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Show STOP REBATES FOR PASSENGER TICKETS 'alt Lake Route and I). & R. G. Will Abandon (he Custom. Effective November 1, the Salt Lake Roule and the Denver & Rio Grande railroads will discontinue payment of rebates for extra charges made on tickets bought on trains, axcopt from points where ho station or ticket office is maintained by the companies. This order is made in line with the. "safely first" movement, which is being extended gradually to every department de-partment of the railroads. II. is pointed out by railroad otlicials in explanation or the order that, when tickets arc purchased from conduc tors on trains the time and attention of the conductor are taken from his primary duty, that of safeguarding the passengers and the trains. It is the duty of the conductor to take up tickets and to see that all train orders are obeyed; that the coaches are maintained properly; he must police the train, and must take every precaution that is possible to prevent the injury of passengers. In addition to these duties ho is required to make detailed reports of the number of passengers carried and the stations between which they travel. These duties, railroad officials say. take up the conductor's full time, and the time necessary to sell and issue train tickets, and prepare the necessary neces-sary reports, is taken from the time that otherwise would Be given to caring car-ing for the safety and looking to the comfort of passengers. Charges in excess of regular rales on tickets, now m force and that will be continued in force, are 10 cents on tickets costing 50 cents or less; 15 cents on tickets costing from 5 0 cents to $1; 20 cents on tickets costing cost-ing from .$1 to $1.50, and 25 cents on tickets costing $1.50 or more. When these tickets have been purchased pur-chased a rebate slip has been issued to the purchasing passenger, but beginning be-ginning November 1 these rebate slips will be dicontinued and there will be no further payment of rebates. re-bates. "The railroads maintain ticket offices with agents at all but flag stations. It is the duty of these agents to advise passengers as to rates and fares, and to issue tickets to passengers," pas-sengers," J. W. Ellingsoii, chief clerk of the Salt Lake Route ticket offices, said today. "The agents are paid for these sei-vices sei-vices and those services, of course, are required of them. It is not the conductor's duty to sell and issue tickets, and the traffic officials believe be-lieve that better satisfaction can be given by enforcing so far as possible the rule that tickets must be bought before trains are boarded. "The rule does not apply to stopping stop-ping points where there is no agent, because that woulo" be unfair to the passenger. We believe that when the pubic understands the actual pur-1 pose of the rule, to guard more closely close-ly the safety of the passenger, there will be no complaint. The percentage percent-age of travelers who will be affected is almost negligible." |