Show TRAIN AUDITORS S. S S BECOME Western Roads are Extending r. r System on Many 5 5 Lines 5 I EXTENSION IS NECESSARY Officials U Ue e l E Effort to Work Quietly for Pear Fear of Protest i S From Conductors 1 w Now that tho the protest of ot the thc regular 4 5 conductors on some of ot the western I railroads that have ri recently placed collectors or train auditors on their lines hues have been overcome o and the differences dif di- practically settled it H Is IsId said Id S that the system will bo be extended considerably considerably considerably con con- In the next few months Inmost In Inmost InS S most cases where the collectors have been heen put In service taking fares an and tickets Ol on passenger trains tho the experiment meat ment has been re regarded favorably fa bythe bythe by bythe the c officers of oC the roads and while the western roads are extending S and rind perfecting tho ho s system stem It Is reported report report- ed eel that several se eastern castern roads have ha the matter un under cr consideration H Reasons oni for fOl Change Primarily these train collectors were put on to prevent pre peculations b bythe by bytho tho the conductors although this Is hot tho the reason given gl out publicly b by the management when It starts tho the s stem s 's tem tern Instead ot of giving the real reason th-cy th have said that with the addition of oC more trains to lo the schedule and glIn giving gl In lag ing faster fasler service ser as well vell as handling a large Increase In l passenger traffic the duties of tho the conductors have In Increased Increased increased In- In creased to such an extent that they have all they can attend to In seeing that orders arc are carried out for tor running runnIng running run run- ning the trains properly General Uc of ot 83 System stem The Tho train au auditor UlI system Is Js now coming In lii general uso use on the Iho Denver Rio Grande and the Iho Rio Grande V Westerns Western stern and the Chicago Alton has also made experiments with the tho system tem tern It was said at the time when the first four collectors were put on the theAlton theAlton Alton it would result in a saving of a month for the company The success S of ot the tho experiment is indicated by the fact that the Alton has within the last Jast few tew weeks Increased Its force of ot train collectors so that now the they are arc used on practically ally all of ot the principal principal prin prin- principal cipal trains The Burlington road years ago ngo put collectors on Its suburban trains and Joseph HamS Ramsay lY Jr when president of the Wabash abash road introduced them Ono One of President F. F A. A Delano's first acts nets upon his assuming control of that property was to discharge these men or else to give Ive them other employ employ- in mont ment en I. I A Necessity fr and an nn Economy Now however the collectors are back on the Wabash abash and It Jt Is said raid by good authority that the passenger re receipts receipts re- re fell off ore so enormously after the S were taken off orr that it soon was seen that they were were a necessity economy j Railroad officials have havo not established establish ed cd the lIte system with a blare of or trumP trum- trum P pota tB and parade but on the other t nh v. v used med their their utmost cf- cf 5 3 5 hole matter na os QUI ason ason for rOI this is Js that It Js Is believed cd that the conductors will vIll not nol protest openly against the eel col ll I lectors so long as attention is not called called call caB ed cd publicly to tho the Innovation The They S fear ar trouble e how however hower er I if an any suspicion creeps OUt oui that mat me the suspect the honesty honest of the conductors Ticket Examiners Examiners' Tho The Salt Sat Lake Route so far has not instituted the general system stem of train auditors but the through united limited trains now carry special ticket examiners who travel a short distance out of Salt Lake and Los Angeles and collect fares fare These tickets ar are tiro placed in en envelopes envelopes envelopes en- en and returned to tho the passengers passengers gers gems the next morning Although theS the S system used usell Is Js similar to that employed employ employ- ed on other roads where shere regular Ilar train auditors arc are in ti-i service ser tho the Salt Lake Route has announced unofficially that the purpose of or the examiners Is to guard against scalpers' scalpers and forged S tickets and the examiners aro are experts in lii that line |