| Show ORIGIN OF TICKET SCALPING started ta la Wheel lux W to a quarter of 0 a century ago afo labard campbell hubbard a nail traveler of wheeling recently said to a globe democrat man 1 I have just been reading the decision of judge nash at dallas in the ticket broker case under he new texas law intended to do away with the sc alpers pere business it strikes me as being an exceedingly clear and a forceful exposition of the subject matter involved in the traxler prosecution it is closely in line with decisions in favor of the sc alpers in minnesota illinois and pennsylvania I 1 the gravamen of these decisions is IF that thai an unused railway ticket or an unused portion of a ticket is legitimate property and any law which interferes with it its s disposition by sale is contrary to p alle public thal policy icy if not in direct conflict with h the co constitution ution of the united i states this decision of judge nash will help the sc alpers not only down in texas but all over the country the extent to which the ticket brokers help the weak roads against the strong ones is but little realized and without their aid many of the lines would go under it is their method of cutting rates secretly to stimulate business and the brokers are really fregm regular lar a agents g ants of these companies by the bye perhaps P you dont know that the scalper business originated in ray my town wheeling it was about twenty five years ago we had a couple of bright i young fellows there upton W dorsey and another chap named frank they took a notion to speculate on a small scale in tickets of the baltimore ohio and the first scalping transaction that ever occurred in the history of railroading took place there in wheeling the baltimore ohio company made a big fight upon it and the case went to the supreme court of the united states the result was that the supreme ine court handed down its famous decision to the effect that when a man buys a ticket for so many miles of transport transportation ati he I 1 is entitled to travel those miles regardless of the limit dates stamped upon the ticket by the companas comp anys a gents agents from that time on the sc alpers business flourished and spread with amazing rap rapidity laity all over the country it is now as safe and as legitimate a line of business as banking or insurance or manufacturing and is moreover a mighty help to the |
