agents Pullman baggage and carriage passes In tha the different terminals have bave been enclosed with the tho railroad pass Not only have the tho regular ticket agents been given these passes but assistant ticket agents who in many cases are telegraph operators have hae been included In the frank list These operators change and often orten are temporarily out of employment and It is charged that many of the annual passes given to them have bave been used illegally The Tho railroad officers say It Is the abuse of the privilege rather than the way the cus cua custom tom torn Is spread that has caused the agitation agitation agitation tion for an abolition of oC the annual passes to any man below the title |