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Show Run road Tuts Jleggur. j Although there is a clause in the In- terstuto cojimerce law forbidding the I granting of railroad passes, there is scarcely a railroad company in the country that doeB not issue thousands of passes every year. In this city there are souio railroad men high in authority 1 who Und it necessary to devote two or three hours each week to the countersigning counter-signing of blank passes which their pri- ' vato secretaries subsequently fill in as I directed. Applications for passes are made on a great variety of grounds. Women wlio have sick relatives and friends to whom they want to go form a very large class of pass beggars. Chauncey : M. De-pew sees a large number of tills 1 class. His wido celebrity and reputation reputa-tion for geniality makes him the favorite favor-ite game of impecunious persons huut-1 huut-1 ing for passes. All railroad presidents endeavor to ! dodge the applicants for passes, but j they only partly succeed. Many appli-! appli-! cants, when told that the president is ! too busy to see them, calmly sit down : outside of bis office door and wait until i be comes out. Sometimes they wait half a day, and then fail to get the de-: de-: sired pass. New York Times. |