Show I TO DISPENSE WITH TRAIN I 1 Rio Grande Officials Said to Be I 1 Contemplating Change f in Policy 0 TEN DROPPED FROM LISTS Conductors to Have Full Swa Sway Y f Again Eastern Again Eastern Roads I I Take Taka Action Actions Is lathe the Rio Bio Grande system about to P with with nil train auditors Al- Al ough no definite confirmation of t the rumor can be had hael except In Denver Don I It Is la understood locally that ten train I auditors have e been laid off otto Whether i this Is 18 a 0 matter of or or change In operating policy Is 18 not known Train auditors have ha not been tho the great success th they y were we're supposed to tobe be While these o auditors prevent down b by conductors the they have brought about a ft condition of or affairs affairs af at- fairs lairs which is h not entirely H to th the op operating df departments of ot all roads It Is argued that conductors who have been on one run for tor from I 10 to SO 30 years eAr know kno moro about the intricacies of ot tickets and know how better botter to cope copo with the tho th p passengers than th the auditors who have ho in man many had but Lut a n. few weeks or months months' training in railroading The train auditor Is 18 higher in authority as asle le regards tickets Uel and DUel passengers ers than the conductor Many times there arises arises' a n dispute between conductor and auditor 1 and the passengers engers suf suf- for fer Leagued With 1 Scalper lik road meads are beginning to seethe see e lh the mistake I. I I. I of or train auditors and some of the lt roods on have havo dono away awny v with lih them entirely Recently the Chicago Chi Chi- cago caKo Alton road found Cound that train auditors were in league with tho the worst class of or ticket scalpers and antI th that t th the tho r railroad was suffering It was was wasI I found that the auditors Had made mado ar sr- arrangements srI I for tor the UtI s scalpers alpers to toll soil I tickets for Cor a short out of or Chicago I St Rt Louis or Kansas City The Tho tickets weeo specially marked so RO that the I auditors would know them when the they I were ero presented The Tho passenger would I pay a n dollar or FO so for tho the ride between I Chicago and St. St Louis or other distant points as tho the case caso might be This extra mone money would bo taken en b by tho the auditor and ami lat later r divided with tho the scalper Tho rho Alton officials o o bellevo this system system SS tem of at grafting has haCI been on for tor a time and that thousands of or dollars dollars dol dol- lars lara have havo been lost In this manner What hot will be b done in th the matter of or train auditors remains to be bo seen s-een but it seems quite quIlt certain that their days I are numbered on Western roads i |