Show M ML r L I MILES OF RAILROAD S I ii tin Tickets Ticket tickets The fhe passengers era du dug down own In their te re hiding Ilac places for tor tile the bits bit of pasteboard necessary for tor a ride A drummer who In an old story torr to a new man pulled hi his mileage book bookout bookout out ot of the first tIIt pocket he be put his hili hand Into The Th old man acro across the aisle aille had less experience and more trouble Around In all the pockets pockett ol hi his coat vest and trousers without catching a ot of lila 18 ticket he turned turnell frantically tl to hi his overcoat tall ran sacked that garment In vain a In plunged Into his a 1 11 scattered It its contentS and finally sank ank bark back In his hili seat at hope Ie less dejected exhausted Then n the cond came caine along and pIcked the theold old lid mans ticket out of his had band where It had been placed so it could not bt be forgotten The fhe Incident had bun been observed and enJoyed b by two other Th The conversation turned toward railroad t anI and paIne ot of the pair remarked tI It ResIns strange trane any 11 one should have In locating ills Inti ticket the prInts enough ot of them Ye Yes I suppose It does print several leral thousand Several thousand You want to gU guess again I have lIen been doing 1 a little figuring and I And that the tb the I Issued last year ear It placed end to end would reach from St to a distance ot of 1 miles After carpeting the route of 01 It iti I electric lighted limited bet between these cities there would bf be lIve miles of tIckets left leftover leftover over to tn cover the tra tracks k a Pretty prett long strip ot of paper I I know now It but I 1 think my calculation calculations tion art are correct I ha have e some figures In m my note book and It If you like ell look together The These figures show the number ot of tIckets issued by bythe bythe the Burlington from the Omaha general during durin the last year ear First let Ift letU III U look It at the mileage books I find and there we were ot of these thoe books book Put out Some ot them those thole containIng mIles jut Just twentysix feet hen pulled out But Bul th the 1000 mile I book more seen are nine feet teet long These Thelt stripe ot of mileage are J printed piloted ort off one olle piece ot of paper nowadays mind ant the hi has not u as ta easy r a task luk as 01 when several strips strip ot of paper lr tr ee hasted together to make ulI UI obI I book Jr If we these IW strips or of mileage end to end nd they III down don the track for tor twenty milt I Perhaps It would lie be more nore run fun to pile I Ithe the mileage books one UIl on IIII lit f UI an athor as w we used to do With lIh Ir If the mileage books book would ii I tj tI of lIh other no 1 should it II i i h than any you 1111 t t feet you unit I Itak tak to Ute use up these thele mIleage bk ot of them contain 1000 miles I miles and a few p 30 milt In I Ith th r lt there ther Is II transportation fir miles It If you on roo mil milda s a aday da day for lor sixty years ouli Just about U p paU aU all your books book Or suppose yu wont lInt to III study all the Burlington lines Thu Th re reat at are 5 LOPO mIles mile ot of raIlroad In th hington you could make makl UIN 1115 trips triP ocr It All before your mileage sa gave out But mileage tickets Ire are not the on only ones In the ticket case calle There II ar others The tickets most used by BurlIngton station agents tor br I travel between Points on that line are aro I kno known n as book tickets One hundred J Jot ot of them are ste bound tOrf together In the form of 01 a book and on the th the agent writes itt the name ot of the starting point and ot of the destination or Of these the ticket mart man It at Omaha used last lut year ear Allowing ao for forone forone one Inch In heIght w we should hould bue a monument ot of towering lit 1 tt feet In the fir Ir Whenever the Ule ticket sales from ont one station to Another are ver very numerous and the demand regular card Ird tickets the place ot of book tickets Of nr the former jut Just about were used last yur A stack tuk ot of card tIckets measures IM eight inches In heIght II It a little we flail th the yeura supply would pile up over a halt half tall quite a piece ot of statuary Ot Of course the tickets In this paste pasteboard board monument would not Mt Include the thousands ot of card carll tickets ticket printed for tor special excursIons It on top ot of the card rard ticket were Ia d the tickets issued during one year tar for tor county antI ami State ra fairs I 11 expo tOtI convention picnics and similar our carti carll tower would be 1 ft mile mil high bight anti and the monument would seem Hm like R a boys boS else elze tombstone In comparison n nut the many its ets to point aft urt Its own On II lines through tickets ore ate mod mad b by pasting t III as l ny strIps l as are c called Ie fir rUI b by the different rent lInes ier of which I the passenger will t travel ra I I hu have seen Iten the ticket man haste u one ot of these coupon tIckets ticket till It reached a length ot of five feet fHt The purchaser of at this ticket as al you OU may mar guess was al gong on onto to do considerable travelIng over Ii a number ot of linea and nd make numerous stop overt overs Sixty Inches of is II quite a strip for tor one ticket Int It 11 glad every ticket tIet l nt that alec else our p pocketbooks resemble cases cae About tIckets were issued lilt last t ll II been baen baena a as Ion long at as my ticket nv feet teet the they would have stretched out over or 55 Ii I miles or more th thag distance I between New York and I In addition to tile the tickets ticket issued from I Omaha are those thOle sent ent out b by the Chi Chicago calo cago antI b by th the St It Louis general ot of lit In order to find out how m many ny miles ot of tickets ticket were iSsued b by the en entire tire Ure flouts last Jut year let us mUltiply the Omaha issue luul by three the latter r ottlee we find twenty and miles ot of mIleage tickets and miles ot of book I tickets seventeen and ml miles ot of I coupon tickets and miles mile milend and nd mil miles ot of card tickets In all ali 1 mIle ot of Ita nar er and cardboard good for travelIng Three time this amount j gives hl us UI 43 miles mile fit cf tickets ur or some omi I here near what Is II used b by the entire ton Houle The Burlington I ii rebuilding It its headquarters In Omaha and the ha will Include larger larr quarters for tor the ticket department I think you youcan can oan readily see ee that a good lood den ot of space pac It is required for tor the tock of 01 tickets The train down and the gen tieman who had given his companion so 10 much Information closed his hlA notebook and aliel him a courteous A little IItti Iter the lone traveler r medi meditating taUn tating upon the Imm Immensity ot of one Ohe department ot of th the system said laid Sa Say conductor who aa that Inan That Oh That was a John Francis Francia general passenger agent ot of the rUn J ton I |