| Show The Evils of Ticket Scalping Philadelphia Teb 2What I foil understand is how good Christian pea tie can have sympathy with ticket scalping saId Gootge W EOYd 00 oC the best known railroad men cf 1 iiii dolphin Mr Boyd had Just returned > front Washington where lie went wIth Rom other railroad mn to araa In favor of the antlscalplns bill I naturally asked Mr Boyd wlat Christianity had to do with scalping Just this he said that every tto en ticket goes Into the hands of a scalper and that scalpers offer Induce merits to railroad mn and tlcepl03 car onductors to steal lot mo tell you one experience that came within my own knowledge A man of good standIng stand-Ing In ChIcago died suddenly leaving a widow i an invalid daughter and a son They were almost entirely without mon The laughter waR able cj to give lIIu i sic lessons at home the son got em ploment In the Pullman Rervit as 0 conductor and contribute to his mothers moth-ers support The mother and sister worshlled the oung man One lay when he was lying over In Jersey City between trips the agent > or Il scalper terni > ted him to steal some of the railroad rail-road tickets which came Into his hand ilia salary was small He sleldca About that time the railroad ovci which he traveled WitS Investigating some ticket thefts ire was caught and brought before I the officers of the road He made confession breaking done and crying bitterly This occurred on Saturday The next day a neighbor took to his mother house In the little town not far from Chicago where she lived a copy of a Chicago Sunday paper telling the story if her boys arrest The mother borrowed bor-rowed the money to como east and started Immediately arriving In Phlia delphln at 4 In the morning At I oclocl she came to the railroad ornc and promptly fainted before she could tell her story It was n very pltlfil story when she told it It so moved the railroad people that they got Permission per-mission for her to see her son ao1 promised that If he pleaded guilty It should to treated leniently He did Plead guilty and the Judge suspend sentence The railroad company gsa gs-a to him and his mother to go horn and afterward gave him employment employ-ment Oh I could tell you n volume about our experiences with scalpers and thol victims On day Il man who was going to Cincinnati bought a ticket In ou 4 1 Jersey City office and put it In b 4 pocketbook with 1125 In money Mini ho got on the train the pocketbook ha disappeared He returned from Newark to Jersey City and reported the cape It happened that only one ticket In thil form had ben Bold for that train so the lost ticket was easily IclentIM and on order wo Issued outlawlna IL Some time afterward a young nan brought the ticket into our office end Asked to have It redeemed He toll < l avery a-very circumstantial story The ticket had 1 been ought by a lady who ranked to go to her sick brother but rfccMns a telegram saying he wns betttr the had changed br mlndIlnd RO 00 I kept him In conversation until our secret service officer cam In When he saw the detective ho broke down and told 1 the true story of the ticket It had ben t cent to him by a New York ticket scalper with careful directions how to resent It and he was to get a dollar for his trouble I told him he would In piosecutcd If he did not give up tM ticket and refund the 12j which had been stolen with It He refunded too money and we sent It to the owner la Cincinnati together wit the value ot the ticket Another time we made a scalper Ills gorge was on a fraud he had Practiced on an old lady He sold her a ticket from Cincinnati to New York charging her 19 or 1 more than she would hive paid any railroad company and the ticket they gave her was so altered that It was worthless The old lady rot M far as Plttsl urt and there ihe was put off tho train She was In a dlstrcsslnj condition being without money Our agent wired me asking what ho should do I answered tcllint him to IBBUO n pass to tho old lady take up her tlcKtt and get Il statement 01 t he cave NVO had our chief secret service officer ree her later I In New York and the nrrxi to go to Cincinnati If noccEjar and identify the man who lad cold Itr tbe ticket Then we notified file I pcLtr khe Iold I that If ho did not refund whit e for the ticket and all expons tome 15 or 20vte should prosecute ww He refunded the money From buying stol n tickets to en I couraglm men to steal them 11 I a shOT step I have seen BO many Young men torn from the arms of their mcthtn or their wives to serve term In jail whO Prtt tttrptef lo said that they were steal by the ant of a scalper that As I sail I to you at first I cannot under Christian prtip o an stand how good defend the scalpers buslnes I 1 bIt b-It Is because thai dont know the fills I have told you HENRY AMNO |
