Show dewey bought a ticket when commodore dewey left washington in november 1897 to take command of the fleet in the pacific ocean he did not ride on a pass or half rate ticket being a personal friend of S B hege general agent 0 the baltimore ohio passenger department part ment in washington the now famous sea fighter bought two farst class tickets from washington to san francisco via the baltimore ohio chicago northwestern union pacific and southern pacific lines aleut brumby accompanied the admiral and athey departed on november 27 some time ago manager of traffic D B martin of the baltimore ohio set out to secure the coupons 0 the tickets and only recently secured all of them he has had the ticket containing dew ays eys signature lithographer lithographed litho graphed and Is issuing fac similes as souvenirs st loula globe democrat |