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Show ! RIO GRANDE ALLOWS i NO REFUND OF CASH In (Passengers Who Fail to Get Tickets Before Boarding Trains Are Required to j Pay Ten Cents Extra Fare. ! I i Rcbatos on cash fare slips are a thing of the past on the Denvi r and Rio Grande. In years gone by wh.n a passenger paid hi fa o to the conductor or auditor he was assessed ten cents extra and given a cash fare slip or receipt. The receipt, when presented at any of the company's ticket offices within a given time was re-doomed re-doomed at ten cents a slip. The ten cent rofund has boon discontinued, discon-tinued, as on many other roads throughout the country. Under the new arrangement a passenger boarding a train without a ticket , at all stations where tickets are on sale i ponnllzcd ton cents, or is required to pay ten conts in excess of the usual fare. The ten cenU J becomos the property of the company. ' The ten cents penalty was originally devised to encourage, or rather teach, passengers to purchase tickets before hoarding , trains. The companies believed that many persons boarded trains i without tickets under the impression that they might be "missed" t by the conductor or auditor and thcrofore be nhoad the price of J the ticket. On some roads the cash fares run into hundreds of thousands of dollars annually and each one requires so much of i the conductor's or auditor's time that frequently should be devoted to other duties. It made his work heavier nnd in many cases, where several duties had to be performed almost nt the same time, some passengers were frequently "mlssd" nnd the company was 1 the loser. , The penalty had some effect, but many took the chance of riding free, knowing that the additional money could be obtained on a refund in case they were compelled to pay fare. On some roads the penalty was and is yet as much as twenty-five cents. In I an attempt to eliminate cash fares many of the companies have tcsortcd to the system of abolishing rebates on cash fare slips. Numerous suits have been brought against various railroads that have adopted the system, but In every Instance on record the railroad rail-road companies were sustained. The Denver mid Rio Grande Is the first of the IntormounUin roads to adopt the policy, but 11 is being strongly agitated on other roads in the territory and in fact throughout the country. |